Lindsay Lohan is joining Keira Knightley in the "The Best Time of Our Lives," which John Maybury is in negotiations to direct for U.K.-based Sarah Radclyffe Prods.I don't know which excites me more - armed poets, or Lindsay Lohan with a British accent.
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Script by Knightley's mother, playwright Sharman Macdonald, is based on the true story of the relationships among Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, his wife Caitlin (Lohan), his childhood friend Vera Phillips (Knightley) and her eventual husband, William Killick. It centers on the curious incident in which Phillips and Killick opened fire on the Thomas home with a machine gun and a hand grenade.
I'm getting giddy just thinking about it.
2 comments:
Wow, totally opposite ends of the spectrum of breasts.
I'm really curious: I can't tell what on earth this movie wants to be. I hope it actually gets made as any story involving Dylan Thomas has to be totally off the wall, but...Lindsay Lohan? Can you really see her playing this person: "Caitlin McNamara, whom [DT] married in 1937 and who, aggrieved by her position as the stay-at-home wife, gave as good as she got in terms of loud resentful silences and foul-mouthed abuse."
My favorite stories about Dylan Thomas also involve John Berryman. DT tried to ply Berryman full of booze just before he was supposed to meet WB Yeats; luckily, JB got paranoid and tried to shake it off to avoid blacking out. Berryman was also there when DT fell off a barstool at The White Horse in Greenwich Village, sustaining a headwound that would kill him a few days later. Rage, rage, indeed.
-pat
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