Emergency Daily Entertainment Hologram

[sdelmonte]

Our usual host is caught in traffic (the kind with cars, not the kind with Steve Winwood), so I am filling in.

I have often suggested that I would love to app Ringo Starr from any of the Beatles films. And we have had a few real people from works of fiction such as Kit Marlowe and Lawrence of Arabia. So I ask, is there a fictionalized version of a famous person you want to play, or to see in the Bar?

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[djcati.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. (To be honest, real people -- who aren't just total parodies like Stephen Colbert, or Sean Connery from SNL -- weirds me out a little in RP.) But I just watched The Last King of Scotland and want to see Nicholas Garrigan -- who's based loosely on Bob Astles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Astles) -- in the bar. :O

[sdelmonte]

I think characters based on real people count, if only because the research needed to play them reasonably accurately is the same.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

I played Erzsébet Bathory for a while. She was fun, but the time came to downsize my puppet count and I let her go. She's the only real/historical person I've ever had an inkling to play and I can't think of others I'd like to see in bar off the top of my head, but it's barely 9am and I've not had my tea yet.

[silveraspen]

:O !!! *threadhops and hastily provides tea*

I remember her! She's fascinating historically, and so was the interpretation you used.

[wakeupnew]

Well, I've been tempted to app Anastasia (despite the fact that Plourr's backstory is a shameless rip-off from the Anastasia mythos and I'd essentially be playing the same feisty red-haired character twice over, just that one likes to punch things more than the other) a couple of times, though my version would have been based on the Fox animated feature. I haven't really thought much about it, beyond that. Hats off to the people who are playing this sort of character; that's hard, with all the research and everything involved.

[muji]

Oooh, good question!

Well, my interest in the movie Rob Roy is probably the closest. And I think I tend to agree with other commentary listed thus far about not really understanding the appeal of bandom and/or RPF.

[sdelmonte]

Thanks!! :)

[innerbrat]

Well, seeing as one of my pups is the fictional love interest of a real person, I'd like to see a Casanova, definitely.

- while I'm sure we had a Billy the Kid at some point, he and Socrates remain one of my favourite team ups and I'd die if they came in.

Me personally? I've been occasionally tempted by the Virgin Queen. Possobly the Helen Mirren version or maybe Cate's.

And not Miranda Richardson at all.

[innerbrat]

OH and Ringo Starr reminds me - I keep trying to work out how to play Alice Cooper.

[newredshoes]

One upon a time I wanted to get together some people to app the Beatles, as portrayed in film. AHDN, BackBeat, and every other canon in which they showed up was going to be fair game. John's journal would have been yer_a_swine. But it never came together, if you'll pardon the pun.

I'm re-reading The Killer Angels right now, and I can't believe how fast I fell in love with the Chamberlain brothers and George Pickett again.

[sdelmonte]

Even Yellow Submarine? My original idea was to play Ringo from that film, since it's fantastic and since we could have a Nowhere Man, too.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Many many many Tudor women.

Possibly Anne Boleyn.

Anne: :O *Schemes...* *Tries to latch onto Bernard*

(You go with what you know.)

[innerbrat]

...


I don't have Elizabeth in my head, so she can't possibly be exploding right now.

[minkhollow]

Oh, man, Ringo would be hilarious! (Even though I mainly know from Help!, it would still be made of Win.)

Re: the question... actually, a distant relative of mine could be eligible for apping, since there's a movie about him (Quiz Show). Only I got him put on the reserve list a while back since I can't decide whether that would be the coolest thing ever or Really Damn Weird.

[wakeupnew]

WOW WAIT WHICH ONE IS YOUR RELATIVE?

A relative of mine technically would be eligible for apping, too, now that I think about it. She was the pioneer woman who the town of Dixon was named after in the Johnny Bellair books (I have no idea if anyone remembers these other than me, but my third grade teacher read them all to us; they were AWESOME. also, mildly TERRIFYING), with a statue of her in the town square and everything, and I am almost completely certain that her ghost shows up in one of the books or something.

Man, that would be weird, though.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda with Cati? Real people kinda sorta freak me out, even though I've tried them and...it doesn't work. Because I'm afraid to change their history by bringing them into the bar, cos it feels like I'm messing around with, y'know, history itself.

[innerbrat]

Which is a shame, 'cause I loved the threads I had with Eva.

[jaceekei.livejournal.com]

See, the Beatles would creep me out, 'cause I grew up listening to them and they will always be very real people to me.

But I seem to be fine with most of the others people are talking about, so maybe it has something to do with my never having seen any of the films you're talking about. I DUNNO.

[oh-wowee.livejournal.com]

We play fictional characters who are real enough to go on tour and have an album get into the charts? >_>

That doesn't count though, that's like, anti-this-topic.

If I didn't have so many pups already, I was thinking of apping Ghandi a-la Clone High.

[sdelmonte]

Hey, it worked for Spinal Tap! They were utterly fictional. And then they went on tour. More than once. And what's more, the Folksmen - later seen in A Mighty Wind - opened for them. One group of actor-musicians playing two bands. It may be off topic, but I love that meta!

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Oliver Stone's Richard Nixon and/or Spiro Agnew.

JUST KIDDING. JUST KIDDING!

Er...I can think of a few more.

[sdelmonte]

How about anyone in JFK?

And as for Nixon, there is the Nixon's-head-in-a-bottle from Futurama. That might almost be safe.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

The first time I discovered this game, the FIRST thought I had was "I should app Oscar Wilde!"

Ironically, his was the FIRST name on the then-unalphabetized reserved list. Or possibly the second.

Right under "God."

That, at least, made me smirk.

I've also thought many times of apping Edgar Allan Poe.

[oh-wowee.livejournal.com]

... DO IT.

[bcgphoenix]

After what I wrote for yuletide, I briefly toyed with the idea of apping Emma Goldman as she appears in either Assassins or Ragtime -- very, very, very briefly. Seeing fictionalized versions of historical characters around doesn't necessarily weird me out, but it's something I would never, ever be able to pull off comfortably.

Plus, there's the whole thing where I have too many characters that I don't play enough as is. *sheepish*

[ostro_goth]

Well, I have or had them -- the first Milli!charrieI started out with was Rasputin, ostensibly from the movie with Alan Rickman, but really from the non-fiction book by Edvard Radsinsky.

Teja is a historical person as well, but I play him entirely from the 19th century historical novel he is from; he could as well be completely fictional and invented. There is too little in historical sources to even attempt thinking about deviating from canon. If I deviated from the fictional canon, almost nothing would remain. Not even the spelling of the name is certain.-

I would like to see some more people from his canon because the Goth is a bit lonely for them; some of them are historical (some not), so they would fall into that category, but just barely.-

[misslucyjane]

I played, very very briefly, Dracula/Vlad Dracul. Of course, the thing with Dracula is that even though he's an historical person, the fiction is so much stronger than nobody stops to think, "Oo, real person, weird."

William Shakespeare a la Shakespeare in Love might be fun, and would open up so many possibilities.

Isn't the basic rule there has to be some sort of work of fiction about the character in order to be eligible? So, once we had a Neil Gaiman from ...ack, a comic strip about him and Tim Burton and Robert Smith (Crazy Hair? Nice Hair? Something about hair, anyway); and we could have a Stephen King since he appears in the Dark Tower series (but don't since he's on reserve and would be too brain-breaky), and if somebody wants to be really cracky there's any number of famous people's heads in jars from Futurama. If, you know, you wanted to play a head in a jar.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Dude, it would have been awesome had Vlad been around when I played Bathory. The fun they could have got up to!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I would love to see William Shakespeare as portrayed in this short story by Kage Baker (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/dustenclosed.htm). (It's not a very long story, and it's all there.)

[gramarye1971]

For a time, I tossed around the idea of apping the Rev A.R.P. Blair, MA (Oxon), from Private Eye's St Albion Parish News, but couldn't work up enough of a headvoice to write a serious app. And now that Tony Blair's no longer the PM, it's something of a moot point. ^^;;

I have told myself that I am not allowed to app Helen Mirren's HM Queen Elizabeth II from the film The Queen, because the temptation to give her a crossbow would be just too great. *points to icon* And on the subject of the monarchy, the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne's wonderful portrayal of King George III (from Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III) would be fun but would cause so much chaos.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Neil Patrick Harris from "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" pops to mind right off the bat.

He'd arrive riding a unicorn.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

I'd love a really beautifully played Shakespeare, but I'm a whore like that.

[gorgonfondness]

If I thought I could pull it off, we would SO have a Geoffrey Chaucer ala A Knight's Tale.

I wonder, would it count if a character isn't technically real but their creator goes by that name/uses it as a stage name/changed it to their legal name? The big example in my mind when I say that is Alice Cooper.

[ash-imperfect.livejournal.com]

*seconds that vote*

I love Geoff. Him and his pimp coat. And his speeches.

[baby-duck484.livejournal.com]

Does Jo from Little Women count? or Laura Ingalls Wilder?

[sdelmonte]

I think that if you were to app Jo, she would count as fiction.

Laura, though? The books are regarded as novels, so they would fit under the rules of the game. But from what I know of them, they are as close to being non-fiction as fiction can come. If you apped the character from the TV show, though, you might be a little further from reality.

[spiffynamehere.livejournal.com]

STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER



...That was actually what I planned to post here, regardless of post subject.

[ashen_key]

Shakespeare. Master William Shakespeare, from no_sin_but's canon, just so we can have the joy of a) old friend turned murderer and b) old friend turned murderer who kidnapped Shakespeare's daughter and tried to kill him.

:D?

:D?

[accessobrian.livejournal.com]

Someone already said Nixon, so I'll just second it, and suggest Deep Throat.

It would amuse me on levels I can't quite explain without having my brain explode.

[sdelmonte]

Knox would be ecstatic to meet the man behind the story. Though since when the film was made, the true identity of the man was a scret to all but Woodward, Bernstein and Bradlee. So he couldn't actually be Mark Feit.

Yes, I am a geek about this sort of thing. I raced home the day that the truth came out and spent an hour reading all the reactions and the confirmation from the Washington Post.