Ранние "Хроники Мейсона"

Евгениия (Среда, 27 декабря 2006, 20:03:15) писал:

Вот потому я и выложила в оригинале - любой перевод (а тем более пересказ) будет выглядеть бледным по сравнению с ним .

Итак, продолжение:

Week 56 (финальные судебные заседания)


Hanging on by my fingernails in some of these. Somewhere in here the Dobson's wrote me into 58 pages of a 70-something-page script. I went to them and said they'd finally written one I couldn't memorize. Jerry cut my load down to 30-something pages, and the show was 10 minutes short.


Get's pretty heated in here. Not sure where I got the energy, but I was pretty pleased with the work. Sometimes I worked on pure adrenaline--it always felt like there was more at stake when the whole cast was sitting there. You hate to keep everybody waiting...and you want the work to be good.


(Perry) Mason strikes again. Forensics have sure come a long way since the Reagan Era. Not that our attention to court protocol was all that rigid...


I sure envied that judge being able to keep a script on his desk at all times. Watch closely, and you can see him cheat...


Speaking of the Reagan Era--recognize Richard Moll from "Night Court"? NBC was cross-promoting their night-time line-up by using some of their prime-timers as guest stars. Always fun taunting CC, no matter how impossible they made him...Joel Bailey, who played Lindsay, was straight in real life, and the husband of Gina Gallego, a later Santana... One of my better 'tag faces' at the end of this sequence...

Week 57 (предполагаемая вечеринка в честь освобождения Теда, которая закончилась для СиСи известием о том, что Ченнинг был голубым)


Energy seems a little low in a couple of these--not surprising given the scedule of the preceding weeks. There's an old saying in my business -- "There are only nine people in theatre, and we all know each other." I first met Richard Moll (Malone) at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles back when Carter was President. He was playing Own Glendower in one of the Henry IV's...


Much prefer voice-over soliloquies--that's the way Shakespeare would have done it if he'd had the option...
Seeing Harley Kozak on screen can still make my pulse quicken, even twenty years later...


Pretty naughty in this scene. This was the stuff that made Mason fun...love the look as I sipped the scotch. Also fun to watch CC waltz into the the trap.
"Or unnatually" was an inspired aside...the rest of the writing in these clips is first-rate. Nice to see character, humor, and suspense all in the same place...


Hope you don't get too upset over CC's health problems... Why he goes upstairs instead of the ER is a mystery...we probably couldn't afford the EMT extras...


Too bad Harley and I didn't have any chemistry..
The really nice thing about soap work for an actor is the opportunity to develop a character over a period of months and years, not just weeks. This last clip is a good example of serial writing at it's best. We've known Mason was something of a misfit--now we're really learning why. It's the stuff that gave him dimension, and made him a vulnerable villain, and not just a nasty guy...

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- Он, насколько я помню, не уточнил.
А какой "перец", если даже Дженнис просила Мери перестать над мужиком издеваться?

Вера (Четверг, 28 декабря 2006, 10:54:58) писал:

Это -просто здорово! Я влюбилась в комментарии!

Жду с нетерпением...

clair (Четверг, 28 декабря 2006, 11:27:37) писал:

В более поздних сериях-да, просила.

Я,просто, не помню,как ,вообще, Дженнис в истории М\М появилась?
Он на нее внимание обратил? Или что там было? Совсем не помню...

Мейсон Мери ждал, смотрит - девушка плачет, спросил, в чем дело, она сказала, что у нее любимый погиб (Дженнис тогда Дилона погибшим считала), Мейсон ей платок дал, сопли вытереть, тут как раз Мери и появилась. Дженнис с ними попрощалась, а Мери говорит, дескать, какая девушка сексуальная, Мейсон естесственно, дурачка включил: "правда? А я и не заметил, а вот ты ...", ну и дальше сами понимаете...

clair (Четверг, 28 декабря 2006, 12:12:37) писал:

Вот- "хитрюга"!!!

А, тесно стали общаться ,когда Мэри бросила Мэйсона, так? До этого только дружеские "привет-пока" были?

Просто, я в свое время, ТАК переживала, что у Мэйсона с Дженнис романчик завязался. (Хотя, и понимала, что Мэйсону в тот момент без женской ласки просто "НИ КАК").

Боялась, что Мэри так и останется с Марком, а Мэйсон не выдержит безнадежного ожидания и всерьез увлечется Дженнис.

Еще пара недель на сегодня.

Week 58 (Мейсон узнает, что Ченнинг не сын СиСи и собирается рассказать папочке)


Like the suit? I felt like a young Colonel Sanders, but it did have a certain Southern charm. Basset was such a friendly guy…
More juicy news about Channing. For somebody who was only on the air one day, he sure is talked about a lot…Mason was never more fun to play than when he had the goods on somebody.


Louise Sorel was one-of-a-kind. Well, not really, but we hadn’t seen the likes of her since the grand old days of Hollywood…
Fun to watch Mason sitting on devastating information…I’d forgotten how close together the big Channing revelations were…We burned story faster than the New York Times...


This was really fun stuff. I wonder if it would have been as fun to watch Jed Allen get his come-uppance as Charlie…he certainly wasn’t a very empathetic character…
Well. Some pretty good work here, if I do say so myself. And more good stuff from the writers to explain how Mason became Mason…


I spent more time in that Atrium set than in my own apartment…More sweetness from CC…
Joel Crothers, a solid actor and a very good guy, became ill and died at the young age of 44. Hence the cast change. You can learn more about Joel at http://www.joelcrothers.net
They sure knew how to hook a viewer—I can’t wait to see what happens, and I’m the one in the scenes…


Pretty florid dialogue in here—the classical training was paying off. I still don’t know how I memorized that much material in a day. And this must have been fun to do, but I swear I don’t remember shooting it. I guess I was just protecting that part of my brain that I needed for short-term memory...35 pages a day will do that. Then A. and Marcy would go “Cootchie-coo, cootchie-coo, tee-hee”, and get the tag of the show and a magazine cover…
We used to laugh about it.

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Week 59 (Мейсон наконец говорит отцу о том, что Ченнинг был не его, СиСи "падает" в кому и сразу возвращение Мейсона домой после пары недель отсутствия)


Charlie really turns in some nice work in these scenes. My stuff is a bit florid again, but I think I played against it rather craftily…
Notice the smaller Capwell study from the earliest shows. Cameras can't shoot full faces deep in a set, so they cut the study in half.


Mason's ambivalence toward his father was fun to play. And, apparently, a lot of people identified with it. I know the Dobson's were working out some of there parental issues through Mason…


Nick Coster was always fun to work with-He and Louise could have had their own show. Keep a close watch on the comatose CC…


Those monologues over CC could be tough -- nobody to bail you out, and lots of emotional stuff. Really earned my money on those days. Not that I didn't on the others…


Harley Jane…sigh.


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Вера (Четверг, 28 декабря 2006, 16:25:33) писал:

Многое я пропустила...

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- Да, так.