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In addition to his published SciFi and Horror novels, George actively reviews movies, TV, and other publications. His blog, cleverly titled "Eye-Max," is a great source of recommends for new and classic works in print and on screen.

Jul 164 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Not New and Definitely Not Improved 409

Excerpt 7 / Part 2 - First thing we do is Fire all the Visual Effects Artists Shortly after the Teamsters headed back out to their trucks...

Jul 153 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO New & Improved?

Visual EFX. Please God. No! 1986 Frito-Lay is the purveyor of the finest junk food on the planet, and before the politically correct,...

Jul 144 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Picking up Cigarette Butts in a Cornfield

Excerpt 6 / Part 3 Teamsters on the Slouch! Here’s how this works. Each morning, a PA, who would not be me, drove a fifteen-passenger van...

Jul 125 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO

Excerpt 6 / Part 2 - The Return of the Teamsters! Inside on the passenger side, a chubby male redhead sat reading the same set of...

Jul 103 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Excerpt 6 - Part 1 / MORE TEAMSTERS!!

Dodge Trucks and the Teamsters I grew up in a union household. My father was a member of OPW (Oil and Petroleum Workers) for thirty-six...

Jul 96 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Excerpt 5 / Part 2 Radio City and the Little People

Moved onto a job for Radio City Music Hall and their “Christmas Special” commercials, which was my first “Stands In For or Doubles As.”...

Jul 83 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Excerpt 5 / PART 1. How Not to Lose Weight.

Agencies, Food, and Radio City Music Hall After convincing one of the other PAs that returning the four hundred seventy-two cases of...

Jul 75 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Excerpt 4 / Part 2 - Lurch

My First True Set P.A. Job and My Encounter with Lurch of General Camera I followed the increasing decibel level back to the bullpen....

Jul 65 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO Excerpt 4/Part I - Richie Zeifman

Should anyone entering the world of film production be fortunate enough to have a boss/mentor as talented as Richie Zeifman, let me know....

Jul 54 min read

TRY NOT TO ANNOY THE KANGAROO - Excerpt 3, First Job on Set! First Teamster!

BC Studios and the Teamsters Bill Cote, owner of the cleverly named BC Studios on West 25th Street in NYC, gave me my first “paid” PA...