HANGING WITH JOHN CLEESE

Awards Moderator: Ladies and Gentleman, please meet John Cleese.

Arctic Frost: WOW!!!!!!

Northern Lights: WOW!!!!!!!

JOHN CLEESE: Hello.

Notabot.TGS: Hello John, welcome to the Palace.

Awards Moderator: Welcome, Mr. Cleese.

Northern Lights: I'm honored!!!!

JOHN CLEESE: Hi.

Arctic Frost: Everyone pull out your Cleese props!!

Awards Moderator: Tell us a little about your current projects.

JOHN CLEESE: I have a company in London that makes videos giving people medical information. My partner, Rob Buckman, has just had the very funny idea for a film. Of course it's set in a hospital!!!! I'm not saying any more.

Arctic Frost: Hahahahaha

Notabot.TGS: ahhh come onnnnnnnnn

JOHN CLEESE: But I am working on the script with a sex symbol. I am not saying which sex either.

Lynne: LOL and looking forward to that I'm sure.

dalilamma: John any chance of revisiting "Fawlty Towers" or is that old hat?

JOHN CLEESE: That is ANCIENT HAT.

dalilamma: damn

Awards Moderator: )Guffaw

JOHN CLEESE: I haven't done it for seventeen years, and if I did write another episode ... all the characters would be dead.

Arctic Frost: Oh this is incredible!

Northern Lights: We would love a Python Palace!

?Kryptonite: Especially for those of us addicted for old Monty Python stuff.

Lynne: Yes, wouldn't that be wonderful?

JOHN CLEESE: I'll talk to Eric Idle about it. He understands these commuter things.

[JOHN LOOKS AT THE PALACE CARTOON TEXT BUBBLES]

JOHN CLEESE: This is just extraordinary!!!

Lynne: and so are you!!!

JOHN CLEESE: There's a difference between not quite understanding something...and complete pig ignorance. Anyway...commuters are contrary to nature.

dalilamma: oink

Arctic Frost: Are we going to see more of the "Wanda" cast together again?

JOHN CLEESE: Good question. If we do, the movie will have to be set in an old folks home.

*?Ben©: hehe

*Macnutª: :hi kkkkens ddentures...

*?Ben©: :but the parrot will still be dead

Awards Moderator: Who in your life makes you laugh?

JOHN CLEESE: Steve Martin….and an Englishman called Brendan Twit….He has a strange act…..He inflates….ocelots…and then makes models of…schooners out of them.

Awards Moderator: LOL

JOHN CLEESE: Can I go now???

*Macnutª: hehehe

Awards Moderator: Yes you may

Randi©: Bye JOHN!!!!

Awards Moderator: Thanks so much for coming by

JOHN CLEESE: !GOODBYE…CHEERIO…TA TA FOR NOW…AUF WIEDERSEHEN AU REVOIR…ARRIVEDERCI…CIAO…SHALOM ...... HASTA LA VISTA

JOHN CLEESE: BUZZ OFF

dalilamma: stop milking it, john

Awards Moderator: You truly are the funniest and cleverest man on the planet. Thanks so much.

Arctic Frost: Thank You soooo much, John!!!

WGA Awards Moderator: PRETTY KEWL!

HANGING WITH TELEVISION WRITER DAVID RINTELS

Awards Moderator: Next up is David Rintels, recipient of the 1997 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television. This is the guild's highest award for television writing and is given to that writer who has advanced the literature of television through the years, and who has made outstanding contributions to the profession. He is also nominated for his teleplay of "Andersonville, Part Two," and is a multiple award-winning writer of television, screen and stage.

Ladies and Gentlemen, writer David Rintels!! Welcome David.

DAVID RINTELS: Hello. Thank you.

Awards Moderator: We also have Fay Wray with us.

*?Ben©: wow

*Macnutª: hello fay!!!!

Northern Lights: )APPLAUSE

Liza: hello Fay!

*?Ben©: what was one of your 1st pieces of work in TV, David?

DAVID RINTELS: The first show I wrote for was "The Defenders" starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed. Reginald Rose hired me to do a script and walked me through it, holding my hand the whole way.

Awards Moderator: What's the difference between your earlier writing and what you do now?

DAVID RINTELS: I think in the past I have written mostly about law and politics, but lately I've really been trying to write about characters and very human situation without any historical or political framework. People are what I think most writers find most interesting. I am not trying to convert the world so much any more…rather I am trying to touch it.

Lynne: interesting

DAVID RINTELS: I have a couple of projects which are in development at the moment. I am working with my wife who wrote "My Antonia," with Jason Robards and Eva Marie Saint.

Awards Moderator: Do you often collaborate together and how does that affect your marriage?

DAVID RINTELS: I produce what she writes and she produces what I write....We don't write together. Otherwise we might kill each other.

Awards Moderator: As silly a question as it is, how do you feel receiving this award?

DAVID RINTELS: The great thing about this award is that it comes from writers. I love writers and I am grateful that they honored me with this. It's a long and distinguished list of writers who have won this award. I am very honored.

Awards Moderator: Why have you focused more on television writing, not film writing?

DAVID RINTELS: I have written for movies....and it wasn't a very good experience either time. I have worked a little in theater and hope to do more of that. Television has a speed and an immediacy which I like. You can finish a draft of a TV movie on a Tuesday, get it approved that Friday and be in production the following week. A movie can take forever to complete.

Lynne: interesting insight!

*?Ben©: thanks David!

DAVID RINTELS: Thank you all. I appreciate talking with you.

Lynne: Thank you for visiting our virtual world on your big night

A QUICK MOMENT WITH FAY WRAY

Arctic Frost: Fay!!! Welcome!!!

Arctic Frost: Wow, Fay Wray, this is so neat!

FAY WRAY: Thanks all!! You're very dear.

?Kryptonite: Fay - What do you think of the state of horror films today compared to King Kong?

FAY WRAY: I don't really consider "King Kong" a horror movie, more of a mythological film. I don't care too much for horror movies. I don't like being fooled into being scared.

Northern Lights: Its a classic film. No remake ever bettered it.

FAY WRAY: I've got to go! Thanks everyone!

Arctic Frost: Thank you so much, Fay!!!

Awards Moderator: Thanks for stopping by Fay!!

HANGING WITH JAMES WOODS

Awards Moderator: Ladies and Gentleman, I'd like to introduce James Woods.

Randi©: Welcome James

*?Ben©: Hi James

JAMES WOODS: Actually this is I typing as we speak.

Arctic Frost: Welcome, James!!!

Awards Moderator: What was the most interesting moment for you on "Ghosts of Mississippi?"

JAMES WOODS: There was a moment in front of the Hinds County Jail when a young girl asked me who Medgar Evers was. I hope she now knows.

*?Ben©: Heard that you will be in the new Disney Movie "Hercules", is that right?

JAMES WOODS: Yes. In fact I am looping the final sequences tomorrow. The movie is really funny, I think.

Awards Moderator: You're great with edgy characters. Is your life less edgy than your performances?

JAMES WOODS: It better be!

Randi©: James what were you feeling when you were portraying Bill W.?

Arctic Frost: Good question, Randi.

Randi©: That was a great TV movie.

JAMES WOODS: I was very concerned about the veracity and integrity of the project, considering the millions of lives that could be affected.

Awards Moderator: How do keep focused amid the Hollywood hubbub?

JAMES WOODS: Golf.

Lynne: You've had so many wonderful roles, Is there anything that you'd really like to do?

JAMES WOODS: Go to bed.

*Macnutª: hehe

JAMES WOODS: Bye All.

Northern Lights: )APPLAUSE

Guest 155: bye....

Arctic Frost: Thank you, James!!

Awards Moderator: That's it gang. We are all finished. Thanks so much for coming!

WGA Moderator: Was that not cool? And he typed it all himself!