James Urbaniak ([info]urbaniak) wrote,
@ 2007-08-11 20:39:00
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Hollywood Update


Just found out my one scene in this has been cut. That's show biz.

Recorded a couple of radio ads last week for Washington Mutual. I also have a Shell Oil radio campaign running this summer. Urbaniak-style announcing is all the rage these days.

I recently auditioned to play the sick guy on an episode of "House" (a longtime dream of mine) but I didn't get it. Not sick enough, I guess. Also had an audition for AMC's "Mad Men" but looks like I didn't get that one either. Which is a shame because I look hot in early sixties suits and period eyewear. Yeah, I said it. A couple of days ago I auditioned for another big show (too early to call). At any rate, my new agents are keeping me busy. I also recently auditioned for a Wendy's commercial where I had to wear a Wendy's wig and run around with my shirt off talking gibberish. I'm happy to say I didn't get that one.

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[info]dr_ninjapants
2007-08-12 03:51 am UTC (link)
I also recently auditioned for a Wendy's commercial where I had to wear a Wendy's wig and run around with my shirt off talking gibberish. I'm happy to say I didn't get that one.

Can you build me a time machine so I can fly-on-the-wall in on that one? Or is it actually better without context?

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 03:54 am UTC (link)
The audition will be meticulously recreated as the opening scene in my autobiographical movie about my move to Los Angeles. Ridley Scott is in negotiations to direct.

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[info]ghostgecko
2007-08-12 04:00 am UTC (link)
Those Wendy's commercials are kind of scary, although not as much as the Burger King ones with the dude in the plastic King head. You're probably better off.

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[info]atherva
2007-08-12 11:24 am UTC (link)
I thought it was a girl in the King costume, sometimes the hands look way too dainty...

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[info]ghostgecko
2007-08-12 05:14 pm UTC (link)
I read somewhere that the person playing the dancing old man in the 6 Flags commercials was female. I dunno, it seems like the goal of commercials nowadays is to be as bizarre and off-putting as possible. Although I'm one of the few gay people who actually thought the gay panic Sinckers commercial was funny, just not the alternate one on the website where they hit each other with hammers, which was vile beyond belief.

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[info]fallingforward
2007-08-13 03:56 am UTC (link)
Mr. Six was none other that Danny Teeson of 'Queer Eye for the Straight Girl'.

In other name news... I'm sad, Mr. U... No love for the McFees...

Signed,
a McFee

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[info]jaynagy
2007-08-13 01:38 am UTC (link)
WAKE UP WITH THE KING!

I don't understand why everyone is disturbed by those ads.

I mean EVERYONE is. Except me.

I leave it to others to analyze. Just looks to me like a cozy good time with beef and pork.

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Remember the first one...
[info]mikeyed
2007-08-13 05:23 am UTC (link)
the guy opens his blinds to find the king out there just staring, I'd love that to happen to me!

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[info]notoriousnoir
2007-08-12 06:56 am UTC (link)
I just talked to Ridley. He says he just can't see you in the role of "James Urbaniak."

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Story of my life.

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[info]craigjclark
2007-08-12 06:31 pm UTC (link)
Actually, it isn't your life anymore. Last I heard, Liev Schreiber was in talks to play you in the role.

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[info]originalenid
2007-08-12 06:59 pm UTC (link)
I heard they changed it to the life of Liev. Opening shot will be Liev being shot in the foot in costume as a transsexual in the Nora Ephron suicide hotline comedy "Mixed Nuts".

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[info]toddalcott
2007-08-12 04:19 am UTC (link)
So is that a picture of "Hope," as in "springs eternal?"

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 04:24 am UTC (link)
That is Mr. Bob Hope with, one assumes, his security, legal counsel and spiritual advisor.

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[info]valree
2007-08-12 04:56 am UTC (link)
Mr. Hope was my great-uncle. I'm trying to imagine a context for that picture. And failing.

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 05:15 am UTC (link)
My utterly arbitrary guess would be it's a Ronald Reagan presidential primary campaign rally in L.A. circa 1976.

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[info]craigjclark
2007-08-12 04:24 am UTC (link)
What a line-up. Bob Hope, a motorcycle cop, a guy who looks vaguely like John Cazale and a nun. I wonder what kind of joke you could get out of that group walking into a bar.

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[info]earthsage14
2007-08-12 04:33 am UTC (link)
Man, if only I listened to the radio. At least I'd see what you ARE doing, instead of hearing about the roles you're not getting or getting cut out of.

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 05:24 am UTC (link)
Well, I'm not aware that my one scene in "The Nanny Diaries" has been cut. Opens August 24th.

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[info]mistressbatty
2007-08-12 05:08 am UTC (link)
that's too bad about the House role. that would have been very cool.

I just realized the other day that I saw you on tv years ago. It took forever for me to place you. All I could remember was glasses, suit, and your blondish hair. Then it hit me, the shoe fetish fella from that episode of Sex and the City. Gotta love a memorable fetish role. <3

I hope the west coast is treating you and your family well.

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[info]jayodee
2007-08-12 05:24 am UTC (link)
Though Hollywood seems exciting from a distance, reading about it from the inside out makes me thankful to earn my living as a chemist.

Sorry to hear about your not getting the patient gig on House—would have loved to see you on the show.

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 05:38 am UTC (link)
Well, "House" needs new sick people every week. So you never know.

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[info]teamwak
2007-08-12 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Shame about House :( Good luck with future sick people roles!

I'm a big fan, and Im sure you know, Alcott is a recent convert. I would love to see what obscure, and no doubt deeply private illness they would land you with. Some strange parasite in a tract you didn't know you had! Dr V versus Dr H!! Sparks would fly!!

PS. Have you seen that there is a "who would win Dr Venture or Dr House" topic on the Venture Bros IMDB board lol!! Honest!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0417373/board/nest/77885323

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[info]el_kevin
2007-08-12 06:40 am UTC (link)
i actually work at a radio station and heard your commercials a couple of times, and was all like...hey...i know who that is....

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[info]glamourcorpse
2007-08-12 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Too bad on the "House" gig. You and Hugh Laurie would have rocked. You two could have been the next comedy goldmine team.

And sorry about the Mad Men gig, but I hate the show so I don't feel too bad. It's below you.

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[info]dragonvyxn
2007-08-12 02:19 pm UTC (link)
you would be an awesome sick guy on house! i can relate to that dream, except i wanted to be in a slightly different bed. also, i'll consider listening to radio just to hear that, except i might hate radio more than i like you... oh, wait, would i even hear that up in berkeley?

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[info]eronanke
2007-08-12 02:53 pm UTC (link)
The Wendy's ad might have made me the proudest.

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[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 09:53 pm UTC (link)
I'll get some other dignity compromising job that'll make you proud yet.

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[info]eronanke
2007-08-12 11:22 pm UTC (link)
Oh, you make me proud already. Hitman, cartoonist, scientist.... All these things you can be! I would only be MORE proud if you wore pigtails and a skirt.

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[info]ghostgecko
2007-08-13 05:04 am UTC (link)
So far he's missed the oppurtunity to bark like a dog on a cartoon and be a caveman, what is there left?

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[info]eronanke
2007-08-13 10:55 pm UTC (link)
Jewish Astronaut?

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Wendy's/Venture Connection
(Anonymous)
2007-08-12 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Wendy's latest is a piece where people run willy-nilly, lemming-like into a giant gaping hole in the earth. But everyone runs with Hank Venture hands. It's quite funny.

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Just you wait!
[info]alexandercraig
2007-08-12 11:35 pm UTC (link)
Some day years from now they'll all look back on the day they said no to Urbaniak and weep in regret.

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Re: Just you wait!
[info]urbaniak
2007-08-12 11:37 pm UTC (link)
Damn straight. Just like the guy who turned down the Beatles.

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Re: Just you wait!
[info]toddalcott
2007-08-13 01:54 am UTC (link)
That would be the immortal Mike Smith.

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Not that I want to compare you to anything...
[info]mikeyed
2007-08-13 05:30 am UTC (link)
but Jesus had to carry a cross before he got famous, maybe, well... career maker in order?

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[info]abbster88
2007-08-13 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Those hollywood people just don't recognize talent. Perhaps I should organize a boycott of "Mad Men," although I guess that wouldn't mean much, since I don't get cable anymore...damn.

That role in "The Nanny Diaries," IMDB said it was "educational consultant." What is it you do? Because if that role's what I think it is, I'm gonna enjoy watching that.

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[info]sayre
2007-08-13 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Aw, that's too bad; I've really taken to Mad Men.

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[info]seinjunkie
2007-08-14 07:37 pm UTC (link)

I just heard a Shell commercial while driving and had to do a double take. It didn't help that it happened after just rewatching VB season 1 disc 2 last night. You're a sellout, just like TS, friend.

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(Anonymous)
2007-08-15 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Ha! What brought me here was that I am listening to the radio at work and I heard this commercial and I was thinking that I had Doc "Rusty" Venture on the brain, but no! 'Tis the great James U.

Apologies about the terrible edits on that movie. I mean, you ranked number THREE of the "other cast" list, which practically makes you B-list, no?

-Mia
www.giddygirlie.com

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[info]paullev
2007-08-18 09:30 am UTC (link)
You would've been great in Mad Men - a great series! Mad Men 4 and 5: Double Mad Men

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