Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️

hedonistic harridan

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is how ruins should be displayed

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Initially, John Cleese didn't have any thought of casting an American for the role of Wanda in "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988). He got the idea to cast Jamie Lee Curtis in the role only after seeing "Trading Places" (1983)- when his daughter took him to see the movie. Cleese felt that everyone in England could see the reasoning behind casting Jamie Lee Curtis in the role but no one in America could, as she had the reputation of being a "Scream Queen". Cleese chose Kevin Kline for the movie as he was a great "over-actor".

On the reception of the movie in America, John Cleese said,

"We were all very pleased with how 'A Fish Called Wanda' turned out. I had made sure that there was nothing in the movie that couldn’t be understood by an American. The New York Times hated it, but a lot of critics’ opinions are irrational. One doesn’t take it seriously except for the effect it has on audiences. In New York, it had a major effect and none of the magazines wanted to do interviews with us. They saw Wanda as an obscure little film of no interest to their readers. But we platformed it, opening it in two cinemas in New York and one in LA. That allowed the buzz to build and soon the magazines were ringing back saying can we have that interview after all. It took about six weeks in America before we felt it was a hit. It succeeded almost everywhere, except Portugal and Japan (perhaps because of their attachment to fish)."

(John Cleese's interview with Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound, 2003)

P.S: On this day, 38 years ago, "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988) premiered in New York City, USA.

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@DreyfusJames Oh good, Lord, is he still skulking around?

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@Glinner Honestly, I remember Dana doing an impression of him way back when. Maybe 1990.
Managed to find a screenshot, God it was funny.
“I was the number one star, the number one star of the *whoopshhh* of the worrrrld!”

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@Glinner 🤣🤣🤣

[Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks]

Mel Brooks is 100 years old today! Many people think that Mel is my father.  He isn’t.  But what he is is one of the great comic minds of the last 100 years.  Happy birthday Mel, from your fake son.

[AlFromBayShore @AlFromBayShore]

Here's a good one from Glen Campbell. Here, he joins George Benson on "Affirmation". At first it looks like he's out of his league in this genre but when he does his solo, you realize he could have EASILY gone into the studio and make a terrific Jazz album.

https://t.co/3a7on0NIYN

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@roisinmurphy @BiffBogan111111 @henno21 @Glinner @ThisHeadStuff I am, I am!

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@heyze_o @seanonolennon Where do you live? Surely not in the UK. Otherwise, I think you’d know better.

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@seanonolennon Whhahaha you’re quite bloody right

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@henno21 @BiffBogan111111 @roisinmurphy @Glinner @ThisHeadStuff I genuinely don’t know who steps are.

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@henno21 @BiffBogan111111 @roisinmurphy @Glinner @ThisHeadStuff No, I love him, it’s just unfortunate that he’s been bred to have physical disabilities.
Certainly not his fault.

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@henno21 @BiffBogan111111 @roisinmurphy @Glinner @ThisHeadStuff Sadist.

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@henno21 @BiffBogan111111 @roisinmurphy @Glinner @ThisHeadStuff He’s fucking disgusting

[Deedle 🌵🦉🌲🎗️ @Phyliminal]

@henno21 @BiffBogan111111 @roisinmurphy @Glinner @ThisHeadStuff Because if it is your pug dog, I know what kind of person you are.