Category Archives: Movies

The SAG Awards

Posted on January 18, 2020 by

I’m a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), so every year at this time I get to vote for my favorite performances. The SAG Awards program airs on national television tomorrow night. Here are my picks to win: Of … Continue reading →

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How to be Funny

Posted on January 7, 2020 by

Four Key Elements of Humor* In Why Funny Matters we looked at the what of funny. Now let’s look at the how. First and foremost, comedy feeds on conflict, or at least the potential for conflict. It can be an … Continue reading →

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A Filmmaker’s Journal

Posted on December 17, 2019 by

Monster Runs Amuck! Notzilla has to be the longest gestating dinosaur egg in history! The year after I graduated from high school, my buddy Jeff and I (co-members of the band The Daily Planet) wrote a short draft for a … Continue reading →

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Pastor Rogers?

Posted on November 26, 2019 by

Did you know that Mr. Rogers was an ordained pastor? Yep, that Mr. Rogers. What would it have been like to attend a church service where “Pastor Rogers” preached? My old comedy act Mitch & Allen (I was Mitch), started … Continue reading →

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A Filmmaker’s Journal

Posted on November 25, 2019 by

My First Feature Film Under the Gipper. I was doing a producing internship in the glass skyscraper they blew up in Diehard (former president Ronald Reagan’s office was above us). Anxious to find a project, but lacking the money to … Continue reading →

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Rebel Without Applause

Posted on November 14, 2019 by

The first film I starred in, apart from home movies, was a cheesy low-budget Rebel Without a Cause knockoff called Eden Cried. And by starred in I mean, of course, that I was an extra. I’d just gotten out of … Continue reading →

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Is It the Devil?

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

WARNING: This will suck the breath right out of you! Have a safe, fun, evil-free Halloween, everyone!

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