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I don’t know how else to put it, but there are some things that happened at Dad’s funeral that despite the occasion were an amazing delight.  And I truly believe that Dad would have had no small measure of pride if he could somehow know that this celebration of his life brought so many wonderful people together to celebrate not only his own life, but also of the most precious things in all our lives.

During the service I spoke a few words about Dad and since the other ministers were sharing stories from his life, I did likewise and related some tales of how forgiving and relenting – even if he didn’t understand what the heck I was doing – of the many stunts that I pulled during the life that we shared.  One of them was during the filming of Forcery: my first (and Lord willing still ...

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Hey gang, been a mite busy on this end of things, but don’t let that stop us from having our weekly does of mini dachshund hijinks!

This past weekend my longtime friend and filmmaking partner “Weird” Ed Woody came to visit.  And it so happened that this was the very first time that he and Tammy have had a chance to meet.  I was outside with her when he pulled into the driveway and had my camera with me, so I got to record their first-ever encounter…




It took Tammy awhile to get used to somebody so new…

 …but it wasn’t long before she really took on to Ed, as you can tell 🙂

Incidentally, Ed and I discussed our next film project.  It’s gonna be the first one we’ve done in quite some time.  Maybe we should give Tammy a cameo?...

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But I got to see it last month at a/perture cinema in Winston-Salem, along with Forcery co-producer Ed Woody and star Chad Austin, who appears a LOT throughout The People vs. George Lucas as, well… George Lucas!

The screening was on September 12th. Why didn’t I write about it sooner? Because it still hasn’t sunk in yet: that was my film Forcery, the idea for which hit just over ten years ago (I began writing the script on the night before 9/11), and my most life-long best friend playing George Lucas on the big screen as part of this multi-award winning documentary that has played at film festivals all around the world!

But as surreal as the experience was, that was mild compared to watching Melody Hallman Daniel‘s performance as Frannie Filks from Forcery, which The People vs. George Lucas is exceptionally peppered with! In fact, ...

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So some friends and I went to “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s show in Charlotte on Saturday night, the latest stop during his new Alpocalypse concert tour.

And not for the first time (actually it’s my third and I think Ed’s ummm… fourth or fifth?), we got to meet Al 🙂

Here’s my filmmaking partner “Weird” Ed Woody with Al…

Here is good friend Marissa with Al! Okay, Marissa is, like, one of the most mature eighth graders that you will ever find. But on the trip to Charlotte yesterday she steadily began turning into this whole other person and when Al came out on stage Marissa went totally berzerko!! She is a bigtime Al fan and, well… you can imagine what happened when she got to meet her hero 🙂

When we brought her back home at 2 a.m. I warned her father that he was going to see ...

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…well, parts of it anyway 🙂

The People vs. George Lucas, Alexandre Philippe’s documentary that has won beaucoups of awards at film festivals all over the world, has just announced a whole bunch of new showings. And one of them is right next door in Winston-Salem! Beginning May 9th it’ll be playing at Cine Club on 311 West Fourth Street.

So why am I especially stoked about getting to see this rave-reviewed film? Here’s the second trailer for it…

And here’s the first teaser for The People vs. George Lucas…

That’s none other than Melody Hallman Daniel and Chad Austin from Forcery, the first film that I ever made. I’ve heard that quite a lot of clips from it wound up in The People vs. George Lucas. So I’m not only looking forward to seeing Philippe’s work, but also my own blown-up extra-huge on a ...

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It was a year ago today down at Cypress Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina that my longtime collaborator “Weird” Ed Woody was united in holy matrimony to his lovely bride Olivia. Here’s a pic of the happy couple…

What Ed, ya think I would let this day go by without remembering that? 🙂

Happy anniversary you two!...

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