Nota bene!
There is a new quarterly humor publication, The Devastator, put together by a couple of pals of mine, Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows. I’m in the first issue, along with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
r_sikoryak and about six million other fine talents.
The first issue is all put together, but they need a “kickstart” campaign to get it printed and in stores. In any case, here is James urbaniak to tell you more!
(Props to Geoffrey for working in a “venture” pun.)
Money
This turned up on Youtube today.
I shot it about twenty years ago for a TV show called The 90s. It’s a monologue from a play I wrote called High Strangeness. It was directed by a great director named Skip Blumberg, who was completely fearless about just walking out into the street, pointing the camera at something and assuming something interesting would happen. In my case, I had all these monologues I used to do and I had them all memorized, so he could just turn the camera on and I would just do the piece and everything would be done in a few minutes. I don’t remember us ever doing a second take, which is how he could do things like shoot me, literally in the middle of Wall St in the middle of the afternoon, without either of us getting hit by a car.
As I recall, he didn’t even plan out the shot — he just said “How’s this?” and I said “Okay,” and he rolled camera and started walking backwards and I followed him. New Yorkers, being New Yorkers, knew better than to make faces at the camera or anything like that.
query
For a new project I’m working on, I need to watch some espionage thrillers. My focus is on espionage thrillers where an “ordinary person” gets tangled up in the world of espionage.
North by Northwest is a classic of the genre. Three Days of the Condor is another, Frantic is another, Marathon Man is another.
As always, I invite my readers to make suggestions, and thank you in advance.