Month: July 2022

What an excruciating experience, four days filming The Wayans Brothers Show for WB. Many words come to mind, unprofessional leading the pack. I came as close as I can ever remember to losing it and ‘reading’ my director in front of his charges.  John Bowab began by directing SOAP and perhaps has done some notable… Continue reading THE ASYLUM

This is an amazingly low end project to which I find myself attached; a film budgeted somewhere around $750,000-$1,250,000.  That’s lunch money to the studios, but apparently this producer liked the sentimental script, persuaded Gary Busey to star in it and raided somebody’s piggybank.  It’s the story of a driven selfish businessman who dies, finds… Continue reading QUIGLEY (GONE TO THE DOGS)

MEET THE BROWNS I watched the premier of Tyler Perry’s MEET THE BROWNS this past Wednesday on TBS with mixed emotions. My brother had e-mailed me that afternoon, asking “Is this the series you’re in?” That’s just one of the downsides of our business. You try not to talk about work until it’s real, because… Continue reading MEET THE BROWNS

We live in an era of the mindset that EVERYBODY…or perhaps more accurately, ANYBODY can be a celebrity.  Viewers and readers have an incessant jones for icons; media is the willing dealer.  The old school staples of sports, film, tv, music, real life notoriety once pretty much ruled; someone attaining ‘stardom’ or ‘SUPERSTARDOM’ presumably possessed… Continue reading CELEBRITY

MILLENNIUM   Steven Kiley is the first character I’ve played with moral ambiguity, my characters tend to be straight arrows, you know immediately which side I’m on…(tho Harold Williams in Blackout was a ‘bad guy”.) The music was a trippy choice…particularly since I did it with an ‘ear piece’, the track edited in later…and I… Continue reading Millennium

I was up til midnight last night, struggling with my character; my role was being shot totally out of sequence …the order -scenes 2/4/3/1. The story centers on the loss of a Soviet sub, I am a submarine squadron commander and protecting a crucial technological secret…. one which our ‘heroes’, the series leads, seem determined… Continue reading JAG

MISBEGOTTEN The shot in Frasier of the back of my head, which was held for the longest time, thru my own dialogue and theirs, Frasier’s entrance and beyond, is quite simply the worst composed shot I have ever seen on network television.  To discover it on a show as technically fine as Frasier is simply… Continue reading FRASIER

GOD AND SARAH Those that can, do.  Those that can’t, teach…or perhaps, those that can’t, feel compelled to critique those that can.  I’ve never before discussed critical responses to my work, which have generally been  positive.  My job is to do The Work and the job of critics is to critique it; however, in our… Continue reading God and Sarah

Glory Days Wrap It’s good I went to the party.  It started at 9, I pulled in about 9:30 (how unhip, I know, but I’m getting old, and besides I was up at 5:30 this morning). On Melrose, down the block from Paramount, I entered the corner bar, called KANE (After passing muster from the… Continue reading Glory Days Wrap