Malleability.
So almost three years after I heard of it, I finally have a copy of The Office (for which many thanks). And it is, indeed, exquisitely excruciating to watch (the moreso if you’re howsomever precariously perched in middle management yourself). But this isn’t about The Office. See, now that I’ve seen the character of David Brent in action, I now have a much more full appreciation of the Ricky Gervais Reveal.
The Ricky Gervais Reveal?
Well. The gentleman below, one Ricky Gervais, famous of course for the singular comic creation that is the character of David Brent,
was once the somewhat taller half of really-big-in-Japan-(and-the-Philippines) pop sensation Seona Dancing.
(Luckily, I’d already seen Momus’ post on the subject, or else John’s might have curdled my brain somewhat more than it did. Speaking of malleability.)
But this isn’t about the Ricky Gervais Reveal, either. It’s about another reveal, which will probably impress three people out there, and I’ve already told one of them in person, and another probably already knows. But who cares. —See, in the course of one thing and another (now that the zombies are put to bed) I was listening to the soundtrack of The Secret Garden, which has its moments, bombastic though they might be, and when “Winter’s on the Wing” came on, I happened to look over at the iTunes window, where the Artist field was highlighted, and did a doubletake. See, Martha’s brother Dickon, conjurin’ with that stick of his?
Well, there in the Original Cast, he was played by John Cameron Mitchell, who would some few years later rather famously pull a wig down from the shelf.
Rather a long way to go for thin bit of gruel, I’m afraid. —I did discover that Ricky Gervais is writing for the Simpsons,
and also what John Cameron Mitchell’s up to these days.
Does that help?
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