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carsonb — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:03:46 -0800

The screen test offers a disorienting angle on 'behind the scenes' footage—straight through the camera. More fun screen tests and auditions: Marilyn Monroe for Something's Got To Give James Dean and Paul Newman can't print what they think of each other. Guy Williams really wants to start working in about a week. Adam West and Burton Gervis strike a pose. Don't worry, Bruce Lee will not hit that man. Dick van Dyke gums and spins. Sam Neill's friends call him... John Belushi horks his Brando impression. (More SNL auditions previously.) Sharon Stone rehearses her interrogation and the lie detector scene. (NSFW) Natalie Portman auditioning for Leon. Dustin Hoffman has a little laryngitis. "Vicky" Smith is an all-Texas girl. (pNSFW) The Von Trapp Family auditions in four parts: 2, 3, 4 And finally, a groovy little selection from Andy Warhol's countless reels of screen tests: Bob Dylan Nico Lou Reed Edie Sedgwick Ingrid Superstar

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crossoverman — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:40:15 -0800

"When Mr. von Trapp finally returned to take over from his father, Johannes, he had had quite a decade: teaching skiing in Aspen, modeling for Ralph Lauren, surfing in Chile and even making People magazine’s America’s Top 50 Bachelors list in 2001. Recently, he sat in a dark office at the Trapp Family Lodge, the inn his grandmother started, trying to decide what to do with some old curtains..."

- the legacy of the Von Trapp family, made famous (but not rich) by The Sound of Music, now with less singing at the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont. Also, the real story of the von Trapp Family at the US National archives.

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