Saturday morning I had a meeting with casting director Shari Rhodes in the morning, but a camera snafu caused me to have to reschedule for later this week. Shari has done a ton of casting for some big name movies and she’s very active in casting movies still today. Lucky for me I knew how to …
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Week 18: American Airlines can eat me
Yeah, I said it — EAT ME. Sometimes, booking 2 weeks in advance is a good thing and allows me to snag a low fare. However, the flip side is booking 2 weeks in advance not knowing that you will be having a 4:30 pm show…..and a 5:55 pm return flight. After several phone calls …
Week 17: Level 3 – film genres and the bar gets set high
I want to start of by saying thank you to everyone for the input and response to last week’s Q & A. I appreciate everyone taking the time to check it out and to send in their thoughts. As I keep getting more questions, I’ll throw them up here. Now, on to week 17… I …
The off-week Q & A
With no trip to LA this weekend, I decided to answer some of the questions I regularly get asked from friends, emails and comments I’ve received here on the site. So, in no particular order, here are the most common questions I get asked, or have been asked by email/website/carrier pigeon/smoke signal: Q: You fly …
Lola: one year later
Left – The day after we brought her home, shaved down, her bones showing, and afraid of everything imaginable. She wouldn’t leave the bedroom unless she absolutely had to eat or go outside, and never made a sound. She didn’t even go upstairs until 5 months ago. Right – At the dog park today, tail …
Week 16: Without a net
So, last week my travel was delayed due to the high winds and caused me to stay in LA a day. Well, this week I was delayed again, but only for a hour. I eventually got on the plane…only to get right off 20 minutes later due to “bad fuel lines”. The captain himself stood …
Week 15: I love have to fly and it shows can be a pain
So I discovered last week that there was an interactive even going on where you could hold an actual Oscar statuette. It was running until 5:00 Saturday afternoon and I had decided to catch a 10:30 am standby flight and attend the interactive event with some friends from Second City. So I get up early, …
Review: Reno 911!: Miami
Review: “Reno 911!: Miami” Run time: 1:24 Dammit. I really wanted to like this movie. I really did. I’m a big fan of the show and I had high hopes for this, and that may have set the bar too high to start. The movie feels like one long episode with a loose storyline based …
Week 14: Outrage
Those of you that know me know that I tend to “Forrest Gump” my way into certain situations. For those of you that don’t know me so well, I tend to find myself in the right place at the right time more often than not and it’s has lead to some cool stuff. This week …
Fire away…
For week 15’s entry (10 days from now), I’m going to post some of the questions I get asked a lot about traveling to LA and doing the Second City thing along with my answers. I’m also going to open up the comments section for people to post questions or you can email me or …
Review: Music & Lyrics
Review: “Music and Lyrics” Run time: 1:36 Hugh Grant has built a career as the sullen yet charming Englishman with a gift for wooing the ladies. Now you can add singing to his repertoire. Grant is Alex Fletcher, the lesser known keyboardist from a Wham!-esque 80’s pop band called, ironically, POP. Now washed up and …
Week 13: Thanks, driver
While getting ready to leave yesterday, my driver asked if I wanted her to drive me to the airport and pick me up tonight, but I said no because she has to get up early tomorrow and go to Corpus Christi for work. “But how will I ever get any mentions if I don’t drive …
Week 12: “On the lot” or “25 hours in a day”
Have you ever said to yourself, “Man I wish I had more hours in a day”? Have you ever looked at your watch and realized you’ve been awake for over 24 hours and realized how completely asinine that notion is? That was Saturday for me, but with the caveat that I was working on a …
Review: Smokin’ Aces
Review: “Smokin’ Aces” Run time: 1:49 Buddy “Aces” Israel is a Vegas entertainer turned small-time mobster who has turned government informant. A $1 million hit has been put out on his head before he can testify and go into witness protection, but the contractors want his heart, too. The hit goes out and every freelance …
Week 11: A heart, a bash, a start, and some cash
Two quick notes before I go on: – I’ve setup the site so you can now email and print individual posts from the site. I’m trying to get ahead of the curve even though nobody has yet to request it, and I’m not sure anybody without the last name Bentley reads this stuff. ;) – …