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7:04:00 AM EDT
Oh what a day Doc and I had!
"Schizo" by Rick (Doc)
This was one of Doc's schizo days. We filmed about 5 segments of the new series, "Daughters of the Shadow Men" some of which I might be able to post, but during the course of filming, Doc found out there had been a George in my life for about 13 years he did not know about. That was because George was more like a poor woman's psychiatrist than he was anything else. There was not a flicker of passion between us even though we were still in our fifties at the time our association began. I was talking to George all the time the action in this series took place, during my late fifties.
I suddenly expected Doc to play this new character, George, he had never heard about, and it was then that his shaky grip on sanity snapped, and he ranted and raved all day more or less. I retreated to my apartment but he must have called fifteen times, until I left and quit answering the phone.
But you can't drink alcohol all day long and expect to act perfectly normal. George's biggest virtue at the time was that he did not drink. He was pretty intelligent and he had endless curiosity about my life, although, ironically, he never told me one thing about his life. Al, another guy who used to drink coffee with us all the time, and I speculated that George, whose father had been in the military, must have had a job with the CIA where he had been trained to keep mum about anything to do with his life, but to extract information from the likes of me who was no more guarded than than I am now.
Well, Doc got very jealous of George as I happened to mention that he looked a little bit like James Dean, except his front teeth were shot. He got money from somewhere and had them capped which made him look a lot better, but since romance never flickered between us the slightest bit I had not thought it necessary to talk about him as a former love to Doc.
Doc was jealous, too, because I told him I had also bought George clothes from the thrift store, mainly because he would wear this old shirt with a great big hole in the back of it. He was able to throw this shirt away after Istarted helping out with his wardrobe. He really was very poor, but he had a good heart. He acquired a female dog, for example, part chow, it used to bark at me something fierce when I ran into them on their walks, and she had 7 pups before he could get her spayed, or else he just decided to let her. He could not give these pups away, it seemed, or didn't want to, but he had the mother and the the three or four females of the litter spayed and kept all of them! That meant he had 8 dogs. And he used to walk the mother faithfully, so I don't know if he walked the other seven or not.
After he acquired these 8 dogs, we hardly did anything together. We had once gone to plays now and then. But he did not dare leave the dogs alone because they would raise such a hallabaloo in the neighborhood he might have been driven out. But another neighbor had about 7 rottweilers so this kind of devotion to dogs was not unusual in that neighborhood.
I just think Doc got too drunk and his thinking went south. I will have to go down this morning and assess the segments we shot to see if too much of Doc's insanity crept in or if I can use them. Ever once in a while Doc decides he can take over and boss me, but he forgets this is my project. He is too drunk all the time to develop any of his own, but he hates to admit what he has come to. I tell him that's the price you pay for drinking that stuff. Besides I decided to be a writer when I was only six years old. Doc is very musical which I am not. Why can't he be content with what he can do well? Ego gets in his way, a male's arrogance wanting to be boss. He thinks being just the actor is demeaning. Oh well, he may have calmed down by today and will be cooperative again. He does not like to be left alone as punishment. But what else could I do?
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I do hope that the filming came out good. I can't wait to it!
Kelli
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I could see Doc getting jealous! Under his hard exterior, he really does care a whole lot for you.
Missie -
Difficult call, Gerry. I do hope Doc manages to step over this minor issue (looks like it from this distance) and do the part. You have to put your foot down at some point though.
7/16/08 9:59 AM