So I make my deal and get the shooting script for SPACE JAM. It’s actually not titled SPACE JAM yet. I don’t remember what they were calling it. No matter. The script was simple and inoffensive. Not as witty or clever as the commercials we had done, but somewhat serviceable. It needed stuff. It needed The Riz, maybe …
DIANE KEATON When I first started doing commercials, Diane Keaton was doing them as well. I cast her in a commercial for ENDUST (I’ll do anything for science) that was supposed to be a sendup of soap operas since it ran on soap operas. I tracked down the commercial after many years out of curiosity. …
Everybody’s on the internet. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Myspace, Ebay, Netflix, Vimeo, Hulu, etc. etc. etc. timewastersall. Everybody’s trying to figure out how to make money on what is basically a free medium. But the internet is full of creeps, Zuckerberg, Sean Parker. Zuckerberg is fighting the Federal Government because he is illegally allowing underage kids on FACEBOOK. Instead …
I really don’t remember exactly when I worked with Woody’s ex. I just remember it was extremely difficult. Louise Lasser was playing a transmission for AAMCO, a transmission repair company. Her sense of performance was intense as she actually wrote pauses and stammers into her scripts, much like Bob Newhart did when we worked together on Stamps.com. The problem …
I discovered the magazine while I was trying to survive engineering school at Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). I would go the the library between classes to read stuff I hadn’t seen before, mostly periodicals. The only magazine I had access to growing up was LIFE and that gave me a feel for great reportage photography, …
number ones MUHAMMAD ALI Heavyweight Boxing Champion My NUMBER ONE NUMBER ONE is Muhammad Ali. Not only do I think he’s the greatest athlete, I feel he is the most important single person of the twentieth century. What he did in resisting Vietnam and his personal loss brought on by the United States Government is …
I started collecting authentic material to reconstruct a Santa Fe property. A guy from the village of Mora would bring a pickup truck of materials, doors, windows, floors, vigas, latillas, beams, no Home Depot stuff. I bought it all. Mora had put through an ordinance to tear down adobe houses that couldn’t be rebuilt properly and were dangerous, …
Madonna had asked me to do a documentary of her BLOND AMBITION TOUR and I was interested, but not really interested, in following her around the world for a year. Vince Paterson had mentioned to her that I could do a great job, but I suggested David Fincher, who she was seeing at the time, and …
I had just won a cinematography award and Hannah asked me for a favor. Robert Towne wanted to do a screen test of two actresses for a film he was doing or was pitching or was about to be doing. It was going to be the first film he was to direct and I guess he …
On my second tour of living (?) in New York, I fell in love with the Spanish Restaurant, El Faro, in The Village, Greenwich and Horatio. The place transported you. All the waiters were Spanish and spoke with Castilian accents, ‘th.’ The food seemed authentic but what did I know. My favorite dish there was Paella Valenciana, although …
