SYNOPSIS SHUFFLE: BALLAD OF OLE’ BETSY by BEACH BOYS.
→ FINDING BETSY starring Emma Stone, Lauren Graham and John Barrowman (casting by stroppy-homicidal-mermaid).
“She has a classic beauty that everyone could see, I was the last to meet her, but she gave life to me. She may be rusted iron, but to me she’s solid gold, and I just can’t hold the tears back ‘cause Betsy’s growing old.”
When the man Lola (Stone) thought was her Dad dies of a heartattack, her relationship with her Mom, Kay (Graham), couldn’t be any worse - until Kay breaks the news that he wasn’t her Dad at all, and Lola’s actually the product of a drunken night with an 80s pop icon (Barrowman). So begins Lola and Kay’s long road trip in Betsy, Lola’s adoptive Dad’s battered up old camper van, to find Lola’s biological father, now a washed-up lounge singer in Vegas. Funny, heart-warming and quietly sad, Lola and Kay battle their grief and hit the open road in an attempt to forge a relationship with the only family they have left - each other.
SYNOPSIS SHUFFLE: SOMEBODY TOLD ME by THE KILLERS.
→ SAVE TITUS! starring Jensen Ackles, John Barrowman and Natalie Portman (casting by aliveontheinside).
“I’m ready let’s roll onto something new, taking its toll and I’m leaving without you. […] It’s not confidential, I’ve got potential, a rushin’, a rushin’ around.”
Jensen Ackles stars as Ryder Simpson, a washed-up former soap star whose career peaked ten years ago. Adamant that 35 is too young to be a ‘has been’, he’s desperate to shed the Days Of Our Lives stigma in order to become a PROPER ACTOR. Ryder’s plans look set to succeed as he lands the titular role in an adaptation of Shakespeares’s Titus Adronicus, but take a turn for the worst when the show’s eccentric director, Claude Valentino (Barrowman) elects to transform the tragedy into a Broadway musical.
Ryder watches on, distraught, as his one chance of becoming a critically acclaimed stage actor turns into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-high-kicking explosion of jazz hands and neon wigs. In questioning the successful director’s erratic behaviour he discovers that Valentino is in the grip of a mid-life crisis, disillusioned by the superficiality of his work. Not only that, but his misery is amplified by his greatest regret: never having met his illegitimate daughter, Laura (Portman).
With the future of his career in the balance Ryder decides on a course of action: find Valentino’s daughter and provide the director with closure, all in the hope doing so will set Titus Andronicus back on its rightful tragic path. Valentino accepts Ryder’s offer on one condition - owing to Ryder’s womanizing reputation, if he is to find Laura any romantic contact is strictly forbidden. Unperturbed, Ryder embarks on his New York adventure as melodramatically as possible, convinced that his excursion will be eventful enough to provide material for his first feature film. In the course of bringing Laura home to her father, and as a direct result of his passion for drama, Ryder’s mugged twice, mistaken for a rent boy, thrown over the roof of a cab, chased by a pack of nuns, knocked out by a dead pigeon, and accidentally falls for the exact woman he was explicitly told not to.
With Valentino’s warning fresh in his mind Ryder realises he has to choose between the love of a beautiful woman, and saving Shakespeare from show choir.
DEAN: It’s him.
SAM: It’s who?
DEAN: The Captain. It’s the Captain.
SAM: Oh for the love of -
CASTIEL: Who is this Captain?
DEAN: You don’t know who the Captain is?
SAM: Don’t. For your sake, Cas. Don’t.
CASTIEL: No. That’s why I’m asking, Dean.
DEAN: He works for a secret monster-busting government organisation, and has this sweet antique pistol, and wears a RAF coat, and his hair is like —
CASTIEL: I don’t understand.
DEAN: What’s not to underst —
CASTIEL: No. I understand this ‘Captain’ and his archaic weaponry. I just don’t understand what you’re doing.
SAM: Fangirling.
DEAN: I am not -
SAM: He’s obsessed. Completely obesessed. Ever since we bumped into this Captain guy on a hunt back in Kentucky he won’t shut the hell up about him and his huge ass car and stupid swoopy coat.
[CASTIEL stares down at his trenchcoat.]
DEAN: Look what you did. You made the nerd angel all insecure over his fashion choices.
SAM: Actually, I think you’ll find that was you. You and your big freaky mancrush.
DEAN: There is nothing freaky about it.
SAM: Yeah, yeah. You just don’t know how to quit him.
DEAN: I don’t recognise that reference because I didn’t watch that movie six goddamn times.
SAM: Ang Lee is an icon of cinema, Dean.
DEAN: You wore out the tent scene on the DVD.
SAM: I did not!
DEAN: Wait, where’s Cas?
[CASTIEL reappears wearing an RAF jacket and his ridiculous ‘I-did-good’ smile.]
SAM: Uh.
CASTIEL: I feel swoopier.
JACK: Hey, good lookin’.
DEAN: Sorry, pal. Not my type.
JACK: Not your type? Blue eyes, long coat, unspeakably old and a little bit immortal? I’m your type on legs, big boy.
[Torchwood’s SUV pulls up beside the IMPALA]
DEAN: Someone’s overcompensating for something.
JACK: Wouldn’t you like to find out.
[CASTIEL glares. The SUV’s headlights spontaneously explode.]
DEAN: Cas! We talked about this!
![SYNOPSIS SHUFFLE: SOMEBODY TOLD ME by THE KILLERS.
→ SAVE TITUS! starring Jensen Ackles, John Barrowman and Natalie Portman (casting by aliveontheinside).
“I’m ready let’s roll onto something new, taking its toll and I’m leaving without you. […] It’s not confidential, I’ve got potential, a rushin’, a rushin’ around.”
Jensen Ackles stars as Ryder Simpson, a washed-up former soap star whose career peaked ten years ago. Adamant that 35 is too young to be a ‘has been’, he’s desperate to shed the Days Of Our Lives stigma in order to become a PROPER ACTOR. Ryder’s plans look set to succeed as he lands the titular role in an adaptation of Shakespeares’s Titus Adronicus, but take a turn for the worst when the show’s eccentric director, Claude Valentino (Barrowman) elects to transform the tragedy into a Broadway musical.
Ryder watches on, distraught, as his one chance of becoming a critically acclaimed stage actor turns into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-high-kicking explosion of jazz hands and neon wigs. In questioning the successful director’s erratic behaviour he discovers that Valentino is in the grip of a mid-life crisis, disillusioned by the superficiality of his work. Not only that, but his misery is amplified by his greatest regret: never having met his illegitimate daughter, Laura (Portman).
With the future of his career in the balance Ryder decides on a course of action: find Valentino’s daughter and provide the director with closure, all in the hope doing so will set Titus Andronicus back on its rightful tragic path. Valentino accepts Ryder’s offer on one condition - owing to Ryder’s womanizing reputation, if he is to find Laura any romantic contact is strictly forbidden. Unperturbed, Ryder embarks on his New York adventure as melodramatically as possible, convinced that his excursion will be eventful enough to provide material for his first feature film. In the course of bringing Laura home to her father, and as a direct result of his passion for drama, Ryder’s mugged twice, mistaken for a rent boy, thrown over the roof of a cab, chased by a pack of nuns, knocked out by a dead pigeon, and accidentally falls for the exact woman he was explicitly told not to.
With Valentino’s warning fresh in his mind Ryder realises he has to choose between the love of a beautiful woman, and saving Shakespeare from show choir.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmtsm0EExV1qzx1ixo1_1280.jpg)
![DEAN: It’s him.SAM: It’s who?DEAN: The Captain. It’s the Captain.SAM: Oh for the love of -CASTIEL: Who is this Captain?DEAN: You don’t know who the Captain is?SAM: Don’t. For your sake, Cas. Don’t.CASTIEL: No. That’s why I’m asking, Dean.DEAN: He works for a secret monster-busting government organisation, and has this sweet antique pistol, and wears a RAF coat, and his hair is like —CASTIEL: I don’t understand.DEAN: What’s not to underst —CASTIEL: No. I understand this ‘Captain’ and his archaic weaponry. I just don’t understand what you’re doing.SAM: Fangirling.DEAN: I am not -SAM: He’s obsessed. Completely obesessed. Ever since we bumped into this Captain guy on a hunt back in Kentucky he won’t shut the hell up about him and his huge ass car and stupid swoopy coat. [CASTIEL stares down at his trenchcoat.] DEAN: Look what you did. You made the nerd angel all insecure over his fashion choices.SAM: Actually, I think you’ll find that was you. You and your big freaky mancrush.DEAN: There is nothing freaky about it.SAM: Yeah, yeah. You just don’t know how to quit him.DEAN: I don’t recognise that reference because I didn’t watch that movie six goddamn times.SAM: Ang Lee is an icon of cinema, Dean.DEAN: You wore out the tent scene on the DVD.SAM: I did not!DEAN: Wait, where’s Cas?[CASTIEL reappears wearing an RAF jacket and his ridiculous ‘I-did-good’ smile.] SAM: Uh.CASTIEL: I feel swoopier.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmlw0bRjJD1qzx1ixo1_1280.jpg)
![[Torchwood’s SUV pulls up beside the IMPALA]
DEAN: Someone’s overcompensating for something.JACK: Wouldn’t you like to find out.
[CASTIEL glares. The SUV’s headlights spontaneously explode.]
DEAN: Cas! We talked about this!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm89oyWLFi1qzx1ixo1_r3_1280.jpg)
