Here is another picture from the set of Paulie taken with my camera phone this Saturday, February 10th. It was a fun day, and because it was just a small crew and I, we were able to bang out all three of the locations we needed for the day; we were done just after noon time. In the movie my character comes to a bar at night and tells patrons the story of his bad day. As he tells the story the movie moves through several flashback scenes of the days events and his voice narrates the action in the scene. We filmed these flashback scenes without sound or MOS which is film-speak for without sound. Not needing a sound person and equipment reduces the amount of time a shoot will take. The picture above was taken at a junk yard, where we got an old Crown Victoria for Paulie’s car. It is hard to see in this photo but the car has lots of damage, especially on the inside. This is for the flashback scene when Paulie explains how his car was vandalized earlier that day.

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Hi! Here is a picture from the set of Paulie. From left to right is Eamon Brooks as Sully the Bartender, me as Paulie, and my good friend William DeCoff as Lou the cranky bar patron and Paulie’s straight man.

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Well, I turned 44 on Monday and I had a nice birthday present. The “Living Weapon” which is an episode of the PBS program “American Experience” aired on my birthday and I was in it. I am only visible for about 3 seconds but it was cool because I love the history shows that are on PBS and the History Channel and I was glad to play a small part. I have a post about the show here and in a couple of weeks the full show will be available on-line here if you want to see it. I appear in the first five minutes so don’t blink to early. Another nice present was that we had the first shooting day for “Paulie”. My good buddy William DeCoff also plays a leading role in the movie and it was fun day being able to work with him again. I still have another couple days shoot left on this project and I am looking forward to it.
Lastly in a post back in August of 2006 I talked about hitting my head on a post during a shoot. The director sent me the clip and I turned it into an animated gif file. I hope you find it as amusing as I do. You can read about the experience by clicking here.

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