Friday, March 27, 2009

STAUNCH!

Oh hello. Here's something amazing to start out your Friday night:


Soooo excited! Dude, I have been waiting for this movie since 2005 when I first heard it was in pre-production. I actually used to know one of the producers, this lady named Lucy Barzun. When I saw she was attached to the project, I thought, "Shit! I gotta call her up and beg to work on the film in any capacity!" You see, I'm pretty obsessed with the Edies and I really wanted to hang out with their reincarnations, even if one of them was being played by Drew Barrymore.

So I called up Lucy and asked if I could work on the film as her assistant. After rescheduling the meeting like 8 times, she finally told me to meet her one summer afternoon at Le Pain Quotidian. Unfortunately, I had acquired a nasty stomach virus the night before and I couldn't stop puking. So ya know, I did what any staunch GG fan would do. I WENT TO THE INTERVIEW ANYWAY. Ooops.

Things seemed to be going pretty well until we started talking about potential day-to-day activities and my eyes started rolling back in my head. Before I knew it, I had started to throw up in my mouth. I had to run to the bathroom in the middle of her sentence so I could avoid blowing chunks on Lucy's brunch. After that whole debacle, she seemed pretty disgusted with me, and proceeded to send me on my "merry" way without so much as a handshake. I can't say I blame her.

I've always wondered when the film would be released and I've been following its incredibly slow-moving production status on IMDb for the past 4 years. So now it's finally coming out, although it won't be in the theaters. That's sort of a shame since I know Little Edie would have wanted this on the big screen, but I'll take what I can get.
The film premieres on HBO on April 18th @ 8PM, and you can be sure I'll be watching it wearing stockings over my pants and my skirt as a cape.

3 comments:

absolutely not said...

oh girl! i totally know how those moments feel. i almost got fired on the first day of a job FOR THE SAME REASON.
i am excited and apprehensive about this movie all at once. i'm excited about how they portray how they actually interacted with the miesels (i know i spelled that totally incorrectly. i not drunk yet. i just killed the part of my brain that housed film relevant information).
i feel like i might live blog the premiere.
ARE YOU IN OR OUT?

absolutely not said...

also! is that jeanne tripplehorn playing jackie o? if so SHUT UP!

Lesley Robin said...

TOTALLY down to live blog GG!