So that was you in the Hedge Animal costume? AND - Jack Nicholson was actually there!???Wow - that is great!
YepMy Stay at the Stanley
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You done an awesome job on your costume!
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing...My stay at the Stanley Round Two : The Shining Ball
Last Thursday during my room 217 visit I saw a poster in the main lobby of the Stanley advertising the shining ball which was yesterday and as you have guessed is a shining themed costume ball (costumes required) and judged by MIKE D. MCCARTY, DANIEL KNAUF, JACK KETCHUM, grand prizes for the categories: best, couple, scariest, and best individual costume was $500 cash for each category. Yours truly won best individual costume (topiary lion, made by me, took over 50 hours to make, and started Monday). Mike D McCarty was the judge that discovered me and let me tell me tell the tail of all the heart and soul I put into my costume making; then he too me over to Jack Ketchum and Daniel Knauf. I did indeed get $500 cash (although my joy was from the judges not only being the first to recognize what my costume was, but who also let me have recognition for all the hard work I put into the costume) the cash didn’t go far, it got me a few souvenirs, a payback into my saving account (I borrowed money out of it for costume supplies, and a donation to our buddy PITH.
and as much fun as my adventures have been, I'm glad to be done with the Stanley until King Kon 2016 (that place can make you crazy)
....Wow honey!...I have really enjoyed this.....and my favorite part?...the fact that you remembered Pat....bless you.....
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Wouldn't it have been cool to see good old Shelley Duvall there? I heard she has aged quite well.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I'm sure she'll have a comment about this!*looks left and right for Dana Jean*
She might not see it, unless she is already following the thread.
She might not see it, unless she is already following the thread.
I did not see this until now. I'm sure SHelley is a lovely woman. And I would love to hear her true thoughts on making the movie. Maybe I would come away with a different feeling about her performance.She might not see it, unless she is already following the thread.
but I doubt it.
I read Kubrick had her in real tears throughout the movie.. that he was a PIG to work under. He had them re-do scenes hundreds of times. I do love that movie tho.
Yeah, he was a real jerk in the documentary footage I saw of the making if it. It would have been awful to work in those conditions.
Dana Jean
Shelley Duvall vs. Stanley Kubrick
Shelley Duvall’s role as Wendy Torrance in “The Shining” is certainly her most memorable, but it is also the part that nearly drove the actress over the edge. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is known for his excruciating attention to detail, reportedly nit-picked every single move Duvall made.
Remember the scene where she hits Jack Nicholson’s character with a bat? Kubrick made her do it 127 times, a feat that is rumored to have broken the record for "most retakes of a single movie scene with spoken dialogue." The stress of the movie and its ever-changing script even took a physical toll on Duvall, who lost some of her hair and became violently ill during filming. - Xfinity Entertainment Programmers
Shelley Duvall’s role as Wendy Torrance in “The Shining” is certainly her most memorable, but it is also the part that nearly drove the actress over the edge. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is known for his excruciating attention to detail, reportedly nit-picked every single move Duvall made.
Remember the scene where she hits Jack Nicholson’s character with a bat? Kubrick made her do it 127 times, a feat that is rumored to have broken the record for "most retakes of a single movie scene with spoken dialogue." The stress of the movie and its ever-changing script even took a physical toll on Duvall, who lost some of her hair and became violently ill during filming. - Xfinity Entertainment Programmers
I've read where she would actually just lay on the floor in her trailer and cry for a couple hours because of what Kubrick put her thru.
Oh man, this is awful, much worse than I first realised. It was partly the times she was living in too... nobody would have stopped it from happening, because.. well, it was okay to treat women like that.
Yeppers. Don't know why Kubrick would be like this to her unless he was always like this. But I doubt that Tom Cruise would have put up with it if Kubrick treated Nicole Kidman-Cruise the same way during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut. Duvall was the 'It' girl at the time of filming The Shining, too, so how Kubrick got away with this is beyond me.Oh man, this is awful, much worse than I first realised. It was partly the times she was living in too... nobody would have stopped it from happening, because.. well, it was okay to treat women like that.
The only first hand knowledge I have of a director at work is when I was able to see David Lynch with his actors when they were filming Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me back in the '90's and he was so very respectful to them all. Never once did I hear him or hear of him raising his voice or throwing a tantrum. There was one instance when they were doing a very emotional scene with Sheryl Lee and he asked her (from aside) to look at someone off camera and she couldn't see this person and lost her mojo. He said 'Cut.' He simply walked over to her, laid down next to her on the grass and told her to roll over on her back, look at the sky and very quietly talked to her. It was (for me) an eye opening experience. After about five minutes he got up, went back over to his chair and they re-did the scene, which was perfectly done this time.