Steven Seagal Answers Jean-Claude Van Damme

After watching Jean-Claude Van Damme's awesome Volvo truck commercial my first thought was... "What will Steven Seagal do?"

Well, this video show Steven Seagal's answer to Van Damme's stunt and it will totally blow you out of the water it is soooo awesome!

 

 

New Acting Gig - December 2013

I'm very excited to report that in December 2013 I will be working on my fourth episode of the web series Holding, created, written, directed and starring Casey McDougal.

It will be my third acting gig on the series, but I shot the pilot for her, until someone with more talent took over the filming of the other shows.

My last work on the series was playing a cable access interviewer Myron Moreland. I had a great deal of fun doing that and I think it is going to be a very funny Minisode!

Casey and I have been friends for years. We first ran into each other on a movie set and have been making fun of each other ever since. She starred as "Casey" in my recently completed comedy The Girl of His Dreams, which came out well, if I do say so myself! The only reason why I cast her was because I needed to find someone named Casey to play the part! Pity that "Casey" was originally supposed to have been a guy! 

Here is an interview with Casey McDougal concerning my film:

The Man in the Movie - Behind the Scenes

George A. Borgman, Eric B. Borgman's father, was given two prominent roles in his son Eric's first feature film The Man in the Movie.

The Man in the Movie is a comedy about a nerdy librarian who discovers silent comedies at a Silent Comedy Film Festival and discovers that one of the silent comedians looks very familiar to him.

George played an annoyed theater goer and a silent comedy "heavy."

Here is behind-the-scenes footage that George video taped during one of his scenes at the movie theater.

'Cause I've Got Somethin' To Say - The Fugitive Revisited

The movie The Fugitive and Harrison Ford have always been two things I liked.

 

In the latest 'Cause I've Got Somethin' To Say piece I ponder whether Harrison Ford was the first choice for the role of Dr. Richard Kimble and wonder aloud if any other Hollywood stars auditioned.

 

I had filmed more of this Improv, but in the hopes of showing mercy on the viewer, I edited down to this...

 

 

Col. David Crawford

Colonel David Crawford (c. 1625^[1] – 1710) was a member of the House of Burgesses and an early plantation owner in Virginia.

David Crawford was born circa 1625, in Scotland, emigrating to the Virginia Colony with his father, John Crawford around 1643.^[2] His father was later killed during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.

Crawford amassed many acres of land and owned a large plantation that eventually became the site of Richmond, Virginia. On April 2, 1692 he was elected to the House of Brugesses as one of two representatives from New Kent County, Virginia for two years. He introduced a piece of legislation, requiring that County Clerks maintain an office in their respective County Courthouse.

As an elderly man he is reported to have been killed by some Pamunkey Indians in 1710 in New Kent Co., Virginia. The site of David Crawford's fortified home was under excavation in 2010.

Holding

I want to briefly write about a great project a friend of mine has been working on and in which I was lucky enough to help her out with. That project is a series called Holding. It's a clever idea created by Casey McDougal whom I, a few years ago, begged to be in my comedy film The Girl of His Dreams, which she was!

Casey has been writing, producing and directing a series of episodes which chronicle the life of being an actor. She asked me to be DP for the pilot episode and I was thrilled to do it. A couple of weeks ago she allowed me to take part on the other side of the camera for a small role too for her third episode! I had a fun time working in a scene with John Henry Soto, Steve Ricard and of course Casey.

I can't wait to see the set of episodes!

Who was Richard Cocke the Younger?

I have noticed that there has been a lot written regarding Lt. Col. Richard Cocke and his two sons named Richard Cocke. It has been written that Richrd Cocke the son of Lt. Col. Cocke’s first wife was known as the Elder and Richard Cocke born of the second wife was known as the Younger. This, we are told, was to easily identify the two half brothers. But instead of making things easier it has made things more confusing. The reason I say this is because a grave turned up for Anne Bowler the daughter of Capt. Thomas Bowler who was married to Richard Cocke the Younger of Bremo. Okay, so this must be the second son of Lt. Col. Richard Cocke right? The Younger. However, most of the early Cocke genealogies of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century claim that this Richard Cocke the Younger is actually the son of Richard Cocke the Elder!? Huh? One modern-day researcher was very adamant, although she gave no proof for this accept that some other researcher, who’s now dead, had posted it on his website. She claimed that instead of Richard the Elder calling his son named Richard, "junior," he called him "the Younger." Why would this be? The only Richard Cocke the Younger I had ever heard of was the second son of Lt. Col. Richard Cocke. How could there be two “the Youngers” running around that section of Virginia? This wouldn’t have made things easier at all! Just the opposite, in fact, it would have made things a heck of a lot more confusing. Some may argue that the grave for Anne (Bowler) Cocke stated that she was married to Richard Cocke the Younger of Bremo! So, since he’s of Bremo and Richard Cocke the Elder inherited the Bremo plantation from his father the Lt. Col. It must be the Elder’s son. But I would counter that both the Richard Cocke brothers were “of Bremo,” since both of them appear to have born there. Therefore, this would not have made things any clearer by stating, “of Bremo.” So what’s going on? Who is Richard Cocke the Younger? I didn’t just accept the, two Richard Cocke the Younger theory, because it didn’t make sense to me. Having two individuals called the Younger with the exact same name would be just as confusing as two brothers named Richard Cocke. But what if there was only one Richard Cocke the Younger? And could this be the case? I decided to try and find references to “Richard Cocke the Younger” from original sources. I first looked at the will of Lt. Col. Richard Cocke (dated 04 Oct 1665) and although “Richard Cocke the elder,” is mentioned; the phrase, “Richard Cocke the younger,” is not. Could Richard Cocke the Elder have been the only son of the Lt. Col. given an additional name? When Richard Cocke the father died in 1665 his second son named Richard Cocke may have been a child. Since this appears to be the case isn’t it possible that the older Richard was referred to as “elder” to differenciate him from his much younger brother Richard. To my knowledge there isn’t any document that lists the second son named Richard as “the younger.” That being said maybe Anne Bowler’s grave listing her as the wife of “Richard Cocke the Younger of Bremo,” is referring to Richard Cocke the Elder’s son, like some annoying researches have stated. Of course, the researchers always implied that the second son of Lt. Col. Cocke was “the Younger” too. It would make much more sense then that there was only one Richard Cocke the Younger because two alive at the same time would be stupid and confusing. If there was just one in history named the Younger, it would make more sense and he could logically be the son of the Richard called the Elder, because the Elder may have stuck when referring to the Cocke brothers. So instead of his son being called junior the son could very well have been called the younger instead. Later, researchers to differentiate the brother, started using "the Younger" when referring to the younger brother, who may never have been called that in life. Please let me know if there are in fact original documents that call the younger Richard Cocke brother, “the Younger.”