No one's safe from the editing
scissors until they actually make it on screen. Anthony LaPaglia shot
scenes as Al Capone for Road To Perdition but appears nowhere in the
film. There's a whole storyline with an old man and his dead wife in
The Sixth Sense that was completely cut from that film. Winona Ryder's
seemingly inexplicable casting as 30-years-older Spock's mom in the
opening scenes of Star Trek was actually because she shot scenes as her
own age, which were all cut, leaving only bad-age-makeup-Ryder in the
film. (I'm still hoping my awesome FBI day makes it into its film....) And along with those lost performances
and many more in the black hole of "you're cut" oblivion is,
apparently, Tweety Dave.... From my Late Show With David Letterman
internship journal:
....This week also included what I thought was the funniest bit to be created for the show since my internship started. Unfortunately, it didn't make it onto the show, and I'm not sure if Dave even knew it existed, as it was made during the taping in response to something he improvised. During the second act, when he sits at his desk, Dave inexplicably started speaking in a high-pitched nasally cartoon voice, and after some banter with Paul about it, he offhandedly remarked that he hoped to one day have his own cartoon character. I'm not sure whose idea it was, but the graphics team started quickly making a cartoon character for Dave, to be used if he did the voice again later in the show. It was a Tweety Bird knock-off with a caricature of Dave for the face, complete with glasses and moving mouth, and everyone in the control room thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, once it was finished, Dave never did the voice again, and the control room was disappointed that "Tweety Dave" would never get a chance to debut. As Biff said to us the first day of our internship though [when the interns were supposed to be used in a skit but were cut due to time restrictions], "Welcome to showbiz; you're cut."
More from my Late Show journal:
....This week also included what I thought was the funniest bit to be created for the show since my internship started. Unfortunately, it didn't make it onto the show, and I'm not sure if Dave even knew it existed, as it was made during the taping in response to something he improvised. During the second act, when he sits at his desk, Dave inexplicably started speaking in a high-pitched nasally cartoon voice, and after some banter with Paul about it, he offhandedly remarked that he hoped to one day have his own cartoon character. I'm not sure whose idea it was, but the graphics team started quickly making a cartoon character for Dave, to be used if he did the voice again later in the show. It was a Tweety Bird knock-off with a caricature of Dave for the face, complete with glasses and moving mouth, and everyone in the control room thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, once it was finished, Dave never did the voice again, and the control room was disappointed that "Tweety Dave" would never get a chance to debut. As Biff said to us the first day of our internship though [when the interns were supposed to be used in a skit but were cut due to time restrictions], "Welcome to showbiz; you're cut."
More from my Late Show journal:
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