cult film freak: March 2010

Written by James M. Tate / 3/10/2010 / No comments / eighties , larry flash jenkins , seventies , the white shadow

LARRY FLASH JENKINS ("THE WHITE SHADOW")

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<i>LARRY  FLASH JENKINS has been in films and television shows for several  decades, playing the troubled, quick-footed "Gummy" in the Chevy Chase  comedy FLETCH; a basketball player in THE WHITE SHADOW; and is one of  the two free-spirited parking attendants in the John Hughe's classic  FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF...</i><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How did you get your start in acting?</span><br />
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Hey  James...I got started in acting in 1973 right after I graduated from  Fenger high school (Which I am on the wall of fame)...I was a stand out  Baseball player, loved basketball..but my mother thought I was a ham and  would make a better actor…I disagreed…so we flipped a coin and she  won…one catch...she would not let me go to Los Angeles right away...too  far from Chicago...so off to a local college...Olive Harvey Jr  college...which I was the best actor and got staright 'A'...on the deans  list and did 3 plays and to rave reviews...including one play outside  of College at X-Bag theater starring me and Robert Townsend...<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YZvUOCGiI/AAAAAAAAANo/8r-0LtnaRkU/s1600-h/Larry+Flash+Jenkins.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428554701513824802" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YZvUOCGiI/AAAAAAAAANo/8r-0LtnaRkU/s200/Larry+Flash+Jenkins.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 111px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 90px;" /></a>Next  up was Southern Illionois University...my second year in college...str8  'A''s again dean list...my mother felt I was ready now to go to LA…next  year was in Los Angles on a drama scholarship to Pepperdine  University... dean's list...again..str'8 'A''s...named best  actor..etc...first semester..but got discovered by Ray Powers a fellow  actor in a play with me off campus...he introduced me to Personal  Manager Steve Block ..who repped...Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons),  Robert Hooks (NYPD), Kevin Hooks (The White Shadow), Denise Nicholas  (Room 222), Antonio Fargas (Starsky & Hutch)...Steve said that Ray  told him that I weas the best actor he had ever seen...I told him… I am  and ray told me that too...he came to see me in a play and signed me...<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YaM-krW2I/AAAAAAAAANw/91HeQg36DN0/s1600-h/laurencefishburne_now_02.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428555211099298658" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YaM-krW2I/AAAAAAAAANw/91HeQg36DN0/s200/laurencefishburne_now_02.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 110px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 165px;" /></a>A  few days later I was up for Apocalypse Now...Larry Fishburne lied about  his age and beat out me and Kevin hooks...from there my career was off  and running...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">When you appeared in the episode of THE WHITE SHADOW as a student (season 2)? </span><br />
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I  remember my role was on the previews all week and was very happy  because every black actor wanted to be on that series...I was hoping it  would lead to me being a regular.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What’s your favorite episode of Season 3 (when you were a regular) of THE WHITE SHADOW?</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YVYpaMXKI/AAAAAAAAANA/QV8wgXg8Zxk/s1600-h/33718_384x288_generated__1inWTM%2BPVUS8CwlCxITRNg.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428549914018471074" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YVYpaMXKI/AAAAAAAAANA/QV8wgXg8Zxk/s200/33718_384x288_generated__1inWTM%2BPVUS8CwlCxITRNg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>The  HERO episode when I pulled the lady out of the burning car was my  favorite episode...I was in every scene...many of the cast members from  the previous year thought thery were exploiting me too much...but Bruce  Paltrow loved me as an actor...it was fun meeting all those named pro  stars etc....and playing ball everyday and getting paid for it...!! I  was so [popular on the show I could not go to Burger King or Mcdonald  and order...I would get mobbed...]<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How was it working on FLETCH?</span><br />
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Fun...me and Chevy clicked...me and George Wendt became friends…everything and everyone was so cool...<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YVhjmojCI/AAAAAAAAANI/tXEM4dJxHEQ/s1600-h/1244710869255652037065.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550067078859810" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YVhjmojCI/AAAAAAAAANI/tXEM4dJxHEQ/s200/1244710869255652037065.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 83px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 157px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">How about filming the intense scene when you are chased and arrested by the abusive cop?</span><br />
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Had to slow down to let the cops catch me... I was running too fast for them.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How about the scene talking to Fletch in the sand (as he's dressed up in the beard)?</span><br />
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We had a ball adlibing...Chevy and I would crack jokes to each other... Michael Ritchie of Fletch died a years ago…<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What are your recollections of FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF?</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YWUhXpBGI/AAAAAAAAANg/mUVAjPBBIT8/s1600-h/flash.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550942652433506" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YWUhXpBGI/AAAAAAAAANg/mUVAjPBBIT8/s200/flash.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 82px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 64px;" /></a>John  was scared to tell me at the screening that all that work and scenes  that me and Richard shot was on the editing room floor...it was suppose  to be two stories going on...ours and Matthew's...but the film became  too long.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">You have  become a producer and a writer and director on various projects… Tell us  how it was switching from acting to behind the camera?</span><br />
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I  always had a gift to how the character should be played by my co-stars  as an actor so transitioning to behind the camera was easy and smooth  for me…I enjoy the whole process of casting to editing to seeing the  words I wrote up on it's feet on the screen...very cool...<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YVtcHJgcI/AAAAAAAAANQ/nnjN7vrUiwk/s1600-h/ljenkins.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550271226184130" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S1YVtcHJgcI/AAAAAAAAANQ/nnjN7vrUiwk/s200/ljenkins.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 160px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did you get your middle name FLASH?</span><br />
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Early  on Bowling team in high school…then Karate…then Bruce Paltrow thought  it was perfect for me because I learned lines so fast…<br />
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You worked on YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE… How was this? </span><br />
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Did  the director a favor after the White Shadow… Garry Marshall writing the  script as we filmed...changing scences in mid stride of the movie…<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How about ARMED AND DANGEROUS? </span><br />
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Funny and great cast and we shot most of the film at The Beverly Hillbillies home in Bel Air...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Working on Brian De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE?</span><br />
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So  cool… Me and Dennis Franz became the best of friends after that and  remember we were on Steven Bochco's Bay City Blues together on the NBC  series the year b4 that starred me and Sharon Stone and Michael Nouri  along with Dennis...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The newly released 80’s buddy film LOOKIN’ TO GET OUT? </span><br />
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Jon Voight and Ann-Margret were cool to be around.

eighties, larry flash jenkins, seventies, the white shadow

LARRY FLASH JENKINS ("THE WHITE SHADOW")

Larry Flash Jenkins LARRY FLASH JENKINS has been in films and television shows for several decades, playing the troubled, quick-footed...

Written by James M. Tate / 3/01/2010 / No comments / eighties , sally kirkland

REVISITING ANNA WITH SALLY KIRKLAND

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interview with Actress Sally Kirkland on ANNA</td></tr>
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<i>SALLY  KIRKLAND is an amazing, highly versatile actress, a fact proven in many  eclectic roles, particularly the 1987 independent film ANNA as the  titular Czech actress struggling in New York City, a performance that  garnered an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.</i><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What kind of preparation went into Anna’s accent?</span><br />
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I  can answer that question… The way I achieved that voice and that  accent… Initially she was Polish in the script, and then she became  Czech. And then I went to the Samuel French bookstore and I got tapes on  Eastern European accents. I combined that with restudying Meryl Streep  in SOPHIE’S CHOICE…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland Interview</td></tr>
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I  combined that with going to the Heidelberg Bar on 86th Street in New  York and listening to all of the different Eastern Europeans in all of  the different countries. I combined that with Marlene Dietrich…  [Imitates Dietrich] “Falling in love again, what am I to do with someone  like you, I can’t help it.” I tried to channel Marlene Dietrich with  that voice, put that together with what I learned about the accent...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr>
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And  then once I found out that it was Czech, I knew there was an elevator  man in my mother’s building in New York, and I went back to him in the  back elevators, and I said, “Cleo, can you spring yourself for about a  half hour – I’ll give you a bottle of wine, and come to my apartment –  to my mother’s apartment – and I want you to help me with something.”  And he read every line in the movie in that Czechoslovakian accent and I  put them on tape. Plus I marked the script whenever he would change the  W's to V's or role an R, or whatnot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr>
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And  there were a lot of extraordinary women who I think were being  considered – I’m just gonna take a wild that guess that I think maybe  they approached Vanessa Redgrave’s people… Lee Grant, Shirley Knight –  lot of different ways to go – and I don’t think initially he [the  director] thought I was right… His name is Yurek Bogayevicz.<br />
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And  I kept coming back; I think there were about three auditions. And I  would send him flowers all the time. At one point I think I was standing  in the rain, waiting for him to come out – like the scene in the movie.  Waiting for him to come out of the building and I just stalked him, you  know.<br />
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And  finally I got a call, right when I was at the airport ready to go to  Sidney, Australia to teach a hundred actors "Insight Seminars" (acting  with Spiritual or New Age techniques)… And that had been planned for  some time.<br />
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And  I had got a call to come read with Paulina Porizkova. And I said to my  agent, “I can’t do it, I’m at the airport and I’m ready to go to  Sidney.” And they said, “Sally, this is this part you want.” I said, “I  know, I know… But I feel terrible letting down a hundred people who have  already paid their money. They’re expecting me tomorrow.”<br />
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And  it was a real moment in my life where I didn’t know how to make a  decision, but somewhere I honored the whole spiritual part of me that  had already committed to doing this thing that, you know, was very far  away and couldn’t be cancelled. So I just… leap of faith… I did a week  long there. And I came back and he was waiting for me to test with  Paulina Porizkova.<br />
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And  he had us improvise, and she and I got along instantly and she guessed  that I was a Scorpio. I guessed that she was an Aries. It was kind of  incredible and we fell in love, she and I, so to speak. And I coached  her on acting, and she coached me on Czech, and it was a marriage made  in heaven, you know. She was the number one model at that point.<br />
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And  there was another little trick I used for Anna’s accent. I had,  starting in 1970, right up until recent years… I had been a yoga teacher  for the Integral Yoga institute. And a man named Swami Satchidananda,  who opened the Woodstock Festival… If you remember the guru sitting  there, opening the festival… That was Swami Satchidananda. I taught for  him, and we learned Sanskrit chanting, so we’d learn [Sally begins  chanting]… So if heard in there: there was a rolled R, in a very literal  sense. So I used that also for Anna’s accent… I combined Hindi with  German with, eventually, Czech.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you use your own past experiences for the role of an actress struggling for work?</span><br />
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That  and men… My experiences with men. I didn’t have to try too hard.  Although one reviewer or journalist said: “Sally Kirkland: Overnight  Discovery.” And I said, “Yeah, after twenty-five years.” I’d been doing  this thing since I was… Making money at it since I was 17. And I started  acting when I was ten… Not for money, you know. So by the time they  said “Overnight Success,” it was sort of like: “Okay, sure.” But all the  actors out there in the world really related to this role because it  totally gives you the hopes and rejections of the actor.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">I really enjoy the scene where you’re auditioning for the play with the other actresses…</span><br />
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Wasn’t  that great? We did that in one take. Bobby Bukowski, the cameraman  there, had a track, and the camera would go from one end of the track to  the other, and what you saw, we really didn’t rehearse a lot. We sort  of shot the rehearsals. When I jump up on one leg – you know, “Humpy  Dumpty sat on the wall…”<br />
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In  the audition he said, “Throw away the script; give me a nursery rhyme.”  And I jumped up and down. I did whatever he told me to, and that ended  up in the movie but we didn’t rehearse it. Everything you saw in the  movie was filmed exactly how you saw it. Not every scene, but that scene  for sure, what you’re talking about, with the actresses.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">I loved how Anna walks around in a sort of heavy, clunky manner, reminiscent of certain women from European countries…</span><br />
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Well  that was my observation of the Eastern European women. There was a word  for it that Yurek told me, and I can’t remember the word for it now…  But it was definitely characteristic… Interesting you picked up on that.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Along  with your friendship with the young girl, and the aspect of the  struggling actress, there’s a love story that’s very moving…</span><br />
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I’d  been in love with Bob Dylan in that time-frame, I mean… All my life.  But in the seventies, eighties and it was sort of… Ultimately I felt  like my heart broke. And I used that for Tonda, the husband… I used Bob.  I personalized Bob for Tonda.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">One of my personal favorite scenes is with you and Paulina lying on the bed…</span><br />
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It  was a five-minute scene, and we only had enough film in the camera for  one take. And they asked me if I would mind doing it in one take… We  were at the Chelsea Hotel and we only had it for a certain amount of  time that day, and this being a low budget film we had to really get  that shot so they started out with a master shot in the corner of the  room. And they came down closer and closer and closer to the two of us  on the bed in more of a two-shot close-up. And I remember that it was a  long, long amount of lines, and I was nervous that I wouldn’t get  through the whole thing in one take.<br />
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And  so I had some lines written on a piece of paper, taped to the wall. And  when you see my eyes look up, I’m actually looking at the lines on the  wall. But being a good actress you would never know… It was just the  very end of the monologue. I needed support from this magic marker from  this piece of white paper on the wall.<br />
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I  remember in that scene with her I was talking about having been in a  Russian prison, and losing my baby. And I had had a couple of  miscarriages, and as a method acting teacher, too… which I am… I used  something called Emotional Recall where I was thinking about these two  children that I would have had – and using that for losing the baby in  the Russian prison, and getting mad at the Russians who kind of created  that situation for me… And then holding onto this young woman who was my  child and just transferring all of that lost love that I always wanted  to have as a mother, to her. It’s a wonderful film, you guys… ANNA.

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REVISITING ANNA WITH SALLY KIRKLAND

Interview with Actress Sally Kirkland on ANNA SALLY KIRKLAND is an amazing, highly versatile actress, a fact proven in many eclectic r...

JACQUELINE SCOTT ON PLANET OF THE APES

<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3fcZhFtKbL4/TjoVs_MCXnI/AAAAAAAABDk/GHnm7JZzYew/s1600/Zantes.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636841746227945074" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3fcZhFtKbL4/TjoVs_MCXnI/AAAAAAAABDk/GHnm7JZzYew/s200/Zantes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 180px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><i>With  the release of the new film RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the fact  all the simians are computer animated will bring more than a spark of  honored repose to the original movies, as well as the TV series that  starred Roddy McDowall and, in two classic episodes, JACQUELINE SCOTT,  recalling the time and effort to get those masks on...</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You were part of the short-lived but brilliant television series PLANET OF THE APES…</span></span><br />
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It  was just crazy that they didn’t continue them. They only did thirteen  of the television shows and I did two, one playing a little farm wife  [The Good Seeds]. And I was trying to get out of the Westerns because  I’d done it so much that people thought I couldn’t talk any differently,  so I had to get out of Westerns. And then I get this script for “Planet  of the Apes” and it says: “The humans come over the hill and we see a  little farm house.” I said, “Oh my God, now I’m gonna be an ape farm  wife.” But I loved to do it. And then I played Roddy’s fiancé [The  Surgeon] and if they had continued doing them, I would have been a  recurring ape.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TYzHGKKbHII/TjoVURx_3XI/AAAAAAAABDU/NeyA5SpG6iU/s1600/5.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636841321722273138" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TYzHGKKbHII/TjoVURx_3XI/AAAAAAAABDU/NeyA5SpG6iU/s200/5.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 166px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why did the series get cancelled?</span></span><br />
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Because  it’s so expensive – putting the makeup on was about three and a half,  four hours. And then you could only wear the appliances once, and then  they had to be destroyed. And they had to have the very best makeup man  in the business on that show, because it was not easy to put the masks  on. And they were in two pieces… And then they had to know how to lay  the hair on your face, and hair on your hands, and it’s quite a  complicated makeup job.<br />
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So  with the combination of only being able to use the appliances once, and  then the time that it took to put them on… And then they didn’t want to  pay us to take them off, but we got around that, because if you could  imagine driving home on a freeway in those ape masks – we would have  caused about a five-hundred car pile up.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-puUMRh5kHe4/TjoUhNgxgFI/AAAAAAAABCk/2RRhx8w2zbM/s1600/8.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840444402958418" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-puUMRh5kHe4/TjoUhNgxgFI/AAAAAAAABCk/2RRhx8w2zbM/s200/8.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 188px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a>I  was at the casting with Beverly Garland, and we were the only women who  liked to work in them, and yet you never got used to them. You would  walk past the mirror and just scare the living daylights out of  yourself.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-92yyYwICoVw/TjoUl5zNDuI/AAAAAAAABCs/AW2ixMmZ2-I/s1600/11.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840525010898658" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-92yyYwICoVw/TjoUl5zNDuI/AAAAAAAABCs/AW2ixMmZ2-I/s200/11.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 183px;" /></a>They  had these crazy makeup men, and they were all funny. And when you start  getting those appliances on you cannot laugh. And so it was not an easy  thing to do, but they would be around stirring these huge vats all day  long, pouring these into moulds. I had Kim Hunter’s mask… That mould fit  me well enough they used that for me… They had all the moulds. I may be  telling tales out of school here, but I don’t think so. But they used  moulds; I think they probably had been originally done for different  characters in the movie. And Roddy had a special one, you know… And to  cross his path was to love him. He was the most wonderful person… He was  just a lovely man.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s2Be4ppvPw8/TjoU-y9p3kI/AAAAAAAABDM/QDj_dZu0ae0/s1600/6.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840952672411202" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s2Be4ppvPw8/TjoU-y9p3kI/AAAAAAAABDM/QDj_dZu0ae0/s200/6.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 188px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There are some incredible expressions by the actors and actresses playing apes in the films and TV series…</span></span><br />
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Well  that’s the brilliance of those masks because the area… The mask… It’s  two-pieces. I don’t know if I can explain it to you but… The top goes on  your forehead and over your nose and over your mouth… I mean – your own  mouth is free. And then there’s just a chin that is separate, but the  area around the edges of your mouth, and the edges of your eyes, are  your own skin – and those are the two most expressive places on your  face. So that’s the real brilliance of those masks and why they are, you  know… Why you really think you’re watching a talking ape.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a93F4elgIFs/TjoUytoZYFI/AAAAAAAABC8/LrCwYYG9M_U/s1600/17.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840745082642514" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a93F4elgIFs/TjoUytoZYFI/AAAAAAAABC8/LrCwYYG9M_U/s200/17.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 191px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I don’t think they can do with computers what they did with those masks...</span></span><br />
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Yeah,  they can’t make the human expression and feelings. I don’t know if you  watch “Jeopardy.” The other night the contestant was playing the  computer, and they said the computer cannot… It has no feelings, no  emotion. So, you know, that’s of course what we had in those masks.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DXRUl0uoNNY/TjoU4bVv6eI/AAAAAAAABDE/_kdLo_Z3Boo/s1600/13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840843251804642" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DXRUl0uoNNY/TjoU4bVv6eI/AAAAAAAABDE/_kdLo_Z3Boo/s200/13.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 181px;" /></a>I  just loved to work in them. Because you had to use a lot of the most  expressive things that just happen as a reflex action, as an actress,  that doesn’t happen because your hands are all covered with hair, and  your face is all covered and your body… You have loose clothing and so  you have to find very specific ways to express yourself different from  what you generally would have to do. I just loved doing it. But the  worst thing was having them on.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rzMI1jEebrc/TjoeAajGmAI/AAAAAAAABEE/-4MAbUfbVB4/s1600/20.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636850876082984962" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rzMI1jEebrc/TjoeAajGmAI/AAAAAAAABEE/-4MAbUfbVB4/s200/20.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 198px;" /></a>Like  one day I had it on for eighteen hours, and Roddy said to me: “These  don’t seem to bother you as much as they do other people.” And I said,  “Well what are you gonna do, put ‘em on and complain all day?”<br />
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I  really didn’t realize, but when I finished doing the shows, the next  morning I opened my eyes and the first thought that crossed my mind was:  “Thank Heaven I don’t have to put those masks on today.”  And I never  thought it bothered me… Isn’t that interesting?<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And I imagine taking off the makeup is much easier…</span></span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UNBpgfjkPAE/TjoVzcHQDdI/AAAAAAAABDs/fce7EE5J-X4/s1600/JACQUELINESCOTT2%2Bcopy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636841857071713746" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UNBpgfjkPAE/TjoVzcHQDdI/AAAAAAAABDs/fce7EE5J-X4/s200/JACQUELINESCOTT2%2Bcopy.jpg" style="float: left; height: 141px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>Well  yeah, but you’re talking it off with… It takes about twenty minutes to  take them off… But you’re getting a little face peel there. A lot of  ripping off appliances and God knows I… I didn’t even want to ask what  we had to use to get that glue off, but it didn’t get rid of my  freckles… So there you are.<br />
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But when that mask is on,  and when the crew starts telling you that you look pretty that day, you  know they’ve been on the show too long.

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JACQUELINE SCOTT ON PLANET OF THE APES

With the release of the new film RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the fact all the simians are computer animated will bring more than a spa...

DEBORAH REED IS THE GOBLIN QUEEN OF TROLL 2

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<i>DEBORAH  REED not only steals her scenes in the cult classic TROLL2, but as  Queen of the Goblins, she owns them entirely, allowing her awesome  talents to shine into a one woman show: traipsing around her little  house of horrors and turning young men into vegetables... Something no  other actress could pull off quite the same...</i><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">When did you realize the movie was gaining such an immense cult following?</span><br />
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Probably  about seven years ago and I was actually working at a congressional  office at the time, and someone came in from the Washington office and  said, “Oh my gosh,” somebody made a comment, “Oh, she’s the Troll  Queen.” And I thought, well, they won’t know what that is. And they  said, “You’re kidding. Our whole floor there, of the staff, is called  NILBOG.” And I said, “You’re kidding?” I said, “What?” And somebody  said, “You gotta go to imdb.” And there were all of these horrible,  hilarious, nasty remarks about the movie, and I just thought that was  the funniest thing in the world.<br />
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I  got a kick out of it from the get-go, and… Actually I can go back a  little farther… I knew it was bad when I went to pick up a copy, the  first time it came out, on video and I was standing there in line with  the movie, and somebody next to me glanced over and they said, “Oh, you  don’t want to rent that, that is the worst movie you’ve ever seen.” And I  just laughed out loud. That was my first funny experience with the  movie as far as how bad it was, and how it was perceived.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you remember if that chainsaw you wield on "Arnold" was heavy?</span><br />
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That  is something that does stick in mind because I remember I couldn’t even  pick that thing up… And they had to literally, just… Right before I did  the scene… Just plunk that in my arms… And again, it was one of those  one-take things… Throw it in my arms, do the scene, and we’re done.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How was doing that popcorn scene with "Brent" in the RV?</span><br />
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We  got into that awkward position and they made me jump into that scene  and the popcorn machine broke and they said okay, turn it on, and it  starts popping out, and they said, “Don’t move, don’t move”, and there  we are, and, till we fixed it, I don’t know how long it took… It could  have taken fifteen minutes and so, it was odd, awkward, to say the  least… They had some funky machine that they made, and it was just  popping it out all over, isn’t that funny? And I don’t remember it  exactly, but that’s kind of what they did, and then they got it going  again…<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Going back to the audition… How did you land the role as Creedence?</span><br />
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I  was with an agency, and there were literally hundreds, if not a few  thousand… I mean… There were so many. I remember going up to the  audition and it was up in Park City in a hotel… And people were just  literally lined up and down in the hallways just sitting there waiting,  and I just thought, wow this interesting…<br />
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And went in. I remember  walking into the room, and there were all these Italians in there, and  they could barely speak English, and they just said, “Here’s what we  want you to do”, and they told me to kind of play out a scene, and it  was one of my most memorable, I guess, now, scenes…<br />
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Where  I’m standing at the stone and I just let it go with every bit of gusto  and it was funny because I remember looking out the door and there were  all these actors and all these other people just standing there watching  as I just kind of went for it, and they turned a fan on me and I did  the line, and found out later I got the part.<br />
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DEBORAH REED IS THE GOBLIN QUEEN OF TROLL 2

DEBORAH REED not only steals her scenes in the cult classic TROLL2, but as Queen of the Goblins, she owns them entirely, allowing her ...

DANIEL HOLZMAN REVISITS IT'S ALIVE

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XjlpmbOoI/AAAAAAAAAKI/yAX2oEWQ22o/s1600-h/Picture+021.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005960708799106" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XjlpmbOoI/AAAAAAAAAKI/yAX2oEWQ22o/s200/Picture+021.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 147px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><i>The  iconic Larry Cohen horror classic IT'S ALIVE centers on a young  suburban couple who have a baby from hell. The newborn goes on a killing  spree, beginning in the hospital room and ending up in the sewers... </i><br />
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<i>DANIEL HOLZMAN played the twelve-year-old son of this very unlucky  couple, who has to deal with the fact his little brother makes Linda  Blair seem tame...</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XlQRyoUQI/AAAAAAAAAKg/qzOcug85BiQ/s1600-h/Picture+004.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442007792563540226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XlQRyoUQI/AAAAAAAAAKg/qzOcug85BiQ/s200/Picture+004.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW DID YOU END UP WITH THE ROLE OF "CHRIS DAVIES"?</span><br />
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</span>I was performing at a children's playhouse, one of the actors  from the movie (I think he played a cop) came by to watch us work. He  asked me to meet with Larry Cohen, and I did a couple of days later. The  meeting seemed pretty informal, just read a few lines and that was it.  Larry asked me to be in the movie, and I said yes.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN IT CAME OUT, AND WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE MOVIE?</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4Xm4QiIslI/AAAAAAAAAKo/jZYf_Td7XpU/s1600-h/Picture+008.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442009578932318802" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4Xm4QiIslI/AAAAAAAAAKo/jZYf_Td7XpU/s200/Picture+008.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 164px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span>  I guess I was 12 when it came out. My family and I all went to the  premiere, and I remember my brother and I laughing at how silly the  movie was. We especially liked the milkman scene, and when the cops were  throwing steaks under the cars.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW DID THEY SHOOT THE SCENE WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING HOME?</span><br />
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</span>I was running behind a car. The camera was mounted on the back of it.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
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DID YOU EVER SEE RICK BAKER WORKING THE BABY PUPPET?</span><br />
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No, I don't remember meeting Rick Baker, but I remember the doll and Larry Cohen telling me how expensive it was.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">DID YOU WITNESS ANY OF THE BLOODY SCENES BEING FILMED?</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XjMFA4PiI/AAAAAAAAAJw/V78RVyemR-U/s1600-h/Picture+015.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005521390911010" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XjMFA4PiI/AAAAAAAAAJw/V78RVyemR-U/s200/Picture+015.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 162px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>I don't think I saw any gory stuff, but I think that was just because I wasn't in those scenes.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW LONG DID YOU WORK ON THE SHOOT?</span><br />
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I'm guessing a week or two.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW WAS IT WORKING WITH DIRECTOR LARRY COHEN?</span><br />
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He  seemed nice and patient with me. I remember for one scene he said  "Throw some water on the kid's puss.” I never heard that expression for  someone's face before and it stuck with me.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4Xi3kV4FfI/AAAAAAAAAJg/skVEFhDgB3E/s1600-h/Picture+001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005169023227378" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4Xi3kV4FfI/AAAAAAAAAJg/skVEFhDgB3E/s200/Picture+001.jpg" style="float: left; height: 196px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ANY MEMORIES OF WORKING WITH JOHN P. RYAN ("RUNAWAY TRAIN") OR SHARON FARRELL ("OUT OF THE BLUE")? </span><br />
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John  Ryan seemed very fatherly and cool; Sharon Farrell seemed a little high  strung. In one scene she slapped me a few times before we did it to try  and get me to cry. Later she asked me to slap her, and I did, pretty  hard too as I recall.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">DID THIS FILM INCREASE YOUR POPULARITY AT THE TIME? </span><br />
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No. I don't remember anybody even mentioning it.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">HAVE YOU KEPT IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE CAST OR CREW?</span><br />
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No. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">THE CHARACTER "CHARLEY" SLAPS YOUR BUTT IN ONE SCENE, AND SEEMS VERY INTERSTED IN "CHRIS"... WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? </span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XjEHYrbeI/AAAAAAAAAJo/0ZRfN-KOJ0c/s1600-h/Picture+014.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005384588652002" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S4XjEHYrbeI/AAAAAAAAAJo/0ZRfN-KOJ0c/s200/Picture+014.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 158px;" /></a>He  did seem a little over-friendly. Maybe if he had more time before the  baby monster got killed he would have made his move. Perhaps a little  hug to comfort me in my time of need, followed by a chance to see his  special home movies in the basement.<br />
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DANIEL HOLZMAN INTERVIEW BY JAMES M. TATE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreak.com/">CULTFILMFREAK.COM</a>  AND SPECIAL THANKS TO MY COUSIN DAVID DEEBLE FOR LANDING THIS  INTERVIEW, ONE OF MY FIRST THAT GOT THE BALL ROLLING ON MY INTERVIEWS.

eco horror, exploitation, horror, it's alive, larry cohen, seventies, sharon farrell

DANIEL HOLZMAN REVISITS IT'S ALIVE

The iconic Larry Cohen horror classic IT'S ALIVE centers on a young suburban couple who have a baby from hell. The newborn goes on a k...

SETH WAGERMAN ("CRIMES OF PASSION")

<span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34zy5rmKxI/AAAAAAAAAI4/di-anOEIfXk/s1600-h/Picture+023.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439842349480291090" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34zy5rmKxI/AAAAAAAAAI4/di-anOEIfXk/s200/Picture+023.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><b>Seth Wagerman appeared as a young John Travolta in THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE and was one of my first interviews on </b><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreak.com/"><b>cultfilmfreak</b></a><b>.  On that interview is a selection where he talks about his work on the  film CRIMES OF PASSION, cast as the son of John Laughlin and Annie  Potts...</b><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S340dDi4qYI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/9cM9ESQkA7I/s1600-h/Picture+016.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439843073682614658" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S340dDi4qYI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/9cM9ESQkA7I/s200/Picture+016.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">What are some memories working on Ken Russell's controversial film CRIMES OF PASSION?</span><br />
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Ok,  I was a little older for this one. But I had no idea what kind of film I  was making. My scenes were completely separated from the rest of the  movie. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34zm0iG-LI/AAAAAAAAAIw/6SetSC3syuk/s1600-h/Picture+017.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439842141939890354" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34zm0iG-LI/AAAAAAAAAIw/6SetSC3syuk/s200/Picture+017.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I  remember a breakfast scene with Annie Potts, and that she was nice to  me, and said she was allergic to MSG (random memory; we were talking  about Chinese food). The crew guy was arranging my breakfast cereal in  Elmer's glue so that every flake was placed the way they wanted it,  which I thought was utterly crazy. I mean, it wasn't a cornflake  commercial! <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34zRtsP5oI/AAAAAAAAAIo/-sQ-f6paZ8o/s1600-h/Picture+011.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439841779326117506" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34zRtsP5oI/AAAAAAAAAIo/-sQ-f6paZ8o/s200/Picture+011.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I  remember a scene where I was supposed to be watching TV with my sister,  only it was just a cardboard box with a flickering bluish light in the  middle, so it would reflect off our faces as we lay there, looking bored  and zoned-out…<br />
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The interesting thing about probing  these recollections is what a kid remembers. I don’t remember stuff  about "how the shooting went." I remember craft tables full of food, how  some of the sets looked, <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34z4gPhnhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/cc5hCqXERaw/s1600-h/Picture+018.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439842445730881042" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S34z4gPhnhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/cc5hCqXERaw/s200/Picture+018.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>the  other kids I played with, and having to be in "school" with the on-set  teacher. I guess that was what was salient to me at the time…Oh, yeah –  and I DO remember seeing it for the first time. I went to the special  cast-only viewing, and it was X-rated. I don't remember what age I was,  but I remember my Mom telling them all it was ok for me to watch (she  was a huge hippie and always told me that sex was no big deal). <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S343o0YO7EI/AAAAAAAAAJY/-fZlPeGK3-0/s1600-h/Picture+015.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439846574304717890" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oL8wQOzYIgg/S343o0YO7EI/AAAAAAAAAJY/-fZlPeGK3-0/s200/Picture+015.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I  remember sitting next to her and watching stuff and getting a little  turned on and being extremely uncomfortable. This is probably why I've  never watched the movie since, come to think of it. Weird.<br />
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Thanks, Mom.<br />
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THE ENTIRE SETH WAGERMAN INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreak.com/sethwagerman">HERE ON CULT FILM FREAK DOT COM</a> -- SETH WAGERMAN INTERVIEW BY JAMES M. TATE (TAGS: CRIMES OF PASSION INTERVIEW)

eighties, exploitation, seth wagerman

SETH WAGERMAN ("CRIMES OF PASSION")

Seth Wagerman appeared as a young John Travolta in THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE and was one of my first interviews on cultfilmfreak . On t...

JORDAN RHODES ("THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO")

<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2u38gUuY7I/AAAAAAAAAfw/eM88AyuTxeI/s1600-h/extra1+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434639625449530290" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2u38gUuY7I/AAAAAAAAAfw/eM88AyuTxeI/s200/extra1+copy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 147px;" /></a><i>Character-actor Jordan  Rhodes appeared in numerous classic cult films including the Charles  Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK and Sean Penn's directorial debut THE  INDIAN RUNNER, and in-between this time he got the opportunity to work  on a popular television series called THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO with  the late Karl Malden...</i><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aL-fOotBI/AAAAAAAAAeU/FJa5eHhrCvE/s1600-h/Karl-Malden-001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433183906120119314" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aL-fOotBI/AAAAAAAAAeU/FJa5eHhrCvE/s200/Karl-Malden-001.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 120px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><b><u>JORDAN RHODES:</u></b> Karl  Malden…What a tremendous actor and professional. When I first was hired  to recur as Jerry Billings, the D.A. on Streets of San Francisco, to  replace John Kerr, I had no idea that Karl was the man responsible for  getting me the job. I had been hired to do a guest shot on the show a  few months before, during the season. In that show, my character had a  couple of scenes with Karl and Michael Douglas. Shortly after I finished  that episode, John Kerr, the actor that had been playing the D.A., left  the show because of some creative differences. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aMqM3u-3I/AAAAAAAAAes/5j5qsR0S6j4/s1600-h/streets-of-san-francisco-3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433184657106467698" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aMqM3u-3I/AAAAAAAAAes/5j5qsR0S6j4/s200/streets-of-san-francisco-3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 106px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>Michael  had just announced that he was also leaving the series so he could  produce One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. A play, that his father, Kirk  Douglas, had starred in on Broadway and had owned the movie rights to  for over ten years. Kirk had given the rights to Michael and he had  finally found the financing and wanted to produce the movie. So the  production company was going to bring in another young actor to take  over the role of Karl’s partner and side-kick, Richard Hatch. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aMgijxdOI/AAAAAAAAAek/Jc2dU5_UaU8/s1600-h/02malden_600.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433184491129631970" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aMgijxdOI/AAAAAAAAAek/Jc2dU5_UaU8/s200/02malden_600.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 180px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 179px;" /></a>The  company was very anxious to keep Karl happy, and now due to a new guy  coming in, Karl was going to have to go back to working at least 5 days a  week, since Michael’s character and story line would no longer be able  to take up a couple of days a week. The production company wanted to  bring in a new guy for the D.A. that was capable of taking up some of  the slack and have enough scenes in a show to allow Karl a day or two  off during a grinding season of shows. I’m not sure people realize you  work 10 to 12 hours a day on a series, and when it’s a hit, you were  doing 26 episodes. <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aNeyR5hiI/AAAAAAAAAe8/t0RKg8QeGu4/s1600-h/as+a+gentleman.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433185560501519906" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aNeyR5hiI/AAAAAAAAAe8/t0RKg8QeGu4/s200/as+a+gentleman.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 154px;" /></a>They  went to Karl and asked him if he had any suggestions for the new D.A. –  AND he remembered me from my guest shot, where I played an attorney  whose law partner had been killed by an ex-convict, and he suggested  they bring me back as the D.A., who left his private practice to join  the district attorney’s office.  Karl never said anything about this to  me, I learned it from someone in the production office after I was on  the show for a while. I learned a great deal from Karl. He would tell me  how to “stay” in a shot, even when we were walking along headed to the  courthouse, he would grab me by the arm and say, “stay close, that way  you’ll always be in the shot”. In the beginning, he watched out for me  with the make-up men and the lighting. In every scene I did with him,  Karl was always “there”! <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aRLMTvVaI/AAAAAAAAAfU/epnnaR_2CGE/s1600-h/Karl-Malden.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433189621937690018" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3EY6QL0puIo/S2aRLMTvVaI/AAAAAAAAAfU/epnnaR_2CGE/s200/Karl-Malden.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 91px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>He  believed in giving, sometimes more than he got, and taught me you  always worked for the “good of the scene”, the good of the story. He was  just terrific to work with and if you could leave your ego home, you  would always learn something from working with him. I’m thankful that a  few years ago, I took the time to write him a letter expressing my  thanks for all he taught me, and his kindness toward me during the time I  worked with him.

jordan rhodes, karl malden, seventies