I used to think that I had no skills outside the entertainment industry and, if I wanted to switch careers, I would have nothing going for me since I’ve worked in Hollywood my whole life, including going to film school and getting... Read more »

The cast of Invaders from Mars included Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms, Hunter Carson, and Lorraine Newman, and they all sat outside in the front garden in their canvas chairs talking and laughing and generally being famous, which impressed me... Read more »

  So here we are, end of the summer and editing away. My favorite part of the documentary process. I am pleased to announce that Laura Zellmer and I are finishing up a project that we started over ten years ago!! Yeah us! We decided that... Read more »

After two weeks of traveling and writing (stuff other than this blog) we’re back and ready to return to those days of yesteryear, remembering the first job we ever had on the set of a film as a standby painter. Enjoy these stories of a time... Read more »

Last night I was having dinner with some friends, one of whom is an actor. He is very good looking and has always worn color contacts, so his eyes kind of pop out at you. He is looking for a new manager and I got him a meeting with... Read more »

If you read the trades, you will notice that a lot of agents are becoming managers these days.  While sometimes this works, an agent and manager are not interchangeable.  Often I have seen agents who became managers quickly going... Read more »

That first job on the set of a real feature film was an adventure, the likes of which I will never know again. That’s because I will never again be so full of wonderment and fear, and pure desperation to get out of where I had been working,... Read more »

When one is working at a production office for a feature films are commercials, I don’t worry about getting paid. Yes, there can be a snafu here and there, but you know that a bonded company has accountants set up and a payroll system.... Read more »

Who can forget their first job? Certainly nobody who works in the film business can forget theirs.  They will be able to relive it whenever the first film they worked on is shown again, thus embarking on a bright and nostalgic skip along memory... Read more »

Depending on your brand of physics, light may be the fastest thing in the universe.  However, light is not a thing, exactly.  Light is both a wave and a particle, but it is neither until it is observed.  Light seems to be extremely important,... Read more »

Paris in July.   Heaven on a stick. Actually I am referring to the main course of my first night’s dinner. I was so impressed I had to photograph it. Vegans, please avert your eyes.   Wherever I go, arresting images tend... Read more »