Been a long time...

It has been quite a while since I wrote anything on here. I have been very busy with a number of projects and events. I will try and catch you all up on some of these this week, and try and do a better job posting regularly... but no promises!

I spent a beautiful Sunday afternoon today being a reporter in a zombie film. It is the latest George Demick movie, DEAD START, filming in Smyrna Tennessee. I got there at 8 am to find 500 EXTRAS who all showed up to be zombies! Wow! Talk about an army of the dead!! It was tremendous!

George had asked me a few weeks back if I wanted to do a bit part in the movie - I said sure, but only if I can do it as an homage to Chilly Billy Cardille, the horror host in Pittsburgh who appeared in the George Romero classic Night of the Living Dead. So I did play a tv reporter in it, and I called my character Russ Bramming, which is a combination of names from the first 2 horror hosts in Nashville, Ken Bramming and Russ McCown.

It was a fun time and I got killed by a zombie belly dancer. Doesn't get much better than that. I'll post pictures as I get them...

here's a link for more info:
http://www.myspace.com/deadstart09

Happy Birthday George Romero!

I woke this morning and turned on the news and saw a birthday greeting for George Romero - a quick trip by IMDB confirmed the master of horror turned 69 today! Happy birthday George! Here's to many, many more. And thanks for making more zombie movies - nobody does em like you!

George Romero in Maxim!

You now have an extra reason to go out and pick up the latest Maxim magazine, other than getting a good look at the new Bond girl...

Horror director George Romero is interviewed in a 2 page spread in a retrospective of his career. Nice interview, and worth reading.

The new Bond girl ain't bad either... although I TOTALLY disagree witht heir list of top 7 Bond girls of all time. They lean WAY too heavily toward the last few films... someone needs to go back and look at a few of the Connery films, when they had the most gorgeous women of all the films on screen.

I'd suggest starting with Daniela Bianchi in From Russia with Love. But then I prefer my Bond ladies to look like women, not girls... and they have become increasingly younger looking over the years. Ah well... Olga Kurylenko, the latest Bond girl is beautiful and I will reserve judgement on her, and the film, until I see it.