Back in the early to mid 1980’s, I did a stand-up act with Danny Vermont, who now writes for Bill Maher. Whenever we were on break from college, we would quickly write some sketches and head to the local public access cable station to record them–almost always using a stationary camera and a single …
Just in time to be too late for the holidays, I finally worked out all of the problems with the DVD of The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the Elements. It is currently for sale here. At $10, it is the perfect gift for those you don’t want to spend too much money on, …
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:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.