Proudly Resents: The cult movie podcast

Every years about 15 people cram into a mancave and watch sci-fi films for 24 hours straight. I brought my microphone and documented the whole thing. Did I survive? Well, yes. For the past 12 (coming on 13) years, Jeffy & Jackie have been hosting a 24 hour sci-fi fest in their home.  It’s called “BiTFest” (Boston is too far). From noon to noon, a group of friends stay captive in the video room/converted garage to watch science fiction films. I’ve gone for the past 5 or 6 years. I think. Last year I recorded the event. Get an inside look! or and inside listen. Coming up, hear the full post fest trivia game and an interview with the man who puts on the festival in his place every year, Jeffy Branion. Original audience member John Santry tell the  back story after the jump… “Most of us lived in Boston around the same time, while going to college and for a while after. People would move away, but return annually around Presidents’ Day to attend the Boston Sci-Fi Fest. The Fest is basically two days, but people would come for several extra days and stay with those of us who remained in Boston. These “Returners” would also tell friends in their new lands (New York, California, Texas) about the Fest, resulting in new recruits.” Over the years, most everyone from “The Core” group moved away from Boston. In 1999, I was living in Brookline, near the site of the Fest in those days, which was the Coolidge Corner Theater (it is now at the Somerville Theater). My gracious roommates and I hosted an influx of Returners, while some overflow rented rooms at a nearby hotel. This was SF24, the 24th Fest. Some of the guys had been going since SF13. Later that year, I moved out here to Los Angeles, making 2000 (SF25) my first year as a Returner and the first year without one of The Core being able to host. I don’t remember all of the logistical details of the visit, but as I recall I was in town for just two days and a full 24 hours of those days was spent in the theater. I’m from the Boston area, and it felt weird to be in town without seeing my family or my Boston friends. Afterwards, I told the rest of the Returners that without people from The Core remaining in town, to support a longer stay, it seemed like too much traveling for so many people. So that was the last year that we attended the Boston Sci-Fi Festival. Jeffy started hosting our own, much smaller Fest in 2001. Last year was BITFest 12, so for the original Core SF13 crowd it was the year of Fest Equilibrium.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4pWshsQ1U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Every years about 15 people cram into a mancave and watch sci-fi films for 24 hours straight. I brought my microphone and documented the whole thing. Did I survive? Well, yes. For the past 12 (coming on 13) years, Jeffy & Jackie have been hosting a 24 hour sci-fi fest in their home.  It’s called “BiTFest” (Boston is too far). From noon to noon, a group of friends stay captive in the video room/converted garage to watch science fiction films. I’ve gone for the past 5 or 6 years. I think. Last year I recorded the event. Get an inside look! or and inside listen. Coming up, hear the full post fest trivia game and an interview with the man who puts on the festival in his place every year, Jeffy Branion. Original audience member John Santry tell the  back story after the jump… “Most of us lived in Boston around the same time, while going to college and for a while after. People would move away, but return annually around Presidents’ Day to attend the Boston Sci-Fi Fest. The Fest is basically two days, but people would come for several extra days and stay with those of us who remained in Boston. These “Returners” would also tell friends in their new lands (New York, California, Texas) about the Fest, resulting in new recruits.” Over the years, most everyone from “The Core” group moved away from Boston. In 1999, I was living in Brookline, near the site of the Fest in those days, which was the Coolidge Corner Theater (it is now at the Somerville Theater). My gracious roommates and I hosted an influx of Returners, while some overflow rented rooms at a nearby hotel. This was SF24, the 24th Fest. Some of the guys had been going since SF13. Later that year, I moved out here to Los Angeles, making 2000 (SF25) my first year as a Returner and the first year without one of The Core being able to host. I don’t remember all of the logistical details of the visit, but as I recall I was in town for just two days and a full 24 hours of those days was spent in the theater. I’m from the Boston area, and it felt weird to be in town without seeing my family or my Boston friends. Afterwards, I told the rest of the Returners that without people from The Core remaining in town, to support a longer stay, it seemed like too much traveling for so many people. So that was the last year that we attended the Boston Sci-Fi Festival. Jeffy started hosting our own, much smaller Fest in 2001. Last year was BITFest 12, so for the original Core SF13 crowd it was the year of Fest Equilibrium.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4pWshsQ1U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

“Open Water” actress Blanchard Ryan talks about what it was like to swim with actual hungry sharks for a movie about swimming with hungry sharks. No CGI here. Just two actors, bloody chum and scary sharks. The tiny non-union movie became a huge hit at Sundance and Ryan’s life is changed. Blanchard talks about her life changing from a working actress to a struggling movie star and back to a working actress. Ryan and I discuss her getting hit on by Paul Servino on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” being banned from Leno for choosing Conan and watching her nude scene with her parents.     I’ve been friends with Blanchard (Her real first name is Susan) for almost 15 years. She’s a very smart actress who figured out how to work the system of auditions and booked a ton of commercials. Ryan explains her strategy on the podcast. She was always a working actress way before the little shark movie took on “Blair Witch Project” momentum at Sundance. But like “BWP”,  the movie “Open Water” was the star. Susan… I mean Blanchard talks frankly about the entire experience. From IMDB about “Open Water:” This film is inspired by a true story about an American couple, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went with a scuba group (Outer Edge Dive Company) to an area off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. They were accidentally left behind due to a faulty head count taken by the dive boat crew. There were 26 other divers and 5 crew members who failed to notice that the couple was not on the boat. It was not until two days later on January 27, 1998, that the pair was found to be missing after a bag containing their passports and belongings was found in the dive boat. A massive air and sea search took place over the following three days, but failed to find them. The couple was never found.   Overwatered What was the big success. We went to Sundance.   Yeah. It started out. We got into the Hamptons Film Festival which is an amazing film festival if anyone ever gets a chance to go is beautiful. And they were great to us. And but it was a rough cut of the film and variety. We found out that a variety had sent center review.   And we thought we were dead because the music wasn’t really done and the ending was a little funky. And our director was like this is going to sink us like this is going to be the end of us. But there was nothing we could do it was like an hour before the screening and it and it happened and the review when she after she wrote it was one of the most glorious reviews I’ve ever seen in variety. We were stunned. She just loved it and I think half of it. Well and I give credit to the wonderful Hamptons the festival and the people there were so warm and they were so good. The reception was so great. The screening was amazing they clapped for five minutes they asked all these wonderful questions it was just a really nice atmosphere and the woman couldn’t have been better to us in her review and Sundance had rejected us. And then when they saw the Variety review they were like oh wait we forgot to tell you. Actually you’re coming to see.   So we were thrilled. How did the movie come about.   I’m just auditioned for it. It’s interesting because of my weird name. My agent had worked with Chris Countess the director on a previous project of his.   And when he came to her to cast this she said I’ve got the perfect girl for you and he said No I’ve already cast the girl.

“Open Water” actress Blanchard Ryan talks about what it was like to swim with actual hungry sharks for a movie about swimming with hungry sharks. No CGI here. Just two actors, bloody chum and scary sharks. The tiny non-union movie became a huge hit at Sundance and Ryan’s life is changed. Blanchard talks about her life changing from a working actress to a struggling movie star and back to a working actress. Ryan and I discuss her getting hit on by Paul Servino on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” being banned from Leno for choosing Conan and watching her nude scene with her parents.     I’ve been friends with Blanchard (Her real first name is Susan) for almost 15 years. She’s a very smart actress who figured out how to work the system of auditions and booked a ton of commercials. Ryan explains her strategy on the podcast. She was always a working actress way before the little shark movie took on “Blair Witch Project” momentum at Sundance. But like “BWP”,  the movie “Open Water” was the star. Susan… I mean Blanchard talks frankly about the entire experience. From IMDB about “Open Water:” This film is inspired by a true story about an American couple, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went with a scuba group (Outer Edge Dive Company) to an area off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. They were accidentally left behind due to a faulty head count taken by the dive boat crew. There were 26 other divers and 5 crew members who failed to notice that the couple was not on the boat. It was not until two days later on January 27, 1998, that the pair was found to be missing after a bag containing their passports and belongings was found in the dive boat. A massive air and sea search took place over the following three days, but failed to find them. The couple was never found.   Overwatered What was the big success. We went to Sundance.   Yeah. It started out. We got into the Hamptons Film Festival which is an amazing film festival if anyone ever gets a chance to go is beautiful. And they were great to us. And but it was a rough cut of the film and variety. We found out that a variety had sent center review.   And we thought we were dead because the music wasn’t really done and the ending was a little funky. And our director was like this is going to sink us like this is going to be the end of us. But there was nothing we could do it was like an hour before the screening and it and it happened and the review when she after she wrote it was one of the most glorious reviews I’ve ever seen in variety. We were stunned. She just loved it and I think half of it. Well and I give credit to the wonderful Hamptons the festival and the people there were so warm and they were so good. The reception was so great. The screening was amazing they clapped for five minutes they asked all these wonderful questions it was just a really nice atmosphere and the woman couldn’t have been better to us in her review and Sundance had rejected us. And then when they saw the Variety review they were like oh wait we forgot to tell you. Actually you’re coming to see.   So we were thrilled. How did the movie come about.   I’m just auditioned for it. It’s interesting because of my weird name. My agent had worked with Chris Countess the director on a previous project of his.   And when he came to her to cast this she said I’ve got the perfect girl for you and he said No I’ve already cast the girl.

Don’t worry, there’s very little blood and no bucket, just a very funny movie that made fun of the Beatnik movement that was happening at the time.  Watch A Bucket of Blood –  HERE. * Film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer talk about the 1969 Roger Corman classic, A Bucket of Blood * Hear the prank Mark and Wade tried to pull on the LA Critics Association. * Listen to Wade and Mark on the great movie podcast IGN Digigods. A frustrated and talentless artist (Dick Miller) finds acclaim for a plaster covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. Soon the desire for more praise leads to an increasingly deadly series of works. Buy a shirt or suggest a film. Grease the wheels! Here’s a little background of “A Bucket of Blood:” From WikiPedia: A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in beatnik culture. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days, and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman’s work  Written by Charles B. Griffith,A Bucket of Blood is a dark comic satire  about a socially awkward young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady’s cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous. A Bucket of Blood was the first of three collaborations between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, followed by The Little Shop of Horrors, which was shot on the same sets as A Bucket of Blood, and Creature from the Haunted Sea. Corman had made no previous attempt at the genre, although past and future Corman productions in other genres incorporated comedic elements.A Bucket of Blood is a satire not only of Corman’s own films, but also of the art world and teen films of the 1950s. The film is noted as well in many circles as an honest, undiscriminating portrayal of the many facets of Beatnik culture, including art, dance and style of living. The plot has similarities to Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). However, by setting the story in the Beat milieu of 1950s Southern California, Corman creates an entirely different mood from the earlier film. A Bucket of Blood was remade in 1995 as a made-for-television film for the Showtime network. The character name of Walter Paisley has been adapted by actor Dick Miller as an in-joke in productions such as The Howling and Shake, Rattle and Rock!, which credit otherwise unrelated characters played by Miller under the character name.  

Don’t worry, there’s very little blood and no bucket, just a very funny movie that made fun of the Beatnik movement that was happening at the time.  Watch A Bucket of Blood –  HERE. * Film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer talk about the 1969 Roger Corman classic, A Bucket of Blood * Hear the prank Mark and Wade tried to pull on the LA Critics Association. * Listen to Wade and Mark on the great movie podcast IGN Digigods. A frustrated and talentless artist (Dick Miller) finds acclaim for a plaster covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. Soon the desire for more praise leads to an increasingly deadly series of works. Buy a shirt or suggest a film. Grease the wheels! Here’s a little background of “A Bucket of Blood:” From WikiPedia: A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in beatnik culture. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days, and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman’s work  Written by Charles B. Griffith,A Bucket of Blood is a dark comic satire  about a socially awkward young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady’s cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous. A Bucket of Blood was the first of three collaborations between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, followed by The Little Shop of Horrors, which was shot on the same sets as A Bucket of Blood, and Creature from the Haunted Sea. Corman had made no previous attempt at the genre, although past and future Corman productions in other genres incorporated comedic elements.A Bucket of Blood is a satire not only of Corman’s own films, but also of the art world and teen films of the 1950s. The film is noted as well in many circles as an honest, undiscriminating portrayal of the many facets of Beatnik culture, including art, dance and style of living. The plot has similarities to Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). However, by setting the story in the Beat milieu of 1950s Southern California, Corman creates an entirely different mood from the earlier film. A Bucket of Blood was remade in 1995 as a made-for-television film for the Showtime network. The character name of Walter Paisley has been adapted by actor Dick Miller as an in-joke in productions such as The Howling and Shake, Rattle and Rock!, which credit otherwise unrelated characters played by Miller under the character name.  

Nicko and I pick nominees for the Razzies. It’s the beginning of the Razzie season and we’re ready to vote. The Razzies are the awards for the worst movies of the year. Sometimes they get a little mean or petty. But the choices are strong this year. “1,000 Words” and “That’s My Boy” are great contenders. It’s also the year that Tyler Perry went from cross dressing to Alex Cross. (You like that turn of phrase?) Left off the Razzie list was Mathew Fox’s manarexic killer. The Nominees are… You can vote too. You can join the Razzies or vote on “Biggest Rip off or Sequel.” Check out our very second live show! This Sunday January 13th in New York City! As part of the NYC Podfest. NYCpodfest.com. Check out @proudlyresents on Twitter.

Nicko and I pick nominees for the Razzies. It’s the beginning of the Razzie season and we’re ready to vote. The Razzies are the awards for the worst movies of the year. Sometimes they get a little mean or petty. But the choices are strong this year. “1,000 Words” and “That’s My Boy” are great contenders. It’s also the year that Tyler Perry went from cross dressing to Alex Cross. (You like that turn of phrase?) Left off the Razzie list was Mathew Fox’s manarexic killer. The Nominees are… You can vote too. You can join the Razzies or vote on “Biggest Rip off or Sequel.” Check out our very second live show! This Sunday January 13th in New York City! As part of the NYC Podfest. NYCpodfest.com. Check out @proudlyresents on Twitter.

The saddest Christmas song ever was made into the saddest Christmas movie ever. “The Christmas Shoes” stars Rob Lowe, Dorian Harewood, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, John Dunsworth (“The Trailer Park Boys”) and a fabulous pair of shoes. Listen to  me and NPR’s Adam Felber (“Wait… Wait Don’t Tell Me”) via Skype from his backyard to talk about the this three hanky tearjerker and it’s sequel, “The Christmas Blessing.” Watch the Christmas Shoes Here. From IMDB.com: Two separate stories mesh – in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert’s firm. When Robert’s mother passes away, he begins to reconsider things and his and Nathan’s paths cross on Christmas Eve as Nathan tries to raise the money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter. Written by crow_steve@hotmail.com “The Christmas Blessing” stars Neil Patrick Harris as the grown up kid from the first movie. The problem is, they never bothered to recast his father, so the actors are roughly the same age. Rebecca Gayheart plays Patrick’s free spirited love interest – who gets really sick, but doesn’t die. Angus T. Jones (“2 1/2 Men” and carrier ending Youtube videos) plays a cute kid with a foot fetish and a week to live. “Doctor, what is it?” “I’m sorry to inform you, but your son won’t live past the third act of this film.” Comedian Patton Oswalt has a very funny routine about the song “The Christmas Shoes” by the Christian rock group “New Song.” billybobjomes did a great job animating it for us.

The saddest Christmas song ever was made into the saddest Christmas movie ever. “The Christmas Shoes” stars Rob Lowe, Dorian Harewood, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, John Dunsworth (“The Trailer Park Boys”) and a fabulous pair of shoes. Listen to  me and NPR’s Adam Felber (“Wait… Wait Don’t Tell Me”) via Skype from his backyard to talk about the this three hanky tearjerker and it’s sequel, “The Christmas Blessing.” Watch the Christmas Shoes Here. From IMDB.com: Two separate stories mesh – in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert’s firm. When Robert’s mother passes away, he begins to reconsider things and his and Nathan’s paths cross on Christmas Eve as Nathan tries to raise the money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter. Written by crow_steve@hotmail.com “The Christmas Blessing” stars Neil Patrick Harris as the grown up kid from the first movie. The problem is, they never bothered to recast his father, so the actors are roughly the same age. Rebecca Gayheart plays Patrick’s free spirited love interest – who gets really sick, but doesn’t die. Angus T. Jones (“2 1/2 Men” and carrier ending Youtube videos) plays a cute kid with a foot fetish and a week to live. “Doctor, what is it?” “I’m sorry to inform you, but your son won’t live past the third act of this film.” Comedian Patton Oswalt has a very funny routine about the song “The Christmas Shoes” by the Christian rock group “New Song.” billybobjomes did a great job animating it for us.

It’s the “Resenties,” the best of the worst movies as voted by bad movie podcasters. Shows like: We Hate Movies, Yeah…It’s That Bad, Movie Mastication, Filmjitzu, Rewatchability Podcast, Horrible Movie Night, Zombie Take out and others! Vote by leaving your pick here, on Itunes or our Facebook page. You choose.  The winner will be announced at the NYC PodFest on January 13th live in NYC! Come and watch the show! I’d love to meet ya!  

It’s the “Resenties,” the best of the worst movies as voted by bad movie podcasters. Shows like: We Hate Movies, Yeah…It’s That Bad, Movie Mastication, Filmjitzu, Rewatchability Podcast, Horrible Movie Night, Zombie Take out and others! Vote by leaving your pick here, on Itunes or our Facebook page. You choose.  The winner will be announced at the NYC PodFest on January 13th live in NYC! Come and watch the show! I’d love to meet ya!  

HO HO HOpeless. Greed comes to Christmas in the first Santa Claus origin story/superhero reboot.  Dudley Moore, John Lithgow  do their best to get through “Santa Claus: the Movie.” Obviously they only read the first draft of the paycheck. Mike Spiegelman, my brother from the same mother, joins with back ground on this film, ridiculous moments and product placement. Yes, a movie that takes place mostly on the North Pole has product placement. Lithgow chews up the scenery like a Christmas cookie and Moore sits there like an old fruit cake. The movie has the same footage of NYC that was used in Superman. This time they just put Santa on it. Plus a lot of glitter. Chantel! Dear Santa, I know you know when I’ve been sleeping and you know when I’ve been awake. Sorry about the film. Could not keep my eyes open. Enjoy two out of three cookies I left for you. ” If you still want to buy “Santa Claus: The Movie” click here. “Proudly Resents” will be Live in NYC on January 13th. Buy tickets here. Impulse buy Mike’s very funny joke book.   From Wikipedia: In his book Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, critic Alonso Duralde lists Santa Claus: The Movie in his chapter of worst Christmas movies ever. His reasons include weak plot, garish production design, blatant product placement (particularly for McDonald’s, though Coke and Pabst Blue Ribbon are also prominent), and scenery-chewing overacting on the part of Lithgow. Duralde ultimately concludes that the film is “a train-wreck of a Christmas movie that’s so very wrong that you won’t be able to tear yourself away from it.”  John Carpenter was originally offered the chance to direct, but also wanted a say in the writing, musical score and final cut of the movie. Carpenter’s original choice for the role of Santa was Brian Dennehy. (Yes, I just quoted a source that quoted a source.) From IMDB.com, lines from the movie:     Ancient Elf: The Prophecy has come to pass, that there would come to us a Chosen One, and that he, having no child of his own, would love all children everywhere, and that he himself would be an artisan, and a craftsman, and a skilled maker of toys. [to Santa] And now, Chosen One, come forward. From this day on, now and forever, you will bring all our gifts to all the children in all the world, and all this to be done on Christmas Eve.     Santa Claus: How can I do so much in just one night?     Ancient Elf: Well, know this: time travels with you. The night of the world is a passage of endless night for you, until your mission is done. This is your legacy, and your gift…. as is the gift of flight. Now, all those within the sound of my voice, and all those on this Earth everywhere know that henceforth, you will be called — Santa Claus. And now, everyone, Merry Christmas.

HO HO HOpeless. Greed comes to Christmas in the first Santa Claus origin story/superhero reboot.  Dudley Moore, John Lithgow  do their best to get through “Santa Claus: the Movie.” Obviously they only read the first draft of the paycheck. Mike Spiegelman, my brother from the same mother, joins with back ground on this film, ridiculous moments and product placement. Yes, a movie that takes place mostly on the North Pole has product placement. Lithgow chews up the scenery like a Christmas cookie and Moore sits there like an old fruit cake. The movie has the same footage of NYC that was used in Superman. This time they just put Santa on it. Plus a lot of glitter. Chantel! Dear Santa, I know you know when I’ve been sleeping and you know when I’ve been awake. Sorry about the film. Could not keep my eyes open. Enjoy two out of three cookies I left for you. ” If you still want to buy “Santa Claus: The Movie” click here. “Proudly Resents” will be Live in NYC on January 13th. Buy tickets here. Impulse buy Mike’s very funny joke book.   From Wikipedia: In his book Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, critic Alonso Duralde lists Santa Claus: The Movie in his chapter of worst Christmas movies ever. His reasons include weak plot, garish production design, blatant product placement (particularly for McDonald’s, though Coke and Pabst Blue Ribbon are also prominent), and scenery-chewing overacting on the part of Lithgow. Duralde ultimately concludes that the film is “a train-wreck of a Christmas movie that’s so very wrong that you won’t be able to tear yourself away from it.”  John Carpenter was originally offered the chance to direct, but also wanted a say in the writing, musical score and final cut of the movie. Carpenter’s original choice for the role of Santa was Brian Dennehy. (Yes, I just quoted a source that quoted a source.) From IMDB.com, lines from the movie:     Ancient Elf: The Prophecy has come to pass, that there would come to us a Chosen One, and that he, having no child of his own, would love all children everywhere, and that he himself would be an artisan, and a craftsman, and a skilled maker of toys. [to Santa] And now, Chosen One, come forward. From this day on, now and forever, you will bring all our gifts to all the children in all the world, and all this to be done on Christmas Eve.     Santa Claus: How can I do so much in just one night?     Ancient Elf: Well, know this: time travels with you. The night of the world is a passage of endless night for you, until your mission is done. This is your legacy, and your gift…. as is the gift of flight. Now, all those within the sound of my voice, and all those on this Earth everywhere know that henceforth, you will be called — Santa Claus. And now, everyone, Merry Christmas.

 Anna Nicole Smith’s last film was “Illegal Aliens.” David Giancola directed that ill fated film and made a documentary about his insane experience. The movie has lots of footage of Anna on and off camera.  David and I talk via Skype about making both b-movies like Anna’s last “Illegal Aliens” and the documentary “Addicted To Fame.”  We also talk about making films in Vermont, shooting bar mitzvahs, using media and being used by media and truth behind Howard K. Stern.  Plus local rock legend: Johnny Azer. He’s great. I booked him on a TV show 10 years ago. He was great. His YOUTUBE video is at the bottom of the page  (Listen here) And oh yeah, David’s first film “Time Chasers” is a MST3K staple. From their official website: “ADDICTED TO FAME” is the hilarious, outrageous, and ultimately tragic true story of one filmmaker’s journey from obscurity to moral blindness in the seductive glare of the media spotlight. Director DAVID GIANCOLA wanted to break out by making a “Movie that mocked B-Movies”. He thought he could manipulate the media by casting ANNA NICOLE SMITH. In the end the media manipulated him instead as his star and one of his Producers died in a media feeding frenzy. The film bombed but the story was the most reported event of 2007 – behind only coverage of the Iraq war. The truth is always stranger and more unbelievable than fiction… Watch movie here.