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Winona Ryder performs "The Pacer" for Eric Bogosian's 100 Monologues. 

Wow. I just don't know what to say about her performance other than it being different. I don't know when this video was actually released (um, hello, imayne).

Anyhow, who really is this Eric Bogosian? I'm strongly guessing he's a wildly-ranting Woody Allen-ish playwright. Or drug-fueled protest writer (though, I can understand those feelings, but geesh). Is all this really about performance art or the "always-ranting, never-solving" reality of what our conspiratorial leaders and governments have been doing to us all this time? Now, I'm just saying (feeling, actually)...chill, relax, and all that swell jazz (and I know I can get whacked myself about things). You know, last I seen there are no more big bombs dropping. Have hope. I suppose, finding and keeping Peace is also about having strong faith and outward calm while actually, physically (possibly silently) doing something about it. Not just speaking thrashing about it. You just can't speak adversity or evil down, you have to end it, until it's vanquished, but doing it very smartly. 

Ok, I'm probably rambling.

Be Good and distract yourself from your concerns or fears. Watch a feel-good movie (preferably, the ones without bombs).   

[imayne]

Great clip. No I don't know when she recorded this.

Anyway, Eric Bogosian is a playwright and novelist and actor. I'm embarrassed to say I mainly know him as the villain from UNDER SIEGE 2.

[Charles]

Wow, amazing performance! "The Pacer" was published on April 28, 2017. Thanks, Michael, for finding and posting it.

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If anyone is at all curious about those other monologues with many notable celebs (that I did find somehow structurally interesting - but then, for instance, Peter Dinklage's "Poem" is, indeed, very eerie and alarming) you can can go to the 100 (Monologues) site. 

This somehow is very inspiring and makes me want to direct my own "mono-rant" as the Voice of Reason shouting at all the fools in this world why they have to bash others and not themselves for being hypocrites of negativity and instead find hope after swallowing their own sh*t !!!

Whom I kidding - It'll be a podcast. I just don't want to be the bright star Hollywood would make me out to be (after their ironic and subjective denial, of course) after I'm done with most everyone there, as well.

[geeezuz]

The setting of the clip led me to expect her to say at the end "this is Noni from Ork....until next week Nanu Nanu".

[phil]

May 24, 2017 22:01:10 GMT -5 @destinysluck said:

Damn, that's wonderful.
It's autobiographical in places. Didn't she have a fear of swimming whilst making Alien? Wasn't she chased out of a comic book store when she was a kid? Or maybe it's fiction. She is so great.

[imayne]

It's actually an Eric Bogosian monologue previously written for a man. Which makes a woman saying it way more fascinating in and of itself.

[phil]

I was aware Eric wrote it. I shouldn't have left that part out. But...she clearly makes it her own in her performance.

[phil]

From 2014. Adorable Chickadee!...

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[imayne]

Jul 10, 2019 1:51:28 GMT -5 @destinysluck said:

Great video, loved finding out they were both in school versions of The Wizard of Oz. Is that how every movie career in America begins?

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I wouldn't know for sure (or never) how any beginning movie career starts.

But, apparently, a right place/right time kinda thing with a talent-witnessing agent/acting instructor at a Wizard of Oz play and no doubt dashed with some of that god-given major opportunistic stardust.

[imayne]

It's a rhetorical question, just because Wizard of Oz is the first great American fairytale.