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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[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.

[minkhollow]

Charles Van Doren. Via Mom's side of the family (I think that's where I got the literary bug).
I wasn't interested enough in the background when my parents rented the movie. I should check it out sometime, if only to determine whether Ralph Fiennes has appropriate ears for the part. XD

[wakeupnew]

Your relative was played by Ralph Fiennes? HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME.