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The Apartment: According to Shirley MacLaine, much of the movie was written as filming progressed. The gin rummy game was added because at the time she was learning how to play the game from her friends in the Rat Pack. Likewise, when she started philosophizing about love during a lunch break one day, this was also added to the script:
”[…] It was different because on The Apartment, we only had 29 pages of script, and what he [Billy] did was wait to see how the relationship and the chemistry and all that between Jack and me would develop, and then he wrote it accordingly. Actually, he put the gin scene in, where we were playing cards, because he knew I was playing gin with Dean and Frank all the time”.
oh mah gah, there are some films that just leave me bursting with feeling, and this is one of them. I love this story because they just happened upon a brilliant part of the film and it honestly wouldn’t have happened if they had different casting. I love when things just come together like that.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4gut9jsc61qefgdko1_500.jpg)
The Apartment: According to Shirley MacLaine, much of the movie was written as filming progressed. The gin rummy game was added because at the time she was learning how to play the game from her friends in the Rat Pack. Likewise, when she started philosophizing about love during a lunch break one day, this was also added to the script:
”[…] It was different because on The Apartment, we only had 29 pages of script, and what he [Billy] did was wait to see how the relationship and the chemistry and all that between Jack and me would develop, and then he wrote it accordingly. Actually, he put the gin scene in, where we were playing cards, because he knew I was playing gin with Dean and Frank all the time”.
oh mah gah, there are some films that just leave me bursting with feeling, and this is one of them. I love this story because they just happened upon a brilliant part of the film and it honestly wouldn’t have happened if they had different casting. I love when things just come together like that.
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I will always reblog this. Just a pure, simple, sad, beautiful moment.
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Seriously you guys, I am in love with Paul Rudd’s beard.
He was a perfect Baxter. I didn’t think I could enjoy anyone except Jack Lemmon as Baxter, but he was too precious.
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You guys I’m just gonna put it out there
I just sat 4 feet away from Jason Sudeikis and made awkward eye contact with him (and then tried for the rest of the night to make eye contact again). I say 15 feet away from PAUL RUDD and James Woods and Emma Stone and 20 feet away from DAVID WAIN and JASON REITMAN. This world is really my entertainment oyster. The reading of “The Apartment” was wonderful, I had an amazing time with Abbey (I’m glad we had the commitment to stand in line that long to get in the front row). It was a really great cast for The Apartment, actually. Paul Rudd was of course a perfect C.C. Baxter, and Tom Cavanagh was a delight. Paul Rudd was bearded (which is my favorite Paul Rudd) and it was wonderful. David Wain’s energy was infectious and Jason Sudeikis’s voice fit the time period perfectly. It was wonderful seeing my favorite movie read by some of my favorite actors. And Jason Reitman organized the whole thing! I ADORE him! He read the stage directions. Paul Rudd played Baxter, Emma Stone played Fran, Jason Sudeikis played Kirkeby, James Woods played Sheldrake, Tom Cavanagh played Dobisch and David Wain played Dr. Dreyfuss. They were all so great. AND! You guys, I have once again made an entertainment prediction that came true. I said to Abbey when we sat down that it would be crazy is Lena Dunham (who was scheduled to play Sylvia) didn’t actually do the reading and I was talking about other people it could be. Well, Jason Reitman comes out and announces that in fact Lena Dunham couldn’t make it to the reading. I. Write. My. Own. Entertainment. Tonight was just all around fantastic and was a great way to top off the week
Casey and I are going to the NYC The Apartment live read!!! TODAY IS FANTASTIC!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I AM SO PLEASED, ABBEY IS THE BEST
“On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We’re one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh… Natchez, Mississippi. I work on the 19th floor. Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861.” - The Apartment
Words simply cannot express my love for The Apartment.
