The IMDB listings. My father is there, so is my uncle, but that I expected as they are movie people, folks you would think would show up because they've had their time in the industry, messed around on screen, worked the teams that built the movies, the tv shows. I would expect for them to show up online as they've been part of the industry for a long time. And while many walk folks out once the action is done and the theater lights resume, I've been taught by those men that, hey, those people you see there up on the credits? well, they are the people who put the movie together, they are the real stars of the picture, so sit down and give them their due. So I do and my kids do, too. Takes lots of people to put together a movie.
So I was thinking about old pals of mine, wondered if any of them showed in the Internet Movie Database, too. So I trolled awhile and came up with one old friend of mine, a guy I used to be really tight with. Traveling buddy, drinking pal, a kick around friend that shared a lot of highs and lows with me over the years. In the midst of all that tightness he had to go away, as friends tend to do when they find new work. This old pal of mine moved out to the high desert, not in search of fame or to be a hermit, but to work for the Department of Defense to be a missle tester. He found a gal, bought a couple homes, got some horses, became involed in local theater, became a big shot with the hometown vaudeville troupe, took his fascination for guns out to the local tourist trap and became a black powder/stunt show/wild west reenactorand then, somehow, someway, made connections with Hollywood and got on the production team of a few movies, got his mug up on screen. How cool.
So his name is out there on the net, on IMDB, with all the rest of the folks and productions that ever came out of La La Land. I am happy for him and pleased that I know yet another real life Hollywood player with behind the scenes, and in his case, real on screen time. How great is that, Steve? Pop the bubbly, buddy, you're a star!
Action!
IMDB reference to my old pal:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805647/
So I was thinking about old pals of mine, wondered if any of them showed in the Internet Movie Database, too. So I trolled awhile and came up with one old friend of mine, a guy I used to be really tight with. Traveling buddy, drinking pal, a kick around friend that shared a lot of highs and lows with me over the years. In the midst of all that tightness he had to go away, as friends tend to do when they find new work. This old pal of mine moved out to the high desert, not in search of fame or to be a hermit, but to work for the Department of Defense to be a missle tester. He found a gal, bought a couple homes, got some horses, became involed in local theater, became a big shot with the hometown vaudeville troupe, took his fascination for guns out to the local tourist trap and became a black powder/stunt show/wild west reenactorand then, somehow, someway, made connections with Hollywood and got on the production team of a few movies, got his mug up on screen. How cool.
So his name is out there on the net, on IMDB, with all the rest of the folks and productions that ever came out of La La Land. I am happy for him and pleased that I know yet another real life Hollywood player with behind the scenes, and in his case, real on screen time. How great is that, Steve? Pop the bubbly, buddy, you're a star!
Action!
IMDB reference to my old pal:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805647/
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