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Date Posted: 14:52:31 04/12/08 Sat
Author: Jed Leland
Subject: Re: Scaife, The Movie
In reply to: Al Fresco 's message, "Re: Scaife, The Movie" on 23:04:25 04/11/08 Fri

Oh, and every biography mentions how he fell off his horse when he was a kid, and the legends about him wrecking his expensive sports car when he was going to college. Both times he busted his head, which may explain a lot.

There'd have to be a sled allusion thrown into this
>movie, right?
>
>I can picture him, at the end of the movie, wimpering
>about his precious toy with the flashing red sign
>downtown: "Rosedud ... "
>
>
>>Alfred Hawthorn Hill, better known as Benny Hill,
>>would have been the perfect lead (too bad he's
>>deceased). I can see him patting Frank Craig on the
>>head. In fact, Jackie Wright, the guy who played the
>>little old bald guy on the Benny Hill show would be
>>the perfect Frank Craig (with a wig, -oh, and some
>>fancy cowboy boots). And, no doubt, Yakety Sax, by
>>Boots Randolph, Benny Hill's theme song when he would
>>chase scantily clad women around (sped up, of course),
>>would be the perfect musical accompaniment. Hell,
>>Hill's life in at least "one" respect, even paralleled
>>Scaife's.
>>
>>>Scaife the perfect actor to play his part would be
>>>Leslie Neilson. As I daydreamed while looking through
>>>Scaife related material on the web, I realized that
>>>this comedy (would have to be a comedy) has already
>>>been written. You couldn't make up anything funnier
>>>than Scaife's recorded factual history. So I was
>going
>>>to write a little script and submit it to this forum
>>>for fun. But I thought it might be better if the
>>>contributors to this forum write their ideas for the
>>>script.
>>>My first idea would be to start the script with a
>>>scene from Scaife's childhood and I was thinking of
>>>Steve Martin as Navin on his family's front porch
>with
>>>everyone singing,
>>>"Gonna jump down turn around pick a bail of cotton,
>>>Gonna jump down turn around pick a bail of hay..."
>>>I'm sure Scaife's childhood had something just a
>funny
>>>and at the same time, sad.
>>>I loved when Navin was leaving Bernadette Peters and
>>>said he was "taking nothing, well maybe this old TV,
>>>but nothing else, except maybe this chair but nothing
>>>else....." Sort of reminded me of his kidnapping of
>>>Beauregard -his wife Ritchie's dog.
>>>Anyone game?

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Replies:

  • Re: Scaife, The Movie -- Len Montana, 18:44:11 04/12/08 Sat
  • Re: Scaife, The Movie -- Andreas Mellon Giese, 10:48:49 04/13/08 Sun
  • Re: Scaife, The Movie -- Arthur McBride, 12:28:31 04/17/08 Thu

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