Love your writing, love that you’ve worked with John Carpenter, a director I’ve grown up with and whose movies I enjoy but more than anything I love that you remember actors and parts etc.
My partner will roll her eyes when we watch a programme and I’ll see a character actor and rattle of the name and a random show.
This came about when I was travelling to London by train one day and I saw Nicholas Ball, at the height of his Hazell” fame, I walked towards him and smiling said “ Hazell!”. He sighed and looked tired and said , paraphrasing here….” My name is Nicholas Ball, Hazell is the character I play…” and I thought that must suck so much to be called by your character, so from that moment on I try to remember actors names, especially character actors, which stood me in good steed when travelling on the Flying Scotsman going to Edinburgh I bumped into Pat Hingle ( Batman Returns will probably be where most people remember him now I guess), I walked across and introduced myself and thanked him for entertaining me over the years and he was humble and happy to chat and we shared a wee dram or two and made my journey that so much better…..
That’s a good mantra. I was always more interested in character actors than the leads and of course the list of people that John has worked with is phenomenal. We were talking about John Wayne movies one morning in John’s office when Peter Jason popped over for coffee and started telling me about his time on RIO LOBO (1970). My head near damn exploded.
Man, Nicholas Ball was great. I associate Hingle with Eastwood movies. The director on my web series worked as AD on a bunch of Clint’s movies and had so many stories…
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Love your writing, love that you’ve worked with John Carpenter, a director I’ve grown up with and whose movies I enjoy but more than anything I love that you remember actors and parts etc.
My partner will roll her eyes when we watch a programme and I’ll see a character actor and rattle of the name and a random show.
This came about when I was travelling to London by train one day and I saw Nicholas Ball, at the height of his Hazell” fame, I walked towards him and smiling said “ Hazell!”. He sighed and looked tired and said , paraphrasing here….” My name is Nicholas Ball, Hazell is the character I play…” and I thought that must suck so much to be called by your character, so from that moment on I try to remember actors names, especially character actors, which stood me in good steed when travelling on the Flying Scotsman going to Edinburgh I bumped into Pat Hingle ( Batman Returns will probably be where most people remember him now I guess), I walked across and introduced myself and thanked him for entertaining me over the years and he was humble and happy to chat and we shared a wee dram or two and made my journey that so much better…..
Always remember the guys in the background I say
That’s a good mantra. I was always more interested in character actors than the leads and of course the list of people that John has worked with is phenomenal. We were talking about John Wayne movies one morning in John’s office when Peter Jason popped over for coffee and started telling me about his time on RIO LOBO (1970). My head near damn exploded.
Man, Nicholas Ball was great. I associate Hingle with Eastwood movies. The director on my web series worked as AD on a bunch of Clint’s movies and had so many stories…
Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to comment. It really is appreciated. I’m glad you’re digging MQ.
Same here, I always think Clint Eastwood but these young ‘uns reading will remember Batman lol
Yep. And that *new* Batman movie is almost 35 years old. Kids have got no respect for the aging process and have no business being so damn old.
Haaaaaaaa! “Here? Of all the places in there world you had to find me here? In Baltimore? In the The fucking American Visionary Art Museum?
It was a seriously wonderful moment to be made to feel quite small. I thought he was going to go full Sheriff of Nottingham on me.
Love it.
One day in the not too distant future there will be a button on Substack titled 'Convert To Movie' and a single click will turn the story into a short film embedded at the bottom.