What part would you like Rufus to play ?

[peach]

Would love to see him do an updated version of the Hitchcock film Rebecca, he'd make a great Maxim De Winter.

[francesca]

Dylan Thomas. All right , his hair is a bit too dark but he's got the curls , the voice and he is Welsh!!
Dylan's daughter and Rufus's mum thought he would be right.

[francesca]

How about "some like it hot"
He could play either Jack Lemmon's part or Tony Curtis 's
He could play either to perfection and give him the comedy he's always asking for.
And we know he looks good in drag

[rueful]

Good one, Frannie! I'd like to see him the Tony Curtis role, but I bet he'd prefer the goofiness of Jack Lemon's.

[evngrnreyes]

Rev. Dr. T Lawrence Shannon in Tennesee William's Night of The Iguana.

Here's a brief description of the story. (A man with nothing but women to comfort him and bring him trouble. I think we could all play a part in the film.)
When American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage nymphet named Charlotte Goodall, who is being chaperoned by the group's leader, the inflexible Judith Fellowes. Miss Fellowes, who is quite jealous of Charlotte's attentions to Shannon, discovers the young woman in his room and vows to have him fired. To thwart her plot, Shannon takes control of the bus from Hank, the bus driver, and speeds the tour group on a wild ride through the Mexican jungle to the crumbling, secluded hotel of an old friend, the recently widowed Maxine Falk. Eventually Shannon becomes enamored with another guest at the hotel, the rather genteel Hanna Jelkes, an itinerant quick sketch artist and her poet grandfather Nonno. As the wise Hanna partially restores Shannon's fractured world, Shannon struggles to get back the rest of his sanity and his self-respect

[reformeddruid]

I think he would be wonderful in a remake of "Last Tango In Paris", I was watching it a couple of nights ago thinking that Rufus could really do a good job with the part. Brando was good, but a bit wooden. He didn't really seem to be overly tormented as the character is supposed to be.

[numbat]

Oct 2, 2010 4:33:08 GMT @evngrnreyes said:

Rev. Dr. T Lawrence Shannon in Tennesee William's Night of The Iguana.

Here's a brief description of the story. (A man with nothing but women to comfort him and bring him trouble. I think we could all play a part in the film.)
When American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage nymphet named Charlotte Goodall, who is being chaperoned by the group's leader, the inflexible Judith Fellowes. Miss Fellowes, who is quite jealous of Charlotte's attentions to Shannon, discovers the young woman in his room and vows to have him fired. To thwart her plot, Shannon takes control of the bus from Hank, the bus driver, and speeds the tour group on a wild ride through the Mexican jungle to the crumbling, secluded hotel of an old friend, the recently widowed Maxine Falk. Eventually Shannon becomes enamored with another guest at the hotel, the rather genteel Hanna Jelkes, an itinerant quick sketch artist and her poet grandfather Nonno. As the wise Hanna partially restores Shannon's fractured world, Shannon struggles to get back the rest of his sanity and his self-respect

That is very, very funny Grnr!!!

I can just imagine us all fighting over who plays which role. I'm not going to be a spinster on the bus though - don't think i'd qualify to be the teenage nymphet, so maybe i'll be the itinerant quick sketch artist!!!

I especially like this bit though "Shannon Rufus struggles to get back the rest of his sanity and his self-respect."

He'd have no chance

[evngrnreyes]

Yes, it's funny in a way. The part was played by Richard Burton in the film. The man always looked very harrased and only seemed calm when talking to the sketch artist. He winds up with the hotel owner Maxine Falk(played by Ava Gardner).She wonders around in the movie with 2 cabana boys trying to get the reverends attention. I think most of us would play that part. The best I remember the story was about a man who couldn't stay away from women, was always running from women, and always looking for the next woman.

[numbat]

Oct 2, 2010 14:29:10 GMT @evngrnreyes said:

. The best I remember the story was about a man who couldn't stay away from women, was always running from women, and always looking for the next woman.

Because I'm obviously a very well behaved moderator, i will refrain from commenting on who this comment makes me think of!!!

[evngrnreyes]

Hah! You are so funny!

[francesca]

4 parts I would love to see Rufus play:---

Dr Syn .... on the screen

Freddie Mercury

Either of the Merlyn Brothers in Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

Richard Burton..... don't know who would play Elizabeth Taylor

Dick Young .. the House on the Strand again by Daphne Du Maurier.

[GreenEyesToo]

It's funny you should mention Freddie Mercury, Frannie - I said the same thing on a different thread along these lines ages ago. Unfortunately, Sacha Baron Cohen has just been announced as playing him in a bio-pic. Sacha Baron Cohen!!! Ye gods!

[francesca]

I think he would be wonderful as Freddie

Looks, Physique, Flamboyance.

Sacha Baron Cohen???!!!!

Yes ,as you say GE2 ... Ye gods

[sewellme]

Remake of The one and only as Andy Schmidt.

[rugirl]

I agree with Frannie, there is something about Ru that Reminds me of Richard Burton - the intensity, Welsh connection and the sheer raw talent, same zodiac sign. As for Liz Taylor, possibly Jennifer Connelly? And while on the topic, he'd be great in "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" too.