Guessing time!

[serai]

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Okay, everyone. Who is this?





Nice outfit, what? So do you recognize this ravishing creature?




This, my dears, is BURT. FUCKING. LANCASTER...





...coiffed and painted and gowned for the lead role in...


...wait for it...


...Kiss of the Spider Woman.


That's right. Burt was the original choice to play the character of Luis Molina, the aging queen who shares a jail cell with Communist revolutionary Valentin Arregui, played by Raul Julia. He was very enthusiastic about playing the part, but his conception of the role clashed rather violently with the ideas that...well, everybody else had. His rewrite of the script pretty much put the nail in the coffin ("gay soap opera" is the way it was referred to by production personnel), and then he had heart surgery and was out, opening the door to William Hurt and his immense, subtle, incredible performance.

What a thing, eh?

Comments

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

I knew he was a guy but didn't realize who LOL

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

LMAO! I suspect that he was still brooding about having missed out on Some Like It Hot, and was determined to show that he could out-pretty even Tony Curtis. (Oh, no, honey, oh no you can't.)

Yeah, and if this was his "vision"? Yep, I'd have tossed it out in a New York minute, too. However, the pics are truly magnificent. Damn, the man was trying, give him some respect.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

I recognized him immediately. Generally, I thought he was ham, but I did enjoy The Swimmer very much.

[lindmere.livejournal.com]

Hello! This is an OT post (well hi there, Mr. Lancaster) to say I enjoyed our geeky conversation on ONTD and to warn you that I drive-by friended you (but will undo so if you wish). Anyone who loves Karl Urban AND Carl Sagan that much is OK by me.

[bluedeuce.livejournal.com]

I got your KMPlayer comment in my email, but for some reason they kicked me out of the iheart communities :( so I can't reply to you there. When you open KMPlayer, right click on the upper left corner where it says KMPlayer, and then go to the Capture option, and you should be able to figure it out from there. Hope I helped.