WCT: But he has a decided gay sensibility, would that be fair? The reality is that we were trying to figure out the most preposterous thing and Paul Shaffer, who is one of my oldest friends, wrote the song with Paul Jabara so he had the ability to phone up Paul's estate and get us the song for nothing. He was asked why it was in black and white and he said, 'Well, I could say that black and white allows for a more expressionistic view of the world but the reality is that we couldn't afford color.' Using 'It's Raining Men' doesn't mean that Jiminy is closeted or is a nod to that. MS: Well, he does have 'It's Raining Men' on his cell phone, but to be quite honest that reminds me of an article I once read where Laurence Olivier was talking about making Hamlet.
JEFF GOLDBLUM SHUSH MOVIE
MS: Well, you saw him having sex with Dixie in the movie … WCT: I saw him as an Allan Carr type-as someone wearing a caftan with the Japanese valet and the hunky pool boy. I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. ) He happens to be a little bit this ( does his high voice ) and a little bit liking a nightly pop from his lady ( does the low voice ). Someone said to me about Jiminy, 'Are you making fun of fat people?' and I said, 'No, he's just Jiminy Glick.' ( He's doing him again.
MS: But I always love that when you think something is something to shift it because no one is any one thing. WCT: Now when Jiminy used to talk about Dixie before we saw her, I imagined my own gay backstory for him. At one point she says, 'My husband is an interviewer' with great pride. It is a real couple, they're clearly in love. My brother Michael describes them as Ma and Pa Kettle on acid. Jan is so committed and her character really does love Jiminy.
JEFF GOLDBLUM SHUSH CRACK
WCT: You got the 'Harvey Korman/Tim Conway trying to crack each other up on The Carol Burnett Show' kind of thing happening. With Elizabeth you'd see her turn her head and then beg for mercy after the take. In one of the takes she said, 'You know, fucking me is like fucking a purse' and behind the camera we're hysterical. I don't know how Elizabeth Perkins kept a straight face when he came out with some of that stuff. MS: Get out of here! He's like a genius and where those lines came from-filthy, insane, inspired. I'd done a play with Elizabeth Perkins, but I'd never met John Michael Higgins, but I was a huge fan. WCT: So was it like Waiting for Guffman where people were assigned characters and given backstories? Then I just liked the idea of him going to a film festival and meeting this odd guy at the bar and we find out it's a director I imagined as David Lynch. Then my brother Michael Short and Paul Flaherty and I brainstormed on a Jiminy movie about that relationship.
At one point he said to Jeff Goldblum, 'Shush-just because I ask the question doesn't mean that I want to hear the answer.'īut in these home movies there was a slightly different Jiminy because we wanted him to be a caretaker to Dixie. Jiminy would normally be doing the monologue ( he's now doing the Glick character ) and these weird interviews.
JEFF GOLDBLUM SHUSH TV
On the TV show we would do home videos of Jiminy Glick and Jan Hooks, who plays my wife Dixie, is my old, dear friend-a genius-and she came out for a couple of days and we filmed these segments at my house. MS: ( laughing ) Well, I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie. WCT: Yea! You've made your first improv movie-finally! But there's still time to indulge an improv actor/interviewer before jetting home to Los Angeles. This is the end of a long day of publicity for Jiminy Glick in La La Wood, Short's new movie in which he stars as the self-absorbed celebrity interviewer who's both larger than life and larger than a Lazy-Z-Boy. Short, dressed in a black pinstripe suit and brown t-shirt, will be quick to reassure his interviewer and instruct him to take a deep gulp of water, sit down and relax. This will naturally dissolve any and all hesitation for someone with an improvisation background that has had any timidity about meeting Short in the flesh. I suggest arriving at a hotel approximately two blocks north of the actual interview location, realizing your mistake and then dashing through the wind and rain of Michigan Avenue, ala 'I Love Lucy,' jumping on the elevator and rushing headlong into the publicist seconds before your scheduled 20 minutes.
If one is going to sit in the same room with God of Improv Martin Short, whose career encompasses both the ground breaking SCTV and SNL, it doesn't hurt to turn up for the interview under circumstances that would be the basis for a terrific improv. This article shared 7581 times since Wed May 4, 2005
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