Acres of Mexicali gift stores, snack bars, carnival rides and giant fiberglass lawn ornaments trumpeted for hundreds of miles up and down I-95 by Pedro’s guerilla billboards. That’s what he says and how he says it. Shooting in progress. Three more days of thoroughly documented improvisation exercises and we’ll be done.
The cast and crew of “Taken In” convenes at South of the Border this Wednesday, kicking off a six-day shoot that director Chris White has warned repeatedly “will be exhausting.” Okay, already. As the oldest member of the raiding party and the only one among us who has dietary restrictions (aka “a health concern”), I […]
Nine days from today, I’ll have played the fathers of recalcitrant teenagers in two films, continuing a recent trend … plus Brabantio in Othello, Polonius in Hamlet, Doc Gibbs in Our Town, Bellomy in The Fantasticks. I sometimes wonder how believable an actor can be in such roles when he has neither offspring nor parental […]
