Regular readers of this page know my fondness for The Marx Brothers and Groucho in particular. Those readers should also know of my affection (addiction? disease?) for the Boston Red Sox. At school this afternoon I had students congratulating me
The Times They Are a Changing- Again
Bob Dylan is in Chicago this weekend and as always he has me thinking about the times we live in. Not too many years ago if you were a Chicago based filmmaker and didn’t have a production office in the
TW3…
…and we delivered a rough cut of the Teen Parent film to our client, and had four crews shooting across Chicago for this other top-secret project and time to go see Springsteen- another story for another day. PeterH
TW3
That Was The Week That Was was first broadcast in Britain in the early 196os and gave David Frost his first wide television exposure. A short time later an American version appeared giving TV audiences their first real glimpses of
The Environment
Al Gore, than man who should be president, owns the Best Feature Length Documentary Oscar for producing and appearing in An Inconvenient Truth, and last Friday he was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on
Internships
When I was in high school I was given the chance to be an intern (a nice word for free labor) on the production of a United Cerebral Palsy Telethon. The broadcast was produced by Allen Hall, the producer for
Plate Spinning
I am often asked about how I can juggle being a full-time teacher and a full-time filmmaker. Honestly, I don’t give it much thought, it is just something I do and have done for a long time. Ten years ago
The Office
I tell students often that the hardest part of being a filmmaker is getting the job. Once you get the job you just do what you have been training to do and the work should be easy. But that’s not
Let’s Play Two!
With apologies to Ernie Banks, Jim and I played a doubleheader today. At 7:00 this morning we shot one of our Teen Parents as she spoke to a group of high school students about the choices she made and how
Reading Mary Beth
Today is my sister’s birthday. And in lieu of giving her anything tangible for her birthday, (cheapskate, busy) I am going to post a piece I originally wrote for Book Magazine in 2002. In the magazine they gave us the
