ROTATION AND BALANCE

I’ve been a hardcore fan of Tony Shaloub for a very long time. In fact, almost seven years ago I wrote a post here , singing his praises. Wh...

I've mentioned before I was a theater arts major. You may have see my work in one of the early Sprint commercials. The director was Robe...

Robert Redford has a movie coming out the end of the month. It's called The Old Man & The Gun. From the trailer , you can see Redfor...

Wilford Brimley takes a lot of heat because of those stupid Quaker Oats commercials he did years ago. I didn't like 'em either, but ...

At just the right angle, the adult Billy Redden looks a bit like the late, great Robin Williams. Whom, you might ask, is Billy Redden? He ha...

Here's how I met Bill Paxton. One of my best friends and my best man Scott Thomson was filming Twister in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Coincide...

British actor John Hurt died today of pancreatic cancer. In everything from Alien to The Elephant Man to three of the Harry Potter, his exce...

He was the mayor in Jaws who wanted to keep the Amity beaches open, even though a great white shark was enjoying swimmers for appetizers. He...

The elderly gentleman to the left, in case you didn't recognize him, is Burt Reynolds. Yes, that Burt Reynolds. He made a rare public a...

There's an entire class of actors I feel are underrated. They're usually something more than character actors , yet somewhat less th...

I've posted before about the many great people I've had the good fortune to work with. Richard Dysart was one of them. I was casting...

Before Harrison Ford brought his own brand of "I am not Han Solo" to the role of Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive, it had been a...

I have a lot of sympathy for actors, especially women, who feel they need to have a nip and tuck just to stay competitive in an industry tha...

Yet another installment in the Guilty Pleasures series. If you haven’t been following it, I won't take it personally like so many othe...

A great, great actor died yesterday. Bob Hoskins was 71, and he leaves us one remarkable performance after another. It's hard to know wh...

There's been a lot of discussion about the death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and not all of it as sympathetic as you might expect. There...

This picture of Phillip Seymour Hoffman is what he looked like when I met him. On the right is my best friend and best man Scott Thomson. As...

Here's how it happened. There was a point in time, when I was younger and she was younger, that I had a little crush on Julia Roberts. ...

It’s not so much a movie as a direct assault on the nervous system. The first time I ever saw The Exorcist was at the late, great National ...

As I was intermittently paying attention to this year's Academy Awards (Billy, the Borscht Belt called - they want their jokes back), I...