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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.
Category Archives: Reality Shows
WANTED: An American Hero – FOUND: Dancing’s J.R. Martinez
America loves its heroes. The ‘84 TV series Cover Up which I had directed had Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For a Hero” as the show’s theme song which was a huge hit tune in its time and still one of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lovers, Celebrity in America, Entertainment News, Filmmaking, Hollywood Industry, Movie Magic, Reality Shows, Romance and Soulmates, Uncategorized
Tagged America's Heroes, Bonnie Tyler, Cover Up, Dancing with the Stars, Holding Out for a Hero, J.R. Martinez, Karina Smirnoff, Tim McGraw
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
BOOM! End of American Civilization?
As I noted in my memoir, for me, the TV show WIPEOUT is the symbolic beginning of the end of American civilization. Whatever smarts we had, whatever dignity we had, it went out the backend sphincter of this show. To … Continue reading
