| Bold and Stupid Men |
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| Bold and Stupid Men; Part One |
| by Tracy Ireland |
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| Tracy:
What is your name? |
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| Garibaldi Fortissimo: My name
is Joseph Alex Cordaro. J Alex Cordaro. My alter ego is Garibaldi Fortissimo. |
| TI:
what is your quest? |
| GF: To search for
the Holy Grail |
| TI: What is your
favorite color? |
| GF: Red. No! Blue! |
| TI: You're gone!
What is your sign? |
| GF: Virgo, the virgin. |
| TI: What brings you
to the renaissance faire in general? Why do you work here? |
| GF: That's pretty
much it. It's the experience; it's the only show I've ever been
in that encompasses everything I've ever learned. Fighting, dancing,
singing, fighting again... |
| TI: Where do you
live besides tent city? |
| GF: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania |
| TI: Were you interested
in faire before you did this? |
| GF: Never set foot
in one ever before I did this. |
| TI: Really? Wow. |
| GF: *chuckle* |
| TI:
What is your favorite faire memory? |
| GF: Either the really
tiny girls or the really old ladies. It's just the smiles from
the hand kisses, or the really tiny children running up after
the show to give big knee-hugs. |
| TI: Yeah, my niece
would have done that if I had brought her |
| GF: *chuckle* |
| TI: What got you
interested in acting? |
| GF: I come from a
theatrical family. My mother owns the Act One theater school
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My sister is an actress, and ahhh, actually
I started taking acting classes because there were a lot of girls
there... I mean, hey... *laugh*. |
| TI: Actually, I
did it for the opposite reason; there were a lot of guys in
my acting classes. I guess I'm also a ham. |
| GF: There you go
*laugh* |
| TI: Do you do a
lot of acting besides this show? |
| GF: Oh yeah. |
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| TI: Like? |
| GF: I dance with
a dance company in Philly called Trapezius, ahhh, its an aerial
dance company, I do a lot of flight directing in Philly at large
in general, whatever comes up. |
| TI: What is your
random word of the day? |
| GF: Elbow! |
| TI: Why's that? |
| GF: I just like the
way it sounds. Elbow. Ellboww. |
| TI: What's your
favorite song? |
| GF: Ahhh, Walk like
a man. |
| TI: Anything you
do besides acting? |
| GF: That's... that's
pretty much it. I pay my rent. I do this nonsense and pay my
rent. |
| TI: Where do you
think faire's home will be next year, or do you even care? |
| GF: I don't know.
I hear it's going to be someplace nearby, sort of, with a lot
of tree, and that's really enticing. |
| TI: do people who
have seen you here, acting, see you on the street and expect
you to be in character? |
| GF: no, but sometimes
we get the "hey, you're those stupid guys, right? Do you guys,
like, do parties? Cos I'm in a band and we do parties", we get
that often. |
| TI: do you? |
| GF: yeah. *Laugh* |
| TI: how did you
get your character name? |
| GF: um, late night
drinking in a bar in Philadelphia. It was really funny and we
decided to keep it. |
| TI: how long have
you known your partner? |
| GF: two years. We
met about five minutes before we got on the road and went to
rehearsal. |
| TI: how long have
you known the people you work for? |
| GF: on and off...
for ahhh, since eighty-... no, not eighty-nine, nine... ahhh...
ninety-two. On and off since ninety-two. Ninety-two, I've known
them since. *Laugh* |
| TI: what's the velocity
of an unladen swallow? |
| GF: African or European? |
| TI: I don't know
that! Ahh! What's your personal quote? |
| GF: ahhh, honor,
courage. |
| TI: what bit of
advice do you have for someone who wants to act? |
| GF: Don't do it! learn
how to be a plumber! Learn now to plumb! Make some money, damn
it! |
| TI: thank you |
| GF: you're welcome |
| TI: see you next
year.
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| Bold and Stupid Men; Part Two |
| by Tracy Ireland |
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| BoIt Upright:
Testing, one-two. Testing, one-two. Houston... we have a problem! |
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| Tracy: *laugh* Ok. Lets get started.
What... Is your name? |
| BU: My what? |
| TI: Your name. |
| BU: My- which one? |
| TI: Both. |
| BU: My name is Jeff
McLane, I'm a professional actor from Chicago, and my character name is Bolt
Upright. |
| TI: What is your quest? |
| BU: Quest. My quest is to teach men
to treat their women right. Teach them how to behave as gentlemen: the manly
arts of poetry, sword fightingÉ looking silly. |
| TI: What is your favorite
color? |
| BU: My favorite color
is red. |
| TI: What's your star
sign? |
| BU: Aquarius. Very
Aquarius. I bare my water to all. |
| TI: what brings you
to faire? |
| BU: It's a JOB. That's pretty much
it. It's a, ahhh, a chance to perform and somewhat make a living
doing it. It's an avenue that opens up many things. In the business of entertainment,
being an actor, its hard to get into a niche where you are performing the way
you want to be performing, and actually making money at the same time. It can
be lucrative if you stay in the faire for a long time, but many actors that I
know do this because its fun, it gives them an outlet, it pays them money, but
it also leads them to other things that
are more along their route. |
| TI: Where do you live besides
tent City? |
| BU: Ahh, all over. I live in my van,
and I work the southern California faire, and the northern California faire,
usually fly back home to the Bristol faire to work there, and try to find some
semi-permanent location around L.A. because there are agents and things going
on in the business. |
| TI: What first interested you
in faire, or were you even interested to begin with? |
| BU: Ahhh, no, I love faire, I think
its great. I was a patron for quite a few years before I
got involved. It's a healthy escape. There are too many unhealthy escapes,
it's a chance to go and dress up, to be silly or not be silly, and just go to
a place that's a big grouping of fantasy, where you can go and you can hang out
and be somebody else. |
| TI: What's your favorite faire
memory? |
| BU: My favorite faire memory. Wow.
Boy, there's a lot, I have a lot of favorite faire memories.
That's where I met my best friend, all the friends that I have are form faire.
There's really too many. There's been a lot of performing memories that are great,
like the time I dressed up as King Phillip from Spain and walked into the court
to surprise Her Majesty, that was a good moment.
And I'd say, marrying my best friend and his wife at faire, since I'm a minister
as well. |
| TI: What got you interested in
acting? |
| BU: Ahhh... just acting it self.
I was born an actor. I just popped out and was always performing and goofing
off and making people laugh and entertaining people and doing that. Its what
I sincerely believe that's what I was put on this earth
to do. |
| TI: You said you were a professional
actor. What other things do you do, besides faire? |
| BU: Ahh... commercial work, voiceover
work, I write screenplays with my screen writing partner, I write plays, I write
poetry, I play the piano, I paint, I sculpt, all
kinds of stuff like that. |
| TI: Random word of the
day? |
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BU: Random word of the day. What
have I been saying all day? I've been saying some word all
day, I don't remember. I do say poopy-pants a lot. |
| TI: That works. |
| BU: Its what I call
people, Poopy-pants. |
| TI: What is your favorite
song? |
| BU: My favorite song, is, well, there
are a few that I really like, but my all time favorite song has always been Bohemian
Rhapsody. Its probably been my favorite song
since I was... well, six. |
| TI: Where do you think
faire's home going to be, or do you even want it to move? |
| BU: Well, I don't know. We came in
right after Black Point, and we keep hearing how black point was great, beautiful,
and this place doesn't really lend itself too well to being a faire. I think
moving is fine if it benefits the people running the faire, the people performing
in the faire. I heard it's moving somewhere
closer to San Francisco. |
| TI: Do people who see you at the
faire expect you to be in character when they see you on the
street? |
| BU: Well sure, I... well, I guess
not. Its like, in every day life, when we are you, we get recognized by people
who have seen us at faire. I don't think we've ever been in the position where
they really wanted us to be in character. |
| TI: How did you get your character
name? Did you just pick it out of the blue? |
| BU: Ahhh... that was actually one
of my directors. The Bold and Stupid Man show is actually
a show that's been done for around twelve years. The original people were Dirk
Perfect and Guido Crescendo, and they are our directors, and the gentleman who
plays Dirk Perfect, my pseudo-character, we were thinking of names together,
and he said that the name for my type of character had to be an action verb,
had to be something that had an action, and he suggested Bolt Upright, and I
said "that's perfect". |
| *pbone rings* TI: Hello? Yeah, but I'm busy, can
I call you back? |
| BU: She's talking on the phone right
now, Houston, Houston, we have a problem. |
| TI: That was my parents.
Ahh, how long have you known your partner? |
| BU: I have known Alex for... about
the exact amount of time we've been doing this show. I met Alex then night before
we left Chicago to go to Arizona. We met that night, and then got in my van the
next day to drive from Chicago to Arizona. He's a great guy. |
| TI: How long had you known the
other guys? |
| BU: Dave and Doug? About six years
I think. |
| TI: What is the airspeed velocity
of an unladen swallow? |
| BU: African or European? |
| TI: I don't know that! *Ahhhhhh!* Ok. What's your personal quote? |
| BU: Personal quote?
Umm, I quote a lot from one acing professor I had who always said, "Eat when
you're hungry, sleep when you're tired, and breathe in between" |
| TI: What is your bit of advice
for anyone who would want to act? |
| BU: For someone who wants to act?
The best piece of advice I can give to anyone who wants to be a professional
actor, or who is a professional actor, is that you're going to get rejected a
lot, there's going to be people who are going to
get criticized a lot, and don't worry about it. Don't let the criticizing affect
you, but more importantly, don't let the compliments affect you. Compliments
and criticism are the same thing. It doesn't mean you have to shun them, it just
means accept them graciously, but don't hang on to them. You know, just go, believe
in yourself, and do it the say you want
to do it, and you'll be fine. |
| TI: Well, thank you very much
for your time |
| BU: That was the end? |
| TI: Yeah |
| BU: Captains log, star
date 14312. oh, sorry.
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