Today’s theme from 30 Days of Creativity is “Aspirin.”
The Ram directs a scene from the movie Author! Author!
I was stumped by the “Aspirin” theme. Should I do a scene from The Hangover? Should I try to reenact that moment in The Birdcage when Agador persuades Albert to take a “pirin?” Those didn’t really inspire me. Then I remembered a favorite scene of mine from 1982’s Author! Author! with Al Pacino (as playwright Ivan) and Dyan Cannon (as actor Alice Detroit). They’ve met at the Plaza so Ivan can talk Alice into appearing in his play, and while they’re sitting there, the waiter sets three glasses of champagne in front of Alice. As they talk, she takes sips of champagne from each glass, followed by a pill. Ivan’s curiosity finally gets the better of him.
Ivan: Why do you take aspirin with champagne?
Alice: Oh, champagne gives me a headache.
By the way, that scene has a blooper. Alice actually takes four pills, although only three were on the table. I’ve opted to go for continuity.
Other Day 27 creations can be seen here.
I have never seen this movie … and I can’t help but wonder, is the part of Al Pacino being played by Fernando Llamas? I don’t think so — but I am entranced by him, as I so often am by your Llamas.
The part of Al Pacino is being played by a Barbie Basics male doll. “Lorenzo Lamas” is what you call my Harley Ken. He has facial hair.
This movie got terrible reviews and was said to be anti-female. Whatevs.
in fact I am so entranced … that I forgot you do not have a Fernando Lamas doll … you have a Lorenzo Lamas doll and Llamas are completely different from Lamas … and now I want you to have a Fernando Llamas doll complete with wool … because Project Runway is coming up, and you might be able to create your own original fabrics with a Llamas.
I fixed this second note because I’m nice. But I’m letting Fernando Llamas stay, because I think he and the Ram would get along.
So, you have champagne handy… I knew you sat around writing novels and drinking champagne all day.
If only I could get a glass of the same comparative size to me. *sigh*
I think that might be TOO much of a good thing. (And don’t tell, but I opened the lone bottle of Corona beer in our refrigerator to get that shot–I used a little less than half of it, so Tim took the rest and drank it, but ONLY because he had some fresh lemon he needed to do something with, and everyone puts a wedge of lemon in a Corona. The sacrifices that man makes…)
As Henry Hiccups always says, “The pain of champagne is mainly in the brain.” Brilliant use of another movie I never saw!
Thanks! If you weren’t so busy admiring art and architecture, listening to opera, and reading good books, you’d probably have seen more movies.