LARRY FLASH JENKINS ("THE WHITE SHADOW")

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbvb97cWsp9t6jjrJPZU_r-zxiZx4WMU0GCLM38tBo37hav7otsR0a8_RLwscRwjNvtXM2hsRAe0UjQBZpgB4Do3Vl4ZJsOpChLCj5XndOORDSLLO4tlPndvFBswvhzgQ5ZRf0yDir8CE/s1600-h/gummy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="233" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550459770851762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbvb97cWsp9t6jjrJPZU_r-zxiZx4WMU0GCLM38tBo37hav7otsR0a8_RLwscRwjNvtXM2hsRAe0UjQBZpgB4Do3Vl4ZJsOpChLCj5XndOORDSLLO4tlPndvFBswvhzgQ5ZRf0yDir8CE/w253-h233/gummy.jpg" style="float: left; height: 184px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" width="253" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larry Flash Jenkins</td></tr> </tbody></table> <i>LARRY FLASH JENKINS has been in films and television shows for several decades, playing the troubled, quick-footed "Gummy" in the Chevy Chase comedy FLETCH; a basketball player in THE WHITE SHADOW; and is one of the two free-spirited parking attendants in the John Hughe's classic FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF...</i><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How did you get your start in acting?</span><br /> <br /> Hey James...I got started in acting in 1973 right after I graduated from Fenger high school (Which I am on the wall of fame)...I was a stand out Baseball player, loved basketball..but my mother thought I was a ham and would make a better actor…I disagreed…so we flipped a coin and she won…one catch...she would not let me go to Los Angeles right away...too far from Chicago...so off to a local college...Olive Harvey Jr college...which I was the best actor and got staright 'A'...on the deans list and did 3 plays and to rave reviews...including one play outside of College at X-Bag theater starring me and Robert Townsend...<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeprJ6ouEjKapAMoPuNfxpIwJpK-Hqpy638g3qBOu_CPdUoVb2xqnLHmus229txMla9AsiUDMun17VaWBbZz8RUWmknJKVEJNBEAyE6SU97cYeSZkubgKWm7vxzLDaI_kG6jYqldvifHV/s1600-h/Larry+Flash+Jenkins.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428554701513824802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeprJ6ouEjKapAMoPuNfxpIwJpK-Hqpy638g3qBOu_CPdUoVb2xqnLHmus229txMla9AsiUDMun17VaWBbZz8RUWmknJKVEJNBEAyE6SU97cYeSZkubgKWm7vxzLDaI_kG6jYqldvifHV/s200/Larry+Flash+Jenkins.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 111px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 90px;" /></a>Next up was Southern Illionois University...my second year in college...str8 'A''s again dean list...my mother felt I was ready now to go to LA…next year was in Los Angles on a drama scholarship to Pepperdine University... dean's list...again..str'8 'A''s...named best actor..etc...first semester..but got discovered by Ray Powers a fellow actor in a play with me off campus...he introduced me to Personal Manager Steve Block ..who repped...Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons), Robert Hooks (NYPD), Kevin Hooks (The White Shadow), Denise Nicholas (Room 222), Antonio Fargas (Starsky & Hutch)...Steve said that Ray told him that I weas the best actor he had ever seen...I told him… I am and ray told me that too...he came to see me in a play and signed me...<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowOshC2rF7SvSixiGUTjhamDvnqOvJRBIYtHXrd8U9Q3HJOKzW4o_8Zh1xvVJQIhs3uiJz09rheGRAqRo2nHJcyNAmgSqK9S1lwPjrBZ0nlqr-04yQUj01tmxYr3M8z3KvPfZjCzDKujZ/s1600-h/laurencefishburne_now_02.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428555211099298658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowOshC2rF7SvSixiGUTjhamDvnqOvJRBIYtHXrd8U9Q3HJOKzW4o_8Zh1xvVJQIhs3uiJz09rheGRAqRo2nHJcyNAmgSqK9S1lwPjrBZ0nlqr-04yQUj01tmxYr3M8z3KvPfZjCzDKujZ/s200/laurencefishburne_now_02.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 110px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 165px;" /></a>A few days later I was up for Apocalypse Now...Larry Fishburne lied about his age and beat out me and Kevin hooks...from there my career was off and running...<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">When you appeared in the episode of THE WHITE SHADOW as a student (season 2)? </span><br /> <br /> I remember my role was on the previews all week and was very happy because every black actor wanted to be on that series...I was hoping it would lead to me being a regular.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What’s your favorite episode of Season 3 (when you were a regular) of THE WHITE SHADOW?</span><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxal-xpVdZ_euhB87oGE7r73wLaBmXzNRR_mLhG8-6ZRKITvlYgve3XuUP1dntkOGLnmxra3fUB6okXb97aotgR4UX15qxiK2LYGXUZ1jzgAeSOvfz7oAg60UCaWEDSb-rAG2afchwkXwz/s1600-h/33718_384x288_generated__1inWTM+PVUS8CwlCxITRNg.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428549914018471074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxal-xpVdZ_euhB87oGE7r73wLaBmXzNRR_mLhG8-6ZRKITvlYgve3XuUP1dntkOGLnmxra3fUB6okXb97aotgR4UX15qxiK2LYGXUZ1jzgAeSOvfz7oAg60UCaWEDSb-rAG2afchwkXwz/s200/33718_384x288_generated__1inWTM+PVUS8CwlCxITRNg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>The HERO episode when I pulled the lady out of the burning car was my favorite episode...I was in every scene...many of the cast members from the previous year thought thery were exploiting me too much...but Bruce Paltrow loved me as an actor...it was fun meeting all those named pro stars etc....and playing ball everyday and getting paid for it...!! I was so [popular on the show I could not go to Burger King or Mcdonald and order...I would get mobbed...]<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How was it working on FLETCH?</span><br /> <br /> Fun...me and Chevy clicked...me and George Wendt became friends…everything and everyone was so cool...<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhodFwVLI7wbOnXAuKkbZ3wASfGt6uAQ1U6X53aeH34ZOMIf8VPaZpOj0pyF8m0R4XuHYGL8y2KFTtAX011Ieuu7ehijKmiu94eLOBIsMFVcG2MR_oy5YIGZVCdJIdxwiWY5ksSRZv-kH6T/s1600-h/1244710869255652037065.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550067078859810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhodFwVLI7wbOnXAuKkbZ3wASfGt6uAQ1U6X53aeH34ZOMIf8VPaZpOj0pyF8m0R4XuHYGL8y2KFTtAX011Ieuu7ehijKmiu94eLOBIsMFVcG2MR_oy5YIGZVCdJIdxwiWY5ksSRZv-kH6T/s200/1244710869255652037065.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 83px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 157px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">How about filming the intense scene when you are chased and arrested by the abusive cop?</span><br /> <br /> Had to slow down to let the cops catch me... I was running too fast for them.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How about the scene talking to Fletch in the sand (as he's dressed up in the beard)?</span><br /> <br /> We had a ball adlibing...Chevy and I would crack jokes to each other... Michael Ritchie of Fletch died a years ago…<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What are your recollections of FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF?</span><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU70ooWwi1touKSe6xhei7GE75m6ad3S5ldVzEhD82lPutiCmnHrO-YBjIhU-HX19litv_vTGSvqvtKURS62bMgX5JTFyWVfn4-eG60N-YxhZrcd3rXkU_TMUe0gfdgQsG6-imjnuGE3fM/s1600-h/flash.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550942652433506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU70ooWwi1touKSe6xhei7GE75m6ad3S5ldVzEhD82lPutiCmnHrO-YBjIhU-HX19litv_vTGSvqvtKURS62bMgX5JTFyWVfn4-eG60N-YxhZrcd3rXkU_TMUe0gfdgQsG6-imjnuGE3fM/s200/flash.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 82px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 64px;" /></a>John was scared to tell me at the screening that all that work and scenes that me and Richard shot was on the editing room floor...it was suppose to be two stories going on...ours and Matthew's...but the film became too long.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">You have become a producer and a writer and director on various projects… Tell us how it was switching from acting to behind the camera?</span><br /> <br /> I always had a gift to how the character should be played by my co-stars as an actor so transitioning to behind the camera was easy and smooth for me…I enjoy the whole process of casting to editing to seeing the words I wrote up on it's feet on the screen...very cool...<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BRsr3_Z1eoGRziTRyUYxh1UV7i5m_SomyyYxDCw6EPbXxUn_TnwHV2G3E6GuK-iAjbmWeMJgnrYk0T501zKrvCoLv1M1uc05qsdmgwYJ-KY_qhDk_boidpTb8NXnMrK7UPExnGfZKWD3/s1600-h/ljenkins.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428550271226184130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BRsr3_Z1eoGRziTRyUYxh1UV7i5m_SomyyYxDCw6EPbXxUn_TnwHV2G3E6GuK-iAjbmWeMJgnrYk0T501zKrvCoLv1M1uc05qsdmgwYJ-KY_qhDk_boidpTb8NXnMrK7UPExnGfZKWD3/s200/ljenkins.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 160px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did you get your middle name FLASH?</span><br /> <br /> Early on Bowling team in high school…then Karate…then Bruce Paltrow thought it was perfect for me because I learned lines so fast…<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> You worked on YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE… How was this? </span><br /> <br /> Did the director a favor after the White Shadow… Garry Marshall writing the script as we filmed...changing scences in mid stride of the movie…<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How about ARMED AND DANGEROUS? </span><br /> <br /> Funny and great cast and we shot most of the film at The Beverly Hillbillies home in Bel Air...<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Working on Brian De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE?</span><br /> <br /> So cool… Me and Dennis Franz became the best of friends after that and remember we were on Steven Bochco's Bay City Blues together on the NBC series the year b4 that starred me and Sharon Stone and Michael Nouri along with Dennis...<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The newly released 80’s buddy film LOOKIN’ TO GET OUT? </span><br /> <br /> Jon Voight and Ann-Margret were cool to be around.

LARRY FLASH JENKINS ("THE WHITE SHADOW")

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Larry Flash Jenkins LARRY FLASH JENKINS has been in films and television shows for several decades, playing the troubled, quick-footed "Gummy" in the Chevy Chase comedy FLETCH; a basketball player in THE WHITE SHADOW; and is one of the

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REVISITING ANNA WITH SALLY KIRKLAND

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSriT4nET1AQtLPgYJwClTgY2jY5iRg2rSKAvD8UFZZgyCHR_7EaG4wj8Sbfr64XaeRW5-dSmpMsPzxD5RFzzyqfsFf6MjHhAjcv1Zz-qCtAfRZS4KSLOW6MmHch8OqJZWOTB1fNKIlY0A/s1600/64993_319591664756318_1178864646_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSriT4nET1AQtLPgYJwClTgY2jY5iRg2rSKAvD8UFZZgyCHR_7EaG4wj8Sbfr64XaeRW5-dSmpMsPzxD5RFzzyqfsFf6MjHhAjcv1Zz-qCtAfRZS4KSLOW6MmHch8OqJZWOTB1fNKIlY0A/s1600/64993_319591664756318_1178864646_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interview with Actress Sally Kirkland on ANNA</td></tr> </tbody></table> <i>SALLY KIRKLAND is an amazing, highly versatile actress, a fact proven in many eclectic roles, particularly the 1987 independent film ANNA as the titular Czech actress struggling in New York City, a performance that garnered an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.</i><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What kind of preparation went into Anna’s accent?</span><br /> <br /> I can answer that question… The way I achieved that voice and that accent… Initially she was Polish in the script, and then she became Czech. And then I went to the Samuel French bookstore and I got tapes on Eastern European accents. I combined that with restudying Meryl Streep in SOPHIE’S CHOICE…<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qTOd_GSnuz4ENP2qZfkStbfd0ve1O0LC21xS47EsNVy4BtXIycxqgH-Z_O9SH59gc9jNRQpKQ4fyP8WeQ9L5jvSR6Cj5MXX9QFAdnO5T08megBAMPwJCufdIzJMn-o7B9GwukOoGf90/s1600/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670205436802014834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qTOd_GSnuz4ENP2qZfkStbfd0ve1O0LC21xS47EsNVy4BtXIycxqgH-Z_O9SH59gc9jNRQpKQ4fyP8WeQ9L5jvSR6Cj5MXX9QFAdnO5T08megBAMPwJCufdIzJMn-o7B9GwukOoGf90/s200/1.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 186px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland Interview</td></tr> </tbody></table> I combined that with going to the Heidelberg Bar on 86th Street in New York and listening to all of the different Eastern Europeans in all of the different countries. I combined that with Marlene Dietrich… [Imitates Dietrich] “Falling in love again, what am I to do with someone like you, I can’t help it.” I tried to channel Marlene Dietrich with that voice, put that together with what I learned about the accent...<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dL7cxH43wY7bsR7XUhVyf4Mn7YFmWAL4WaANhX_I8zLxsBGlcFPodETG8EtkepclUBYXdGMCnhK3S_p5gHScUVm3Dd6NNz_Ze9Wr2vQ4hRwpYR9QkNfioqXa9aRvqkDbqyHDzK3tan4/s1600/3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670202507823308946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dL7cxH43wY7bsR7XUhVyf4Mn7YFmWAL4WaANhX_I8zLxsBGlcFPodETG8EtkepclUBYXdGMCnhK3S_p5gHScUVm3Dd6NNz_Ze9Wr2vQ4hRwpYR9QkNfioqXa9aRvqkDbqyHDzK3tan4/s200/3.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 154px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr> </tbody></table> And then once I found out that it was Czech, I knew there was an elevator man in my mother’s building in New York, and I went back to him in the back elevators, and I said, “Cleo, can you spring yourself for about a half hour – I’ll give you a bottle of wine, and come to my apartment – to my mother’s apartment – and I want you to help me with something.” And he read every line in the movie in that Czechoslovakian accent and I put them on tape. Plus I marked the script whenever he would change the W's to V's or role an R, or whatnot.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSANPWkJAgAlY4bDWMEXoKVmboSZEnEoaZP3dXqHO4nzDGwHuGcxZThGq_DFOfQM6NBWxXzYnKoxzy1IDGgxLH4vQLGRMy-8uqLokAo7MZM1tycW18Yc1UwG9SQmYcGSbMUmOhzMFp0wU/s1600/4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670202636120700274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSANPWkJAgAlY4bDWMEXoKVmboSZEnEoaZP3dXqHO4nzDGwHuGcxZThGq_DFOfQM6NBWxXzYnKoxzy1IDGgxLH4vQLGRMy-8uqLokAo7MZM1tycW18Yc1UwG9SQmYcGSbMUmOhzMFp0wU/s200/4.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 152px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr> </tbody></table> And there were a lot of extraordinary women who I think were being considered – I’m just gonna take a wild that guess that I think maybe they approached Vanessa Redgrave’s people… Lee Grant, Shirley Knight – lot of different ways to go – and I don’t think initially he [the director] thought I was right… His name is Yurek Bogayevicz.<br /> <br /> And I kept coming back; I think there were about three auditions. And I would send him flowers all the time. At one point I think I was standing in the rain, waiting for him to come out – like the scene in the movie. Waiting for him to come out of the building and I just stalked him, you know.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExRqOnR-4GbR4M8CmbRhwLAraZj4xYNCvkMPEG4ocaaWFv6ZvSYC2aHFUPKdhEjGVZ2hTliBh7x7vWKtQmi0QuIwY0K_GqyFiejtRkQYsulFJrXpp-JbDMoAogmAt5Qsl7NzyBpq9iB8/s1600/5.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670202765740398290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExRqOnR-4GbR4M8CmbRhwLAraZj4xYNCvkMPEG4ocaaWFv6ZvSYC2aHFUPKdhEjGVZ2hTliBh7x7vWKtQmi0QuIwY0K_GqyFiejtRkQYsulFJrXpp-JbDMoAogmAt5Qsl7NzyBpq9iB8/s200/5.jpg" style="float: left; height: 170px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pauline Porizkova & Sally</td></tr> </tbody></table> And finally I got a call, right when I was at the airport ready to go to Sidney, Australia to teach a hundred actors "Insight Seminars" (acting with Spiritual or New Age techniques)… And that had been planned for some time.<br /> <br /> And I had got a call to come read with Paulina Porizkova. And I said to my agent, “I can’t do it, I’m at the airport and I’m ready to go to Sidney.” And they said, “Sally, this is this part you want.” I said, “I know, I know… But I feel terrible letting down a hundred people who have already paid their money. They’re expecting me tomorrow.”<br /> <br /> And it was a real moment in my life where I didn’t know how to make a decision, but somewhere I honored the whole spiritual part of me that had already committed to doing this thing that, you know, was very far away and couldn’t be cancelled. So I just… leap of faith… I did a week long there. And I came back and he was waiting for me to test with Paulina Porizkova.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdvIQ2sc43dVp1n3l9s7Ee23dgFYP_uSaYbEq8xX0s8OLqi1LQSwjkVCvTkowWz2dXSWzmtipCgCs2yhc61JzbLD2EOuGUPmRQFqw6W6iaKregsKrro_YGG2FthOdNPJjsikvr_gqSDk/s1600/312285_233315736717245_177689438946542_647011_1302004174_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670216682010035458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdvIQ2sc43dVp1n3l9s7Ee23dgFYP_uSaYbEq8xX0s8OLqi1LQSwjkVCvTkowWz2dXSWzmtipCgCs2yhc61JzbLD2EOuGUPmRQFqw6W6iaKregsKrro_YGG2FthOdNPJjsikvr_gqSDk/s200/312285_233315736717245_177689438946542_647011_1302004174_n.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 198px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally & Pauline</td></tr> </tbody></table> And he had us improvise, and she and I got along instantly and she guessed that I was a Scorpio. I guessed that she was an Aries. It was kind of incredible and we fell in love, she and I, so to speak. And I coached her on acting, and she coached me on Czech, and it was a marriage made in heaven, you know. She was the number one model at that point.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7zcXE_9QzZA09sM2nIxVL-f7Dc5WkX1iIqG9r1UpFm1jwp64-pAuKFwfcRaCXvBURREfybhsce9ESBpp-vXDxNXA2azSlcwLGdLlSivmzxEBNcvSJ4A2VpDBZx6U7L2Ig9cUQfPH8pU/s1600/7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670202992499575042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7zcXE_9QzZA09sM2nIxVL-f7Dc5WkX1iIqG9r1UpFm1jwp64-pAuKFwfcRaCXvBURREfybhsce9ESBpp-vXDxNXA2azSlcwLGdLlSivmzxEBNcvSJ4A2VpDBZx6U7L2Ig9cUQfPH8pU/s200/7.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 178px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr> </tbody></table> And there was another little trick I used for Anna’s accent. I had, starting in 1970, right up until recent years… I had been a yoga teacher for the Integral Yoga institute. And a man named Swami Satchidananda, who opened the Woodstock Festival… If you remember the guru sitting there, opening the festival… That was Swami Satchidananda. I taught for him, and we learned Sanskrit chanting, so we’d learn [Sally begins chanting]… So if heard in there: there was a rolled R, in a very literal sense. So I used that also for Anna’s accent… I combined Hindi with German with, eventually, Czech.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you use your own past experiences for the role of an actress struggling for work?</span><br /> <br /> That and men… My experiences with men. I didn’t have to try too hard. Although one reviewer or journalist said: “Sally Kirkland: Overnight Discovery.” And I said, “Yeah, after twenty-five years.” I’d been doing this thing since I was… Making money at it since I was 17. And I started acting when I was ten… Not for money, you know. So by the time they said “Overnight Success,” it was sort of like: “Okay, sure.” But all the actors out there in the world really related to this role because it totally gives you the hopes and rejections of the actor.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkpf0YrOSPtmeleGEbvYB_EV8zJXJcDvQ-AFHPfhkSfcRQW7XVkftQ9BUyvPJnL3MNrfi8l_1-n2N3I4krBboZ7AMiXlfdsYUDbgIdCZoxR7uxtY7kcJXlMI7yXN0T258YtGkqVMkUl_o/s1600/9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670203310251805442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkpf0YrOSPtmeleGEbvYB_EV8zJXJcDvQ-AFHPfhkSfcRQW7XVkftQ9BUyvPJnL3MNrfi8l_1-n2N3I4krBboZ7AMiXlfdsYUDbgIdCZoxR7uxtY7kcJXlMI7yXN0T258YtGkqVMkUl_o/s200/9.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 163px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I really enjoy the scene where you’re auditioning for the play with the other actresses…</span><br /> <br /> Wasn’t that great? We did that in one take. Bobby Bukowski, the cameraman there, had a track, and the camera would go from one end of the track to the other, and what you saw, we really didn’t rehearse a lot. We sort of shot the rehearsals. When I jump up on one leg – you know, “Humpy Dumpty sat on the wall…”<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6tyNJ-M-wvtczqlR4wE9f2HposlhI4zsLhy6HCAgQbI6bXM9-WPVfE38gjrswF6_c0WzmVSzkPY5s4QL-E4xkP7PqO86qxeI6ZTSy3fOeQVvfnTTd9Q9oRtBvRMGhtLQ-MOMEOGIXfg/s1600/315884_233315076717311_177689438946542_646987_1924580924_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670204879881193650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6tyNJ-M-wvtczqlR4wE9f2HposlhI4zsLhy6HCAgQbI6bXM9-WPVfE38gjrswF6_c0WzmVSzkPY5s4QL-E4xkP7PqO86qxeI6ZTSy3fOeQVvfnTTd9Q9oRtBvRMGhtLQ-MOMEOGIXfg/s200/315884_233315076717311_177689438946542_646987_1924580924_n.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 160px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr> </tbody></table> In the audition he said, “Throw away the script; give me a nursery rhyme.” And I jumped up and down. I did whatever he told me to, and that ended up in the movie but we didn’t rehearse it. Everything you saw in the movie was filmed exactly how you saw it. Not every scene, but that scene for sure, what you’re talking about, with the actresses.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEa-8djZTbH7EgDEoVVamMsNefnxht_zyHFo8fWa-cK5qsxidcBaUSrsZ1vyX5QJSV3rDUsaejHBR8-nCNIc5StFpnKXJnNOUQVhzPRYViKQpYqLBKcfRzAXuSovS9JAER1WjFoDN49E/s1600/10.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670203642133147554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEa-8djZTbH7EgDEoVVamMsNefnxht_zyHFo8fWa-cK5qsxidcBaUSrsZ1vyX5QJSV3rDUsaejHBR8-nCNIc5StFpnKXJnNOUQVhzPRYViKQpYqLBKcfRzAXuSovS9JAER1WjFoDN49E/s200/10.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 158px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally Kirkland</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I loved how Anna walks around in a sort of heavy, clunky manner, reminiscent of certain women from European countries…</span><br /> <br /> Well that was my observation of the Eastern European women. There was a word for it that Yurek told me, and I can’t remember the word for it now… But it was definitely characteristic… Interesting you picked up on that.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Along with your friendship with the young girl, and the aspect of the struggling actress, there’s a love story that’s very moving…</span><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQoseNk1jDxMpPduYXie7G5z1uYiGhokIH5cDu4QWeqDHYg_s0jfXVW0T_8EdoA46fXkNCB1suSZBTAPREu3i1Y6-On33gczbzjOtlFpsT6_yIqmf9a4IDzTIDAYxEZMqTZNFk2LAHjXI/s1600/11.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670203792532457954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQoseNk1jDxMpPduYXie7G5z1uYiGhokIH5cDu4QWeqDHYg_s0jfXVW0T_8EdoA46fXkNCB1suSZBTAPREu3i1Y6-On33gczbzjOtlFpsT6_yIqmf9a4IDzTIDAYxEZMqTZNFk2LAHjXI/s200/11.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 137px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bobs and Sally</td></tr> </tbody></table> I’d been in love with Bob Dylan in that time-frame, I mean… All my life. But in the seventies, eighties and it was sort of… Ultimately I felt like my heart broke. And I used that for Tonda, the husband… I used Bob. I personalized Bob for Tonda.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbsg_KpLvlrY6LjryfUujr7d6UgXQDxvq4zn2gZUh1AKEdl7Gu5EkJFOGf-34S_0_grrj6dpeEQpGnhYdXnXHP53Ynn2oUdWD-pNr3URIedB2w_FeadfrZWXmq599iJMpe4_fnrFsopE/s1600/13.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670203947516217554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbsg_KpLvlrY6LjryfUujr7d6UgXQDxvq4zn2gZUh1AKEdl7Gu5EkJFOGf-34S_0_grrj6dpeEQpGnhYdXnXHP53Ynn2oUdWD-pNr3URIedB2w_FeadfrZWXmq599iJMpe4_fnrFsopE/s200/13.jpg" style="float: left; height: 192px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally & Paulina</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-weight: bold;">One of my personal favorite scenes is with you and Paulina lying on the bed…</span><br /> <br /> It was a five-minute scene, and we only had enough film in the camera for one take. And they asked me if I would mind doing it in one take… We were at the Chelsea Hotel and we only had it for a certain amount of time that day, and this being a low budget film we had to really get that shot so they started out with a master shot in the corner of the room. And they came down closer and closer and closer to the two of us on the bed in more of a two-shot close-up. And I remember that it was a long, long amount of lines, and I was nervous that I wouldn’t get through the whole thing in one take.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDiskowy-dUWGojhvBiWIH6nCC2t0Nb26EEdVyBX_rugOns9AhPE2KYemmVQw7Sn4TNy7mNvU3nIn2reRta3J4ySclv-p-KiMGY7GWPb9ntJdXPJRX57zfbdV0mMMppJg5PHX8042Cw0c/s1600/14.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670204090022924786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDiskowy-dUWGojhvBiWIH6nCC2t0Nb26EEdVyBX_rugOns9AhPE2KYemmVQw7Sn4TNy7mNvU3nIn2reRta3J4ySclv-p-KiMGY7GWPb9ntJdXPJRX57zfbdV0mMMppJg5PHX8042Cw0c/s400/14.jpg" style="float: right; height: 120px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paulina & Sally</td></tr> </tbody></table> And so I had some lines written on a piece of paper, taped to the wall. And when you see my eyes look up, I’m actually looking at the lines on the wall. But being a good actress you would never know… It was just the very end of the monologue. I needed support from this magic marker from this piece of white paper on the wall.<br /> <br /> I remember in that scene with her I was talking about having been in a Russian prison, and losing my baby. And I had had a couple of miscarriages, and as a method acting teacher, too… which I am… I used something called Emotional Recall where I was thinking about these two children that I would have had – and using that for losing the baby in the Russian prison, and getting mad at the Russians who kind of created that situation for me… And then holding onto this young woman who was my child and just transferring all of that lost love that I always wanted to have as a mother, to her. It’s a wonderful film, you guys… ANNA.

REVISITING ANNA WITH SALLY KIRKLAND

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Interview with Actress Sally Kirkland on ANNA SALLY KIRKLAND is an amazing, highly versatile actress, a fact proven in many eclectic roles, particularly the 1987 independent film ANNA as the titular Czech actress struggling in New York

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JACQUELINE SCOTT ON PLANET OF THE APES

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1z9ZEh3Krx7zb-yE8MYMReQqOceM6cnJZmvkqUWxqSv24ACBqcmkDruPi3q1QfCSEptLopnInT6tqnYcM_1eBx4WOXT8u0h59m50mSGB6InUjuksaTtgnzjQokjOCrnEREGxy330bfjI/s1600/Zantes.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636841746227945074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1z9ZEh3Krx7zb-yE8MYMReQqOceM6cnJZmvkqUWxqSv24ACBqcmkDruPi3q1QfCSEptLopnInT6tqnYcM_1eBx4WOXT8u0h59m50mSGB6InUjuksaTtgnzjQokjOCrnEREGxy330bfjI/s200/Zantes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 180px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><i>With the release of the new film RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the fact all the simians are computer animated will bring more than a spark of honored repose to the original movies, as well as the TV series that starred Roddy McDowall and, in two classic episodes, JACQUELINE SCOTT, recalling the time and effort to get those masks on...</i><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You were part of the short-lived but brilliant television series PLANET OF THE APES…</span></span><br /> <br /> It was just crazy that they didn’t continue them. They only did thirteen of the television shows and I did two, one playing a little farm wife [The Good Seeds]. And I was trying to get out of the Westerns because I’d done it so much that people thought I couldn’t talk any differently, so I had to get out of Westerns. And then I get this script for “Planet of the Apes” and it says: “The humans come over the hill and we see a little farm house.” I said, “Oh my God, now I’m gonna be an ape farm wife.” But I loved to do it. And then I played Roddy’s fiancé [The Surgeon] and if they had continued doing them, I would have been a recurring ape.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsNdeIIsvPt4E_Xzo0zxJ_IsA3zph5_S-MDLyH4nwOGzOKnDAu6zUJet2B4bPnE2X2hf1iOZ00_-FSHlPwWfvRFvveaPj4WeiaJtvSU51SaoOPWOaZ96s9u0PD9Deu4ZQQonleYzYcTw/s1600/5.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636841321722273138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsNdeIIsvPt4E_Xzo0zxJ_IsA3zph5_S-MDLyH4nwOGzOKnDAu6zUJet2B4bPnE2X2hf1iOZ00_-FSHlPwWfvRFvveaPj4WeiaJtvSU51SaoOPWOaZ96s9u0PD9Deu4ZQQonleYzYcTw/s200/5.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 166px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why did the series get cancelled?</span></span><br /> <br /> Because it’s so expensive – putting the makeup on was about three and a half, four hours. And then you could only wear the appliances once, and then they had to be destroyed. And they had to have the very best makeup man in the business on that show, because it was not easy to put the masks on. And they were in two pieces… And then they had to know how to lay the hair on your face, and hair on your hands, and it’s quite a complicated makeup job.<br /> <br /> So with the combination of only being able to use the appliances once, and then the time that it took to put them on… And then they didn’t want to pay us to take them off, but we got around that, because if you could imagine driving home on a freeway in those ape masks – we would have caused about a five-hundred car pile up.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVbN97HNBU1vrHZVbhh3AIWvGL2zMjA0dgdWtWbKlG8pX2EDz31r7uaea_cl3xCpr8sXSzl3esSAnT4O7EhMp8PC42SJvJ2EW8YtaBsA57TiTehW_UGoSi5s3PXza5QczaHFg6K0ZhmcU/s1600/8.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840444402958418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVbN97HNBU1vrHZVbhh3AIWvGL2zMjA0dgdWtWbKlG8pX2EDz31r7uaea_cl3xCpr8sXSzl3esSAnT4O7EhMp8PC42SJvJ2EW8YtaBsA57TiTehW_UGoSi5s3PXza5QczaHFg6K0ZhmcU/s200/8.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 188px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a>I was at the casting with Beverly Garland, and we were the only women who liked to work in them, and yet you never got used to them. You would walk past the mirror and just scare the living daylights out of yourself.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmdwgMorJdMjFVMkfCc3QeYK20NSlxUaqsl-yU8N8H5tynTPoEEUEoPNLufjB70RhS-ddVvoPymGEe7fRmw6MmbmzJ3oU0siOCt3fBO9viZ_0hOMcome0pO14R4w0p2MqoYWBLOEX0dc/s1600/11.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840525010898658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmdwgMorJdMjFVMkfCc3QeYK20NSlxUaqsl-yU8N8H5tynTPoEEUEoPNLufjB70RhS-ddVvoPymGEe7fRmw6MmbmzJ3oU0siOCt3fBO9viZ_0hOMcome0pO14R4w0p2MqoYWBLOEX0dc/s200/11.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 183px;" /></a>They had these crazy makeup men, and they were all funny. And when you start getting those appliances on you cannot laugh. And so it was not an easy thing to do, but they would be around stirring these huge vats all day long, pouring these into moulds. I had Kim Hunter’s mask… That mould fit me well enough they used that for me… They had all the moulds. I may be telling tales out of school here, but I don’t think so. But they used moulds; I think they probably had been originally done for different characters in the movie. And Roddy had a special one, you know… And to cross his path was to love him. He was the most wonderful person… He was just a lovely man.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIt65nEaIO21HrG5H6NbWtyFgzIb0dKqqpmmhyphenhyphenlBtNmcC7qvOFy0VOu4lpBICAXwI16BtlFA8wflmKNkmAnXl9sMu2MbUmeNtVEI67RDtStz67HEEvqvkCwtFTAfHHXXnlTdBcz7ez-8/s1600/6.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840952672411202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIt65nEaIO21HrG5H6NbWtyFgzIb0dKqqpmmhyphenhyphenlBtNmcC7qvOFy0VOu4lpBICAXwI16BtlFA8wflmKNkmAnXl9sMu2MbUmeNtVEI67RDtStz67HEEvqvkCwtFTAfHHXXnlTdBcz7ez-8/s200/6.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 188px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There are some incredible expressions by the actors and actresses playing apes in the films and TV series…</span></span><br /> <br /> Well that’s the brilliance of those masks because the area… The mask… It’s two-pieces. I don’t know if I can explain it to you but… The top goes on your forehead and over your nose and over your mouth… I mean – your own mouth is free. And then there’s just a chin that is separate, but the area around the edges of your mouth, and the edges of your eyes, are your own skin – and those are the two most expressive places on your face. So that’s the real brilliance of those masks and why they are, you know… Why you really think you’re watching a talking ape.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnWVwiM3nMod7q_Cq1_SM3LTZCNFsW9kDbW4fkWbfMIknqmqBMVrxMF1kiB4BgXkx5TsbajFeoaW0lHuKa08c6f-aXA4ReBlzE65jlAMbHQxyRHjTsLQUgXBKhCD0_khS6k0vXvvXs4Y0/s1600/17.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840745082642514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnWVwiM3nMod7q_Cq1_SM3LTZCNFsW9kDbW4fkWbfMIknqmqBMVrxMF1kiB4BgXkx5TsbajFeoaW0lHuKa08c6f-aXA4ReBlzE65jlAMbHQxyRHjTsLQUgXBKhCD0_khS6k0vXvvXs4Y0/s200/17.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 191px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I don’t think they can do with computers what they did with those masks...</span></span><br /> <br /> Yeah, they can’t make the human expression and feelings. I don’t know if you watch “Jeopardy.” The other night the contestant was playing the computer, and they said the computer cannot… It has no feelings, no emotion. So, you know, that’s of course what we had in those masks.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigf2W5L2aJ1DKguJAZNKrnNt2JUxro7qgDfE3OP4Ri3fSmOBvXwiS940tErTE8Ic_DhEUa-D6nwwf7GzCdNx5ygeDJmcnsYNRJOuLyQDgavlAz_ih9DBB8qgo8NYXPigtwbgb72cdaXSc/s1600/13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636840843251804642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigf2W5L2aJ1DKguJAZNKrnNt2JUxro7qgDfE3OP4Ri3fSmOBvXwiS940tErTE8Ic_DhEUa-D6nwwf7GzCdNx5ygeDJmcnsYNRJOuLyQDgavlAz_ih9DBB8qgo8NYXPigtwbgb72cdaXSc/s200/13.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 181px;" /></a>I just loved to work in them. Because you had to use a lot of the most expressive things that just happen as a reflex action, as an actress, that doesn’t happen because your hands are all covered with hair, and your face is all covered and your body… You have loose clothing and so you have to find very specific ways to express yourself different from what you generally would have to do. I just loved doing it. But the worst thing was having them on.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuN9Hds_rAHmu3p8bYkh3GTF1YgMku3N2D6rhjEfCAUnCK7EFqQprm0oK-_oQqPu3inQcB5GM-DdaYqC-cGCDBZrhZSuHmjXA-C7Nwn2UVY450GWcfVHNZW508QNousI4Pv00-kieK30/s1600/20.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636850876082984962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuN9Hds_rAHmu3p8bYkh3GTF1YgMku3N2D6rhjEfCAUnCK7EFqQprm0oK-_oQqPu3inQcB5GM-DdaYqC-cGCDBZrhZSuHmjXA-C7Nwn2UVY450GWcfVHNZW508QNousI4Pv00-kieK30/s200/20.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 198px;" /></a>Like one day I had it on for eighteen hours, and Roddy said to me: “These don’t seem to bother you as much as they do other people.” And I said, “Well what are you gonna do, put ‘em on and complain all day?”<br /> <br /> I really didn’t realize, but when I finished doing the shows, the next morning I opened my eyes and the first thought that crossed my mind was: “Thank Heaven I don’t have to put those masks on today.” And I never thought it bothered me… Isn’t that interesting?<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And I imagine taking off the makeup is much easier…</span></span><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxWeDQOWVUMaQzaElaz6dh69PiAE6UQr3HNVPH0dXY3H2VmOys33ibpmwXnIUq5HK4gTG1LmQPpdHPMfTUfVkEKm6uVRy03Ab2Q0Lav3qS2Klw7H9YQZLNIP9h8Pb72CFG5pqiZp2chk/s1600/JACQUELINESCOTT2+copy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636841857071713746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxWeDQOWVUMaQzaElaz6dh69PiAE6UQr3HNVPH0dXY3H2VmOys33ibpmwXnIUq5HK4gTG1LmQPpdHPMfTUfVkEKm6uVRy03Ab2Q0Lav3qS2Klw7H9YQZLNIP9h8Pb72CFG5pqiZp2chk/s200/JACQUELINESCOTT2+copy.jpg" style="float: left; height: 141px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>Well yeah, but you’re talking it off with… It takes about twenty minutes to take them off… But you’re getting a little face peel there. A lot of ripping off appliances and God knows I… I didn’t even want to ask what we had to use to get that glue off, but it didn’t get rid of my freckles… So there you are.<br /> <br /> But when that mask is on, and when the crew starts telling you that you look pretty that day, you know they’ve been on the show too long.

JACQUELINE SCOTT ON PLANET OF THE APES

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With the release of the new film RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the fact all the simians are computer animated will bring more than a spark of honored repose to the original movies, as well as the TV series that starred Roddy McDowall

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DEBORAH REED IS THE GOBLIN QUEEN OF TROLL 2

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3BssvyZf1HmMyDVg3j0arf_gNLR8QgNajqB8obiIrXVUWOllnveSxWOGkPIwyzVp4asFOgA8E6_ywEKJtO-iB2Ohw8-ZWaDcTEw1yqYyS9pW0-WxXLB_j0DALTKWDPsi2Bf4IQKgL1uqo/s1600/title04_185716601.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3BssvyZf1HmMyDVg3j0arf_gNLR8QgNajqB8obiIrXVUWOllnveSxWOGkPIwyzVp4asFOgA8E6_ywEKJtO-iB2Ohw8-ZWaDcTEw1yqYyS9pW0-WxXLB_j0DALTKWDPsi2Bf4IQKgL1uqo/s1600/title04_185716601.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <i>DEBORAH REED not only steals her scenes in the cult classic TROLL2, but as Queen of the Goblins, she owns them entirely, allowing her awesome talents to shine into a one woman show: traipsing around her little house of horrors and turning young men into vegetables... Something no other actress could pull off quite the same...</i><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MS2pnbgKqwdvJ5CEsqwJBMrAbAwKqXNOECFg9hSHjaDH9PwwF1my3w__ZXs2l6bxaYHECPQyUQ6hOra2H6p9YC_jNVR8aYscKFK2XXEbytfOBiO30-ozzCme5XubsKFfEUdpf1OuNTI/s1600/31950_400770387113_797222113_4091412_3864854_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524760712646203426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MS2pnbgKqwdvJ5CEsqwJBMrAbAwKqXNOECFg9hSHjaDH9PwwF1my3w__ZXs2l6bxaYHECPQyUQ6hOra2H6p9YC_jNVR8aYscKFK2XXEbytfOBiO30-ozzCme5XubsKFfEUdpf1OuNTI/s200/31950_400770387113_797222113_4091412_3864854_n.jpg" style="float: right; height: 195px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Poster Art</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-weight: bold;">When did you realize the movie was gaining such an immense cult following?</span><br /> <br /> Probably about seven years ago and I was actually working at a congressional office at the time, and someone came in from the Washington office and said, “Oh my gosh,” somebody made a comment, “Oh, she’s the Troll Queen.” And I thought, well, they won’t know what that is. And they said, “You’re kidding. Our whole floor there, of the staff, is called NILBOG.” And I said, “You’re kidding?” I said, “What?” And somebody said, “You gotta go to imdb.” And there were all of these horrible, hilarious, nasty remarks about the movie, and I just thought that was the funniest thing in the world.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPK16Oo2sqLVaBVf-YdU2ZSLHI2Y0dAUhfFtL9zW3jPuhDKHXpFdmZWbIm0ieeaacnk05DXuTx9xBqD-WN0bIzd7nSwbNzuGSCYb_uWSS7TqTVEoCCINbwQ_IVE4mBA5TVk53afklC_hg/s1600/creedence-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524765428413014082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPK16Oo2sqLVaBVf-YdU2ZSLHI2Y0dAUhfFtL9zW3jPuhDKHXpFdmZWbIm0ieeaacnk05DXuTx9xBqD-WN0bIzd7nSwbNzuGSCYb_uWSS7TqTVEoCCINbwQ_IVE4mBA5TVk53afklC_hg/s200/creedence-1.jpg" style="float: right; height: 199px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah vamps out</td></tr> </tbody></table> I got a kick out of it from the get-go, and… Actually I can go back a little farther… I knew it was bad when I went to pick up a copy, the first time it came out, on video and I was standing there in line with the movie, and somebody next to me glanced over and they said, “Oh, you don’t want to rent that, that is the worst movie you’ve ever seen.” And I just laughed out loud. That was my first funny experience with the movie as far as how bad it was, and how it was perceived.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmn1w8Urfl5SmmABXIGFM7RqgqQjmRXRtWdi19GJS1tGZ6w2DAbPmcLGUwa6Ny2ueGXQZno3Lsy9KDfZVK2BMgxz6295gh0koujcoCubJVEK8uHET7EiKwJNaOjoB8MwFlb7WFaiL2b3M/s1600/36124_412445157113_797222113_4371265_8293893_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524760144436907570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmn1w8Urfl5SmmABXIGFM7RqgqQjmRXRtWdi19GJS1tGZ6w2DAbPmcLGUwa6Ny2ueGXQZno3Lsy9KDfZVK2BMgxz6295gh0koujcoCubJVEK8uHET7EiKwJNaOjoB8MwFlb7WFaiL2b3M/s200/36124_412445157113_797222113_4371265_8293893_n.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 160px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fan Painting</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you remember if that chainsaw you wield on "Arnold" was heavy?</span><br /> <br /> That is something that does stick in mind because I remember I couldn’t even pick that thing up… And they had to literally, just… Right before I did the scene… Just plunk that in my arms… And again, it was one of those one-take things… Throw it in my arms, do the scene, and we’re done.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How was doing that popcorn scene with "Brent" in the RV?</span><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoATyuRWepKJRB0Vj9Cw8rJt31UG4A7IT2YntpTTnwvgjeJXbNtyu_7vYWMD66v2MiFvLds_Ur1OwRlIiXvNLNMkLw4-4xYNB3JRrZ4SP-iMyxDopxtP3OjFiuqM3SHc4tWxRJFf0y-rQ/s1600/36902_119139591463663_106638979380391_117858_7340397_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524760503825123714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoATyuRWepKJRB0Vj9Cw8rJt31UG4A7IT2YntpTTnwvgjeJXbNtyu_7vYWMD66v2MiFvLds_Ur1OwRlIiXvNLNMkLw4-4xYNB3JRrZ4SP-iMyxDopxtP3OjFiuqM3SHc4tWxRJFf0y-rQ/s200/36902_119139591463663_106638979380391_117858_7340397_n.jpg" style="float: right; height: 118px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Corny Scene</td></tr> </tbody></table> We got into that awkward position and they made me jump into that scene and the popcorn machine broke and they said okay, turn it on, and it starts popping out, and they said, “Don’t move, don’t move”, and there we are, and, till we fixed it, I don’t know how long it took… It could have taken fifteen minutes and so, it was odd, awkward, to say the least… They had some funky machine that they made, and it was just popping it out all over, isn’t that funny? And I don’t remember it exactly, but that’s kind of what they did, and then they got it going again…<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Going back to the audition… How did you land the role as Creedence?</span><br /> <br /> I was with an agency, and there were literally hundreds, if not a few thousand… I mean… There were so many. I remember going up to the audition and it was up in Park City in a hotel… And people were just literally lined up and down in the hallways just sitting there waiting, and I just thought, wow this interesting…<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM20oIjOZ7vqaLtsDy2wa8iG6aYdw2mvm6jA4PzCQKvhVN1XkJW4Kme3cGRHg1Pjv6riaeKZMU4LH86NUj_WJcEmPeLSExuxD3EEdDVQMSJjJ7SSeF6LCerWPkc7NWMxMEw8T6ETcPqzs/s1600/36902_119139588130330_106638979380391_117857_774440_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524764127749125362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM20oIjOZ7vqaLtsDy2wa8iG6aYdw2mvm6jA4PzCQKvhVN1XkJW4Kme3cGRHg1Pjv6riaeKZMU4LH86NUj_WJcEmPeLSExuxD3EEdDVQMSJjJ7SSeF6LCerWPkc7NWMxMEw8T6ETcPqzs/s200/36902_119139588130330_106638979380391_117857_774440_n.jpg" style="float: left; height: 173px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 198px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Deborah Reed</td></tr> </tbody></table> And went in. I remember walking into the room, and there were all these Italians in there, and they could barely speak English, and they just said, “Here’s what we want you to do”, and they told me to kind of play out a scene, and it was one of my most memorable, I guess, now, scenes…<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Where I’m standing at the stone and I just let it go with every bit of gusto and it was funny because I remember looking out the door and there were all these actors and all these other people just standing there watching as I just kind of went for it, and they turned a fan on me and I did the line, and found out later I got the part.<br /> <br /> LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH REED: ONE OF THE TOP TEN INTERVIEWS ON MY PODCAST SITE AND A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH A LOVELY CULT MOVIE ICON... <br /> <br /> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="105" id="125417" name="125417" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fcultfilmfreak%2F2010%2F06%2F28%2Ftroll-2%2Fplaylist.xml&autostart=false&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fcultfilmfreak%2F2010%2F06%2F28%2Ftroll-2%2fplaylist.xml&autostart=false&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=105&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="105" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="125417" id="125417" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object><br /> <div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;"> Listen to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/">internet radio</a> with <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cultfilmfreak">cultfilmfreak</a> on Blog Talk Radio</div>

DEBORAH REED IS THE GOBLIN QUEEN OF TROLL 2

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DEBORAH REED not only steals her scenes in the cult classic TROLL2, but as Queen of the Goblins, she owns them entirely, allowing her awesome talents to shine into a one woman show: traipsing around her little house of horrors and turn

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DANIEL HOLZMAN REVISITS IT'S ALIVE

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMhMu09v3jZzY-Xn62VDBAue7v-UyBKDJiTGVQXUSpjtbSXJryo-34q2gGKS_a_0BqR2FG6vt1mMydL1bdgvFViq2PjXzMZESXBWOp5M0jgoB-TTb6IUw9Xagf_kjA8W0AFqdXFf7n4M4/s1600-h/Picture+021.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005960708799106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMhMu09v3jZzY-Xn62VDBAue7v-UyBKDJiTGVQXUSpjtbSXJryo-34q2gGKS_a_0BqR2FG6vt1mMydL1bdgvFViq2PjXzMZESXBWOp5M0jgoB-TTb6IUw9Xagf_kjA8W0AFqdXFf7n4M4/s200/Picture+021.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 147px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><i>The iconic Larry Cohen horror classic IT'S ALIVE centers on a young suburban couple who have a baby from hell. The newborn goes on a killing spree, beginning in the hospital room and ending up in the sewers... </i><br /> <br /> <i>DANIEL HOLZMAN played the twelve-year-old son of this very unlucky couple, who has to deal with the fact his little brother makes Linda Blair seem tame...</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /> </span><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqsKLuKcTq_vMnkxVBnelNrAy8Kf83w21CM6HNE3g_cIW4h7qIIx-p5j6lCFfg7ZBm1nGi4w9JjwcW9bBfMu8zq8qAMYbZYn-zXez0Ra7_EIrMdig4LTqFbJ74sSIhJFiSd58_I5Id7s/s1600-h/Picture+004.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442007792563540226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqsKLuKcTq_vMnkxVBnelNrAy8Kf83w21CM6HNE3g_cIW4h7qIIx-p5j6lCFfg7ZBm1nGi4w9JjwcW9bBfMu8zq8qAMYbZYn-zXez0Ra7_EIrMdig4LTqFbJ74sSIhJFiSd58_I5Id7s/s200/Picture+004.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW DID YOU END UP WITH THE ROLE OF "CHRIS DAVIES"?</span><br /> <br /> </span>I was performing at a children's playhouse, one of the actors from the movie (I think he played a cop) came by to watch us work. He asked me to meet with Larry Cohen, and I did a couple of days later. The meeting seemed pretty informal, just read a few lines and that was it. Larry asked me to be in the movie, and I said yes.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN IT CAME OUT, AND WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE MOVIE?</span><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOZZprSAi0x6smqdFr9y1_q7SnSXgyOuEZKoJ_IM-Gkm8a10MfNq4FQ4dijG3xtm_AP3Y4bAuuH05GnFY1KaV1cKBWd81KnaOVwZpRnrpeElt2dLVTHbJ4_n0nLlv961I_FottQo0blII/s1600-h/Picture+008.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442009578932318802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOZZprSAi0x6smqdFr9y1_q7SnSXgyOuEZKoJ_IM-Gkm8a10MfNq4FQ4dijG3xtm_AP3Y4bAuuH05GnFY1KaV1cKBWd81KnaOVwZpRnrpeElt2dLVTHbJ4_n0nLlv961I_FottQo0blII/s200/Picture+008.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 164px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span> I guess I was 12 when it came out. My family and I all went to the premiere, and I remember my brother and I laughing at how silly the movie was. We especially liked the milkman scene, and when the cops were throwing steaks under the cars.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW DID THEY SHOOT THE SCENE WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING HOME?</span><br /> <br /> </span>I was running behind a car. The camera was mounted on the back of it.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <br /> DID YOU EVER SEE RICK BAKER WORKING THE BABY PUPPET?</span><br /> <br /> No, I don't remember meeting Rick Baker, but I remember the doll and Larry Cohen telling me how expensive it was.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">DID YOU WITNESS ANY OF THE BLOODY SCENES BEING FILMED?</span><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAoVL6G0pDrXd3Zs7z-3riHuKY2l1NLBQy1B0wcRgRjUm4kATjS270qlrql12IOhI3YNuLmmw2xtzpDxML1p82DoM4L71ecSrn2q8KJTIlqqRalVOp0KWiyvHrivvWKgczM38xvrtmEA/s1600-h/Picture+015.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005521390911010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAoVL6G0pDrXd3Zs7z-3riHuKY2l1NLBQy1B0wcRgRjUm4kATjS270qlrql12IOhI3YNuLmmw2xtzpDxML1p82DoM4L71ecSrn2q8KJTIlqqRalVOp0KWiyvHrivvWKgczM38xvrtmEA/s200/Picture+015.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 162px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>I don't think I saw any gory stuff, but I think that was just because I wasn't in those scenes.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW LONG DID YOU WORK ON THE SHOOT?</span><br /> <br /> I'm guessing a week or two.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW WAS IT WORKING WITH DIRECTOR LARRY COHEN?</span><br /> <br /> He seemed nice and patient with me. I remember for one scene he said "Throw some water on the kid's puss.” I never heard that expression for someone's face before and it stuck with me.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqat2dB5A2-KUosNxopIAib549LYSXwj-mIQ_I-GYhkHw6uis2fEZJ9ZnS0IyjFtTZq_s261BwZt8Mg-FdKZurc19Bu-4fNi7nE0zNpDaFihMBj207srw0FrS0U9yZwRVeuw59rhz2LEY/s1600-h/Picture+001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005169023227378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqat2dB5A2-KUosNxopIAib549LYSXwj-mIQ_I-GYhkHw6uis2fEZJ9ZnS0IyjFtTZq_s261BwZt8Mg-FdKZurc19Bu-4fNi7nE0zNpDaFihMBj207srw0FrS0U9yZwRVeuw59rhz2LEY/s200/Picture+001.jpg" style="float: left; height: 196px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ANY MEMORIES OF WORKING WITH JOHN P. RYAN ("RUNAWAY TRAIN") OR SHARON FARRELL ("OUT OF THE BLUE")? </span><br /> <br /> John Ryan seemed very fatherly and cool; Sharon Farrell seemed a little high strung. In one scene she slapped me a few times before we did it to try and get me to cry. Later she asked me to slap her, and I did, pretty hard too as I recall.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">DID THIS FILM INCREASE YOUR POPULARITY AT THE TIME? </span><br /> <br /> No. I don't remember anybody even mentioning it.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HAVE YOU KEPT IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE CAST OR CREW?</span><br /> <br /> No. <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">THE CHARACTER "CHARLEY" SLAPS YOUR BUTT IN ONE SCENE, AND SEEMS VERY INTERSTED IN "CHRIS"... WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? </span><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11xVNYjVfF9hJ4MEFTXYgxiryYZ9KkBQOIfKXwx1brxhA4wmyCP5Rs89lsd4hyZoBaU-lpSVsvqTW0MA_tjfCTIHU831OVueUrbyd7S3IzPqCjocnDiNKMeOXXN2NNq1U7xlbmtherl8/s1600-h/Picture+014.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005384588652002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11xVNYjVfF9hJ4MEFTXYgxiryYZ9KkBQOIfKXwx1brxhA4wmyCP5Rs89lsd4hyZoBaU-lpSVsvqTW0MA_tjfCTIHU831OVueUrbyd7S3IzPqCjocnDiNKMeOXXN2NNq1U7xlbmtherl8/s200/Picture+014.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 158px;" /></a>He did seem a little over-friendly. Maybe if he had more time before the baby monster got killed he would have made his move. Perhaps a little hug to comfort me in my time of need, followed by a chance to see his special home movies in the basement.<br /> <br /> DANIEL HOLZMAN INTERVIEW BY JAMES M. TATE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreak.com/">CULTFILMFREAK.COM</a> AND SPECIAL THANKS TO MY COUSIN DAVID DEEBLE FOR LANDING THIS INTERVIEW, ONE OF MY FIRST THAT GOT THE BALL ROLLING ON MY INTERVIEWS.

DANIEL HOLZMAN REVISITS IT'S ALIVE

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The iconic Larry Cohen horror classic IT'S ALIVE centers on a young suburban couple who have a baby from hell. The newborn goes on a killing spree, beginning in the hospital room and ending up in the sewers...  DANIEL HOLZMAN played the

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SETH WAGERMAN ("CRIMES OF PASSION")

<span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6DXmfVb8kDhodEf0mX3JUMrMsNDYQmLWzlDL65hsRBeY1i-HdfRlaSJdUFrDIoMt2v9zgpcfspjSWRLeCyS6BAWHaDALrjaanm6UOnCZyNWjTx2EDtzpnL2NMtA5x6UcZV90BLn-qau8/s1600-h/Picture+023.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439842349480291090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6DXmfVb8kDhodEf0mX3JUMrMsNDYQmLWzlDL65hsRBeY1i-HdfRlaSJdUFrDIoMt2v9zgpcfspjSWRLeCyS6BAWHaDALrjaanm6UOnCZyNWjTx2EDtzpnL2NMtA5x6UcZV90BLn-qau8/s200/Picture+023.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><i><b>Seth Wagerman appeared as a young John Travolta in THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE and was one of my first interviews...</b><b> Here he shares about his work on a much different kind of film: director Ken Russell's erotic thriller CRIMES OF PASSION, as the son of John Laughlin and Annie Potts...</b><br /></i> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpbXFvLwOFFlqulw4ccnXVdYU25qt_IK6DJsKEUD3oFGvj8EwQS-R7u4L3DQGXRfVbQdQsKAbEMmacEctqxxQx1WNmFQim6I4o-6J2W5b9-1TkEri2JJnX2AM9w686Jsmh94JtZOwbCE/s1600-h/Picture+016.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439843073682614658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpbXFvLwOFFlqulw4ccnXVdYU25qt_IK6DJsKEUD3oFGvj8EwQS-R7u4L3DQGXRfVbQdQsKAbEMmacEctqxxQx1WNmFQim6I4o-6J2W5b9-1TkEri2JJnX2AM9w686Jsmh94JtZOwbCE/s200/Picture+016.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">What are some memories working on Ken Russell's controversial film CRIMES OF PASSION?</span><br /> <br /> Ok, I was a little older for this one. But I had no idea what kind of film I was making. My scenes were completely separated from the rest of the movie. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCRGDP9n4G3MiLLMhQUMeaD1VPRGP4903yTX7NwkU-HqFRee2ZwhXzn-RfH6sdD618pDaYWGqYp2AdFkegXei-3hrXyMLluqRnR0n92w14RXggFe1ZRsuX4nncaHVI09wWiGTegGP84A/s1600-h/Picture+017.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439842141939890354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCRGDP9n4G3MiLLMhQUMeaD1VPRGP4903yTX7NwkU-HqFRee2ZwhXzn-RfH6sdD618pDaYWGqYp2AdFkegXei-3hrXyMLluqRnR0n92w14RXggFe1ZRsuX4nncaHVI09wWiGTegGP84A/s200/Picture+017.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I remember a breakfast scene with Annie Potts, and that she was nice to me, and said she was allergic to MSG (random memory; we were talking about Chinese food). The crew guy was arranging my breakfast cereal in Elmer's glue so that every flake was placed the way they wanted it, which I thought was utterly crazy. I mean, it wasn't a cornflake commercial! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJGWQeDVa_Ix-bAycq98l4cEzKNZSD5l4v_b6GJn4nPfWaWEJGcd_A0d6mPgMleu6SDj8lPUH2U7z_HM08-PTDZbP_teNqRft6UqrJ1Hf3Cj0AklY2G_t_3RSe_VG-Ppcq6hggOiKOpg/s1600-h/Picture+011.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439841779326117506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJGWQeDVa_Ix-bAycq98l4cEzKNZSD5l4v_b6GJn4nPfWaWEJGcd_A0d6mPgMleu6SDj8lPUH2U7z_HM08-PTDZbP_teNqRft6UqrJ1Hf3Cj0AklY2G_t_3RSe_VG-Ppcq6hggOiKOpg/s200/Picture+011.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I remember a scene where I was supposed to be watching TV with my sister, only it was just a cardboard box with a flickering bluish light in the middle, so it would reflect off our faces as we lay there, looking bored and zoned-out…<br /> <br /> The interesting thing about probing these recollections is what a kid remembers. I don’t remember stuff about "how the shooting went." I remember craft tables full of food, how some of the sets looked, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYk1e16s9pl2Gwu_YRNNxx3wFN-l312wP8Ooajq5gChjjbQWeu7xCdj7iYEZqkalo1NwwRej2voTFIUaW5y75WpsASXphRpTxj4ylraWmlbBawsZn3QdVSdDlyeYi654GTfVx4zvJCjM/s1600-h/Picture+018.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439842445730881042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYk1e16s9pl2Gwu_YRNNxx3wFN-l312wP8Ooajq5gChjjbQWeu7xCdj7iYEZqkalo1NwwRej2voTFIUaW5y75WpsASXphRpTxj4ylraWmlbBawsZn3QdVSdDlyeYi654GTfVx4zvJCjM/s200/Picture+018.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>the other kids I played with, and having to be in "school" with the on-set teacher. I guess that was what was salient to me at the time…Oh, yeah – and I DO remember seeing it for the first time. I went to the special cast-only viewing, and it was X-rated. I don't remember what age I was, but I remember my Mom telling them all it was ok for me to watch (she was a huge hippie and always told me that sex was no big deal). <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiFBXhd4-jg1oxlhbvy9pUGcVhhBCTB0CI-45dFgDl1-35uB9bBhwhAW95JnPEkDKi2pEm7hO7Pmkpm2mLQRnZOGwtOOSxhmgiAWWgRd2Ewkjh_fos00VwRCPtowmXrRJyXIKj5162-Y/s1600-h/Picture+015.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439846574304717890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiFBXhd4-jg1oxlhbvy9pUGcVhhBCTB0CI-45dFgDl1-35uB9bBhwhAW95JnPEkDKi2pEm7hO7Pmkpm2mLQRnZOGwtOOSxhmgiAWWgRd2Ewkjh_fos00VwRCPtowmXrRJyXIKj5162-Y/s200/Picture+015.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I remember sitting next to her and watching stuff and getting a little turned on and being extremely uncomfortable. This is probably why I've never watched the movie since, come to think of it. Weird.<br /> <br />Thanks, Mom!<br />

SETH WAGERMAN ("CRIMES OF PASSION")

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Seth Wagerman appeared as a young John Travolta in THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE and was one of my first interviews... Here he shares about his work on a much different kind of film: director Ken Russell's erotic thriller CRIMES OF PASSION,

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JORDAN RHODES ("THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO")

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh218XeGH4U5Trn7CF6BBxxUq-pWK37qUsgTClrHrVpeqd10nrSEF8HvHZsVkOyDKqIRYRY9u-UsOY4FT65GanIuGFqGWUC9gtXZsktE3tYD0r0sY-c0RsmTnfFAlw6ZnoOPrVM4QG0EtwZ/s1600-h/extra1+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434639625449530290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh218XeGH4U5Trn7CF6BBxxUq-pWK37qUsgTClrHrVpeqd10nrSEF8HvHZsVkOyDKqIRYRY9u-UsOY4FT65GanIuGFqGWUC9gtXZsktE3tYD0r0sY-c0RsmTnfFAlw6ZnoOPrVM4QG0EtwZ/s200/extra1+copy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 147px;" /></a><i>Character-actor Jordan Rhodes appeared in numerous classic cult films including the Charles Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK and Sean Penn's directorial debut THE INDIAN RUNNER, and in-between this time he got the opportunity to work on a popular television series called THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO with the late Karl Malden...</i><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFlkrrkRcP8hY6k89rX4eq8-S6nxyw0tbxfRv_SoSVE0GL8hvXuIcfMnHswfbgo3uE99z2czo4IhDLlkpHSlbWojO2UdMQG7YXn3Z99RS9S6QWoV6TPs0vD2OUL3Bn1qjPlQ8r7xaN2Zrd/s1600-h/Karl-Malden-001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433183906120119314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFlkrrkRcP8hY6k89rX4eq8-S6nxyw0tbxfRv_SoSVE0GL8hvXuIcfMnHswfbgo3uE99z2czo4IhDLlkpHSlbWojO2UdMQG7YXn3Z99RS9S6QWoV6TPs0vD2OUL3Bn1qjPlQ8r7xaN2Zrd/s200/Karl-Malden-001.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 120px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><b><u>JORDAN RHODES:</u></b> Karl Malden…What a tremendous actor and professional. When I first was hired to recur as Jerry Billings, the D.A. on Streets of San Francisco, to replace John Kerr, I had no idea that Karl was the man responsible for getting me the job. I had been hired to do a guest shot on the show a few months before, during the season. In that show, my character had a couple of scenes with Karl and Michael Douglas. Shortly after I finished that episode, John Kerr, the actor that had been playing the D.A., left the show because of some creative differences. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ID1w88zlvaZBrDm0NgjAnEXuiFLPZz8RamtzeGiNk0PaPoa7eY4_4ZkZytCkAOd8NB9oYU38Ey3pGeW7uhNr5ca1j2vech7iqaDdrxMSSmRdBCVcbzdwrVKf59_8F42IxmM61rOofwxS/s1600-h/streets-of-san-francisco-3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433184657106467698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ID1w88zlvaZBrDm0NgjAnEXuiFLPZz8RamtzeGiNk0PaPoa7eY4_4ZkZytCkAOd8NB9oYU38Ey3pGeW7uhNr5ca1j2vech7iqaDdrxMSSmRdBCVcbzdwrVKf59_8F42IxmM61rOofwxS/s200/streets-of-san-francisco-3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 106px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>Michael had just announced that he was also leaving the series so he could produce One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. A play, that his father, Kirk Douglas, had starred in on Broadway and had owned the movie rights to for over ten years. Kirk had given the rights to Michael and he had finally found the financing and wanted to produce the movie. So the production company was going to bring in another young actor to take over the role of Karl’s partner and side-kick, Richard Hatch. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiAzz5dGxR8-7t97_Jcgae3_Aoc9ecxnDKJaVjRSFK2ZvkD33UJEu3d1GLRFRShG_1LUUiYruoZW63fpoglV9wWBjtlVKunZ9Lyue-kfRG7U6cuwRFrJYvtL1HJ17Aon3qdx6NE80x7Qv/s1600-h/02malden_600.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433184491129631970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiAzz5dGxR8-7t97_Jcgae3_Aoc9ecxnDKJaVjRSFK2ZvkD33UJEu3d1GLRFRShG_1LUUiYruoZW63fpoglV9wWBjtlVKunZ9Lyue-kfRG7U6cuwRFrJYvtL1HJ17Aon3qdx6NE80x7Qv/s200/02malden_600.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 180px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 179px;" /></a>The company was very anxious to keep Karl happy, and now due to a new guy coming in, Karl was going to have to go back to working at least 5 days a week, since Michael’s character and story line would no longer be able to take up a couple of days a week. The production company wanted to bring in a new guy for the D.A. that was capable of taking up some of the slack and have enough scenes in a show to allow Karl a day or two off during a grinding season of shows. I’m not sure people realize you work 10 to 12 hours a day on a series, and when it’s a hit, you were doing 26 episodes. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEA-eM2piyBmah9MVD_ghDCsABoKKQly0PFdAslKaCWZsXIWmTgPC-6bsB7AKt1rvq6fIY-zlu_0o_aeCaZnRuwlHVMwZDoBUGdCVA5N-PF1DqcbbLKi5B12YUxQb8fe4Wv5ET2DuO1ZZ/s1600-h/as+a+gentleman.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433185560501519906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEA-eM2piyBmah9MVD_ghDCsABoKKQly0PFdAslKaCWZsXIWmTgPC-6bsB7AKt1rvq6fIY-zlu_0o_aeCaZnRuwlHVMwZDoBUGdCVA5N-PF1DqcbbLKi5B12YUxQb8fe4Wv5ET2DuO1ZZ/s200/as+a+gentleman.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 154px;" /></a>They went to Karl and asked him if he had any suggestions for the new D.A. – AND he remembered me from my guest shot, where I played an attorney whose law partner had been killed by an ex-convict, and he suggested they bring me back as the D.A., who left his private practice to join the district attorney’s office. Karl never said anything about this to me, I learned it from someone in the production office after I was on the show for a while. I learned a great deal from Karl. He would tell me how to “stay” in a shot, even when we were walking along headed to the courthouse, he would grab me by the arm and say, “stay close, that way you’ll always be in the shot”. In the beginning, he watched out for me with the make-up men and the lighting. In every scene I did with him, Karl was always “there”! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ovND8eeIBqQ0SGis70Uk8CkUT98slxfvomvYymYoynKJU738p5EVjEhgz8qXEliQSmksZc-xvDPUF-FnQITSxvyeL6SrN9Y2oTs9Cllwbbm3Xl0GILMhowYvtYNDNFNoP2z1XMp47ziV/s1600-h/Karl-Malden.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433189621937690018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ovND8eeIBqQ0SGis70Uk8CkUT98slxfvomvYymYoynKJU738p5EVjEhgz8qXEliQSmksZc-xvDPUF-FnQITSxvyeL6SrN9Y2oTs9Cllwbbm3Xl0GILMhowYvtYNDNFNoP2z1XMp47ziV/s200/Karl-Malden.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 91px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>He believed in giving, sometimes more than he got, and taught me you always worked for the “good of the scene”, the good of the story. He was just terrific to work with and if you could leave your ego home, you would always learn something from working with him. I’m thankful that a few years ago, I took the time to write him a letter expressing my thanks for all he taught me, and his kindness toward me during the time I worked with him.

JORDAN RHODES ("THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO")

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Character-actor Jordan Rhodes appeared in numerous classic cult films including the Charles Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK and Sean Penn's directorial debut THE INDIAN RUNNER, and in-between this time he got the opportunity to work on a p

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