by dino | 'thatguy', half-cocked ranting, revealing too much, seemed like a good idea at the time, the "good old days", the bad old days, The WB Casting mall
In the 90’s, back before you were born, all of the Warner Bros. shows were cast out of this one little building on the Warner lot that I referred to as the Warner Bros. Casting Mall because, you know, all of the shows cast out of this little building. (It might have...
by dino | 'thatguy', acting b.s., Getting Fired for the first time, revealing too much, the "good old days", the bad old days
HISTORY Thanks to the magical wonder of divorce, I’d spent summers with my dad in Santa Barbara and the rest of the year with my mom in…. um… wherever we were living at the time. The “formative years†were spent in Norman, Oklahoma. I do not mean...
by dino | 'thatguy', half-cocked ranting, revealing too much, Summer School, the "good old days", the bad old days
I’d Pay Good Money For This Poster! There were a couple scenes that didn’t make it in the final cut of Summer School. One was where Mark Harmon does a dance to James Brown’s “I Feel Good†in order to teach the class how to  conjugate English verbs. It...
by dino | 'thatguy', acting b.s., coreyoke, half-cocked ranting, revealing too much, seemed like a good idea at the time, the "good old days", the bad old days
There’s some whining here, but it’s worth it. I play in a karaoke band. Coreyoke. Originally, we wore “80’s†wigs and played 80s tunes and the conceit was that we were the “Coreys from the 80s, Feldman, Haim & Hart†and that Michael Jackson, as...
by dino | acting b.s., revealing too much, the "good old days", the bad old days
I always said I would never commit this story to anything permanent until all the parties involved were dead. I suppose this makes me a liar. I apologize to those involved later in this post. It was almost thirty years ago. I think we’re all okay. Alf. aka Alien...
by dino | acting b.s., half-cocked ranting, revealing too much, the bad old days
yet another audition nightmare from my youth At a certain point, casting people and producers got it into their stupid heads that all I could do was act like a crazy person. Helen Sugland, my manager, and my agents at the time fought like hell to get me in for the...
