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[Li-Lo Rocks]

Cool trailer!

[Mr Boldman]

I was exxpecting the other kind of trailer. As in the teaser kind. I guess it is still a bit early for one.

[blueboy]

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"Liz Taylor's vanity inside her original trailer on the set of Cleopatra"

photos from Costume Crew -just yesterday and yuppp it's pink(outside)too

 

[SìmonuzzaLilO]

wow!

[blueboy]

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6/22/12 MY EXPERIENCE on the SET of LIZ & DICK


...so every now & then I do a little bit of volunteer "extra" work for various film projects around hollywood-los angeles, and recently they called us for some scenes on the Liz & Dick movie-show ... it all began about a week ago when I received an email...asking us if we were available to participate...the requirements were to dress in black suits or tuxedos..for a 1966 oscars scene .. at first they said it would be from 11am to 4pm ...but at the last minute it changed from 4pm until ...., well, it didn't have an end time..and they played up the part about this being a "lindsay lohan" film... ha ha.. funny thing is I've been following lindsay lohan's endeavors for the last year or so.. as have many people, ..intentionally or otherwise.., including the paparazzi





by the way, I hear she's working on another film as well directed by Paul Schrader . That took me by surprise.. because Schrader has some association with my background and heritage..ie the calvinists of Grand Rapids, Michigan...including Calvin College & Grand Rapids Christian High. We already knew Schrader was a rebel (he dropped out of Calvin & came to hollywood and made movies like Taxi Driver & HardCore, both of which used satired some aspects the Dutch-American Calvinist culture, among other things...anyways, that's a whole 'nother story)... ;,




so back to Liz & Dick...I didn't know much about the movie or show but it is apparently a "biopic" not sure when it will be aired .. .. and we're not really supposed to take photos or film videos on the set..(june 22) ..this is the back of the theatre (the orpheum in downtown los angeles ..which is a very elegant old building,,,(wikipedia says this, in part, about it:"... it was a popular venue for burlesque queen Sally Rand, the Marx Brothers, Will Rogers, Judy Garland ... Jack Benny, as well as jazz greats Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington..."





..so I arrived at this iconic landmark around 3:45pm & signed in, & was escorted into an outer room in the theatre where about 25 others, mostly men in black & women in various 60's outfits, were congregated. There were a few snacks & bottles of water on the counter for us..but not enough chairs at the time..so I sat on some steps & listened to "old time radio" on my smartphone with headphones (I've been enjoying an old time radio app lately, including old westerns such as the six-shooter with Jimmy Stewart, as well as a few ther westerns such as Gunsmoke (Sheriff Matt Dillon)& Lightning Jim, among others; and also some old dramas such as "Bold Venture" starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, as well as shows like "Father Knows Best" & "My Favorite Husband" (Lucille Ball), et al) & yes, Jack Benny. .. the oldies seemed even more appropriate sitting inside the Orpheum..



...and we sat & waited... for a while before anything happened.. after a few hours they did a wardrobe inspection..also a chicken dinner ..and we waited some more..finally around 9pm..they told us we were going into the theatre for a scene..we were escorted inside,..& after a short while placed in seats by the stage for a scene about the end of Hamlet..(they apparently were doing a Hamlet starring Richard Burton (Bowler) scene here as well as the '66 oscars)...and in this particular take, it was the end of the play..& Elizabeth (Lindsay) goes up on stage and kisses Burton as the cast bows to the applause of the audience.. ; so Lindsay comes in with jet-black hair & a bright red dress..and we do the scene 3 or 4 times...all the while Lindsay is cracking jokes. She's very down-to-earth..& definitely looking more at ease



...as for Grant, I don't know much about him. he has various film & tv credits..apparently a "kiwi-australian", .; then they did a few other scenes..after which they switched to an oscars scene...around 1am... and they kept asking for the people to whom they had provided specific costumes to get ready..apparently this did not include me so I assumed my role was complete..maybe I will be in the shadows of one of the scenes...but u never know..maybe they will cut me out.. maybe i went out and bought a black-suit for nothing (don't worry, i got it at goodwill ha ha !, feels pretty good on me too., decent quality...so maybe I will use it for a funeral sometime..too bad nobody wears suits any other time around southern Cal, at least not where I roll, except sometimes at church, but even at some of the churches, this will cause eyes to roll as if its being pretentious; "dressing up" around here is wearing something better than jeans & maybe a jacket, but not a tie..i used to be a blue blazer-slacks kind of person..now I don't even put on the blazer very often).. & that's my most recent "movie moment"..




...the people running this gig were pretty nice.. nobody screamed or glared at me or anybody else this time..that's always nice..they seemed to appreciate our participation. & I hope & pray that Lindsay keeps making progress towards a return to "normal" God bless you. Keep up the good work.

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FYI - same day "Barbara was in town and came by the set to visit Lindsay. -LL's rep" at Orpheum

[blueboy]

"Liz Taylor movie props"

Behind the Scene

Wrapping today https://twitter.com/...211541617197056  

[blueboy]

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Lindsay Lohan Works Through 26th Birthday


Lohan’s rep told ABCNews.com that the actress is spending her birthday shooting the final scenes



“She’s working and wrapping the film,” Lohan’s publicist said. “She celebrated on Saturday night with a small gathering of friends.”

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[blueboy]

And that's a wrap!.

 

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[Li-Lo Rocks]

She looks so good! Can't wait until we can see it!

[Lindslover]

omg this is so cute! and this proves that Deadline's article was full of shit. Her and Larry look like they're on good terms. She looks so happy, can't wait to see the final product

[Confessions]

love the pyramid cake

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from Marcus Molinari's instagram

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[Li-Lo Rocks]

Damn, that is a good pic... She looks so nice.
I'm super excited about this movie.

[blueboy]

Lindsay Lohan’s Directors Chair on set of Liz & Dick, Los Angeles.

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LiLo complemented her new look with a white lace dress that kept the focus solely on her gorgeous locks.

Her longtime colorist, Tracey Cunningham, brought back the famous russet tones, having also turned Linds into a brunette for the Liz Taylor role.
The star has always returned periodically to her ginger-haired roots: Back in March, she ditched her then-platinum-blond locks for sleek red tresses.


Earlier this week, LiLo wrapped shooting on Liz & Dick, and she and the crew celebrated by tearing into a festive cake at the wrap party in Malibu.
"I am very pleased with the movie, and I'm very pleased with their performances," executive producer Larry Thompson tells E! News exclusively.

"The people who didn't believe in her will be shocked," he says. "And the people who did believe in her will be just as pleased as I am."

source - E!

 

[blueboy]

funny tidbit


regular nda/confidentiality form for Lindsay/Liz biopic -standard routine for crew..etc..screening  

[blinds7]

leaving the set of LIz and Dick on her birthday-Purple Diary  

[blueboy]

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Christopher Monger is the Welshman who’s reunited Lindsay Lohan with Liz & Dick

by Abbie Wightwick, Western MailJul 7 2012

Abbie Wightwick caught up with the Welsh writer who’s recreated an iconic love affair for the small screen with help from a headline-making good-time girl


LA-based Monger snorts at suggestions that the Mean Girls star was a bad choice to play one of the 20th century’s most famous movie icons.
“I was on the floor laughing when people said, ‘How can Lindsay Lohan play this actress?’” he says in his transatlantic drawl, part Welsh, part American, after three decades living stateside.


“Both Lindsay and Elizabeth were child stars and both had their run-ins with the press. If anyone knows what Liz went through Lindsay Lohan is that person and I love what she’s doing.

“We have met and she was very complimentary about my script.”
“Remember they were both child stars and hounded by paparazzi. Lindsay Lohan knows what Liz went through.
“I think Lindsay Lohan is the most interesting actor of her generation and I still think she’s fabulous.


“The film’s producer (Larry Thompson) has told me she’s simply fascinated by Liz.”
And while Lohan has a reputation for her somewhat wild behaviour, Taylor was no stranger to that either, the screenwriter points out.
As Monger cautions: “There’s a tendency to sanctify Liz because of her charitable work with Aids and other charities later in life.”
But it’s the story of her often tempestuous life with Burton that continues to fascinate, rather than her later good deeds.

“The publicity is fabulous,” he declares, relishing the masses of column inches and snatched photos of Lohan which have been circulating ever since she was given the part, not to mention the Tweets the actress has been posting on her personal space.

Monger is also impressed by True Blood actor Grant Bowler as Burton.

The New Zealander has captured his Welsh accent so well he thought he was a fellow countryman when he first heard it.
“When I met Grant he was doing the voice 24/7 and I said to him, ‘Are you from Wales then?’
“It really threw me. Burton was from a very particular generation of Welsh people who wanted to get away from their Welsh accents.
“Their’s was a generation that grew up with this BBC Welsh voice and Grant has really nailed it. He’s had voice coaching of course.”
Bowler has an unmistakable air of Burton in publicity shots and even if no actor could entirely recreate the smouldering effect the passionate couple had on each other, Lohan and Bowler definitely look good together.
Watching them work their magic on set in LA, Monger says all is going well.
“I have been over to the set a few times.
“I’m still part of it because little things change. I’ve directed quite a lot so being on someone else’s set is hard.
“One part of me is thrilled not to be in charge and the other is ‘No, no, no, don’t do it like that!’
“But movie sets are boring you know and blazing hot.”


Monger, 61, who has directed eight feature films and written more than 40 screenplays, admits it was a project he didn’t want to take on at first and one that came about quite by chance. Accepting a Humanitas Prize for film scripting two years ago, he mentioned his Welsh roots in his thank you speech.
Next thing he knew, producer Larry Thompson was phoning to ask if he’d write a television film script for ‘the great Welsh love story the world never tires of’.
“In my speech I said something about my family in Wales,” Monger, who hails from Taffs Well, recalls. “Larry was in the audience and he called me up with the executive of Lifetime TV and they said they wanted me to do the story.
“I said, ‘ I don’t know, I feel weird, about this, this is one of my country’s icons you are dealing with and I don’t want to get it wrong’.
“But Larry kept on at me and I started writing stuff and before long I was hooked.”
It was the story and the characters that attracted him, he says.



While researching the actors by reading as many biographies and articles he could find online, he was aware that he wanted to tell more than the story of the couple’s famous drunken rows.
Besieged by a media bewitched by their story, Burton and Taylor were as famed for their arguments, marriage, divorce and re-marriage as Lohan is for her struggles with keeping on the straight and narrow.


“The trick is to get behind the story,” Monger explains.


“The easy bit is the fact they were these terrible people who loved to have these screaming, verbose fights and drink like fish.
“And yet you do get the sense it was a relationship so passionate it wouldn’t last.

“The danger was to write something that was just a drunken brawl. I believe he loved her but at the same time they had this weird pact. She was intimidated by his skill as an actor and although she already had an Academy Award when they met she wanted the kudos he had while he wanted the stardom she had.

“I think they both made a pact with the devil.”
Pact or not, the couple had a genuine chemistry that burned off the screen and Monger knew he had to tap that in his script.
“They were red hot attracted to each other. It was her fifth marriage and the only other person who elicited that from her was Mike Todd (Taylor’s third husband, who was killed in a plane crash).
“She seemed to need a very strong, masculine, no nonsense kind of man.
“Richard Burton was a combination of working class and poetic.”



But their love story is not an easy one to condense and they weren’t cardboard cut out celebrities, Monger says.
Burton and Taylor were their generation’s beautiful couple, made blockbuster movies, appeared on stage and travelled the world together pursued by an ever hungry press.


Behind the scenes, the Port Talbot-born Burton was interested in politics and literature while Taylor encouraged him to write. His rags to riches background added grit to her polished glamour in a love story that intoxicated and scandalised in equal measure.
As a screenwriter, Monger agonised over what to put in and what to leave out. Having to fit four decades into 88 minutes of television was no easy task especially as there were so many seminal moments to consider.



These include their introduction by a poolside in 1954 and then meeting again on the set of Cleopatra in 1963.
Then there was Burton announcing publicly to Eddie Fisher that he was sleeping with his wife, the Pope declaring the couple guilty of ‘erotic vagrancy’, their marriage(s) and the terrible accident which left Burton’s older brother Ifor paralysed.
Monger sifted through testimony and anecdotes until he had as full a picture as possible of their colourful story.
“You think about any day in your life and how you could condense it into 90 minutes. It’s hard.
“The problem is having too much material and knowing what to leave out.
“So it took me a good few months to write.”
As well as telling the well-known parts of the tale, Monger hopes his words capture the essence of Burton and Taylor.

Burton’s rise to fame is a story Monger, like many of us, has known all his life but he believes it continues to fascinate new generations for many reasons.

“I think it’s the fact it was a love story played out on screen.

“They made fantastic moments in what was a rotten film (Cleopatra).

“I like it when she says to him in the film, ‘What happened to you?’ And Antony replies, ‘You did’.

“Then they were in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Taming of the Shrew together acting out their story.”

Although both appear to have reached the pinnacle of their careers, Monger believes they had more to offer, especially Burton who died relatively young aged just 58.

“With both of them you feel like they never quite got the moment one expected from their careers.
“When you read how people reacted to Burton on stage you feel he never achieved what he deserved on film.”
As a writer, Monger likes ‘to go deep’, something that has won him awards throughout his career.




In 2010 he wrote the HBO biopic Temple Grandin based on the life of an autistic woman.
Starring Homeland’s Claire Danes. it was nominated for 15 Emmy awards and won in seven categories including outstanding writing for a mini series, movie or dramatic special which Monger shared with Merritt Johnson.
This and his Humanitas Prize helped make the Welshman’s creative flair even more sought after in Hollywood.
As he puts it: “I was doing OK before but it went up five notches after Temple Grandin and has been crazy ever since.”
Not bad for someone who never thought of himself as a writer and who started his working life as a painter.



His other film credits include Waiting for the Light starring Shirley McLaine and Crime Pays for Film Four International, while his script for the Granada TV drama Seeing Red earned him a Christopher Award.
Monger also wrote and directed Girl From Rio (2001) with House actor Hugh Laurie and more recently he’s been writing for television in the US, a medium which he believes has out-stripped film in recent years.
“I love what’s happening in television right now.
“Here in the US, television has been going through a renaissance.
“I think television has been better than film for the last five to 10 years with things like The Wire.”
He enjoys writing for film, but says TV mini series allows more movement in terms of time to tell a story and for now he’s working on two – a four-hour mini series for HBO tracing the rise of US president Theodore Roosevelt and a mini series charting the fall of Pompeii.
As with Liz & Dick, Monger says what he adores most is researching the American president’s personal and public life, both of which are full of drama, such as him losing his mother and young wife on the same day – Valentine’s Day.
When not writing and researching scripts, he likes to spend time with his American wife, the actress and producer Karen Montgomery, or meet up with Welsh friends in LA, such as actors Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys.
Monger may have moved away and lost the accent but Wales is still important to him.
“But I’m coming back very soon. I miss the accent, especially after hearing Grant Bowler mimic Burton.
And with that, he makes his excuses to make a ‘very important conference call’ about his next projects – and keep an eye on how LiLo’s doing. Controversial headlines or not, he just knows that she’s doing the original movie diva proud

source - walesonline.co.uk

 

[omgdc]

very interesting read