more than meets the eye

...it says, "I felt like Goofus when I annoyed my family with my Transformers." -Noah, Age 5, Georgia. "Holy crap," I thought, "Michael Bay is writing anonymous apologies in Highlights!"
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end user: greetings from the future of filmmaking

I’m in Portland, Oregon, shooting an episode of TNT’s prime time drama, Leverage. Just about every night after we wrap I meet up with my friend John Rogers, who is the co-executive producer and head writer for the show, to have a beer and decompress after a long day on the set. Whether we talk about filmmaking, comic books, nerdy geeky gaming stuff, or technology, a common thread runs through our conversations: it’s pretty awesome to live here in the future, we sure are lucky to get paid to make stuff up and entertain people, and holy crap has the industry changed since we first entered it.
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time to write

In today's Los Angeles Times, writer J. Robert Lennon wrote an amusing and very truthful column about exactly what it is we do when we're writing.
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LEVERAGE: day five

"It is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to Wil Wheaton," the assistant director said. I threw my hands up in the air and yelled into the sky: "NOOOOOOO!!!"
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LEVERAGE: day four

"I just realized why these books and these games are so important to me," I said, pointing to all the D&D books that surrounded us. "During a childhood that was completely abnormal, filled with things that I didn't choose for myself, these games were something I chose to read and play. These games were part of my normal." "Oh, so you were like everyone else who played D&D when they were a kid," John said.
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What Happens if You Feed a Dog Chocolate While he Wears a Tin Foil Hat in the Microwave

I think it was about a year ago that I recorded this episode of Cavalcade of Comedy for Seth MacFarlane. I've been hoping to see it for months, but it wasn't until today that I read a post at CliqueClack TV about it, and BAM there it was.
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LEVERAGE: day three

I wasn't on the call sheet today, but I went to the set anyway, because I felt like I was welcome to visit if I wasn't in the way, and because we were shooting at the Art Museum, and I was going to go see their collection on my day off, anyway.
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LEVERAGE: day two

Just about everyone was assembled for this scene, and I lingered near my mark while I waited for everyone else to get their last looks so we could shoot. Tim Hutton walked over to me and quietly said, "Hey, did you bring any copies of Sunken Treasure with you?" I felt like I was going to faint. How in the hell does Tim Hutton know about my books?
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LEVERAGE: day one

Most scripts have a scene that makes an actor go, "WOW, I really want to play this character so I can do that scene." This morning, I got to do that scene, and it was as challenging, fun, and ultimately rewarding as I thought it would be. I can't wait to see it in the final cut of the show.
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LEVERAGE: day zero

Now I'm going to go learn my lines and prepare for filming tomorrow. ... I'm not going to lie to you, Marge: I love this.
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