Fabulous Film & Friends
92 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA podcast for the true cineaste. This podcast examines the impact great or memorable films have on us both personally and culturally. If you've ever bonded with someone or joined a lively discussion circle based on your love of cinema, this is the podcast for you.
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Ep. 36 - The Batman with Alex Robertson, Roseanne Caputi & David Johnson, DMD
May 03, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week on the Triple FFF we’re busting out of the 50’s and landing squarely in the present day to discuss 2022’s The Batman directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, Jon Tuturro and an unrecognizable and surprisingly good Colin Farrell. My guests this week are Roseanne Caputi and David Johnson and the crown prince of criminally underutilized talent, Gordon Alex Robertson! And now the Bat-synopsis The Batman is the 8th cine...
Ep. 36 - The Batman
May 03, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week on the Triple FFF we’re busting out of the 50’s and landing squarely in the present day to discuss 2022’s The Batman directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, Jon Tuturro and an unrecognizable and surprisingly good Colin Farrell. My guests this week are Roseanne Caputi and David Johnson and the crown prince of criminally underutilized talent, Gordon Alex Robertson! And now the Bat-synopsis The Batman is the 8th cine...
Ep. 35 - The Big Country with Roseanne Caputi & Burton Brown
April 26, 2022 18:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBWe’re back in the Old West again this week on Fabulous Film & Friends to discuss William Wyler’s 1958 Technirama Masterpiece The Big Country, starring Gregory Peck, Charleton Heston, Carroll Baker, Jean Simmons, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors and Burl Ives in an Oscar winning role. My guests today are Roseanne Caputi and Burton Brown. And now the synopsis: A tale of two rival Texas cattle barons, the Big Countrty pits Marjor Henry Terrell against Rufus Hannessy, whose anger towards ea...
Ep. 34 - Picnic with Alex Robertson and Roseanne Caputi
April 21, 2022 01:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBThis week on Fabulous Film & Friends our run of great 1955 films comes to an abrupt and awkward end as we discuss Picnic, a time capsule dramatic weepie directed by Joshua Logan and starring everyone’s favorite red-eyed, clenched jawed everyman, William Holden, a nearly diffused and dowdy Kim Novak, skinny and young Cliff Robertson, a suitably wild eyed Rosiland Russell and an always dependable Arthur O’Connell. My guests today are Roseanne Caputi and Alex Robertson. And now the s...
Ep. 33 - The Night of The Hunter with Roseanne Caputi and Alex Robertson
April 12, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBWe’re going back in time to 1955 once again with Charles Laughton’s supreme tale of spine-tingling suspense: The Night of The Hunter starring the incomparable Robert Mitchum as Reverend Harry Powell and co-starring Shelly Winters, The First Lady of American Cinema Lillian Gish, a young, pre-Mission Impossible Peter Graves and child actors Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce . I’m joined by my dedicated devotees in extraordinary exhibitions of film snobbery Roseanne Caputi and Gordon Alex Rob...
Dueling West Side Stories Rumble - Part II
March 29, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBContinuing where last week's West Side Story Comparison left off. Who wins the rumble? Find out!
Dueling West Side Stories Rumble - Part II
March 29, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBContinuing where last week's West Side Story Comparison left off. Who wins the rumble? Find out!
Ep. 31 - Dueling West Side Stories Rumble Part I
March 22, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this first part of 2, it's an all out rumble on Fabulous Film and Friends, as we compare and contrast the two visions of the classic musical West Side Story—the 1961 version directed by Star Trek The Motion Picture’s Robert Wise and the 2021 version directed by Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull’s Steven Spielberg. The first version starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. And the update stars Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana...
Ep. 31 - Dueling West Side Stories Rumble Part I
March 22, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this first part of 2, it's an all out rumble on Fabulous Film and Friends, as we compare and contrast the two visions of the classic musical West Side Story—the 1961 version directed by Star Trek The Motion Picture’s Robert Wise and the 2021 version directed by Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull’s Steven Spielberg. The first version starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. And the update stars Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana...
Ep. 30 - Atonement with Roseanne Caputi
March 15, 2022 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBOn this 30th episode of Fabulous Film and Friends, my sister and I are going to discuss the 2007 romantic war drama Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightly, Saorsie Ronan, Benecict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethlyn, Harriet Walter and Vanessa Redgrave in what is arguably one of the finest war films ever made, second only to Apocalypse Now. The synopsis: Briony Tallis is a fanciful and precocious girl of 13, skilled at writing plays and stomping ...
Ep. 29 - Marty with Alex Robertson, Burton Brown & Roseanne Caputi
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re going to pay homage to the noble everyman by discussing the 1955 drama Marty directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky and startring Ernest Borgine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Karen Steele, Esther Minciotti and Sergeant Carter himself, Frank Sutton. Like all of us around the world for the past few weeks, I’m worried about the fate of the people of the Ukraine and for the future of this planet but hopeful in the idea that the goodn...
Ep. 28 - True Lies with George Young, Burton Brown and Alex Robertson
February 22, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBThis week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re back to full on chip munching, beer swilling, fist-bumping battle mode as we take on James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1994 Marital strife/Spies Fighing Evil Terrorists Action Comedy Extravaganza True Lies. For this movie fan’s money the absolute BEST, most accomplished escapist guns and explosions movie ever produced, easily outdoing James Bond at its own game and making Bond look like a plodding duffer in the bargain. I’m joined t...
Ep. #27 - The Love Bug with SUPERFAN Alex Robertson
February 15, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBBecause you demanded it!! Disney's The Love Bug! This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re following our discussion about the violent and gruesome Braveheart with the equally violent and twisted 1968 Disney gutbuster, The Love Bug and starring Dean Jones, Michelle Lee, Buddy Hackett, David Tomlinson and Sacramento’s own Benson Fong. I’m joined by my good friend Gordon Alex Robertson today on this Superbowl weekend who would only do the show if we discussed this film, one of his chi...
Ep. #26 - Braveheart with Burton Brown, David Johnson, DMD, Roseanne Caputi & Alex Robertson
February 10, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBWe’re keeping the spirit of 1995 alive on this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends where we will be following up our discussion about Ron Howard’s Oscar nominated historical drama Apollo 13, with Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning historical drama Braveheart starring himself in the title role as The Hammer of The Scots, William Wallace, and co-starring Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau, Catherine McCormack, Angus McFeydan, Brendan Gleeson, David O’ Hara and the inimitable Brian Cox. Returning to t...
Ep. #25 - Apollo 13 with Kendrick Wright, Burton Brown, Roseanne Caputi & Alex Robertson
February 01, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBIt’s back to the cosmos again on this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends where we will be analyzing Ron Howard’s triumphant 1995 historical drama Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan, the mighty Ed Harris, and a whole battalion of bespectacled bit players in one of the most effective films of its ilk. Returning to the panel once again, the screaming, desk-pounding emotional half of The Ken and Dante Show Youtube Channel, the Incredible Ken...
Ep. 24 - Star Trek The Motion Picture with Kendrick Wright & Dante Oliviero and Burton Brown & Bob Gitzen
January 25, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re transporting you into our largest, swankiest and most epic discussion panel yet, taking two full shows to dig deep into 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, directed by Robert Wise, Produced by Gene Roddenberry, creator of the late 1960’s TV show from which The Motion Picture’s premise originated, and starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelley, Stephen Collins, a strikingly bald Persis Khambatta as well as the rest of the TV crew i...
Ep. 23 - The Power of The Dog Roundtable
January 18, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBHeigh- Ho, western fans! This week on Fabulous Film and friends we’re going to circle back and discuss Jane Campion’s 2021 comeback effort and Oscar frontrunner, The Power of The Dog starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee. It was mentioned on our year in review last week as a top film, but no time was spent hunkering down on its finer points. I’m yer host Gino Caputi and joining me on this conceptual cattle drive is my sister and unabashed Jane ...
Ep. 22 - 2021: A Year in Review
January 11, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBOn this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends we’re going to look back at the year that was in motion pictures, 2021! I and my panel had a challenge: We had to scrape together not ten but a measly five films from last year that were worth seeing and may stand the test of time. Could we do it??? I’m guessing no! Joining me on my panel of film loving regulars is my sister Roseanne Caputi, and my good friends David Johnson, Burton Brown and all the way from the Sacramento Valley, Gordon Al...
Ep. 21 - Spider-Man No Way Home with Roseanne Caputi & Kids
January 04, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBA happy and healthy 2022 to all of you Fabulous Film Loving Friends out there! We’re ringing in the New Year by pandering to the masses and discussing the latest and biggest Marvel blockbuster to date, 2021’s Spider-Man No Way Home, directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland as everyone’s favorite wisecracking wallcrawler. Joining me today are two of the stalwart members of Disney/Marvel’s key demographic, my 11 year old nephew Raphael and my son Marco. And serving in the role of the...
Ep. 20 - Rushmore with Grant Ellis and Roseanne Caputi
December 28, 2021 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re fully embracing our inner ironic film geek by discussing one of our favorite Wes Anderson films, the 1998 Bill Murray Jason Schwartzman/Olivia Williams romantic and philosophical charmer, Rushmore, the film that put Mr. Anderson on the map and marked a career resurgence for Bill Murray. I’m Gino Caputi, your host and joining me is Eastern Oregon’s original hipster, my sister Roseanne Caputi, who wore a suit and tie to prom back when that meant ...
Ep. 19 - Die Hard with Burton Brown and Alex Robertson
December 21, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBHo! Ho! Ho! And a very Merry Christmas to you from all of us at Fabulous Film and Friends! With our yuletide spirit in maximum overdrive we’re going to spread the Holiday Cheer by discussing everyone’s favorite Christmas movie, the 1988 Bruce Willis/ John McTiernan action extravaganza, Die Hard! Joining me on my panel of red-blooded, steak-eating, cigar chomping, gun toting manly men are the tech titan from Salt Lake City, Burton Brown and standing tall with me in America’s number one bl...
Ep. 18 - Pale Rider with Actor Jeffrey Weissman
December 14, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIt’s westward ho! This week on Fabulous Film & Friends, as we discuss Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Guns, Gold, Ghosts and God spectacular Pale Rider, which was a return to form for Mr. Eastwood in the mid-80’s when the Western genre was considered on the way out. My guest is Jeffrey Weissman who acted in the film as Teddy Conway, one of the gentle, kind-hearted gold mining brothers in the story. Mr. Weissman is the founder of the Bay Area Professional Actors Studio and a 48-year stage, film and ...
Ep. 18 - Pale Rider with Actor Jeffrey Weissman
December 14, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIt’s westward ho! This week on Fabulous Film & Friends, as we discuss Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Guns, Gold, Ghosts and God spectacular Pale Rider, which was a return to form for Mr. Eastwood in the mid-80’s when the Western genre was considered on the way out. My guest is Jeffrey Weissman who acted in the film as Teddy Conway, one of the gentle, kind-hearted gold mining brothers in the story. Mr. Weissman is the founder of the Bay Area Professional Actors Studio and a 48-year stage, film and ...
Ep. # 17 - La Bamba with Vance Piper
December 07, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBIt’s Rock N’ Roll week on Fabulous Film & Friends, and we’re going to bop our way through the 1987 Lou Diamond Phillips starring Luis Valdez directed low budget sleeper hit La Bamba! My guest is Cinematographer and Camera guru Vance Piper returning once again after his riveting first podcast on Triple FFF where we talked about the making of The Terminator. La Bamba, like the Terminator, was another Adam Greenberg lensed production and Vance served as his 1st Assistant Camera. Before we ...
Ep. #16 - The Outsiders with Alex Robertson & Roseanne Caputi
November 30, 2021 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBOn this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends we are going to show that we’re tough enough when discussing Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 cult classic The Outsiders. Starring a veritable Who’s Who of 80’s leading men and one woman, Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emelio Estevez, Rob Lowe, dreamy Leif Garrett and the token female, future Oscar nominee Diane Lane. If the movie had made ten years later, it would’ve cost upward of $100 million dollars in salarie...
Ep. #15 - Sicario with Matthew Turvey and David Johnson, DMD
November 23, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBIt’s a Star Wars prequel-style Jedi double team on this week’s Fabulous Film & Friends, where two like minded movie fans will team up against a solo dissenter in an epic duel over the worthiness of the 2015 Denis Villeneuve drug cartel potboiler Sicario My tag-team partner is David Johnson DMD, and joining us in the opposite corner for his first stint on Triple F is, is our old pal from our High School Matthew Turvey. Matt is a film, music and literature lover, Barnes and Noble Manager, ...
Ep. #14- Star 80 with George Young and Roseanne Caputi
November 16, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MBOn this week’s Fabulous Film & Friends, we’re doing round two of "Face Your Fears" where we pluck up the courage to view a film that we've been hemming and hawing about watching, this time yet another Eric Roberts vehicle, Bob Fosse’s 1983 controversial biographical drama, Star 80. Joining me once again on this crazy quest to confront our apprehensions and anxieties is the Pauline Kael of the Oregon Prairie, my sister Roseanne Caputi. And back again for more is Time Blinked author, ...
Ep. #13 - Predator with Alex Robertson and David Johnson, DMD
November 09, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIt’s a Guy-guy’s episode this week on Fabulous Film & Friends, where we tackle the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger/John McTiernan sci-fi action movie staple Predator! Joining me in this online man cave is none other than the crossfit crown filler, Salt Lake City’s own David Johnson, DMD, and in the left square weighing in at a lean, donut, pie and booze free 200 lbs, the undisputed champion of snarling vitriol against moral evil as well as chatty kids and their indulgent parents in the chur...
Ep. #12 - The Nutty Professor with the Wacky Roundtable
November 02, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBOn this week’s episode of Fabulous Film & Friends, the regular crew is all back to dissect and probe the often-misunderstood genius of Jerry Lewis with his seminal 1963 masterwork, The Nutty Professor, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in alongside a very easy on the eyes, Stella Stevens. Back once again for their invaluable insights on the matter are instructors and intellects in their own right: Roseanne Caputi, David Johnson DMD, and of course, funnyman GORDON ALEX ROBERTSON! B...
Ep. 11 - Runaway Train with Alex Robertson and Roseanne Caputi
October 26, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBIt’s “Face Your Fears Week” on this blazingly fast-paced, pulse-pounding, edge of your seat, thrilling segment of Fabulous Film & Friends where my sister Roseanne and I are going to watch a film that we’ve been putting off since it came out in 1985, Andrei Konchalovsky’s Runaway Train starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts. Joining me again are teacher, thinker, anti-horseplay activist and action movie nut, Roseanne Caputi. And later in the segment for color commentary is the toughest, surl...
Ep. 10 - Punch Drunk Love with Nyna Caputi, Roseanne Caputi, David Johnson and Alex Robertson
October 19, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBThis week on Fabulous Film & Friends my wife is joining us at the roundtable to talk about the hilarious and whimsical Adam Sandler/Paul Thomas Anderson 2002 collaboration Punch Drunk Love. Nyna Pais Caputi, my muse, my best friend, wife and soul mate, is gracing us for the first time with her presence because Punch Drunk Love was the first official date we went on after meeting in New York in person after a ten-month, transcontinental online courtship. We were pioneers in the whole in...
Ep. 9: Hail Caesar! Roundtable with Alex Robertson, David Johnson, DMD and Roseanne Caputi
October 12, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBOn this week’s Fabulous Film & Friends our roundtable will be completing the second part of a matched set we started with last episode’s discussion of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hudsucker Proxy, as we review their other lavish, 1950’s-set extravaganza, 2016’s Hail Caesar!. Returning for this thrilling follow up is a name over 200 podcast listeners trust, my younger sister Roseanne Caputi. Then there’s the most doggedly truth-seeking pediatric dentist ever to set up shop in Salt Lake City, D...
Ep. 8 - The Hudsucker Proxy Roundtable with Alex Robertson, David Johnson, DMD, and Roseanne Caputi
October 05, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBThis week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to start in on the work of The Philosopher Kings of modern Cinema, Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning with one of their seemingly lesser and lesser-known efforts, 1994’s The Hudsucker Proxy. Once again I’m joined by my younger sister Roseanne Caputi, Teacher, Tough Talking Career Gal, one of the boys, and easily as big a Coen Bros fan as I am. Then there’s Salt Lake City’s leading pediatric dentist, all around deep thinker and film lover...
Ep. #7 - Star Trek V Roundtable with Burton Brown, David Johnson, DMD, and Roseanne Caputi
September 28, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBOn this week's action packed episode of Fabulous Film & Friends I finally come clean and admit that the reason I probably started this podcast is so I could add my voice to the already mountain-high logpile of fanboys slavering and spazzing about STAR TREK! My number one sci-fi love. I’m joined by familiar voices Roseanne Caputi, my kid sister, who was dragged to the theater on nearly all of the screenings of the Star Trek movies, to say nothing of having to endure countless hours of rep...
Ep. #6- The Matrix Reloaded with Ami Zins, Former Oakland Film Commisioner
September 21, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBOn today’s exciting edition of Fabulous Film & Friends I’m talk with former Oakland Film Commissioner Ami Zins about The Matrix Reloaded, the blockbuster sequel to the 1999 genre busting, era-defining sci fi mind-bender, The Matrix. I met Ami during the carefree days of the summer of 2000 on a an indie feature entitled Haiku Tunnel, the very first project I worked on as an intern after taking the dive from the workaday grind into the extraordinary, intoxicating world of film. We ...
Ep. #6- The Matrix Reloaded with Ami Zins, Former Oakland Film Commissioner
September 21, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBOn today’s exciting edition of Fabulous Film & Friends I’m talk with former Oakland Film Commissioner Ami Zins about The Matrix Reloaded, the blockbuster sequel to the 1999 genre busting, era-defining sci fi mind-bender, The Matrix. I met Ami during the carefree days of the summer of 2000 on a an indie feature entitled Haiku Tunnel, the very first project I worked on as an intern after taking the dive from the workaday grind into the extraordinary, intoxicating world of film. We ...
Ep. #5: 2001: A Space Odyssey with Bob Gitzen, Sound Mixer
September 14, 2021 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBOn this week's edition of Fabulous Film & Friends I talk with my friend Bob Gitzen about Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 sci fi existential meditation 2001: A Space Odyssey. Robert “Bob” Gitzen who is a production sound mixer, sci fi lover and all-around deep thinker, in fact he was at one-point a seminarian. And he’s also an inventive genius who created and patented The Antser, which is a clever and ecological way to remove pesky ants from your pet’s food dishes or your home garbage contai...
Episode #4 - The Natural With George Young, Author of Time Blinked
September 07, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBOn this episode of Fabulous Film & Friends I talk with George Young, author of the forthcoming novel Time Blinked, about Robert Redford & Barry Levinson’s seminal 1984 love letter to baseball, The Natural , based on the novel by Bernard Malamud. The multi-talented Mr. Young, whose exciting and varied career includes working as a professional dancer and then as an in-demand line producer for motion pictures television and commercials, has now added published author to his long list of acco...
Episode #3 - Rambo III with David Johnson D.M.D.
August 31, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBOn this episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to do a deep-dive, as corporate folks love to say, into the mentality and megalomania of late 80’s Sylvester Stallone as evidenced by his 1988 rippling deltoids and rocket launcher extravaganza, Rambo III. I’m joined by David Johnson, D.M.D. He’s a Salt Lake City Area Dentist Supreme and a Crossfit Animal, which is why I asked him to join me today as we revisit this benchmark film in our movie going lives. Dave and I have been frien...
Episode #2- Sense & Sensibility with Roseanne Caputi
August 24, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBToday I'm joined by my kid sister Roseanne Caputi, who is a teacher in Eastern Oregon and holds a Masters Degree in English Literature from Oregon State University. We thought it only fitting that we discuss Ang Lee & Emma Thompson’s superlative 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, for out money the all-time-all-time champ in the realm of English tea and fancy-dress romances.
#001 - The Terminator with Vance Piper
August 17, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBVance Piper is a revered and respected San Francisco Bay Area Film & Television Director of Photography, Camera Operator, and Assistant Camera. One of the nicest people I’ve ever worked with, our paths crossed in the early oughts on several commercials and independent films, but I didn’t consider him a true friend until 2017 when I was shocked that he not only agreed to work with me on one of my low budget video projects, but actually seemed to enjoy it and didn’t complain about the low r...
Ep. 1 - The Terminator with Vance Piper
August 17, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBVance Piper is a revered and respected San Francisco Bay Area Film & Television Director of Photography, Camera Operator, and Assistant Camera. One of the nicest people I’ve ever worked with, our paths crossed in the early oughts on several commercials and independent films, but I didn’t consider him a true friend until 2017 when I was shocked that he not only agreed to work with me on one of my low budget video projects, but actually seemed to enjoy it and didn’t complain about the low r...