Care to advise me on who you think is important enough to add or not important enough to keep? It's for a monologue a newscaster in my next play will give about the drug, but I fear my list became too big. Any inaccuracies pointed out would also be appreciated.
Paris Hilton Lindsey Lohan Sigmund Freud Charlie Sheen Robert Downey Jr. River Phoenix Gary Busey Tim Allen "one of the Baldwin-brothers nobody cares about" (Daniel) Drew Barrymore Anna Nicole Smith Britney Spears Kate Moss Ike Turner Chuck Berry George Michael Richard Pryor Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Denis Leary Andy Dick Stephen King Jules Verne Robert Louis Stevenson Sherlock Holmes ("he's not real, but f*** it") Billy Mays Bam Bam Bigelow Curt Hennig A.K.A. Mr. Perfect Pope Leo XIII some of your favorite rappers lots of your favorite classic rock bands most of your favorite Saturday Night Live-actors everybody enjoying Coca-Cola before 1903 President Grover Cleveland President Ulysses S. Grant President George W. Bush Bobby Brown Whitney Houston
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List seems awfully exhaustive for a monologue meant to resemble actual conversation... reminds me of a spec script I once read where the climax was a poetry slam and the main character had four pages of uninterrupted dialogue. (Me, to the author: "COMPULSION was a fluke.") Then again, writing for the theatre is probably different.
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Tyrone's great, but one fictional character only! I'm not against replacing Sherlock with him, but I've already got an ode to Chappelle Show/Rick James by the same newscaster ("Crack is whack, but cocaine...cocaine's a hell of a drug.").
I saw somewhere earlier today Mitch died of an overdose on the stuff. I didn't check its source too closely, so I'll investigate later.
I figured more pro wrestlers should be on, but I saw Bam Bam and Curt had died from it, so I went with them.
Kurt Cobain, good one.
The Real Truth posted... Most of these people aren't important.
Haha, especially the first few I started off with. Still, that's a sign I should narrow this down.
Psycho_Kenshin posted... I thought we'd see some B8ers on here, that would've been A+++ if ya ask me.
If B8'ers are famously hitting the rocks, I've clearly missed a lot more on the board than I thought lately!
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IngmarBirdman posted... List seems awfully exhaustive for a monologue meant to resemble actual conversation... reminds me of a spec script I once read where the climax was a poetry slam and the main character had four pages of uninterrupted dialogue. (Me, to the author: "COMPULSION was a fluke.") Then again, writing for the theatre is probably different.
Valid point. The role of my newscaster that's introduced in Act Two is two-fold for me: to show how the true conflicts of the play have escalated to national news, and to address how much the drug is involved with the world around us. She'll have a similar (and already smaller!) monologue listing the names cocaine goes by as well.
Long lists like those can get boring quickly, so I'm having additional fun with her by having the same actor play Gemini Lewis every time she delivers the news...but have her deliver the news a different way each time too. She delivers it normally at first, then she drops her hair and immediately takes a harsher approach to the news (even to the point of talking trash on the previous news-station for not getting the breaking news first). She'll probably do some radio-DJ'ing and web-blogging later too to keep the variation alive.
Besides all that, I don't think of news-anchors as being particularly conversational unless they're in an interview or something with other people.
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You could probably drop a couple comedians (your choice) there are way more than you have on the list, and it shouldn't be a surprise that so many comedians use drugs.
I had already dropped a few comedians before posting this topic, yeah. I think Pryor and Leary (thanks to his acting career) have the appeal to stay and I'll keep Hedberg on for sentimental value, but Andy Dick's gone now.
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HaRRicH posted... Len Bias...I never heard of him before now, but his story's fascinating. He overdoses two days after being drafted, yeesh.
and the notion is probably over-dramatized due to his death, but it's thought that he could have been a true rival to michael jordan. might entirely have changed the 80s-90s NBA picture.
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Okay, I just need to give the list a real overhaul. Time to narrow this list down again:
Sigmund Freud Pope Leo XIII Paris Hilton Anna Nicole Smith Kate Moss Billy Mays Stephen King Robert Louis Stevenson Sherlock Holmes ("he's not real, but f*** it") some of your favorite athletes lots of your favorite musicians most of your favorite actors PLUS Daniel Baldwin everybody enjoying Coca-Cola before 1903 President Grover Cleveland President Ulysses S. Grant President George W. Bush Whitney Houston (purposely last and left out of the musician-category)
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