- John Paragon, Eating Raoul, 1980. Play a what…? A sex shop salesman?! Oh, no. (Odd that, given his 1991 arrest for masturbating in a Sarasota porno cinema). He recommended Paragon to auteur Paul Bartel – who created the satire for himself and Andy Warhol regular Mary Woronov. On May 12, 2000, Paul called her when he’d assembled fhe money for the sequel, Bland Ambition – and died the next day!
- Slavitza Joven, Ghostbusters, 1983. Who needs Pee Wee when you can change Gozer into top Czech model Joven. She was voiced by Paddi Edwards because of great difficulty with lines like: “Choose and perish.” Co-star Bill Murray kept chiding her: “There are no Jews and berries here.”
- Charles Fleischer, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1987. For the chief murder suspect, a Hollywood carton rabbit star, producer Steven Spielberg looked at his 1941 star Eddie Deezen, plus Reubens, and Wallace Shawn before voting Fleischer. Co-star Bob Hoskins thought him “completely nuts ” – for insisting on wearing a rabbit suit when voicing Roger live on the set. No one has reported what he wore when also supplying the voices of Benny The Cab and two of Judge Doom’s weasels, Greasy and Psycho in what critic Roger Ebert called “a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera.”
- Stephen Singer, Palindromes, 2004. Change of Dr Fleischer in Todd Solondz’s sorta sequel to his 1995 landmark, Welcome To The Dollhouse. Critic Roger Ebert got it right. “You may hate it, but you have seen it, and in a strange way it has seen you.”
- Raúl Esparza, Pushing Daisies #3: The Fun in Funeral, TV, 2008. Reubens (rather than Pee-Wee) was to be homeopathic anti-depressant salesman in the third episode of the Bryan Fuller’s quirky creation. (Headliner Lee Pace reanimate the dead). But Esparza was given the role once Reubens was booked for another role, Oscar Vibenius, in #7: Smell of Success, and #9: Corpiscle.
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