Bret, as always, I love your writing. For all the time I have known you, I never knew of time working with film. Fascinating! And the people you’ve met. Great stuff. Please keep it coming. My best to you always.
As we've come to expect, this was an entertaining and informative piece on not only your own professional life experience but relates to what many others have endured in seeking their own path to the future. Thanks for the good read.
Oh, boy, did that bring back memories. All my favorite films. I remember how I loved Mean Streets and so many others you mentioned, including the foreign ones. I also wrote a couple of plays, 3 one acts which were produced in a couple of venues in L.A., and I drove a cab to support my acting!
Lots of parallels, though I copped out, for various reasons, left Hollyweird, and went back to school to become a teacher, not without some regrets. Lack of confidence, largely, fear of not being able to make an adequate living.
Aint life crazy!!!! I fell in love with film, photography and jazz in junior high school, took film classes every semester in college including a film making class(15 mins following a trucker on & off the freeway and 5 minutes in the diner! yeah, crazy, crazy!
Another aspect of your life experience I knew nothing about. As Ellington would say, you were in the right place at the right time with the right people. Blazing Saddles is the funniest movie ever made, and the fact that it got made is a miracle. I worked briefly at East Hampton Point restaurant in the early 2000s. I had the pleasure of waiting on Mel and his beautiful wife Ann. When asked if he wanted still or sparking water, Mel replied “trust me, I don’t need the gas.” Each time I approached their table, Mel would stuff dinner rolls in my pockets, saying I looked thin.
Bret, as always, I love your writing. For all the time I have known you, I never knew of time working with film. Fascinating! And the people you’ve met. Great stuff. Please keep it coming. My best to you always.
Cool piece. I remember those days too... Andrew Sarris, Otto Preminger and the NYU boys. Unmatched film talent.
Incredible memories of a blessed life well-lived. Thank you for sharing them with us!
As we've come to expect, this was an entertaining and informative piece on not only your own professional life experience but relates to what many others have endured in seeking their own path to the future. Thanks for the good read.
Oh, boy, did that bring back memories. All my favorite films. I remember how I loved Mean Streets and so many others you mentioned, including the foreign ones. I also wrote a couple of plays, 3 one acts which were produced in a couple of venues in L.A., and I drove a cab to support my acting!
Lots of parallels, though I copped out, for various reasons, left Hollyweird, and went back to school to become a teacher, not without some regrets. Lack of confidence, largely, fear of not being able to make an adequate living.
Cent'anni!
Aint life crazy!!!! I fell in love with film, photography and jazz in junior high school, took film classes every semester in college including a film making class(15 mins following a trucker on & off the freeway and 5 minutes in the diner! yeah, crazy, crazy!
Another aspect of your life experience I knew nothing about. As Ellington would say, you were in the right place at the right time with the right people. Blazing Saddles is the funniest movie ever made, and the fact that it got made is a miracle. I worked briefly at East Hampton Point restaurant in the early 2000s. I had the pleasure of waiting on Mel and his beautiful wife Ann. When asked if he wanted still or sparking water, Mel replied “trust me, I don’t need the gas.” Each time I approached their table, Mel would stuff dinner rolls in my pockets, saying I looked thin.
That's too funny!