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When I arrived in _______________, FX picked me up at the airport and used the 20 minute drive to a restaurant to fill me in on exactly what was going on. Complicated is an understatement. FX had received a call from GI asking her to come to _______________. GI was filming a movie and in GI’s own words was f**king too many people to keep track of and fending off others while also using way too many drugs.
GI was in a relationship with TA. He is an Academy Award winner/nominee. At the time this happened he was barely still A list although at one time he had been a solid A. He was flying in that weekend to see GI. She had told him not to because FX was coming and GI wanted to spend the weekend with FX. It wasn’t true, but if TA showed up and FX was not there then TA would know something was up so FX was in town.
Although GI was having sex with several people, she was having the most sex with SB. He is an Academy Award winner/nominee. He also was in a relationship. He also was having sex with other people during filming. His girlfriend (NE) at the time is an Academy Award winner/nominee. SB had told her not to come because he might have to shoot that weekend and was not sure he could get away. NE was coming though.
To make things even more complicated, another actress on the set who is an Academy Award winner/nominee (LR) had reserved a private dining room at a restaurant when she heard all of these people were coming.
That is where I was headed to with FX.
My thoughts from dinner. It really was like an old British mystery. Half the people there knew exactly what was going on and the other half didn’t. At least right away.
By the end of the night TA and GI were headed for a split. He was already having sex with someone else and the two never really went well together. He just liked living on the edge because it made him feel younger. The thing is though, even though they would split by the end of the weekend, it was important that GI not appear to be interested in SB, especially while NE was there. To achieve that, she thought she would seat herself as far away from SB as possible. I think the drugs made her paranoid because every ten minutes she would wonder if whatever she had decided ten minutes earlier about how to deal with it all was the right decision. So, it became a game of musical chairs. This was a sit down dinner. Every time she would move, she would take her dinner plate with her. Meanwhile, SB was getting bombed and NE looked like she was going to die when SB started talking about their sex life to me and LR.
FX was trying to keep GI somewhat level headed and coherent which became increasingly difficult through the night. Besides the players I have mentioned there were other cast and crew and the director all at a table that could hold about 20 people. One person noticeably absent was this at the time A list mostly movie actor who had a girlfriend at the time but was currently not speaking to GI because she turned him down. I remember SB kept falling asleep at the table. I heard someone say that he took Ambien. You would think he was down for the count but then would spring back to life and tell another story and nod back off. NE looked worried about him and kept trying to get him to leave, but he wouldn’t have any of it. He then started kissing some of the other women that were there which then led to him kissing GI. He probably thought all the kisses were the same, but they weren’t. Anyone could tell by then they were hooking up although NE didn’t say anything and I was not looking at her when the kissing happened so I don’t know what her facial expression was.
I don’t think I have ever been to a dinner quite like that one. Oh, one other thing. LR was so regal. She presided over the event like a Queen. She just took it all in and let it wash over her. I always think about that and wonder if she doesn’t have a little puppet master thing she likes bringing out from time to time.
ok so if GI is angie could the movie be Playing by Heart or pushing tin?
ReplyDeleteSB = Billy Bob Thornton\
ReplyDeleteNE = Laura Dern
LR = Cate Blanchett
A lister not there who got turned down : John Cusack
Don't know TA yet
Pushing Tin
ReplyDeleteobviously one of these guys is BBT and maybe Brad is in here too. But Im not going thru everything, I think late yesterday it was clear who everyone was.
ReplyDeleteTimothy Hutton
ReplyDeleteSpeaking Of John C,Yesterday's(6/4) answer to BI#7 was JOHN CUSACK probably too--not on anyone's radar, per AGC.
ReplyDeleteYep, he fits.
ReplyDeleteBut what happened when DR (oscar winner/nominee) came into the room, without SJ (oscar winner/nominee) on his arm? Did everyone know that they had just come from seeing PF (oscar winner/nomineee) and that PF (oscar winner/nominee) had been using them to get to HV? Really, Enty, you left out the best part here. Especially when TT (who was at the time B list but on his way to C list before staring in that TV show that made him A list but with B- list recognition, shared stories of working with WU (oscar nominee/winner) and the night they had dinner with EW (Presidential winner/nominee)
ReplyDeleteuh... incomprehensible
ReplyDeleteI give up. Enty be a doll and please reveal this. I am so cross-eyed by all the initials.
ReplyDeleteIs TA = Timothy Hutton (with TA being a play on "Taps"?)
ReplyDeleteYes and
ReplyDeleteSB = Slingblade
NE= Enlightened
LR= Lord of Rings
and I am sticking with my guess of Fiona Apple as the singer in the previous blind. I think the timing fits better.
ReplyDeleteThat was my original thought too but I actually disagree here. She wasn't famous yet in early 1995. I think Enty's rating is generous, but I think the Michelle Shocked guess makes sense, and she fits, and had some anti gay rant a few years back after some years of inactivity. And she was on Letterman in early 95.
ReplyDeleteSB--Sling Blade--Billy Bob Thorton
ReplyDeleteNE--not sure what this could stand for, but wouldn't it be Laura Dern?
Assuming, of course, that GI is Angie
Never heard of her before her gay rant. A little before my time I guess. She never had a hit single or anything---I am listening to her songs now on Youtube. DREADFUL.
ReplyDeleteBy the time I get to the fourth set of initials, I give up. Too much like work.
ReplyDeleteHa, I never said I was a fan. Sure somebody here will give you shit for your opinion though!
ReplyDeleteor what about Liz Phair?
ReplyDelete"Liz Phair is back — even though we weren’t exactly expecting her. With little fanfare, the Exile in Guyville singer-songwriter has self-released a new album called Funstyle, her first since 2005, via her official site. Hear “Bollywood,” her rapping rant against the music industry, below.
The song finds Phair, 43, documenting fruitless attempts to make money in the music biz; she tells the tale while rapping over tabla beats and “talking” with various characters. “I was trippin’ lookin’ at my portfolio,” Phair rhymes. “Wonderin’ how I was gonna make enough dough, you know.”
Yes--SB (Sling Blade) is Billy Bob Thornton. TA is maybe Timothy Hutton (TAps)? Timing-wise, NE should be Laura Dern, but I'm not clear where NE comes from. Cate Blanchett fits with LR (eLizabeth Rex?, Lord of the Rings?). Also explains the reference to her being like a Queen.
ReplyDeleteAgree-very unfriendly to the eye---but well done, great job to The Dude and Derek.
ReplyDeleteI still do not see Jenny S as FX-but I imagine she must be dynamic in person maybe?
Def. Michelle Shocked whoever originally guessed her(I forget). She fits for sure
These are work. You have to a flow chart and take Excedrin for the headache to follow.
ReplyDeletehahahaha
ReplyDeleteFX=Fox Fire?
ReplyDelete-Hey @Derek H. & @TheDude78, THANKS!! Nice Sleuthing & Teamwork !!! Excellent Job You Guys !!!!
ReplyDelete-Tim Hutton was an "enlightened" guess!
-I'm still having a ? with the singer-who Enty'd want to go see @ Letterman back then-I'll just follow the clues... ; )
yup- Fox Fire- those guys got that yesterday! : )
ReplyDelete@Derek H.& TheDude78--If You guys didn't see my note above to you, Great Job!!
and Teamwork with all involved!!!
okay, michelle shocked it is by consensus,The Dude,you,Others--i gotta go back to see what the singer's initials were & what the reference is.. i still liked my Sinnead regardless of all y'all's snickering at me.heheheh
ReplyDeleteThanks ----it was mostly TheDude but I did fill in some pieces' some of my first guesses were from lala land.
ReplyDeleteYes. Wonderful. :)
ReplyDeletehey@BA! i liked SOC guess too(plus I remeber the SNL appearence so well), but timing points to MS...enty doesn't give initials-just-almost A list. Hurts my eyes-i cant even with these-worse than the eye DR.!
ReplyDeleteNE maybe Nebraska as Bruce dean’s oscar nominee picture? too much of a stretch?
ReplyDeletety for the support. lol ; )
ReplyDeleteThanks, I like these blinds, they were the reason I started reading this blog years back. Used to post a lot more, under a different name, but lurk more often now.
ReplyDeleteooooh,@Alice, i actually like the Nebraska idea more than the other one for Laura Dern of Enlightened
ReplyDeletecuz it's a movie name like the others
ReplyDeleteGI = Gia, if it is Angie.
ReplyDeleteAnd NE might be Inland Empire.
ReplyDeleteOops...I should have read yesterday's comments first. It's Girl, Interrupted.
ReplyDeleteJulia Roberts for GI.
ReplyDeleteThinking movie is Steel Magnolias.
SB is Sam Shepard. NE is Jessica Lange. Maybe Sally Field for LR? Or Shirley or Dolly?
No idea who FX is.
Never mind. Catching up, reading posts backwards.
ReplyDeleteFX--Jenny Izumi (sp?)
ReplyDeleteGI--Angelina Jolie
SB-Billy Bob Thorton
NB- Laura Dern
LR-Cate Blanchett
John Cusack--cast member he missed the dinner because avoiding Angie
Movie is Pushing Tin
TA--Timothy Hutton
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