Movie Merchandising vs. The Butterfly Effect
Posted by Mark Allen on 29 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Random Posts
Jodie Foster as Princess Leia in Star Wars? Elvis Presley as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy? Lucille Ball as Scarlett in Gone With the Wind? Groucho Marx in Ethel Merman’s role in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Judy Garland as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate? Alfred Hitchcock directing The Exorcist? Alfred Hitchcock directing Rosemary’s Baby? Sally Field as Alice in Friday the 13th? Meat Loaf as Bluto in Animal House? Holly Hunter in Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn? Orson Welles in THX 1138? John Travolta in Splash? Molly Ringwald in Blue Velvet? Richard Gere in Making Love? Goldie Hawn in Making Love? Drew Barrymore as Nomi in Showgirls? Bette Midler as Annie Wilkes in Misery? Ice Cube in Forrest Gump? Madonna in Breaking the Waves? Madonna in Brazil? The searchable, cross-referenced NotStarring.com database shows you who almost was… but eventually was not cast in the roles of a zillion different films, and opens up a Pandora’s box of alternate cinematic universes.
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I think the lady in “Poltergeist” is Emily Grearson from Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, but maybe thats not what your saying.
Mark, I’m typing this from a nurse’s station at the local emergency room. As soon as I read “Judy Garland as Mrs. Robinson” on your blog I must have fainted, falling forward at my desk, my head slamming down onto my keyboard, where it remained for a long time as the sparks fluttering out of it (because it short-circuited due to my Dunkin Donuts Cappuccino Coconut Tornado Kahlua Surprise falling out of my hand spilling onto it) burned my face. I’m being treated for numerous tiny, coconut-scented burns covering my face an neck. I might not have even made it if I hadn’t had my email program on at the time. My head landing on the keyboard ended up typing the words “nNNNlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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Mr. Nose
I think Drew is one of the few child stars to endure their stardom. Remember her in Firestarter? She was so cute!