Speed Therapy #5: 'Understanding The Full Speed Effect'

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I wasn't sure if she remembered me! :lol: (Geni btw *cough*)

And if you guys aren't posting pics, I might as well. :D

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Now this scene, is one of my favorites from 'Hurricane Anthony'. I could write down the entire scene right now...Which I will. The Eric/Speed banter is something I miss very much.

Delko: That the stuff from the John Smith shack?
Speed: ...You were supposed to meet me at the truck.
Delko: *smiles* I know, I figured you could use the exercise. It's good for you.
Speed: Thank you.
Delko: Twenty bucks says John Smith jumped bail on a violent crime.
Speed: Fourty that he's in Witness Protection Program. All the (can't understand) want to come down to South Florida.
Delko: For what, the weather? Looks if he was in Wits, CODIS would have red flagged him as being in the program. I did one of those last year.
Speed: Do you mind gettin' the door?

:p (If some of it's wrong, I apologize. I could barely understand what they were saying. :lol: )
 
*tackles serious-lookin-Speed, kisses, runs away*
HEE!
:D

Welcome back Speedlefanatic05!

*shares the speed-love*

[insert pic here] Damn! Photobucket is down! but i will be back to share the speed-love...
Man, Carlz, Exams? already? poor you. Hopeyou did/do well.
 
yeah, year 11 have yearly's at the moment :(...oh well, 4 down, 4 to go :rolleyes: stupid school...

dang! I was going to post a pic when I got home...well I actually got home before, but I had to 'study' for my next exam...

Ok, I'll post a pic (or several) tomorrow when I get home...
 
Wow!! always nice to end the day with a pic of that cute face! i missed speed i wish they bring him back! Why does flashback exist if they cant bring back Speed for at least one episode!! anyway thanks for the pic!!!
 
thank you for the welcome, i already feel at home! Again what can i say beside he's sooo handsome and i miss him!!!
 
Ooh, another fellow Canuck. :D Welcome!

Azza, that's a great pic. I always loved 'A Horrible Mind'. It was such an interesting episode, and Speed was so awesome. "Why people feel the need to prove evil exists, is beyond me." What a great line. :)
 
i saw the episode with the fire in the club he's in with he'a girlfriend and Delko and wow!! Speed is my hero!! he's so amazing in that episode.
 
'Tinder Box'. Great episode. :)

He did seem like quite the hero. I mean, he went back in afterall to save those people. *sigh* He ruined his pretty dress shirt, but that's OKAY! :lol:

I kind of liked how they had him go with a date. I thought it was kind of cute. Maybe it was Pam. :p
 
*narrows eyes* Pam! Pam!...no hey thats fine. If he wants to show up late to work, hey why not! lol. Sorry I just didn't like any of Speed's "love interests" on the show. I mean there was "Ms. COffee" and then that Allison chick. Who by the way reminds me of Ms. Coffee in a way.


.....ANYWAY! Tinder Box was a great episode. I loved it when he was like "I'm going back in" Everytime I see that I take a deep breath, let it out and say "my hero" ok not really because its just a t.v. show but still. (I'm in a very weird mood today)

But wasn't there some article or something....or maybe it was on Corey Millers blog...i'm not sure. I can't really remember where I read it at but Corey Miller had hazed Rory by saying he had to dance in Tinder Box and Rory didn't want to. Or something like that.....
 
Yeah, that was Corey Miller's blog.

I did a little searching, and I found the blog entry from Corey about the prank they pulled on Rory. I'll post some exerpts from it. :)

Corey Miller's Blog

Tina had a great question. She asked, “…what was the funniest prank played on someone on the set? What happened, and who did it?”

Well, I don’t know what the funniest prank was, necessarily. But I can tell a story of one prank that I was actually involved in executing. And it played out better than we could have asked.
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March, 2003. I was asked to write a freelance episode of CSI: MIAMI, the aforementioned “Tinder Box.” I wrote my draft, took it through the pre-production process, and was then told I was going to be the on-set writer throughout the shoot.

Day one, first thing I did was seek out David Caruso, wanting to introduce myself. He was in the makeup trailer. His first words to me, said with a big smile: “Bring on the next victim!” He made me feel very comfortable right away, and I appreciated that very much.
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Day two. One of the Assistant Directors told me that David wanted to speak with me. I immediately looked over the scenes for the day, wondering what questions he may have. Well, he did want a scene rewritten. But not for the show.

David wanted to play a joke on the actor Rory Cochrane, who played the now-departed character Tim Speedle. The episode began in a club, techno music pounding. A fire would soon erupt in the club, causing pure pandemonium. David said Rory didn’t like to dance. He thought it would be funny if I would put out some “official” revised pages, and change the scene to where Speedle would start dancing right before the fire broke out.
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I did think it would be funny, but I hadn’t even met Rory yet. Suddenly I was going to be playing a joke on him? That could go south in nanoseconds. Would my career be over before it even began? But I decided to go for it. David had such a great devious look on his face whenever he talked about it, that he had me convinced.

For the life of me, I don’t know why I didn’t save the actual revised script pages that Rory received that day. Maybe I wanted to destroy all evidence of it tying back to me. Ha. So I have to tell you from memory. What the scene became was Speedle meeting a girl at the bar, and when the music hit some psycho apex, he lead her out to the dance floor, and to paraphrase myself, bust some moves that were “Bob Fosse meets 50 Cent,” whatever that even means.
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We made a couple dozen copies, and passed them out to the crew, to make them look legit. The funny thing was, Rory never usually even read revised pages until the last minute. So everyone in the know waited with bated breath until he finally saw them. Me, getting more freaked by the minute. “What have I done?”

We were shooting at a tow yard in San Pedro when an Assistant Director walked up to me, cell phone in hand. “Rory wants to talk to you.” Here we go. I grabbed the phone. People gathered around, including David and Rex Linn. And suddenly I was an actor myself, improvising in front of an audience.
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Rory, thankfully, was not pissed. He just made a simple statement. “I got these pages. There’s no WAY I’m doing this.” I told him that I was sorry to have to spring it on him at the last minute, but that Ann had run into Jerry Bruckheimer at a function, and that they decided we had to make the show more hip in order to appeal to a younger demographic. So I thought that if I rewrote the teaser to incorporate the latest in dance moves, we’d get the MTV generation hooked. Rory just kept saying that whatever happened, he didn’t care, that he was not going to dance for the show. I told him I would try to do whatever I could to work it out.
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The whole time I was talking, everyone sat in rapt attention. David was cupping his hands over his mouth, trying extremely hard to hold back his laughter. And when I hung up, David said, “You’re in the wrong union, brother.”

It could have ended there, but it didn’t. When Khandi Alexander heard about it, she couldn’t wait to get in on it. She told Rory that she had been in touch with a choreographer, and that she found the best of the best. And David kept rubbing salt in his wounds, saying everyone has to do what they have to for the better of the show, etc. Rory was squirming.
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Just when Rory was talking about calling his manager to get out of doing the scene, we let him off the hook. He was punk’d, and took it very well, with great humor.

And I’m still working.
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So that's how the prank went, and I'm glad Rory didn't beat the snot out of Corey Miller, because he's my favorite writer. :lol: :p

I liked the "Rory wants to talk to you" bit. I think I'd be scared to take the phone. ;)

Anyway, all in all, that's the blog entry for that prank, I apologize that the paragraphs are a little long.
 
That was totally funny!! I laughed the entire time that I read it. I could just see Rory fuming over it, trying to get out of it.
 
:lol: Our poor Rory. (Maybe that's one of the reasons he left the show. :lol: :p )

And the moral of the story: Don't Punk Rory Cochrane. :p
 
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