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Boris Sabo

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #90 on: September 13, 2011, 12:55:07 PM »
He should have narrated A Christmas Story instead of Jean Shepherd.

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #91 on: September 13, 2011, 01:03:05 PM »
Replacing Joe Don Baker in MITCHELL.

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #92 on: September 13, 2011, 02:10:38 PM »
"Hi...I'm Orson Welles...and I'm here on location in Peru for a new film directed by a very talented young German who goes by the name of Werner Herzog. The film is called Fitzcarraldo, about a rubber baron who wishes to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle...*chuckles*...well, have you ever heard of such a thing?! I play a rival rubber baron, who already has several opera houses of his own, and continually chides Fitzcarraldo about his lack of an opera house. And the part of Fitzcarraldo? Well, it was to be played by the superb Jason Robards, but he has now been replaced with a marvelous German actor called Klaus Kinski...I've yet to meet him, but I can imagine we shall get along famously! I certainly hope nothing untoward happens and I end up sleeping in a house full of guinea pigs."

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #93 on: September 13, 2011, 04:13:32 PM »
Hey, I already suggested Fitzcarraldo back on Page 2.

After posting that I was thinking about an alternative scenario, where the protagonist is an ambitious, movie-mad young director shooting a shoestring-budget film in South America. He's scored his biggest coup to date by getting Welles to appear in the film. The only problem is that flooding season makes transportation by boat to the location impossible, so he has to conscript an entire village of natives to haul Orson Welles over a mountain.
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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #94 on: September 13, 2011, 04:38:06 PM »
He certainly would have been better than Jason Robards.

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #95 on: September 13, 2011, 05:13:26 PM »
Hey, I already suggested Fitzcarraldo back on Page 2.
Oops, sorry! I did do a cursory glance for it, but missed your suggestion.

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #96 on: September 13, 2011, 05:49:42 PM »
Baron Harkonnen in Dune.  Mainly, I want to see him interviewed while the tumor makeup is being applied.

Also!  The rebel air conditioning repairman in Brazil.

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #97 on: September 13, 2011, 06:54:06 PM »
Baron Harkonnen in Dune.  Mainly, I want to see him interviewed while the tumor makeup is being applied.

Also!  The rebel air conditioning repairman in Brazil.
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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #98 on: September 13, 2011, 08:55:17 PM »
Baron Harkonnen in Dune.  Mainly, I want to see him interviewed while the tumor makeup is being applied.

Also!  The rebel air conditioning repairman in Brazil.
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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #99 on: September 13, 2011, 09:53:43 PM »
Spinal Tap. Instead of Paul Shaffer.

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #100 on: September 13, 2011, 10:32:01 PM »
Mr. Hand in Fast Times.

Jon is the winner, case closed.  But maybe Ray Walston would've worked for less? He did after all play the blind newstand guy ("Vendor") in "Johnny Dangerously". Hey...maybe case not closed: Orson Welles instead of Dom DeLuis as "The Pope" from the same movie...
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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #101 on: September 13, 2011, 10:35:41 PM »
Forget Taps, Welles should have played the George C. Scott role in "Hardcore"

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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #102 on: September 13, 2011, 11:09:50 PM »
I'd really like to see him in a 70s commercial for cheap wine.
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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #103 on: September 14, 2011, 02:48:24 AM »
The Pacino role in Cruising.
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Re: Orson Welles Should've Been In...
« Reply #104 on: September 14, 2011, 09:17:08 AM »
Mork.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!