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	The Impersonator: Compilation Various impressions by "The Impersonator" (under five minutes), including impressions of the corny one-liners used by David Caruso just before the Who song starts on CSI Miami. Here more voices at www.TheImpersonator.com View Video
	Re-Enactment: The Princess Bride The Seventh of my Re-enactment series. Holy balls, this one took a while to finish, mainly because of the size. It clocked in as a whole gig when I had it as an .AVI. This is the "Battle of Wits" scene from The Princess Bride. A mysterious man in black has been chasing three criminals who have kidnapped a princess. He has beaten a swordsman and a giant. Now all that's left is outsmarting the genius of the group, Vizzini, in a battle of wits. Here's a list of what I used, and what they were supposed to represent in the scene. My mask = a pair of boxers with holes cut in them My moustache = a brown-colored toothpick scotch-taped to my face Wine = Iced tea Wine bottle = a tupperware container The Princess (scene briefly on the right of the screen near the beginning) = a rocking horse with a red shirt on it Five minutes long... this is definitely the longest one. Enjoy. View Video
	Wallace Shawn Impression (Princess Bride) An impression of Wallace Shawn (from The Princess Bride) by The Impersonator (under five minutes). It is not an exact quote from the movie. Hear more voices at www.TheImpersonator.com! View Video
	Lust is the Beast within YOU Scene from movie "Heaven Help Us" - Father Abruzzi (Wallace Shawn) sternly warns students at a Catholic school dance. Note Yeardley Smith (future Lisa Simpson) as a school girl. "Any Questions?" View Video
	Happily N'Ever After - Frog Sushi Inspired by the most beloved of fables, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is an animated satirical retelling of the classic story of Cinderella and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Wallace Shawn, and Andy Dick. View Video
	SOUTHLAND TALES at AFI FEST 2007 presented by Audi DIR: Richard Kelly SCR: Richard Kelly EXEC PROD: Oliver Hengst Katarina Hyde, Bill Johnson, Ernst August Schnieder, Jim Seibel, Judd Payne PROD: Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick, Kendall Morgan, Matthew Rhodes DP: Steven B. Poster ED: Sam Bauer PROD DES: Alec Hammond MUS: Moby CAST: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Cheri Oteri, Will Sasso, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Smith, Wallace Shawn, Jason Lee, Janeanne Garofalo, Jon Lovitz, Amy Poehler, Tim Blake Nelson In 1920, Robert Frost described two roads in a yellow wood. More than 85 years later, filmmaker Richard Kelly, director of the cult favorite DONNIE DARKO, takes the one less traveled. In one of the year's most anticipated films, Kelly takes us on a journey into a parallel reality. The year is 2008, the place is Los Angeles, and Boxer Santos (Dwayne Johnson), an action star, has married into the political world. (Sound familiar?) His budding relationship with porn star and business mogul Krysta Now leads to a screenplay that may or may not be an accurate prediction of the end of the world. And it only gets stranger from there. Kelly's vast, visionary story encompasses a new US security program that identifies all Internet activity by fingerprint, a new wireless energy system called Liquid Karma and radical neo-Marxists who seek to disrupt the power structures that loom above them. In addition to his ambitious story, Kelly has assembled --one of the most original and diverse casts in recent memory, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Miranda Richardson, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Wallace Shawn and, as a cherry on top, Justin Timberlake (who lip-synchs from behind a scarred face). This most unexpected political satire is an incredibly funny and trenchant film, a wry commentary on the nature of identity and power in a celebrity culture. Ideas and images from this alternate, Orwellian near future come at us with a dizzying pace, offering a shiny corporate-sponsored vision of a future on the edge of apocalypse. So grab a can of Krysta Now, a couple of alternate fingerprints, and your ticket to the Mega-Zeppelin. The future is here and it's far more futuristic than you might expect. View Video
	The Princess Bride "Never Alone" never truly being alone because Westley is always there...The Princess Bride Never Alone Barlow Girl Cary Elwes Robin Wright Mandy Patinkin Chris Sarandon Wallace Shawn Andre View Video
	Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Soundtrack - Randy Newman You've Got A Friend in Me Strange Things I Will Go Sailing No More Woody's Roundup - Riders in the Sky When Somebody Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan When pouring endless amounts of money into the development of the groundbreaking Toy Story project, Disney and Pixar were unsure if the leap in computer animation technology was going to be a success. Several years later, with little Woody and Buzz toys all over the world and a sequel feature film all to themselves, the Toy Story franchise has become a monumental success. The film would be the launching pad for Pixar technology, with several similarly constructed animation films to follow. For Disney, the established core composer of their animated musicals at the time was Alan Menken, who was concurrently writing for Pocahontas. Instead of choosing this tested route, the studios handed the Toy Story scoring assignment over to Randy Newman, who was already established as a composer who could also bring a flair for happy, lazy songs to a project. While Menken could have matched Newman's underscore (if not exceeded it in even its slapstick quality), Menken didn't have the kind of jolly heart in his songs as Newman. As a result, Randy Newman was asked to project his own personality onto the score by composing a handful of songs which he would perform himself and, thus, add the elements of heart and soul to the film. His voice would represent the happy-go-lucky attitudes of the characters so well that he would become the official Pixar composer for projects to come. Many of these songs would be nominated for awards, and he would finally take home an Academy Award for his title song for Monsters, Inc.. As a film, Toy Story was an outstanding success in 1995, but as a stand-alone score on album, Newman did not receive the same critical praise as Pocahontas. His fortunes would change in subsequent years. Part of this slower acceptence of Newman's scores, as opposed to his immediately popular songs, is the unstable, slapstick nature of the underscore material. Regarding the underscore for Toy Story, the film's highly gleeful and attention-deficient pace causes the orchestral material to be difficult to grasp. Nobody argues against the effectiveness and enjoyability of the songs, but the score suffers from the constant movement of scene and action in the film. Thus, you end up with a highly irregular collection of mini-cues strung together, often with nothing in common other than their vigorous performances by the ensemble. Similar difficulties would arise in Newman's later related scores, and namely A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc., but the Toy Story scores seem to have an accute case of hyper-activity. It washes out when you attempt to determine if here is any cohesive whole to the score. Aside from the problematic nature of scoring for fast-paced animated action, Newman compounds the problems by failing to adequately adapt his title theme into the score itself. Other than a short swing section of the song's jazzy movement in the ninth track, there is little to hear of the title song's theme throughout the score. Also aiding the incoherent score are a few standout cues of distinct personality. The pixar logo music is included at the start. A touch of ELmer Bernstein is heard in the Western rhythm and theme for Woody in the fourth cue. A short statement of the theme inspired by Apollo 13 (and maybe even Poledouris' Wind) can be heard for Buzz at the end of the seventh cue. The madness heard in the scenes with the mutant toys at Sid's house is scored with particularly well-developed brass rhythms. The militaristic motif provided for the toy soldiers in the fourteenth cue is also well executed. But when you place these snippets of creativity in between the mass of jumpy slapstick underscore, it's difficult to recall any highlights from the score. The three songs at the beginning of the album offer Newman's talents at their best, with all of them surpassing the quality of the score by leaps and bounds. Fans of the movies will want the crisply recorded songs, and rightfully so. The score becomes incidental and, for much of its length, unnecessary. A little boy's toys come to life whenever he leaves the room. The leader of the toys, Sheriff Woody, feels threatened when the boy receives a new favorite, a space ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear. Cast Tom Hanks Tim Allen Laurie Metcalf Wallace Shawn John Morris R. Lee Ermey John Ratzenberger Erik von Detten Jim Varney Sarah Freeman Don Rickles Annie Potts Director John Lasseter 2 Cast Tom Hanks Tim Allen Don Rickles Joan Cusack Jim Varney Wallace Shawn John Ratzenberger Annie Potts Jodi Benson Jonathan Harris R. Lee Ermey Kelsey Grammer Estelle Harris Wayne Knight Laurie Metcalf John Morris Director John Lasseter When a boy leaves for summer camp, an evil toy collector steals his beloved cowboy doll Woody. Woody's toy friends must rescue him before Andy returns home. View Video
	Happily N'Ever After Trailer Inspired by the most beloved of fables, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is an animated satirical retelling of the classic story of Cinderella and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Wallace Shawn, and Andy Dick. View Video
	Charlie Rose: March 1, 1995 First, Senator Kent Conrad talks about the balanced budget amendment, which would require a balance in the projected revenues and expenditures of the government. Then, William Maxwell talks about his 40 years as editor at "The New Yorker" magazine and the writers whose work he edited, including J.D. Salinger and Eudora Welty. Finally, actor Wallace Shawn and director Andre Gregory discuss their film, "Vanya on 42nd Street", which shows a performance, rehearsal style, of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya". View Video
	FREDDIE PRINZE JR. IS SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR PRINCE Freddie Prinze Jr. and his real wife play out their friendly rivalry at home in the recording studio for Happily N' Ever After. Keywords:Sarah Michelle Gellar, Wallace Shawn, Jack and Jill Vs. The World, New York City Serenade, View Video
	SOUTHLAND TALES Red Carpet at AFI FEST 2007 Red carpet interviews for screening of Southland Tales, including Director Richard Kelly, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michell Red carpet interviews for screening of Southland Tales, including Director Richard Kelly, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Bai Ling, Marion Card, and Wallace Shawn View Video
	Happily N'Ever After - Maiden in Distress Inspired by the most beloved of fables, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is an animated satirical retelling of the classic story of Cinderella and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Wallace Shawn, and Andy Dick. View Video
	Southland Tales - Video Footage Of You Two Clip from Richard Kelly's film SOUTHLAND TALES...southland tales Dwayne The Rock Johnson Sarah Michelle Gellar Justin Timberlake Mandy Moore Wallace Shawn Bai Ling View Video
	The 1000 Greatest Actors in America: Episode 13 1000 Greatest Actors in America: Episode 13. Wallace Shawn....The 1000 Greatest Actors in America: Episode wallace shawn travis mckellar movie film tv View Video
	Happily N'Ever After - Let's Mix It Up Inspired by the most beloved of fables, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is an animated satirical retelling of the classic story of Cinderella and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Wallace Shawn, and Andy Dick. View Video
	La maldición del Escorpión de Jade - Trailer "La maldición del Escorpión de Jade" ("The Curse of the Jade Scorpion", Woody Allen, 2001), con Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd, Brian Markinson, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, Charlize Theron y Elizabeth Berkley. View Video
	Weymouth After Dark Episode 3-part 5 "conclusion" As all things that live die, so too does this episode end--yet it lives again forever in the world of Forms (and here on the internet)! Anyway, heres the part where you get the hilarious poll results to Byron vs Magnum PI, plus a hurried in book of the week "Julian Lennon" by Mark Bego. Here Comes the Son! View Video
	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Kit Kittredge: An American Girl tells the uplifting story of Kit Kittredge (Academy Award Nominee Abigail Breslin), a clever and resourceful ten-year old. Starring (in alphabetical order): Abigail Breslin, Joan Cusack, Glenne Headly, Jane Krakowski, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond, Wallace Shawn, and Stanley Tucci. View Video
	The Princess Bride (1987) Robin Wright and Cary Elwes The Princess Bride Directed by Rob Reiner Writing Credis William Goldman (screenplay) William Goldman (book) Cast Cary Elwes as Westley Robin Wright as Buttercup Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck Christopher Guest as Count Tyrone Rugen Wallace Shawn as Vizzini André the Giant as Fezzik Fred Savage as The Grandson Peter Falk as The Grandfather Mel Smith as The Albino Carol Kane as Valerie Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Genre Fantasy/Adventure Budget $16,000,000 Box Office USA $30,857,814 Release Date 25 September 1987 Filming Dates 18 August 1986 - December 1986 Filming locations -England, UK -Ireland Plot A kindly grandfather (Peter Falk) sits down with his grandson (Fred Savage) and reads him a bedtime story. The story is one that has been passed down through from father to son for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the odious Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), and Westley (Cary Elwes), her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts attempts to save her. On the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a huge, super strong giant, both of whom become his companions in his quest. They meet a few bad guys along the way to rescue Buttercup. View Video
	The Princess Bride (1987) Robin Wright and Cary Elwes The Princess Bride Directed by Rob Reiner Writing Credis William Goldman (screenplay) William Goldman (book) Cast Cary Elwes as Westley Robin Wright as Buttercup Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck Christopher Guest as Count Tyrone Rugen Wallace Shawn as Vizzini André the Giant as Fezzik Fred Savage as The Grandson Peter Falk as The Grandfather Mel Smith as The Albino Carol Kane as Valerie Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Genre Fantasy/Adventure Budget $16,000,000 Box Office USA $30,857,814 Release Date 25 September 1987 Filming Dates 18 August 1986 - December 1986 Filming locations -England, UK -Ireland Plot A kindly grandfather (Peter Falk) sits down with his grandson (Fred Savage) and reads him a bedtime story. The story is one that has been passed down through from father to son for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the odious Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), and Westley (Cary Elwes), her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts attempts to save her. On the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a huge, super strong giant, both of whom become his companions in his quest. They meet a few bad guys along the way to rescue Buttercup. View Video
	Cecilian Death Animation Test -Release- 3D Studio Max Adobe Premiere Dialogue: Wallace Shawn- Princess Bride Finish: March '07 Release: April '07...Animation CGI Computer View Video
	Ouran High School Host Club v The Princess Bride This isn't the video I orignally intended to make. Unfortunately I didn't finish it before I went away, and now that I am back I have completely forgotten where I was going with it. Didn't have the heart to press the delete button, so here it is... View Video
	NYFA clip from Law&Order:CI 11/28/06 Homework for Nick. (Wallace Shawn was in Star Trek:DSN!) Know any instructors that would say your work is "visual masturbation"? View Video

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