The rarely seen… or heard … vocal theme to the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, written by Glen A. Larson and performing by Dusty Springfield. The end titles have the full, craptastic song.
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The rarely seen… or heard … vocal theme to the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, written by Glen A. Larson and performing by Dusty Springfield. The end titles have the full, craptastic song.
Yeah, I know BOARDWALK EMPIRE and MAD MEN are on tonight. But please don't forget to set your DVR's for tonight's episode of THE GLADES, which I wrote with William Rabkin. It's entitled "Booty" and it's all about pirate treasure, murder, and the relationship between Longworth & Callie, which changes significantly before the end credits roll…
Here’s the revised main title sequence for the new HAWAII FIVE-O. The big change is that they’ve scrapped their “reboot” of the theme and went back to the original orchestration.
Thanks to Ken Levine for tipping me off to this great mash-up of HAWAII FIVE-O and STAR WARS.
Here's the TV news report on REMAINDERED that aired last week.
REMAINDERED made today’s Evansville Courier-Press. Out of all of my credits, why does the Evansville press keep rubbing my nose in BAYWATCH? đ
âQuiet on the set!â: Part of short film shot at local Sureway store
By Donna Stinnett
Sureway customers picking up their groceries this past Sunday at the Watson Lane location may have been a bit surprised to find a movie crew shooting in the store while they shopped.
The scenes were for a short film called âRemainderedâ by writer and director Lee Goldberg, who has written for the television shows âMonkâ and âBaywatchâ and who was an executive producer for âDiagnosis Murder.â
Goldberg has had an association with the International Mystery Writerâs Festival in Owensboro. âRemainderedâ is being sponsored by The RiverPark Performing Arts Center, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Brescia College and Owensboro Technical College.
This current film, which was largely created through the production and acting assistance of local volunteers, will premiere Oct. 16 at the World Mystery Convention called Bouchercon being held this year in San Francisco.
Lewis Chaney, who premiered his own locally made feature-length film, âvictimEYES,â last fall and who worked with Goldberg on âRemaindered,â described it as a âvery dark comedyâ about an author who commits a murder then realizes heâs done away with his only remaining fan.
A crew of about 25 to 30 worked on the scenes shot at Sureway all day Sunday, Chaney said.
âIt looked like a full-scale production,â he said. âAnd Sureway was wonderful to us. They gave us tons of access.â
âItâs giving local filmmakers and local actors a chance to experience the way we make movies and TV shows in Hollywood,â Goldberg said in an interview with WEHT Channel 25, where Chaney is an assignments manager in the newsroom.
âObviously itâs not a full $25-million Hollywood production or weekly TV series, but weâre using the same principals of pre-production and shooting on this little film that weâd be using in a Hollywood production,â he added.
Henderson residents Chaney and Neil Kellen, who is a co-worker, fellow filmmaker and who was technical consultant for âvictimEYES,â designed the lighting for âRemainderedâ working with independent filmmakers P.J. Starks and Rodney Newton, who made âHallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street.â
âThis really helps legitimizes what weâre doing,â Chaney said. âItâs really cool for the local indie filmmakers.â,p>
Other locations used in âRemainderedâ included a private residence and Danhauers Drugs in Owensboro and âa couple of desolate areas around Owensboro for driving shots,â Chaney said.
Five years ago, I blogged about discovering author Andrew Coburn's terrific crime novels and how wowed I was by his books. Today I got this note from his daughter:
This is a pivotal time in Andrew Coburn's life. He is my dad. He's written, I think, 14 novels and though he hasn't stopped writing (been writing lots of short stories published online and in university periodicals), he is struggling with a life-threatening illness. His family is around him, of course, but he needs to be reminded there is life beyond the four walls.That his work has been –and more importantly, still is–his lifeblood. I can forward any mail: Cathleen Coburn; 4 Patricia St, WIndham, NH 03087. My email is cathycoburn@live.com Thank you! If his words have inspired you, touched you or mattered in some way, please let your words do the same for him. My father's daughter, Cathy Coburn
If you are a fan of Coburn's work, now is the time to let him know!
Amazingly prolific author James Reasoner has given MR. MONK IS CLEANED OUT a rave review on his blog. He says, in part:
Whatâs left to say about Lee Goldbergâs Monk books? You already know theyâre some of the very best TV tie-in books being published today. More than that, theyâre some of the very best mystery novels being published today, period. MR. MONK IS CLEANED OUT is the latest in the series, and itâs excellent, as always.[…]The plot is appropriately twisty, but as usual, Goldberg plays fair with the clues. Monk has never been more miserable (or funnier), and Natalieâs narration is as charming and appealing as ever.
Thank you, James!
From Sebrina Siegel, our leading lady on REMAINDERED...
I once had a friend ask me what a âhappy accidentâ was, and I explained the term (which I had learned as a photography student and frequently used) as best I could. I so wish I had had the filming of todayâs final scene for REMAINDERED to give as an example.
Weâre at the Sureway in Henderson, Kentucky, surrounded by about 20-30 crew members, extras, and local observers, and weâre filming our last sceneâŚwhich is actually the first scene of the film.
Itâs a wide shot, an attempt to get the entire master scene and include the grocery store background, the extras picking their produce and ignoring âKevinâ (actor Eric Altheide), the crazy wart lady (actress Lisa Baldwin) walking in for a short, absurd discussion, and finally, the fatal meeting of âKevinâ and âMeganâ. The steadicam is slowly making its way around the area and just as the scene begins an old (very) man walks in to frame behind his grocery cart. He slowly pushes it up to the table, looking curiously at the books that are displayed just so and the âauthorâ next to them, likely wondering, âNow just who the hell is this guy?â
The man, his gums smacking and lips actually flopping around a bit, touches one of the books, maybe trying to figure out if itâs something heâs read. And on cue, Suzy, the wart lady, comes into the scene, choosing to stay in character as she asks about wart cream and steadily ignoring the elderly gentleman standing next to her, gums visible as he gapes at her rudeness.
After a few looks at this crazy woman, the man slowly takes his hand off the book, and glances again at our âauthorâ, now even more curious but not about to interrupt the wart lady. He backs his cart away from the tableâŚand over to the bin of potatoes behind our âsetâ.
SomehowâŚand we really donât have any ideaâŚhe still hasnât noticed the many lights around the table, the steadicam or its operator, Adam Tyler, who is slowly moving around the space, the gigantic, fuzzy boom that is directly over our âauthorâsâ head, or the huge crowd of onlookers just past the table who are stuffing their fists in their mouths and banging each other on the back, trying so hard not to laugh out loud.
The other extras are cued in as the dialogue continues between the actors, and they wisely, as if theyâve done it a million times, ignore the gentleman at the potatoes and still hit their marks, even if he is a bit in their way. The wart lady is discussing cats now, and the man continues to glance over a few times, even while holding his potatoes up in the air for inspection. They look pretty good, so he moves over to the applesâŚwhich happen to also be within the frame. These donât require as much inspection so he chooses his select few and hobbles out of frame, slowly pushing his cart, and our scene continues to its finishâŚwithout a hitch.
It took our AD, Rachael Nunn, a few tries to get this man to understand that heâd wandered onto a film set, and that we really, really needed him to sign the releaseâŚthis footage was not to be lost!
And so ends the third day of shooting REMAINDERED, the short film written and directed by Lee Goldberg. It seems to me that just the fact that I was lucky enough to be cast as the female lead in this project was a happy accident. I learned of the auditions only the day before they ended, and learned from casting that the video auditions needed to be in that day as well. But a call to the producer bought me a weekend, begging John to video it and play my off-screen partner got me the audition tape, and I was lucky enough to get the part.
I was a bit nervous, working with a director who has that caliber of success in Hollywood, but numerous email conversations about character, wardrobe, and angles eased the jitters.
I wonât go day by day, but I will say that Iâve learned so much aboutâŚwell, so much working on this project.
I learned that nerves are good for me. I learned that having a kick-ass, completely together AD on set is imperative to the filmâs success.
Iâve learned that I want to hire Pablo as my own personal assistant â just long enough for him to organize everything around me.
Iâve learned that implied nudity means that itâs easy to cover you in ways to make the audience think youâre uncovered, but itâs much more difficult to keep covered while the crew is trying to âimplyâ the nudity (I am happy to report that we were completely successful with thisâŚthanks to the use of many safety pins).
Iâve learned that itâs possible to wrap on time with the right amount of preproduction preparation and a strict AD.
Iâve learned that the lighting crew can literally save a scene.
Iâve learned just how much talent we have in N.W. Kentucky.
And Iâve learned that Lee Goldberg is not only a great writer and producer, but an outstanding director who is not afraid to give direction, and when he does, does it well and with purpose.
Really, what a great experience.