I just got back from shooting my scene in Daze.
It was very interesting, and very strange.
Green seems to be a big theme in the film, though I don’t really know why. Every character is dressed in green, or has some major green element in their appearance.
I thought the green hair was strangely flattering. But then, I’m a winter.
I’m trying to get ready to go away for the weekend, so I don’t have the time to write a detailed post about what it was like to work with Gary Busey. I’ll try to do it when I get back, provided I haven’t blocked it out by then.
For the moment, I’ll just say that it was completely fucking terrifying.
60 responses so far ↓
1 Syr Paine // May 30, 2008 at 3:55 am
Congratulations on surviving Busey!
Funny what too much wheat grass does to your hair, April!
2 bnaivar // May 30, 2008 at 5:33 am
Any chance that wig says “Property of Lou Ferrigno” inside of it?
3 EllenRonnie // May 30, 2008 at 5:41 am
Dig those Busey choppers!
Totally looks like you’re subtly pushing him away.
Today Busey, tomorrow Mickey Rourke?
4 Speedy Cerviche // May 30, 2008 at 7:30 am
Whoa, the Sack O’ Crap is trademarked now? When did this happen?
There goes my under-the-table merchandising plans.
5 April // May 30, 2008 at 8:27 am
Yes EllenRonnie, those are some serious ass teeth.
John said his mouth looks like a cow-catcher.
6 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 9:58 am
Moo !
7 phoebefigalilly // May 30, 2008 at 11:14 am
I’m hitting my mid life crisis and I am jealous how young you look… even with green hair.
8 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 11:21 am
More on that particular engine:
http://www.wcra.org/engine374/
9 Speedy Cerviche // May 30, 2008 at 11:23 am
Trains? Yeesh.
Here, let’s all read how much the Sex and the City movie sucks.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/movies/30sex.html
10 Osafp // May 30, 2008 at 12:04 pm
April, you do look really good in green hair! But poor Gary is starting to look like Grandpa Munster…
11 DavidinBerkeley // May 30, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Busey is a bit of a blur in the above picture. Does that mean something?
I do think it means something that (I believe) Ms. Winchell said she was playing some kind of an executive in this film.
Quiz question: What kind of executive has green hair?
12 beetlebug // May 30, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Wow, I’ve got to admit the green hair is pretty sexy. Then again, I do have cupie doll issues.
13 Infinite monkey // May 30, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Top Photo is Promotional! Top Photo is Promotional!…
Please tell us when Daze is coming out!
14 clevelandphil // May 30, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Green hair and red lips.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
15 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Speedy, Iposted a link to a train, you to a trainweck
double yeesh
16 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 4:51 pm
What kind of executive has green hair?
Krusty the Clown…CEO…Krustylu Studios
17 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I once knew a guy with green hair who dyed it brown for St Patrick’s Day
really
18 Speedy Cerviche // May 30, 2008 at 6:29 pm
OH SHI–
Something just hit me.
Anyone here ever play Lemmings?
19 Speedy Cerviche // May 30, 2008 at 6:31 pm
The resemblance is uncanny.
20 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 7:30 pm
This, not so much:
http://www.afhub.com/images/tonner_direct/joker.jpg
21 pal Jacky // May 30, 2008 at 8:04 pm
i first thought of Terra from final fantasy IV. Instead of a ‘real’ image this cosplay gal says it all.http://www.cosplay.com/photo/636191/
BTW again my myspace profile has a picture of Kefka the existential clown and main meanie of this game so any resemblence to any character in this game is worth note.
22 pal Jacky // May 30, 2008 at 8:07 pm
oops got to be more careful with hyperlinks http://www.cosplay.com/photo/636191/
Also fassbinder forced his actors to endure details of characters even if those details did not hit the screen. So do the carpet match the curtains? Of course, the best response would be ‘the carpet has always been green’ but I think i’m hoping for too much.
23 eBayEnigma // May 30, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Mr. Busey looks as if he could eat an apple through a tennis racquet.
24 JohnnyBoy // May 30, 2008 at 8:38 pm
His teeth look like a row of urinals
25 pal Jacky // May 30, 2008 at 10:01 pm
of course I meant final fantasy VI (not IV). Perhaps no need to correct but more photos of this wacky broad with green hairare in order.
http://www.cosplay.com/gallery/62193/
26 pal Jacky // May 30, 2008 at 10:26 pm
http://www.cosplay.com/photo/725367/
If you played the game you know Locke looks just like this and is a male character. actually, acording to Amano himself based upon Johhny depp, so it all makes too much sense.
27 TalkinHorse // May 31, 2008 at 1:34 am
An old pulp cover, The Green Girl, comes to mind.
28 Speedy Cerviche // May 31, 2008 at 5:30 am
Jacky, the only Final Fantasy cosplay that can even justify its existance on this world is that of Rikku from FFX2.
And of course this has nothing to do with the character or the game itself. It’s just that “FFX2 Rikku cosplay” means that we’ll be seeing some (presumably) attractive young woman walking around in short-shorts and a yellow bikini top.
29 Speedy Cerviche // May 31, 2008 at 5:32 am
Tee hee hee.
My previous comment is awaiting moderation.
It had too many links MAH BOIIII.
30 Egregious // May 31, 2008 at 2:07 pm
April, I think we had a son together.
31 pal Jacky // May 31, 2008 at 7:27 pm
http://www.cosworx.com/product.php?productid=16349&cat=295&page=1
If we all get green wigs we can recognize each otner when we go about our daily business.
32 pal Jacky // May 31, 2008 at 7:35 pm
The wig above was shown in yellow, but is available in green as well as other beautiful colors.
http://www.cosworx.com/home.php?cat=2437
this place has footwear for the post industrial male as well.
33 JohnnyBoy // May 31, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I already wear the following:
http://www.uscav.com/ZoomImage.aspx?CatID=548&ImageURL=/prodinfo/enlarged/17320L.jpg
Excellent ankle support, and wearable all day
34 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 1, 2008 at 2:13 am
I wear these.
http://www.wicksglobalshop.com/91230-S.jpg
I mean, as long as we’re giving out personal footware info.
35 OLDFART // Jun 1, 2008 at 5:53 am
Dear April:
Sack o Crap was my nickname in my youth and so I feel a special bond with this website. This is the first time I’ve seen a good picture of you and you look so cute in that wig. Can an Academy Award be far away? In the future, if Gary gives you any trouble just double up on your jab. I’m just saying….
36 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 1, 2008 at 11:32 am
Man, Busey needs to do something about those yellow chicklets.
http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/violence/busey.jpg
37 thefifthbeatle // Jun 1, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Jesus H. Christ, Gary Busey is frightening.
April, on the other hand, looks great. Only she could successfully pull off a green wig imho.
38 pal Jacky // Jun 1, 2008 at 6:02 pm
http://www.cosworx.com/product.php?productid=25633&cat=2431&page=1
these brought out some never before discovered cross dressing tingles.
39 pal Jacky // Jun 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I think we should buy april a pair and then clammor for a webcast. If you know what I mean.
40 TalkinHorse // Jun 1, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I recall Busey’s strange behavior when he was an in-studio guest for Howard Stern’s radio show a few years ago. As described on MarksFriggin.com:
I think April should feel insulted that she got off so easy.
41 pal Jacky // Jun 1, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I saw the new ‘indiana jones’ film today and I have a problem with it. NotCate Blanchett sounding goofier than Natassia from ‘rocky and bullwinkle’. It was the skull itself. If the skull was a real skull from an ET or ‘dimension portal jumper’ why would it be solid? Where would the aliens keep their brains? I’m not a george Noorie type who believes this crap. But a work of science fiction/fantasy needs to be consistant within its own fictional bounderies and it is a valid question. Oh hell it was just a really dopey movie. If you want to see a crazy people in the amazon film, check out Herzok’s ‘fitzcaraldo’. There is one to meany shots in ‘Indy’ that says Speilberg did.
42 JohnnyBoy // Jun 2, 2008 at 7:49 am
And where the Crystal Light don’t shine, you’ll see the Crystal Balls
43 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 2, 2008 at 7:54 am
Jacky… Spoilers, man. Spoilers.
44 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:04 pm
“Only [April] could successfully pull off a green wig…”
This quote belongs on Ms. Winchell’s resume or demo reel or something because they don’t say this about everybody.
45 Here For The Bun Exhibit // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull = Special Effects for story= everyone’s out of ideas.
46 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:08 pm
My usual post telling the world at large that I, if no one else, has not forgotten that The Law Firm of Winchell and Germain has promised us a new project and that I am still eager to get my mitts on it.
As long as it is doesn’t cost anything.
47 pal Jacky // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:45 pm
also if the damn skull was solid quartz crystal it would be too heavy to be throwing it back and forth like football, however, since it is supposed space alien skeleton, it probably is some weirdass material we never heard of before. Also, did anyone else think art bell had a hand in the script? Roswell, Nasca lines, the crystal skull itself and the cate blanchett character being a remote viewer(implied but she was part of Russia’s paranormal group and the only known one was remote viewers) All that was missing was people telling us we don’t need to pay income taxes and bigfoot and it would be a perfect ‘coast to coast’ episode.
48 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I was just finished watching an episode of Batman Beyond, and as the credits rolled, something caught my eye.
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4167/bbssnx6.jpg
God, all those years of April talking to Ramrod and trying to make us believe he was just some guy named “Nathan”. And here it turns out that she was actually talking to Ice-T. I didn’t even know he worked at KFI.
And I just finished drinking a glass of iced tea, so everything comes full circle.
49 pal Jacky // Jun 2, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I saw Indy at a Sunday matinee, at a multiplex. Well they got two screens mixed up. So we had to be led next door and pass by about three dozen people who were emptied out of the other wrong theater. They were the horrible looking people. First of all they were all white. next, only six or seven men. The women all looked liked they had just walked off the Jerry springer show. Middle aged with halter tops and flip flops. Big bags of popcorn and other overpriced snack bar crap The type who are always hogging up the frozen food aisle at the local Ralph’s. Right as I’m wondering what kind of horrible film they are going to see, I look up. yep ’sex in the city city’. I ran more quickly not wanting to get decked by a herd of ’samanthas’
50 pal Jacky // Jun 2, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I thought that the one thing everyone did agree upon is how hagged out Karen Allen looked. Wrong, once again. People say she’s beaming at 567 or however old she is. Magazine covers et all. The last time I saw her any anything before this was twenty years ago in Paul Neuman’s ‘glass menagerie’ where she surprised people by her perfomance but was too pretty to play the blue roses chick. She tastefully called it quits with that. Until Spielberg vacuumed her off and proped her up in this mess. Furthermore, has John Hurt let himself get typecast as grisled blithering old fools? this is like the tenth one I’ve seen him do. He is good at it.
51 pal Jacky // Jun 2, 2008 at 4:30 pm
and as for Indy dying at the end. Let us just be reminded of al bundy’s comment about ‘four weddings and a funeral’ They should just call it’five of the same thing’.
52 jim // Jun 2, 2008 at 7:03 pm
The cuteness, it burns!
But it sort of tickles too.
Hey, you could start a band now … these days, the hair IS pretty much all you need.
You play an executive, eh? Okay - ixnay on any downsizing jokes then.
Well, at least I can see both of Mr. Busey’s hands in that shot. Jesus HMCS Christ - it looks like he’s just got one really really BIG tooth on top like a cartoon character.
53 Infinite monkey // Jun 2, 2008 at 8:51 pm
The willow is green;
flowers are red.
Zen saying
54 Doug // Jun 2, 2008 at 10:04 pm
OK, so I’m a little late. But this link *did* get a chuckle outta me, despite it’s obviousosity. Obviousness. Whatever.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/cht/654534964.html
BTW, Gary Busey is what you get when you clone Nick Nolte together with Jimmy Carter’s teeth.
55 TalkinHorse // Jun 3, 2008 at 2:41 am
Hey, April, when the filming wraps, are you going to auction off your matching green merkin?
56 eBayEnigma // Jun 3, 2008 at 8:44 am
Dang it. Rickrolled again!
57 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 3, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I don’t know, Doug. That guy looks like a real player. He’s no stranger to love.
58 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 3, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Hey, April, when the filming wraps, are you going to auction off your matching green merkin?
Post of the day.
5 points to TalkinHorse.
*Ding*
59 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 3, 2008 at 5:44 pm
And 5 points to DavidinBerkeley for knowing his tags.
This post edited by April Winchell in defense of DavidinBerkeley, about whom no wrong may ever be said
60 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 4, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Oh snap, shades of Orwell.
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