Owen is far better with Woody's lines. He's a natural at playing a lost soul. From the comments here today, this seem to be a state he understands well.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Godwin [mailto:mnemonic@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 08:57 PM
To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Midnight in Paris

Yes, happy that Michael Is involved with this project, which all the
early returns say is going to be a critical success. I was impressed
but unmoved by Branagh's technical virtuosity in "Celebrity" in
channeling Woody Allen. Casting Wilson at the outset means you're
necessarily going to get something different from what Allen himself
or Branagh-playing-Allen would give you.

--m



On Thursday, May 26, 2011, Matt Kozusko <kozusko@mac.com> wrote:
>
> The 1997 class also lost a *Two Gents* student to early departure,
> though the particular circumstances were quite different.  But it was
> a humbling summer, all around.
>
> Yet additional congrats to Michael!
>
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Barker, Michael wrote:
>
>> Then I will not say a word.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: James Ayres [mailto:jayres@cvctx.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:33 PM
>> To: mnemonic@gmail.com <mnemonic@gmail.com>; weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>  <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Midnight in Paris
>>
>> A Paul Harvey thing here, "the real story" about Owen. He arrived one
>> day and left the next.  I provided, demanded, the exit  once I
>> discovered (from his mother and the UT police) that he was using
>> Winedale as a hideout from families and legal authorities seeking him
>> for getting a girl pregnant.  Nothing at all to do with lines.  Only
>> moral responsibility.  The folklore about his connection with
>> Shakespeare at Winedale should dissolve, disappear.  He was never
>> there.
>>
>> Doc
>>
>>
>> On May 26, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
>>
>>> Famously (or infamously in our circles), Owen Wilson was a Winedale
>>> student very briefly in the summer of 1989. (Madge and I were both
>>> there that summer.) He opted to leave rather than learn his lines --
>>> we handled it.
>>>
>>> It's hard not to feel a bit ambivalent about him even now (in case
>>> you
>>> were wondering how long I hold a grudge), but he has shown some great
>>> charm in some of his movies. (Of course, people feel ambivalent about
>>> Woody Allen too. And even about Paris!)
>>>
>>>
>>> --m
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, May 26, 2011, Maggie Megaw <maggie@bizaffairs.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Meant to write on Sunday after seeing the picture Saturday
>>>> night—9:30 screening, sold out, as were the two preceding
>>>> screenings.
>>>> Loved the movie—full of charm and smitten with Paris.  Most fun out
>>>> at
>>>> the movies in a long while.  Congratulations, Michael. xxxm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> maggie megaw | business affairs, inc | 2415 main street
>>>> santa monica ca 90405 | ph 310 954 8440 | fx 310 362 8707
>>>>
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