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Dumb TV Crap I Think about-Movie Editon! "The Wizard of Oz"

I know it's a movie but, growing up every year they would show this on Thanksgiving so I've only ever seen it on TV, so it counts.
This is what I think, Dorothy crash lands in Oz and is immediately blamed for the death of one person, the Wicked Witch of the east. Glinda The "Good" witch gives Dorothy the dead witch's shoes and tells her she need to find the Wizard and she has to walk the entire way. Glinda floats away in her big bubble. The Wizard, in exchange for granting the wishes of her friends, tells Dorothy to steal the Wicked Witch's broom and Dorothy accidentally kills her in the process. Then, after all that, Glinda tells Dorothy she could have gone home anytime she wanted. I would be pissed. I'd be like; "Are you serious? You put me through all this shit and I could have gone home anytime WTF? I KILLED SOMEONE!"
I have come to the conclusion that Glinda is as much a villain in this story as the Wicked Witch of the West. She wanted to protect her image so she took advantage of an innocent stranger in order to eliminate two rivals.
Stuff that in your turkey

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I was told this week that the show I am on has to cut back. Starting with me. I only had two weeks left any way so I have already been looking for the next gig. The post Producer is also trying to help find me something else. He has a lot of great connections. I’m not to broken up about this. I have been working nights in New York. Having to commute from my small New Jersey town on the only express train in bound in the afternoon and riding the local train back in the morning, an hour and half to two hours each way. This is as long as some of my commutes in LA but I was only going 15 miles!
The long hours and lack of sleep are starting to show.

This is a familiar situation. When I was first starting out in LA I was fortunate to land a PA job on the NBC Series “Profiler”(I knew someone, as the they say, more stories from that to come) from there I moved on to the show “Pretender” an NBC show produced by FOX. I was on the show for about 4 weeks when the production manager called me into his office and told me that show was “over staffed” with office PA’s and asked me if I’d like to work on set. Well I thought I’d be on set for “Pretender” when in fact I was to report to a new show called “Judging Amy” (even more stories to come about that). My first day, they told me that this was my “interview” and they would call me back as they needed me. I worked every day of every episode for the entire season.
My experience on “Judging Amy” was great but it took me farther away from my goal of working in postproduction. When season 2 was starting up, I met with the post supervisor to interview for the Post PA job but she had to hire someone else more local (He knew someone). The production had moved to the FOX studio lot, which was very far (in LA terms) from my apartment in North Hollywood. So that was that.

I’ve been through this before and I’ve started to build a new network of contacts here on the East cost so it’s emails and phone calls.

Job hunting-What we have here is failure to communicate!

I have email, a so called smart phone and a landline. I have sent out tons of resumes to leads. I check my email and my phone obsessively. Today I was out on errands, I checked my email on my phone and I got a question from a prospective employer which I decided to answer from a real computer rather than struggle with miniature keyboard on said phone. Some where later in the day, my phone decided to take an afternoon nap ( It does this everyonce in a while) and I didn't relaize it was off untill my 2 yearold daughter decided to throw a bucket of bathwater on me and i had to rescue the phone from my now soaked jeans. I turned it back on and that's when I got the "New Voice Mail" alert at 8:20 pm! The call was at 3:15 and of course it was the Producer who emailed me earlier. I left a voice mail as soon as I got the message. This could be a huge opportunity. I hope my cell phone didn't blow it for me!

Dumb TV Crap I Think About- Land of the Lost

With the release of the film version of "Land of the Lost" I recalled a thought I had about the original series when I was a kid.
What is the land of the lost? It occurred to me that this place was full of extinct creatures and this family, the Marshals, just happens to be white water rafting when the earth opens up right in front of them and they fall in. So now there are humans here. What if this place is some kind of preserve for extinct animals does that mean humans are now extinct? If that's so, can the Marshal family never escape because there is nowhere to go? I've had this rolling around in my head for years. Glad I could finally share.

Life behind bars and tone

Six months out
The short version

I left my staff position at CDTV after 7 years as the Daytime Assistant Editor (5months on the night shift) for family and health reasons. We packed up the Apartment with the help of my mother-in-law, sold my car, loaded up the Volvo station wagon and we (My wife, her mother, our 2 year old daughter and our diabetic dog) drove cross-country back to New Jersey.

I was able to find some freelance work for the video production department at a Major financial company. Although it paid well it was very short term and infrequent and I have staggering insurance payments to make. I was able to apply for financial assistance through the Actors fund and they lead me to The ESTA Foundation. They covered my health insurance for 3 months. I got another freelance editing gig with a successful (albeit small) infomercial firm and then interviewed and was hired to work on the documentary series “The IFC Media Project”.

At the same time my own health became an issue. I was officially diagnosed with Psoriasis in the late 90’s (I’ve been dealing with since I was kid) and about 5 years ago it progressed to Psoriatic Arthritis. I had pain and stiffness in my knees and hips and just coped with it (Advil and such). I started with a new dermatologist and asked for a prescription of Celebrex for the pain. I lasted a month and then had a possible reaction, after a trip to the emergency room; I had to stop taking it. I had another flare up and it spread to my hands and feet. I found it difficult to climb stairs and it was difficult to grip things like handrails (also necessary for climbing stairs). All this was happening while I had made the commitment to commute to NY everyday and I have work on computers, which aggravates my hands. My derm now has me on Humira and I am making improvements but it’s slow process. My employers have been very supportive and I have been able to continue working for the duration of the project.

Meanwhile, my wife who suffers from MS had a relapse and my poor old dog passed away. June has been a tough month.

Of course I started to feel better on the last week left on my gig. Now I have to start the whole job hunt over again. The pressure is on.

Dumb TV Crap I think about-The Jetsons

Something that always bothered about The Jetsons.
George Jetson works for "Spacely Sprockets" and their main competitor was "Cogswell Cogs" and I can't recall seeing much of anything that needed sprockets or cogs. Seriously they have flying cars, live in a floating suburb and everything is push button. So why the hell are sprockets and cogs such a big industry in the future? OK so maybe Rosie the Robot may have needed some cogs but more than likely her limbs would be hydraulic.

Tony Soprano died and went to "Cop Bar"

I have been trolling Craiglist for gigs and I've seen multiple post for a project called "Cop Bar". The earlier posts were your standard "need crew for project" type requests with a hint of someone who watched one to many "Sopranos" episodes. Then I saw the following:









Frankly, anyone who calls someone a "Skanky Cunt" is angry because he is either not going get sex from said woman or he is no longer getting sex and she and dumped his douche bag ass.

here is what others thought about this:












Anyone who knows me, can tell you I love the bad. "Cop Bar" Hits all the marks. It's poorly edited, unoriginal, arrogant and unintentionally funny. I especially like the cops with their guns drawn, dancing with the "Cop bar girls". Pure Gold.
I give the guy some credit for having made something but, the shear lack of professionalism is evident in every aspect of his postings and ultimately his product. I've seen better student films. The editing is sloppy and the long laughable song would be better suited for a skit on "Saturday Night Live" not a serious edgy drama that this wishes it could be.Usually, I try not to a be to critical but, when I saw the post about the publicist, he opened himself up. See for yourself, Comments please.

"COP BAR" video by Jimmy Lloyd from jimmylloydsuperstar1 on Vimeo.