The Harris campaign reminds me of the movie project my friend Michael took on in the early 90s. As he told me, "It's gonna be perfect." And as it moved along, it was. He was johnny-on-the-spot to option new best-selling mystery writing sensation Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress." And then he got Denzel Washington to commit to playi…
The Harris campaign reminds me of the movie project my friend Michael took on in the early 90s. As he told me, "It's gonna be perfect." And as it moved along, it was. He was johnny-on-the-spot to option new best-selling mystery writing sensation Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress." And then he got Denzel Washington to commit to playing Easy Rawlins. And then he got the right screenwriter to do the adaptation. And the right director. And then he made the genius move of bringing on the unknown Don Cheadle to be Mouse. And the first studio he went to took one look and said "This is A-OK!!!" and they signed the deal and green-lighted it in a week. When I got invited to a pre-release screening, all I could think was it was the best adaptation of a novel I really liked that I'd ever seen. Afterwards I told Michael, "It's perfect." The studio gave the coming release good publicity and it got an October release at the head of the Oscar-wannabe line.
And when I went to see it in the theater, me and the other 20 people in the place had a good time watching it. And things didn't get better.
And nowadays you will find Devil In A Blue Dress listed among Denzel's best performances. It's still "perfect."
Our business has always been a crap shoot. Some people win more than not, talent at what you do plays a big part, how you are positioned in the payoff structure plays another big part, but in the end you have to sell tickets, and that’s where the crap shoot occurs. Denzel is a big draw and probably had enough in the front end to make either of us rich for the rest of our lives, but it would probably take something like that for him to block out that much of his time for that production. I thought Kamala did a great job, I did everything I could to help her get elected, I have never been so committed to any political candidate, my county, Dekalb voted 85% for her, she still lost GA. I too have been reading and listening for the last week, I have lived off and on in GA since 1964, so I had a front row seat to the civil rights struggle, there are people here who would never vote for her, no matter how much her ideas would help them, I thought that we had turned a corner, her rallies certainly looked like it, sadly I was wrong. It’s going to take a while longer, it will happen or we will cease to be the country I love, not perfect, but working on it. At 78 I hope I live to see it. 🙏
The Harris campaign reminds me of the movie project my friend Michael took on in the early 90s. As he told me, "It's gonna be perfect." And as it moved along, it was. He was johnny-on-the-spot to option new best-selling mystery writing sensation Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress." And then he got Denzel Washington to commit to playing Easy Rawlins. And then he got the right screenwriter to do the adaptation. And the right director. And then he made the genius move of bringing on the unknown Don Cheadle to be Mouse. And the first studio he went to took one look and said "This is A-OK!!!" and they signed the deal and green-lighted it in a week. When I got invited to a pre-release screening, all I could think was it was the best adaptation of a novel I really liked that I'd ever seen. Afterwards I told Michael, "It's perfect." The studio gave the coming release good publicity and it got an October release at the head of the Oscar-wannabe line.
And when I went to see it in the theater, me and the other 20 people in the place had a good time watching it. And things didn't get better.
And nowadays you will find Devil In A Blue Dress listed among Denzel's best performances. It's still "perfect."
Oh, and Michael's next project was "Jumanji."
Nobody. Knows. Anything.
Our business has always been a crap shoot. Some people win more than not, talent at what you do plays a big part, how you are positioned in the payoff structure plays another big part, but in the end you have to sell tickets, and that’s where the crap shoot occurs. Denzel is a big draw and probably had enough in the front end to make either of us rich for the rest of our lives, but it would probably take something like that for him to block out that much of his time for that production. I thought Kamala did a great job, I did everything I could to help her get elected, I have never been so committed to any political candidate, my county, Dekalb voted 85% for her, she still lost GA. I too have been reading and listening for the last week, I have lived off and on in GA since 1964, so I had a front row seat to the civil rights struggle, there are people here who would never vote for her, no matter how much her ideas would help them, I thought that we had turned a corner, her rallies certainly looked like it, sadly I was wrong. It’s going to take a while longer, it will happen or we will cease to be the country I love, not perfect, but working on it. At 78 I hope I live to see it. 🙏
I thoroughly enjoyed it.