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JAMES CAMERONMy search for the best (and most affordable) visual effects designer I could find led me to the Roger Corman Company. Corman is famous for making a lot of movies on very cheap budgets, employing first-timers who become big-timers—from Scorsese to Coppola to Howard. Everyone there was raving about a young hotshot who was the art director and visual effects guru on Roger’s latest $3-dollar (as in extremely low budget) sci-fi epic Battle Beyond the Stars. So I arranged to meet with him.
His name was James Cameron.
Though Jim reeked talent, no one would have guessed he was going to become one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Author Archives: Guy Magar
Every Month is Cancer Awareness Month
(Blog Update 1/12/2012: SHARE YOUR STORY. I’ve received so many emails from folks who wish to share their experiences as cancer patients or caregivers that I chose this blog page I had written about Cancer Awareness Months to offer a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lovers, Cancer Awareness Month, Leukemia Healing, Romance and Soulmates, Teaching & Education, Uncategorized
Tagged City of Hope, Dare to Dream Memoir, Dr. Stephen Forman, General Cancer Awareness Month, Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot, Leukemia Awareness Month, Lymphoma Awareness Month, Prostate Awareness Month
Spielberg’s AMBLIN’ to Cameron’s XENOGENESIS: The Promise of Short Films
Everyone knows there is almost no commercial market for short films…so why make them? Every film regardless of its running length is a big investment in time, hassle, people, money, and dreams. The first film I made as a student … Continue reading
Cinematic Magic: IRIS
Magic! Movies have always been a magical world for me since I was a kid growing up in Egypt watching Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies and The Ten Commandments which blew my mind. The magic continued when on my … Continue reading
Blagojevich the Jackass
I don’t get it. We all want the very best doctors to operate on us, the very best pilots to fly our airplanes, but why is the bar so damn low for politicians? For our leaders? I love my country … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity in America, Election Year Liars Emerge, Entertainment News, Politics Today, President Obama, Reality Shows, Tea Bagger Hypocrisy
Tagged Brightest for Office, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump, Game Shows, Illinois Politics, Illinois voters, Michele Bachman, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Rick Perry, Rod Blagojevich, Sarah Palin
Remembering Bubba
“Yo Bubba, can we try that again…except this time try not to kill the guy!” I remember giving that direction to Bubba Smith on the set of Blue Thunder in 1984. I was teasing him about rough-housing a stuntman bad … Continue reading
Cowboys & Aliens & Smurfs?
When I heard about the Cowboys & Aliens project, my first thought was “Wow, what a pitch that must have been!” Talk about a high concept title and certainly an unusually daring idea. So imagine being a fly on the … Continue reading
Film Scams and Aroma-Scope!
Raising indie financing for movies is so very difficult and time consuming. It took me 3 years to raise $1,250,000 for my first feature RETRIBUTION and I outline that journey in my memoir. I was amazed to read that scammers … Continue reading
Budget Madness in America!
So let’s get this straight. The right-wing Republicans strong-armed by the Tea Baggers want to make whatever irrational mindless changes regardless of the harm to the country and to the world? They basically want to sabotage America so it reflects … Continue reading
Save Our Great Resource: TEACHERS!
Yeah, I know every federal, state, and city is trying to cut expenditures and limit the gigantic amount of waste our “fatty nation” is funding, but we should never sacrifice our teacher pool in the process. In Los Angeles alone, … Continue reading
