Justin Dargan’s Reviews > Room to Dream > Status Update

“…the thing Marlon really wanted to do was dress up as a woman and have Harry Dean dress up as a woman, and the two of them would have tea together and ad-lib while they were drinking tea.”

A damn shame this project never happened.

I’ve got this idea.. two cretinous guys.. one of them laughs & a bubble floats out of his mouth and goes down the hallway, around the corner, and into a room where it lodges in the housing of a sensitive piece of equipment… Then you cut to outer space and see a satellite deploy a kind of ray gun weapon that fires, and then a countdown starts.
We were 6 weeks away from shooting it with Steve Martin & Martin Short.

In life, you don’t know everything. You enter a room and people are sitting there and there’s an atmosphere, and you immediately know if you have to be careful about what you say, or if you have to be loud, or silent, or subdued—you immediately know it. The thing you don’t know is what’s next. In life, we don’t know where the story is going or even where a conversation is going to go in the next minute.