by admin1 | Oct 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
What no one could be prepared for are the politics of getting a film “green lit.” The process is heart ripping—it has the potential to ruin the joy of it all. It’s just like how real politics ruins the joy of running a country, or like Russian judges ruin...
by admin1 | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
My agent, Jane Sindell, later producer of Seabiscuit, was in the process of seeking out opportunities for me to direct another film. She set me up with Jennings Lang an old timer who had an office on the Universal Studios lot. He produced Airport 1975, Airport ’77,...
by admin1 | Sep 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
The CityKids Foundation joined the Jim Henson Company to produce a television series for ABC TV. With great stories and music videos, this was a ground-breaking childrens’s show . . . the forerunner to the long-running TV hit, Glee. I directed the...
by admin1 | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Most every tricky movie shot has been done before. But each new trick requires something never exactly done before. The opening scene in Spy Hard is a spoof of In the Line of Fire. Leslie Nielsen’s character, Dick Steele, like Clint Eastwood’s character...
by admin1 | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
I have the dubious distinction of having directed music videos that Al Gore’s ex-wife,Tipper Gore, used to demonstrate to Congress the need to establish the PMRC, a group to censor “inappropriate” music by putting a disclaimer on CDs and downloads. The videos...
by admin1 | Aug 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Charles Champlin, former critic for the L.A. Times, chose my first feature film, KGOD (aka Pray TV) as his entry into the USA film festival, a critics-only festival. He wrote in the Times: “My pick this time was Rick...
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