Margaret Atwood, grand dame of Canadian literature, Booker Prize winner, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, has announced her next project: a singing cameo in the upcoming movie Score: A Hockey Musical, starring Olivia Newton-John and Nelly Furtado. What the H-E-Double hockey sticks?
This isn’t the first time an established literary figure has popped up briefly in the world of cinema. Salman Rushdie played an obstetrician who gives Helen Hunt a sonogram in her directorial debut Then She Found Me. (Was he attended by the Satanic Nurses?) Hunter S. Thompson appeared in a drug-induced flashback in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Graham Greene played an insurance salesman in François Truffaut’s Day for Night. And the notoriously public-averse Raymond Chandler had a brief and, for a long time, unknown drop-by in the noir classic Double Indemnity, for which he wrote the screenplay.
Still, among all these, none hold a candle to the greatest literary cameo of all time, one in which the highbrow mingled absurdly with the lowest of the lowbrow. I am, of course, referring to Kurt Vonnegut’s brief turn in Back to School, in which he ghostwrites Rodney Dangerfield’s essay on the work of, yes, Kurt Vonnegut.
It’s hard to top the author of Slaughterhouse-Five appearing opposite the star of Ladybugs — but what’s your favorite writer-on-film moment?
It’s not cinema, but The Simpsons have a lot of literary cameos. I think Thomas Pynchon has been on several times with a paper bag over his head with “?” on it. Hilarious!
Do the basic Nicholas Romanov just embarassed me in front of evreyone bit. Have him stand up straight. place your hands on his shoulders, and make sure he can’t lean. Now,without letting him lean forward at all, have him try and start sprinting.You’re kind of right you’re falling faster in a sprint than while you’re jogging.
Norman Mailer on the Gilmore Girls episode, “Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant!”
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The Simpsons have had many literary guest appearances…my favorite at the “Wordloaf” festival including Gore Vidal,Tom Wolfe and a fight between Michael Chabon & Jonathan Franzen…”you fight like Anne Rice!”
That Vonnegut cameo still makes me laugh.
Here’s an obscure one for you: Raymond Chandler’s cameo in DOUBLE INDEMNITY:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jun/05/raymond-chandler-double-indemnity-cameo
Definitely Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall. Perfect!
Salman Rushdie as himself in “Briget Jones’s Diary”. It’s hilarious every time.
Stephenie Meyer has a cameo during the dinner scene at the diner in “Twilight.”
That’s your favorite cameo? Really? All she does is order food.
Slaughterhouse-Five is my favorite book (Cat’s Cradle is one of my favorites also,) so Vonnegut in Back To School was pretty awesome.
Tom Robbins as Mario the toymaker in “Made in Heaven”.
My favorite cameo is Stephen King as priest in a cemetery burial in the movie Pet Sematary. And I thought he have a nice elfish voice back then. BTW, he wrote the screenplay for that movie which was his first.
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S.E. Hinton appeared as a nurse in a hospital scene in “The Outsiders”. That scene is also the source of the great line from Matt Dillon who says “Get outta here – you make my stomach sick”!
George Plimpton shows up in a funny scene in Good Will Hunting as one of the psychologists that Matt Damon has to see before he meets Robin Williams
How about James Patterson and others playing poker with Rick Castle is Castle? I thought that was very funny.
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