Well,
as promised, there's BIG NEWS here at the Bait Shop, namely that my days
of bachelorhood are numbered. Yes, indeed, the tabloids got it right
for once: I'll be nuptializing my Polish princess Amy Jeglinski in
October 2005...
...however, the girl with the big gaudy ring in the picture at left is NOT Amy, but rather a character from the upcoming Ol' Bait Shop Production Assassin, which I've been shooting with students at The Burt Wood School in Middleboro, MA for the past few weeks.
Actually,
that's just one of several Middleboro movies currently in production here
at the Bait Shop. In addition to Assassin, I also recently
completed a short promotional documentary for and about Mobo's own Herring
Run Arts Festival, and coming soon is a video tribute to Massachusetts
State Rep Tom O'Brien (including a scheduled interview with Chris
Cooper of Adaptation fame, who will thus have the distinction
of being the first Academy Award winner to appear in an Ol' Bait Shop Production).
In fact, now that I've more or less figured out the I-Movie editing program,
there's sure to be an upsurge of short and long-form indie projects on
the Baitquarters horizon.
Speaking
of indie projects, that free speech quasi-documentary I worked on a while
back, a.k.a. Jed Weintrob's second feature film The
F-Word (starring Josh
Hamilton, Sam Rockwell
and Rev. Billy, the guy with
the big megaphone) is scheduled to premiere at the 2005 Tribeca
film fest in April 2005, so be sure to check this space (and/or the
Ol' Blog Shop) for on-the-scene reports and celebrity schmoozing.
And in other indie news, I recently attended the South-By-Southwest Film
and Music Festival (SXSW) in lovely
Austin, Tejas, where I was pleasantly surprised to spot Bait Shop alum
Jeff Murphy (the spooky drag
queen from Apocalypse Bop)
featured as himself in Stagedoor,
a new documentary about Stagedoor Manor, the Catskills performing arts
camp that served as the inspiration for, well, Camp
(2004). Other SXSW celebrity sightings included noted
hillbilly scholar Scott Von Doviak and some blonde girl from the cast
of the upcoming Real
World: Austin.
So that's the haps from the O.B.S. Be sure to check out the Ol' Bait Stop & Shop, the newly updated Bait Shop Archive, the good people of Linkapalooza and the latest offerings at Bait Shop University...and stay tuned!