Ralph's Monolouge- Fame

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Eddie Barth ... Angelo
Irene Cara ... Coco
Lee Curreri ... Bruno
Laura Dean ... Lisa
Antonia Franceschi ... Hilary
Boyd Gaines ... Michael
Albert Hague ... Shorofsky
Tresa Hughes ... Mrs. Finsecker
Steve Inwood ... François Lafete
Paul McCrane ... Montgomery
Anne Meara ... Mrs. Sherwood
Joanna Merlin ... Miss Berg
Barry Miller ... Ralph
Jim Moody ... Farrell
Gene Anthony Ray ... Leroy
Maureen Teefy ... Doris
Debbie Allen ... Lydia
Richard Belzer ... M.C.
Frank Bongiorno ... Truck Driver
Bill Britten ... Mr. England
Eric Brockington ... Plump Eric
Nicholas Bunin ... Bunsky
Cindy Canuelas ... Cindy
Nora Cotrone ... Dancer
Mbewe Escobar ... Phenicia
Gennadi Filimonov ... Violinist
Victor Fischbarg ... Harvey Finsecker
Penny Frank ... Dance Teacher
Willie Henry Jr. ... Bathroom Student
Steve Hollander ... Drama Student (as Steven Hollander)
Sang Kim ... Oriental Violinist
Darrell Kirkman ... Richard III
Judith L'Heureux ... Nurse
Ted Lambert ... Drama Student
Nancy Lee ... Oriental Student
Sarah Malament ... Dance Accompanist
James Manis ... Bruno's Uncle
Carol Massenburg ... Shirley
Isaac Mizrahi ... Touchstone
Raquel Mondin ... Ralph's Sister
Alba Oms ... Ralph's Mother
Frank Oteri ... Schlepstein
Traci Parnell ... Hawaiian Dancer
Sal Piro ... Rocky Horror M.C.
Lesley Quickley ... Towering Inferno Student
Ray Ramirez ... Father Morales
Loris Sallahian ... Drama Student
Ilse Sass ... Mrs. Tossoff
Dawn Steinberg ... Monitor on Stairs
Jonathan Strasser ... Orchestra Conductor
Yvette Torres ... Ralph's Little Sister
F.X. Vitolo ... Frankie (as Frank X. Vitolo)
Stefanie Zimmerman ... Dancer Teacher
Tracy Burnett ... Dancer
Greg De Jean ... Dancer (as Greg DeJean)
Laura Delano ... Dancer
Michael DeLorenzo ... Dancer
Aaron Dugger ... Dancer
Neisha Folkes-LeMelle ...Dancer (as Neisha Folkes)
Karen Ford ... Dancer
Robin Gray ... Dancer
Hazel Green ... Dancer
Eva Grubler ... Dancer
Patrick King ... Dancer
Cynthia Lochard ... Dancer
Julian Montenaire ... Dancer
Holly Reeve ... Dancer
Kate Snyder ... Dancer
Meg Tilly ... Dancer
Louis Venosta ... Dancer
Philip Wright ... Dancer
Ranko Yokoyana ... Dancer
Adam Abeshouse ... Musician
Yvette D. Carrington ... Musician
Fima Ephron ... Musician
Anthony Evans ... Musician
Crystal Garner ... Musician
Lisa Herman ... Musician
Thais Hockaday ... Musician
Karen Hoppe ... Musician
Frankie Laino ... Musician
April Lang ... Musician
Richard Latimer ... Musician
Lisa Lowell ... Musician
Ann Marie McDermott ... Musician
Kerry McDermott ... Musician
Maureen McDermott ... Musician
Josh Melville ... Musician
Peter Rafelson ... Musician
Ann Roboff ... Musician (as Anne Roboff)
Boris Slutsky ... Musician
Alan Vetter ... Musician
Evan Weinstein ... Musician
Produced by:
David De Silva .... producer
Alan Marshall .... producer
Original Music by Michael Gore

[@kbrodeur]

one of so many great moments in this film! genius kinetic work and emotion. wow.

[@kbrodeur]

I think they all did, they focused on Raul Garcia because he was an emotive actor. The others too, Doris, The Ballet Dancer, The gay best friend, you name it, Leroy learning to read under the 125th walking bridge with trash barrels lit... that's the great part about "The Body Electric" at the end.

[@bluehawk1984]

It's Bobby C from Saturday Night Fever

[@WedgeOz]

Best scene in the movie.......and utterly awesome acting! Bravo Barry!

[@David-dz3ig]

Barry Miller was the "Sal Mineo" of his day. a very fine actor!

[@susangordon3794]

AGREED!

[@GreenTengu97]

Saw a production of Fame at my old highschool yesterday. My sister was in it. I was not fully onboard with it until this scene.

[@levieenrose7646]

Wow! What an amazing scene and the acting is so raw and emotional. Stunning!

[@craiggeddis2102]

This is what Ralph was crying.

[@catherineerwin8269]

Intense intense monologue!

[@foxybob725]

My favorite part of the movie!

[@susangordon3794]

Still my favorite part 12 years later!

[@alexandergraham6912]

Alan Parker's "Fame" (1980) was recently inducted into the Library Of Congress in 2024 as "an artistically and culturally important" film. Nominated for six Academy Awards and winner of two Oscars, the core of the film centers around the character of Raul Garcia, a gifted and troubled young Hispanic teenager from the South Bronx ghetto aspiring to be a stand-up comedian, and going into the same downward spiral as his fallen idol Freddie Prinze. It was essentially a fictionalized portrait of the then-recent Prinze tragedy, and it remains to this day a still-applicable and undimmed cautionary tale about Hollywood, the young, and the dark underside of "The American Dream". This particular scene, an exceptionally raw and powerfully acted monologue for such a mainstream and commercial Hollywood film even by today's standards, let alone in its own time, was almost entirely cut out due to legal issues around Prinze's death being publicly labeled a suicide. Studio executives were also understandably nervous about its statement against Big Business, Hollywood, organized religion, and God. It was heavily censored when the film was broadcast on network television, and in the days before cable, VHS, DVD's, KZbin, and streaming. Here is the "artistically and culturally important" substance that made the original "Fame" of 1980 the impactful and enduring classic that it was and still is, and is mistakenly if not deliberately misremembered today as being nothing more than a fun and nostalgically airy musical of sparkling sweetness, innocence, and light. Not.

[@Animeartist124]

I'm doing this monologue for Drama class tomorrow.

[@joel8583]

Did you get in trouble for it?

[@trashleigh87]

He reminds me of Nathan from Misfitz

[@trashleigh87]

Totally, right!

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Ralph Graci Speech

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Garci

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Ralph Speech

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Ralph

[@fujichia]

I'M FUCKING IT UP FOR FREDDY!

[@joel8583]

Because Ralph is a Freddy wannabe.

[@lizzygibbons6682]

Fame-1980

[@2013StarSearch]

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[@craiggeddis4697]

Good.

[@craiggeddis4697]

Cool.

[@craiggeddis4697]

OK.

[@craiggeddis4697]

Please, Ralph. Calm down.

[@craiggeddis4697]

Unfortunately, the only thing that you can get it.

[@craiggeddis4697]

No.