Late last year, a friend told me I should check out a book called ‘The Size of a Mustard Seed.’ I finally had time to read it and think it’s worth recommending. The story is of a young Muslim sister named Jameelah Salih. As the novel begins, she finds herself engaged to a well established, […]
A thousand different points I could get to with this one, but let’s start with the most important one: I’m not a Marvel guy at all; I hadn’t heard of the Avengers until 2 years ago when a comic book buddy of mine (Hi V!) demanded I read some of the comics when I had […]
I know, I haven’t written anything here in more than a week. I’m in the middle of one of those ‘A lot of things happening at once’ phases. A couple big hurdles down, a couple big ones left to go. This shouldn’t be the only time I write this week though (I think). And […]
So how did Think Like a Man succeed where Red Tails came up short? In retrospect, a lot of obvious factors added up: 1. Drama win awards, but comedies do better box office. That’s not a black or white thing, that’s a green thing. There’s a reason we all know Adam Sandler but only film geeks would immediately recognize Michael […]
A lot going on right now. Some I’m hyped about but can’t talk about (yet) due to Confidentiality Agreements, other stuff I can at least ‘tease’ without revealing too much… A lot of what’s been happening lately has related to acting, and I love doing it, and as I’ve said before, that’s almost always the […]
Today was a fun day for me so I’ll tell a lighter story this go round… For the first time in a little while I found myself driving through Hollywood at night. Even though I’m more or less retired from being on the Strip, one of the things I’ve always enjoyed about living here, […]
For those of you who asked about my look in reference to yesterday’s post: The quote above is a famous Stella Adler quote about defining a character through what they wear.
So this past weekend I was back in front of the camera. My character was the ghost of a black kid from the 50s who was killed by a lynch mob for doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing. In this case, ‘doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing’ meant talking to a […]
(Warning: this is a film geek post…) I remembering watching ‘I Will Follow’ when it was first released, and thinking it was cool but something throwing me off about it. It wasn’t Haterade, or thinking it was poorly made, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. So I watched it again today and finally […]
Courtesy of LIFE Magazine, an awesome photographic look at early Brando shooting his first movie.
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