February 7th, 2008 Riley
So, you are probably wondering, what ever happened to Best Women, the fabulous lesbian love fest certain to both entertain and arouse? Has Riley forgotten it? Has it been abandoned in pursuit of other, more easily obtained desires?
Shut your mouth, I say. I will never jump ship. I will never surrender. I will make my movie. I will make it tall and saucy, with a squirt of whipped cream and a cherry on top.
Oh, ye of little faith.
I actually just submitted the first ten pages of the screenplay for the Outfest screenwriting lab. What are my chances? I don’t know. It’s pretty funny, and, yet, I’m starting to think I am not very noticeable even when I am getting all up in somebody’s business.
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December 13th, 2007 Riley
Speaking of Laura Elena…
Angie is one half of Taryn and Adriana’s “best couple”.
I have seen Laura Elena Harring play the vixen (as in Mulholland Dr.) and I’ve seen her play characters far from vixen (The King, Walkout). She plays both well, which is good, because in Best Women, she needs both skill sets. Angie is a mother, on her best behavior, when her kids are present. When her kids are not present, she is just a sensual woman still very much in love.
(p.s. The photo above is the most awesome photograph of Laura Elena. Obviously, she’s beautiful, but 95% of the photos I’ve seen of her go out of the way to show off just how hot she is. The sweatshirt… the minimal makeup… Perfect.)
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December 7th, 2007 Riley
Yes, it’s one of those characters who doesn’t have a first name, but it’s not because Adriana’s mom doesn’t have much to do in Best Women. In fact, if there is any character that is bound to steal every single scene she is in, it’s Adriana’s mom. Which means that the person who portrays Adriana’s mom must be a natural scene-stealer.
Have you seen the short-lived show Wonderfalls? If not, you are very bad. Go out and buy it now. Don’t keep reading. Go right now. You have missed the fuck out. Not only was the show brilliant and gloriously whimsical, but it featured a constant string of scene-stealing by the show’s matriarch, Diana Scarwid.
The perfect mesh between a doting mother and a self-absorbed party girl, Adriana’s mother is a mesh of characteristics few actresses have the talent to master. Not only would Diana Scarwid own this role, she would create uncontrollable laughter that would likely lead to the peeing of pants, resulting in a messy, but highly enjoyable movie-watching experience.
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November 25th, 2007 Riley
That is one hot tranny.
Bree. Not Leslie Grossman. As far as I know, she is all woman. But when it comes to casting a funny girl with a heart of gold, who just happens to be tucking a penis away somewhere beneath her clothes, who on earth can play it better? No one that I can think of.
I fell in love with Leslie Grossman when everyone else did, back when she was Mary Cherry on Popular, and I haven’t fallen out of it yet. She is one of those people who has moments when she is just too funny. Painfully funny. The kind that gets you laughing like an elementary school boy who just heard the word “poopie”.
But Bree doesn’t just have to be funny. She has to be sexy too. Sexy enough that Adriana dated her, Kylie is jealous of her, and Ty develops a mad crush upon meeting her.
Funny and sexy?
Check and check.
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November 12th, 2007 Riley
You thought that I’d forgotten again, didn’t you? I haven’t. Actually I think about Best Women quite excessively. Sometimes I do so with a huge manic smile upon my face that makes my cheeks hurt and frightens passer-by.
One thought that keeps coming back into the forefront is an idea I had about a year ago about how Best Women would make an awesome musical. Not like a Sound of Music “we’ve got a song for everything” kind of musical, but like a Sister Act “we’ve just got a few numbers that fit in very naturally” kind of musical. In the original draft of the screenplay, there were two musical moments anyway, but since then, I’ve had three others that I desperately want to put in. And for some reason, it really seems like the right thing to do. So, yeah, it’s gonna be a quasi-musical. And it’s gonna be tight.
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November 4th, 2007 Riley
I made my first movie, Drawing on Walls (…and other socially dictated signs of deviant behavior) on credit. It was slightly insane and is still painfully poor-making. It was the best decision at the time though. But now, I have no credit left for movie-making. Debt is my master and I have been made a minion.
So, I will not be making another movie unless I have the capital to do as such. In order to do this, I must do some wild and crazy things to make cash. One of those things is posting things of no real bearing on my life and completely out of context with my mission on Earth. So, while I have been picture happy as of late on here, don’t get confused. If you see a picture that you think doesn’t belong, it doesn’t. It is all about raising funds. It does not mean that I find the subject sexy.
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November 4th, 2007 Riley
ROWR!
You are a once popular model, with a fading career and some obvious self-esteem issues, prone to prejudice and jealousy and severe bitchiness, but you also can ask for forgiveness when you really need it. And you usually really need it. You are Best Women’s Kylie, and to make it work, you’d better be pretty damn likable, even when you are being the biggest cunt on the block.
Eden Riegel grew up on All My Children, acting under the greatest soap opera diva of them all, Erica Kane, aka Susan Lucci. So she knows a thing or too about how to play bitchy. As Bianca, Eden Riegel suffered greatly at the hands of the sudsy show’s sadistic writers, being a victim of everything from anorexia to rape.
So, okay, she’s clearly got the backbiting and martyrdom down cold, but Best Women is a comedy people! Can the chica be funny?
Damn.
I saw Eden in Thoroughly Modern Millie in Boston and in two comedy club appearances at Caroline’s in New York City. The first appearance was the funniest, and I had no idea just how freaking amazing Eden could be. She has a range like Montana and a delivery that kills. I popped two ribs laughing.
OMG, Eden, OMG.
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October 29th, 2007 Riley
Dina Meyer as Taryn
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Emma Caulfield as Adriana
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Dina Meyer and Emma Caulfield as Taryn and Adriana
Mmmmmmmmm. No really. Mmmmmmmmmm.
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October 27th, 2007 Riley
(picture from www.emmacaulfield.com)
Okay. I reluctantly admit it. No role in Best Women has gone through more potential portrayers than Adriana, because everyone I’ve put in the role, I’ve ended up going, “Yeah, but, really?” This time, however, I swear it’s gonna stick, because I’ve found her, the girl. What I want desperately for Adriana to be beautifully optimistic. Not naïve, but vulnerable, sweetly endearing, and so downright adorable, it’s easy to fall in love with her.
Calling Emma Caulfield.
For those fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (you are my people by the way), you will remember Emma Caulfield as the wackiest of the wacky sidekicks, Anya. For the rest of you, you are probably thinking, “Who in the hell is Emma Caulfield?” Not terribly surprising. Her resume doesn’t exactly boast a ton of high-profile material, once again proving the point that Hollywood can never see a good thing when it is standing right in its midst.
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October 22nd, 2007 Riley
(picture from www.dinameyer.com)
Thanks to Dina Meyer, I have watched some of the worst movies ever made, many of them more than once. To make a living in acting, she has taken roles in some real rubbish. I don’t think this would offend her. I’m sure she knows.
But, regardless of what she has put me through, Dina is my favorite actress. I’m not trying to hurt the feelings of the many babelicious thespians that have been coming to my page daily and are now thinking “Oh, why can’t it be me?” I am not immune to your tortured cries, but, seriously, suck it up. Dina makes even the muckiest of muck relatively watchable, so she wins. And when she actually has a good role… wow. My heart goes all aflutter and stuff.
So, the main character of Best Women is Taryn, as far as a main character goes. Best Women is most definitely an ensemble piece, but when it comes down to it, the woman we must love, the woman we must root for is Taryn. If we don’t like Taryn, we won’t like the movie. She’s the heart.
As Taryn, Dina Meyer will be oh so root-worthy. Dina Meyer will be infinitely lovable. She’s also just the right amount of sexy, noticeably but not overwhelmingly. And while her filmography is lacking in humor-filled fare, when she has the opportunity, girl can be funny. That is why Dina will be Taryn in my film.
At some point, I will inform her of this decision.
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