A Chuck Lorre question
David
sign-up sheet ahead of time if they want to use the fart noise
machine?
Horace LaBadie
David <diml...@yahoo.com> wrote:
They can handle anything in posterior production.
Adam H. Kerman
>>Now that there are three sitcoms, do they have to put their names on a
>>sign-up sheet ahead of time if they want to use the fart noise
>>machine?
>They can handle anything in posterior production.
Ohhhhhhhh
John McWilliams
A big Bronx cheer, too!
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john mcwilliams
Taylor
If there's a Chuck Lorre with 3 sitcoms on at once, he HAS to wonder
which bitchtastic female star will have him bounced first (Roseanne/
Cybill/Grace Under Fire).
Rhino
"David" <diml...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Now that there are three sitcoms, do they have to put their names on a
> sign-up sheet ahead of time if they want to use the fart noise
> machine?
<tongue-in-cheek>
Why would they want a machine to make fart noises? I'm not sure why anyone
would want to pay money to buy and maintain a machine - assuming far
machines actually exist - that would tend to be used infrequently at best.
Most kids manage to do reasonable impressions of fart noises by using their
armpits. And if you want more authenticity, a big plate of beans usually
generates all the natural gas you need. Any actor should be able to do that.
Of course it might be a union rule that regular actors can't do that so
maybe you have to use stunt people.
Another approach would be to licence fart noises from existing audio
recordings. Many years ago, I saw a two album LP called the Australian
Farting Contest and YouTube also has a number of fart videos. It might be
most convenient for the production crew to simply licence that kind of sound
source and dub it in rather than wait for nature to take its course.
</tongue-in-cheek>
<serious>
Does anyone know if Chuck Lorre is any relation to Peter Lorre, the famous
actor? I don't see any connection listed in IMDB but perhaps he downplays
any relationship just to be sure that he is taken seriously in his own right
rather than viewed as a "son/whatever of a famous guy"....
Just curious....
</serious>
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Rhino
Dan Dassow
wrote:
> "David" <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=119
CHUCK LEVINE PRODUCTIONS, #119
Let me explain. I was born Charles Michael Levine and went by the name
Chuck Levine until I was twenty-six years old. The reason I changed my
name was simple. My mother, never a fan of my father's family, had an
unfortunate habit of using Levine as a stinging insult. When
displeased with me, she would often say/shriek, "You know what you
are? You're a Levine! A no good, rotten Levine!" So, for as far back
as I can remember, every time I heard my last name I would experience
acute feelings of low self-esteem. Whenever roll was called in school
I would sit in quiet dread as the teacher ticked off the L's:
"Labianca, Lepkowitz... Levine -- Arghhh!" My first wife was the one
who suggested I change my name to remedy the situation. In fact, it
was she who came up with the name Lorre, complete with the fancy
spelling. I thought it sounded great. Chuck Lorre. Charles Michael
Lorre. Finally a name that did not make me squirm. It didn't occur to
me that in England my new name translated into Chuck Truck. Nor did I
realize that the famous actor, Peter Lorre, was mostly famous for
playing smarmy, closeted gay guys (not that there's anything wrong
with it). But most interestingly, I had completely forgotten that when
I was around eight years old my father's business began to fail,
forcing my mother to find work in a clothing store called... Lorie's.
Pretty creepy, huh? Did I abandon my father's name only to
unconsciously name myself after a place associated with my mother's
abandonment of me? Or, even creepier, did my ex-wife somehow know all
this and propose the name Lorre just to screw with me. Hmmm... I was a
no good, rotten husband so I certainly had it coming.
John McWilliams
> On Oct 1, 10:33 am, "Rhino"<no_offline_contact_ple...@example.com>
> wrote: >> "David"<dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> <serious>
>> Does anyone know if Chuck Lorre is any relation to Peter Lorre, the famous
>> actor? I don't see any connection listed in IMDB but perhaps he downplays
>> any relationship just to be sure that he is taken seriously in his own right
>> rather than viewed as a "son/whatever of a famous guy"....
>>
>> Just curious....
>> </serious>
>
> http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=119
>
Thanks for that reply; I'd forgotten there's a website of all those.
With HD tv on a DVR, I can pause and read such, which I usually do.
The site is somewhat addicting; here's a short one:
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #293
When one considers the many missteps that one has taken over the course
of a lifetime, like, for instance, blowing off a college education in
order to be a second-rate guitarist in third-rate Ramada Inn bar bands
that play unfortunate renditions of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," or throwing
away almost an entire decade trapped inside a religious cult that
promises to turn one into a happy, super-duper spirit ala Casper the
Friendly Ghost all while one is dying of ulcerative colitis, or blowing
up a perfectly good marriage because one is just stupid, or creating
sitcoms that star actresses who are unhappy about the size of their
penises, well then, it's easy to see how one might come to believe that
"what doesn't kill us, makes us bitter." But it's still no excuse for
referring to oneself as "one." That's just obnoxious.
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John McWilliams
Rhino
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http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=119
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(A belated) thanks for sharing that. I always wondered what, if any,
connection Chuck Lorre had to Peter Lorre. Now I know ;-)
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Rhino