Posts under ‘Anectdotes’

  As time has gone on, I’ve gone from listening to loud music all the time to listening to news radio…I hope that doesn’t mean I’m getting old. At any rate, I was thankful for KNX 1070 this afternoon because of a story they ran on Operation Gratitude’s weekend Box packing at the Aromory in [...]

“Excellent,” a clean cut man who appeared to be in his early forties said as he passed me in the doorway after seeing my film.  I had held the door open for the person behind me and somehow ended up holding the door for the crowd as they passed. Each of them saying something nice about the [...]

Jeffrey Siljenberg’s Cinematography is amazing. He was the Cinematographer on my film “Witt’s Daughter” and I definitely intend on working with him again.  With the canvas of a room and actors for models, he’s a painter with lights who can make any media look fabulous. When I considered shooting my story in video, I thought [...]

Growing up as a latch-key kid in Los Angeles, I had some great times.  I remember summers, when we weren’t scrounging for returnable Coke and Seven Up bottles for our candy picnics with Leah the next door neighbor, or playing TV tag in the backyard with my cousins, my sister and I would watch old movies. Shirley [...]

Yesterday I went to pick up my tickets to the Hollywood film festival.  I was kind of puttering around all day, knowing that I had to pick up the tickets, but not in any particular rush to get there.  My dad called me around one-ish to let me know that he was there, and that [...]

There were still some of the old Guard in animation when I graduated from school.  Men who had done great work on films going back as far as Snow White.  But as talented as they were as artists, they weren’t very forward thinking when it came to encouraging new                 [...]

CS Lewis and the Flatulent Ogre I had never read the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, but I knew all about them. A friend of mine from long ago was a sweet and funny man who had gone through a painful divorce, and on the nights that he would have his little boy and girl, he [...]

I started a new screenplay with the hope of being one those folks that could sit down and bang out a script in a weekend–well, I’d read that a John Favareau had done that for the incredibly entertaining and fun movie “Swingers”… at least I think it was a weekend… hmm– maybe it was a week– [...]

      I couldn’t have asked for a prettier day.  The birds were singing, there was a slight breeze, the only downside was that Saturday’s mean there’s an upswing ing air traffic, so we had a to wait a lot for overhead planes. Ed Turner, my wonderful and droll one-man sound crew told me [...]