by admin1 | Aug 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I directed six pilot episodes of a VH1 TV series called Shoot the Band, which was patterned on the popular cable show Mystery Science Theater 3000. The series starred four stand-up comics who play in an over-the-hill garage band that hasn’t had a gig in...
by admin1 | Aug 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Cocaine came to Hollywood like a monsoon to Mumbai. After my first feature film, KGOD aka PRAYTV, was finished shooting, my agent, Jane Sindell, who later produced PLEASANTVILLE and SEABISCUIT, set me up with Amy Ephron, the...
by admin1 | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Although there is great pain in casting, there is also joy. We had refined, acted, and knew every scene of the movie KGOD, a.k.a. (later retitled) Pray TV, and were casting. One of the parts, that of Willie Washington, a rapping preacher in the style...
by admin1 | Jul 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
With the increasingly sophisticated and less expensive high definition cameras and editing equipment available to us today, making a movie or a video is possible. And, fortunately, with the exponential growth of cable television, Internet streaming, video-on-demand,...
by admin1 | Jul 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Poet Alexander Pope’s quote “Hope springs eternal . . .” sounds like something a poet would believe. Is there any craft more obscure and less appreciated than poetry (yeah, the words of Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, or John Lennon)? If we, in show biz, didn’t have hope,...
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