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Date Posted: 23:04:25 04/11/08 Fri
Author: Al Fresco
Subject: Re: Scaife, The Movie
In reply to: Bob Todd 's message, "Re: Scaife, The Movie" on 04:53:26 04/11/08 Fri

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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