I met with the Mad Towers editor today and we worked on an important character for the novel. Da-VEEH.
This is a tough one. The editor said we couln't go with this character. There are no Anglicans in Mexico. It would be like having a Mormon living in Vatican City or a communist Christian Scientist. A little research indicated there are one-and- a-half Anglicans known in Mexico. The one-half is explained by a transvestite who lives there who when in a male mode is a pedophile catholic and in his/her female mode is an Anglican priest(priestess?). We still have to solve the problem of whether you call a female priest "father."
Da-VEEH's occupation is not clear. He sometimes refers to himself as a psychologist, then sometimes a "psychiko". Some research reveals he is a enematologist at the local hospital. In the book, however, we are going to use him for just a smidgin of sex. After all he is about the only person even suggesting sexuality in the MP neighborhood. His kind of 'titilating pitures on the MP blog--especially the half naked one he once used--always draws favorable comments from the ladies and---okay I'll say--by some men of the neighborhood. Umm?
In the novel he will be the Mad Tower master's "houseboy." In 'real' life and in the novel he will be remarkably submissive.No, no, we're not going there!!! Once or twice he's had the temerity to be misunderstood by the Master. The Master gets carried away; issues a few semi-racial rebuffs, whacks him up the side of the head, and then Da-VEED comes crawling back like a peasant in "Viva Zapata."
"Mad Towers", the novel and movie, will have the ladies talk to each other at times about 'forbidden love.' A tea drinking, Jane Austen lady attracted to the young latino. Of course, nothing will "really" happen since, baring a failure to sell Mad Towers as a movie, maybe the BBC or Masterpiece Theatre will pick it up. Probably only the older crowd---Mimi, for example---will remember Sabu---a 1940's movie exotic. But will think about this a little more.
If we ever get to the movie stage my wife has already developed a scene. Da-VEED wakes up in the morning clad only in underwear. After all "real" men---even English MEN(if there are such) don't sleep in 'jammies'. DaVeed gets up, looks in the bedroom mirror, and exclaims with a pronounced Mexican accent: GOD...am I BEAUTIFUL!!! If we have any left over 'cuts' from the movie we'll send them to the MP blog. For a price, of course.
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You are naughty!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the "naughty." The last time I was called that was on my second date with my then soon-to-be wife, 55 years ago.
ReplyDeleteCome off it! OCICBW's resident sex machine is Miss Tracie, the wacko, ample-bossomed, Viking redhead! Of course, since for some reason Fr Hagger refuses to permit the publication of any photograph of himself other than a couple of early shots, taken back when he was jail bait, we have no way of gauging how he measures up nowadays.
ReplyDeleteMehitabel, Yes, Tracie will be in the book. For the movie we are considering Angela Lansbury for the role. We do have a problem: Who in the hell is the JOE she is always referencing?
ReplyDeleteI made a comment on MPs website which was accepted. He even provided a link to my site. But when he remembered I'd once criticised him, I was instantly removed!
ReplyDeleteIvan, I made, or tried to make a comment on your new site, but it got erased. Something "mad" is going on, I suspect.
ReplyDeleteMiss Lansbury is altogether too sane, too good-natured and too insubstantial for the part. Might I suggest, faut de mieux, Pam Ferris, who played Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda"?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Russian for "heron", Fr Ackeroff?
ReplyDeleteListen, Mehitabel, you'll have to ask Mimi to translate. Dropping that French stuff is too much for me. Pam Ferris, Matilda. Heck, I'm still back with Joan Crawford!
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