The response to the Oscar Wilde scene was so positive, we’ve decided to put the James Joyce scene up too: I thought that I was past this show, but became very nostalgic while re-editing the material. From 2003 through 2006, we were mounting a production of the show every year. It was a close-knit group, …
Well, it’s official: I’m old. Katrina Ferguson, who played Charlotte in Engaging Shaw, provoked me to join Facebook. Now I am overwhelmed with answering and making friend requests, updating my status and the status of my friends with inane non sequiturs, and giving/receiving gifts like ugly dolls and unhatched eggs. It is insane, pointless, and …
Martin Blanco and I–with the permission of the cast–have decided to put a few scenes from Irish Authors Held Hostage on the web, to interest potential investors/producers. Oscar Wilde is the first:
Just back from New York, visiting my in-laws. I took the boys to a Yankee game: the last time for me in the old stadium. Of course, I’m old enough to remember the real Yankee Stadium, with the obstructed views. In the early seventies, I went there with my Cub Scout pack on bat day, …
Glad to be done with this, finally. Though this is the last of the student films I’m posting, it was actually the first one I ever made. Another student had just spent a ton of money to make a full-color, sound synched film called No Girls Allowed, which was to be entered in the Suffolk …
Mountain Playhouse has posted the Stonewall’s Bust interview of me by Mary Louise Stoughton on YouTube. The audio is a little better, but still too low. I’ll try to speak up next time.
This was the second student film I made at Stony Brook, again in the style of Buster Keaton. (I’m a little obsessive.) The title is Girls Stink, and Martha Banta plays opposite me. She and I worked together a lot in college–or at least she humored my idiotic ideas. Martha went on to be assistant …
I recently reconnected with an old college friend of mine named David Reichhold, who asked for a copy of a student film we both worked on in 1986-1987. So I dug it up, re-edited some of it, and put it on YouTube, so David can see it and torture his wife and children with it. …
My personal manager (alias my brother) is making more demands of me. He insisted I get a YouTube page. Here’s the first video: a clip from The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the Elements, which we filmed last year.
Just back from Pennsylvania, where my family and I saw the final evening performance of Stonewall’s Bust. As always, the people at Mountain Playhouse couldn’t be nicer. The cast put on a great show, and the audience were very responsive. Here are a couple of pictures: The cast: Susan Jacks, Nick …