Embracing the nature of the thing I am compelled to write, have built a complete cast list for PROMISELAND, which now includes Vincent Price, among others.
Vincent is a good example of how the cast list is being built, as a sort of structural guide to my intentions: Vinnie's part is listed as "distinguished patron of the arts", which he certainly was, in real life. I don't have a scene for him yet, but when I get there it's plain to me what purpose he'll serve. Most of the supporting / auxiliary cast have titles like that, with very few proper names; Donald Cammell is listed as "a hedonist", where Val Lewton is a "blind shopkeeper", and Curtis Harrington is a "peepshow regular". These will all be fun rôles, I can tell.
Of the few actual names for these historical persons, Leslie Van Houten surprised me by being the 2nd Mansonoid to make my mental casting call: she's won the part of "creepy Sally Streetmeat". I thought Bobby Beausoleil would be the only Mansonoid, with hir marquee role as the enchanting & difficult "Bobbi Beautiful Soul". Leslie's secondary cast, though, so she won't be stepping on Bobbi's feminine energies.
That starfucker Manson's insisted on horning in, but I've relegated him to the absolute end of my cast, subheaded as "introducing", and made sure he keeps his shit in check by crediting him as "a recidivist".
Can't let these freaks take over my show.
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