They’re spending nights in their car, on the run from the same shadowy cabal—“the Hollywood Star Whackers”—who may have killed Heath Ledger, possibly sabotaged Jeremy Piven, and could now be targeting Lindsay Lohan. No, this is not the plot of Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Randy Quaid’s latest movie. It is what he and his wife, Evi, swear is really happening to them. With the Quaids in Canada, the author probes their nightmare reality, which has alienated friends and family, and turned the couple into outlaws.Randy and Evi Quaid made headlines in the theater world in 2005 while being out of their minds during the out-of-town tryout of Lone Star Love.
Creative disagreements on Lone Star Love degenerated into “screaming matches,” said Herrick. Evi was constantly filming rehearsals with her video camera in violation of union rules (“I was not a union member,” Evi said) and writing “threatening e-mails about contractual obligations.” (“Yes, to the producer Bob Boyett,” she responded.) […] [T]he last straw for the producers and the 25 cast members who signed on to the Actors’ Equity action against Quaid were preview performances where he slapped an actor in the head four times in the process of knocking his hat off and ad-libbed lines about the “gynecological instruments” of an actress. […] At his Actors’ Equity hearing in Los Angeles in January of 2008, Evi became irate when she was told she couldn’t film the proceedings, calling it a “Nazi plot” and kicking a 76-year-old secretary in the shins. Randy was fined $81,572 for the two lost weeks of work on the show (which he has not paid). “It was an extortionist nightmare from Bob Boyett,” Evi said. “I have no idea what they are referring to,” said Boyett. “It would be like herding cats to get a producer [of a Broadway show] to be part of a conspiracy,” Herrick said.[via longform.org]
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