The Geator Too Big for Hollywood?
Philadelphia’s most lovable DJ, Jerry Blavat, auditioned this week for a bit part in The Lovely Bones, a new $70 million DreamWorks production directed by Peter Jackson of The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and immense-weight-loss fame. The flick, said to star Susan Sarandon, Ryan Gosling, and the truly luscious Rachel Weisz, is based on a 2002 Alice Sebold novel by the same name about a gal from the Main Line who watches from Heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives after she is savagely murdered. Blavat’s prospective role is, appropriately enough, as a DJ emceeing a fashion show. If he gets the part, his lines would include:
“And here comes Amanda and doesn’t she look groovy! Forget about bell-bottoms. I’m talking flares in pink polyester that hug those girly, girl curves in all the right places. If you’ve got it, why not show it, right ladies?”
“And who needs buttons and zips when you have Velcro! A quantum leap forward in funky fashion fastening! Don’t zip it — rip it!”
But Blavat says that the casting agent’s reaction suggested he might be too big for the part: “They know that I am such a big, big personality here, so I might just be too much for the movie.”
The ever humble Geator doesn’t seem too worried though. He points out that he’s been there, done that: “I was in Desperately Seeking Susan [he was?!?!] and Cookie with Peter Falk … Plus, I’m booked through 2009!” — Victor Fiorillo
October 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
He is such a loser ! He should be honored to even be considered for a part in such an A-list movie!