"Multi-reasonably talented" "The most prolific, undiscovered, ok talent in the history of Brisbane". I've been knocking on the door of production houses, TV stations and film bodies for 35 years plus without anyone taking much interest. I gave stand up a go and although I did well at it I could see in Brisbane it was a road to nowhere. 15 film scripts 3 sitcom pilots plus episodes. One 6 part mocumentary series Hundreds of comedy sketches Hours of stand up material.
Mike Shanahan and Myself are guests on the Briz 31Tonight Show on August 3.
We are there to talk about IT'S BRISBANE TONIGHT WOW.
Hope we do a good job and amuse many people.
I've met the host Scott Black a few times. he seems to have had an instant hatred to me.
I wonder what he'll think when I hand him a list of questions to ask us.
Films Which have a reason to annoy me.
These films are a few years old I realized and all ( so far ) are remakes. The thing that most annoys me about these films, especially the TV remakes is that they have ditched the central theme of the show. It's as if the new writers never watched the show which they were remaking , especially - all of them.
THE FLINTSTONES with Rosie O'Donnell playing Betty Rubble. Betty was a cartoon babe. Rosie is a pig. The second one had Jane Krakowski as Betty. Great choice.
BEWITCHED movie. A stinker of a movie with no resemblence to the TV show but Nicole Kidman was the only choice for Samantha, but Jim Carrey looks very much like the Dicks, York and Sergeant and they got Will Ferrell. Nora Efron wrote the terrible script and said she'd never seen the original TV series. Well that was fucking obvious. Nice of her to accept the job and the pay cheque.
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES movie. The TV show was so funny and yet this film deteriorated to lame sex jokes which the show was not about.
GET SMART
Max as a nerd. Why bother? And the control headquarters is high tech as opposed to the hilarious low tech headquarters of the original.
PSYCHO . Rita Wilson playing the Plain Jane in the PSYCHO remake. The character in the original film was deliberately plain, so that the rich guy would pay all his attention to gorgeous Janet Leigh. Rita Wilson is no Plain Jane and her flirting with the rich guy would be a reasonable come on. Hitchcock got his Plain Jane niece to play the part in the original.
There's plenty more.