#rolls andre

[geminicollisionworks]

Half of the company members of Gemini Collisionworks/Life With Althaar met up on Saturday night at a great performance of Adam Szymkowicz's play Clown Bar 2 at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side, NYC.

Company member Chris Lee was in the show, which was also co-produced by member Philip Cruise -- both of them writer/actors in Althaar. Chris is also co-owner of the Parkside, a great bar that has had no small influence on the Electric Egg and on Chris's performance as Chip Frinkel.

(photo by Jen Ferguson of 12 Collisionworkers and 2 spouses -- includes the performers of Radio Free Fairgrounds, Cmdr. Torianna, Hardyfox Fornes, Chip Frinkel, Stalin-Bot, Mrs. Frondrinax, Ens. Dormer, Amber? on the Bridge, Frall, Althaar, the Narrator, and the Weasel)

We had gathered, apart from wanting to see each other, to take a moment to remember and raise our glasses to our beloved company member Rolls Andre, who died on April 4 at the age of 52.

Rolls was a great person and a great actor. I had expected to have a few more decades of getting to know and work with him. He acted in three plays with Gemini CollisionWorks -- Cant and ReFuse by myself and Harakiri Kane by Dean Haspiel -- and played 5 roles across 10 episodes of Althaar, most notably as George Foreman-Bot.

He also played the title role in King Lear in a live Zoom reading during COVID lockdown that GCW co-produced, which also features many Althaar actors, and can be seen HERE. This was a dream role for Rolls, and it continues to make me happy that we supported him in getting to do it, and so terrifically.

A few more pictures of Rolls in our shows, and one with me (who he always called "Skipper" or "Skip," I called him "Straw"):

I, and all of us at GCW, will miss this great man. I have to rewrite bits of episodes 34 and 36 of Althaar to deal with losing him, and it is a sad, depressing job. George Foreman-Bot had some important things to say that we were building to, and it was because I had Rolls's voice that I thought they could be said properly.

There was much discussion about, and demanding from the company towards, starting Althaar production up again ASAP, and indeed, this sad, tragic event may be a necessary kick in the ass to that happening.

We will definitely be back. Now for Rolls as much as for anything else.

Thank you for your attention; it is a pleasure working for you.

IWH

[zegalba]

Andre 3000 & Kate Moss for Rolling Stone (2004) Photography: Mario Sorrenti

[percki]

loveybug is too busy thinking about kissing to fight supervillains... anytime an akuma shows up she hits it with a comically large hammer harley quinn style until it's flat and she can go back to unsubtly flirting with chat noir

[slasherscream]

you ever read something so irritating only a man who is a nerd could have had the opinion????

[wingsofchangemlau]

Characters (Season 1)

Wings of Change AU  

[rsrvs]

André 3000 & Kate Moss for Rolling Stone (2004)

[plumsaffron]

Second Chance noises I hear after reading the Kagami Tsurugi one.

Bruh if Lila Rossi and Max Kanté worked together.

Too broken plz nerf lol.

Mr Pigeon like rats too. Oh.

hmm I kind of want a spinach and salmon pie.

[killianxswan]

what do we have that they should want? we have a wall to work upon. we have work and they have none. the enemy is poverty, and the wall keeps out the enemy, and we build the wall to keep us free. that’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free.

[bitter69uk]

“Satisfaction. It comes from knowing he’s a rock legend. And rich. He said he didn’t want to be singing his hit “Satisfaction” in the seventies, but he’s still singing it. To the tune of riches. Now he says, “I am driven. It’s no longer for the money. I always knew I’d be rich. I always thought I was special.” In the sixties, the Rolling Stones had over $350 million dollars in revenue. In the eighties, Mick Jagger is a rock tycoon, often investing in risky business offshore oil drilling, buying art, and having fashion-y type decorators create new rich homes for himself and Jerry Hall. Mick Jagger is the true capitalist image of success. His earnings from record sales alone will keep his chateau in France, his townhouse in New York and his three love-child daughters swimming in luxury.”

André Leon Talley reflecting on Mick Jagger in the 1984 book Mega-Star. (Boy, can you tell Talley wrote this in the “greed-is-good” 1980s?). Born on this day 80 years ago (26 July 1943): flamboyant jet-setting Rolling Stones frontman Sir Michael Philip Jagger! Pictured: Andy Warhol portrait of Jagger, 1980.

[queerquaintrelle]

TURN Week 2024: Set it to Music

John André + Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones.

YouTube Link.

Yes, of course IWTV 1994 is one of my favourite movies of ever… but I digress, I see a lot of Tallmadge content in this fandom (fair enough I love him as well) but I really wanted to make André an edit and I had the recurring vision of André with "please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste."

[insidejizz]

some myc requests i received! brett requested myc on a unicycle, and ceo of myc supreme @flyingspicerack is helping me push my jewish myc agenda with myc lighting candles

the rest is from my own brainrot

[tallmadgeandtea]

HELLO: welcome to Tonight’s Turn and Tea, the first one of the summer! Woo! Now, I am going to give you all a fair warning. I have decided that, in order to motivate myself to revise my paper, I will be watching…. 3.10. Yeah. That’s right. Will it be funny or just sad! We shall see!

[blaylists]

heaven knows i’m miserable now

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

get his ass V

[hollaback--girl]

my cd collection of my favorite albums of all time continues to grow, let's fucking go

and here it is also, (for who may be interested) my complete CD collection

[peapod20001]

I’m really lucky actually that I rarely, if ever, get oc asks about things I don’t have the answer to 😭