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PRIVATE JOKE FILMS & NAME-DROPPER
ENTERPRISES
present...
"Tales of Different Cities"
a Bruno
de Almeida film*
Produced by:
Dawn Westlake and Alan
Poul**
Script by Dawn Westlake & Armistead
Maupin***
Starring:
Joe
Pantoliano
Jennifer
Jason Leigh
Sean
Astin
Dan
(from the Miami cast of "The Real World")
With:
Conrad Cimarra (he just wanted you to see
the picture with JJL again)
John Cantwell
Billy Mendieta
And, the special participation of:
Bruce
Rheins and Bill Whitaker, on location in Okinawa, Japan and
Hickam
Air Force Base, Honolulu, HI
for CBS NEWS' "The China Challenge"
&
Jake
Wachtel of Tokyo Broadcasting System, held over by popular demand for
"Waiting for Waddle"
Voiceovers by: Melissa Etheridge, Drena De Niro & Deb Mazar (i.e. I
didn’t get their pictures, but I spoke to them
this month…you’re just going to have to believe me.)
Cinematography by Mark Cirillo, Conrad Cimarra, Dawninha Louca, A
Waitress at Red, A Tall Guy at the Skyy Vodka Short Film Awards, and
others…
Punchlines by Bob Smith (Okay, usually there is no ‘punchlines’
credit. John just wanted me to post his pic with Armistead
again…Actors!)
Music by Eddy
Quintela****
Special fado solo by Don
Cohen*****
Special fado effects (uh, that's 'affects'): TAP's Margrit Klein, KCRW's Tom Schnabel and BPR's Dawn
Westlake
Hi-DEF costume design by:
Michelle Lee
Mini stunt driver (Barcelona): Jorge Meneses
Casting
by: Mini
Driver (w/o her I couldn't have had any of these cool experiences or
met the majority of these people...)
Publicity by: Latino Television, Madrid
Brought to you by:
Skyy
Vodka Short Film Awards and The Egyptian Theater
the Craftsman Mini Driver
and
Won
Kok, The finest Chinese food after
3:30am in L.A.
"Won
Kok. Because after all, it
defines 50% of both our genes and our jeans."
Shot
entirely on location at Red, Beauty Bar, Okinawa
(Japan), Shurijo
Castle, Hickam Air Force Base (Oahu), Big Foot, Royce Hall (UCLA),
Weiland’s Brewery, The Egyptian Theater, & The Cohens’.
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Disclaimer:
*There is no film with this
title directed by Bruno de Almeida, but he did visit L.A. from NY with
his REAL film "The Art of Amália". Check
here for showtimes internationally.
**Alan
Poul did not produce anything like this. He is an exec. prod. at
Showtime, however, and did do "Further Tales of the City" with
Armistead Maupin. He's also a mutual friend of my best friend, Laura
Heppert. Hi, Laura!
***Armistead
hardly wanted to have his picture taken with me, much less co-author a
screenplay. ;-)
****Again,
I'm making this up. I mean, do you even HEAR music? If you do, you are
insane. Or you need to have a tooth pulled; those are radio signals
being picked up by your loose filling...
*****See
the four-star reference above and modify radio signals with the word
'Portuguese', as in "...those are Portuguese radio signals..."
The
author of this scene apologizes for this month's narrowcasting. But,
wasn't it worth it to see the pretty pictures of the celebs?
Fade to May...
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