For Your Consideration Page #8

We could change the title.

Oh, here's people coming

to see it now.

It's a good film and there's people

watching. That'd be good, wouldn't it?

What if we do a different holiday

around the table-- Easter.

--and just focus on the rabbit?

All I'm saying is have it there,

don't shove it down people's throats.

I don't-- I don't run around--

I don't run around going,

"I'm a Gentile, look at my foreskin."

I don't shove it down your throat,

because I don't care.

Three, two, one, and hit them.

We're sitting on the set...

...of one of the hottest movies

being made in Hollywood today.

It's called Hello, Purim.

- Home for Purim.

- No, "Home."

Home for Purim.

Some faces we're not familiar with.

Some new faces.

And I recognize Victor Allan Miller.

- How are you? Question for you.

- I'm fine, Chuck.

The Brady Bunch.

What was your favorite character?

- Jan.

- Well, she's an attractive young lady.

Mine was-- I think her name was Alice.

Was that it?

She was the maid. She was the glue

that held the family together.

- You had a question, Cindy?

- Yes. Victor...

...when word got out

that I was interviewing you today...

...I was inundated

with phone calls and e-mails...

- ...all of them asking me to ask you...

- Knocked out by the opportunity.

- ...the same question.

- Which is?

Where the heck have you been?

Oh, aren't you nice?

Well, actually, I've been teaching in--

That's rhetorical.

You don't have to answer.

Marilyn Hack,

you play the matriarch here...

...and you are dying as I understand.

That must be tough,

doing a dramatic scene like this.

Let me ask a question.

Anybody play any gags...

...any pranks on the set?

Anything funny that happened?

No high jinks per se, but I--

Hold it just a second. I gotta take this.

Yeah?

- What's he doing?

- I don't know.

- Nothing much.

- Yeah, talk amongst yourselves.

- No, it was easy day.

- Hang up the phone.

Aren't these things wonderful?

In a restaurant, you can use them.

You don't have to hunt for a pay phone.

They say soon we'll be able

to use them on an airplane.

Callie Webb,

you had to play the daughter...

...that comes home to her mom

who is dying.

You have a history of standup comedy.

Were you able to fall back

on your comedy chops...

- ...in playing a role like that?

- No.

- It doesn't translate, eh?

- It's a drama.

Tragedy plus time equals comedy.

I didn't know if it worked the other way.

- It's a different movie.

- Yeah.

Years ago, I read a book called

The Little Engine That Could.

- "I think I can."

- What?

"I think I can, I think I can...

- ...I think I can.

- That's what he says.

- That's what the train said as--

- I think I can...

- I think it was just three.

- ...I think I can."

And it reminds me of this little movie

that started out as practically nothing...

...and is chugging up, up, up.

Who knows if it's gonna

reach its goal and explode.

It's a wonderful book.

It's big print, lot of pictures,

not too heavy reading.

If you want something heavy, see Hamlet

or Shakespeare or something like that.

For me, something you can

get into and out of.

God bless you all.

Victor, keep plugging at your career...

...despite what critics say.

You know, the dogs bark,

but the caravans move on.

Everyone, keep up the good work.

Tune into our show Friday night...

C.J. Simon...

...and a group of people

who stand around him...

...because there's no studio work.

Please get a name for your band.

Our next guest finished shooting

a charming little movie this past summer...

...that was just supposed to pay rent.

Here we are in January,

with the Oscars around the corner.

Let me tell you, that charming

little movie not only paid the rent...

...could end up buying her

the whole block.

It turned this town on its ear.

Please welcome the star

of Home for Thanksgiving...

...Marilyn Hack. Oh, Marilyn?

I love you, Marilyn!

- Well, good evening.

- Good evening, Ben.

Thank you very much

for being here with us.

Oh, no, thank you.

It's a dream come true.

Well, we're glad that we could

help you achieve your dream.

Speaking of which,

there is word on the street...

...that your performance in this movie

is spellbinding.

- Well...

- Tell me a little about the movie.

It's about Thanksgiving,

which I believe...

...is probably our most elegant holiday.

Don't you think so?

- I do now.

- Because we say "thank you."

And I, for one,

can't say thank you enough.

And it's all-inclusive. It includes

everyone, no matter what religion.

- It's nondenominational.

- Exactly, that's the word.

And it kicks off Awards season.

I gotta tell you.

I see a lot of films. I love all of them.

And Home for Thanksgiving?

I think it's my favorite film.

Favorite film of the year.

- Well--

- Oh, here we go.

--I hate to surprise you, Ben...

...but I also enjoyed it very, very much.

- You know, when people see--

- I slobbered.

I don't believe this.

- Well, thank goodness.

- Home for Thanksgiving...

...is, as far as I'm concerned,

one of the top films of the year.

I mean, Oscars. I smell Oscars.

I loved it. I loved the movie.

KXBD 104.9 Talk Radio.

- Dinkie and Don--

- Turning you on.

It's the Morningwood Show.

Morningwood and Holly would if she could.

- I've got morning wood this morning.

- Yes, we do.

We got a special guest.

That's the reason for my wood, I tell you.

- Her name is Callie Webb.

- How are you?

- I'm good. How are you?

- Excited to have you here.

We heard there's a little bit of,

I don't know, Awards-season buzz...

- ...around the film you have opening.

- That's right.

- Tell us about that.

- I'm very excited.

The film is called Home for Thanksgiving.

- And--

- How many topless scenes do you have?

- There are no topless scenes.

- No scenes?

- What's the point?

- How is there buzz?

But there's...

Gentlemen, welcome.

- Thank you.

- Thank you very much.

So here you are, playwrights.

How has the transition been from writing

for the stage to writing for screen?

Because it starts out

as a wordsmith's medium.

It starts out as a medium

in which your script is sacrosanct.

- Yes.

- Correct? And it's a medium...

...in the screen,

where the director calls the shots.

The director designs what's gonna go on,

the sequence of events.

The director, in fact,

can marshal your words around...

...and you're relegated.

Do you feel relegated...

...in this situation?

Or do you feel like...

...you have reached a position of comfort?

What up, everybody?

It's your boy, chillaxing.

We have a special guest today.

He's the star of the upcoming new movie,

Home for Thanksgiving...

...which comes out this Friday.

I want you guys

to give a warm welcome...

...for Victor Allan Miller.

- Yeah!

- Yes!

- What's up, man? How you doing?

- How you doing?

- I'm so glad you could be here.

- I am so thrilled. I'm pumped, stoked.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Here on Chillaxin'.

- We're gonna pump this beat now.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes