BUSY BUSY!

Lot's going on! Lessee ... our production of Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is going to be ready this week. I should be able to let Ray hear a preview week after this, and also send it off to Blackstone. This one took much longer than I expected, and we met with some delays, but it will be worth it. Another incredible score from Jeff, and a great edit from Chris. Also ready this week, our FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES, Vol. 1 will be ready to ship off to our publishers as well! These are some really cool episodes edited by our amazingly talented 19 year old editor in Australia, Matt McLaren! The music for this series is by Kevin Mcleod, and scripted by M.J. Elliott in England; and I can't forget to mention the great J.T. Turner, who stars as Father Brown. We have been releasing them as downloads, but Blackstone will do a spiffy CD release.

GUNS OF POWDER RIVER has finished recording, and the 1st rough cut is done as well. This will go into final edit in the next couple of weeks and will be released in July.

Speaking of POWDER RIVER, Season 5 started production last week, and we taped three fun-filled episodes with Rex Trailer and Sgt. Billy O'Brien! These are going to be three of my favotie episodes - I can tell! How cool was it to see these two legends from Boston TV (and my youth) perform together again? Thanks a ton to Sam Donato who made it all happen! The episodes we taped are a little lighter after the intense ending of Season 4. These were done without most of the regular cast, since the episodes take place in California, not Wyoming - but the show returns to Clearmont for the next batch, recording soon. Season 5 will hit the air in September.

We have just upgraded our music department, and Jeff now has some brand new top of the line tools to turn out some scores like you have never before from CRT! This is VERY, VERY exciting! The first production that will boast this new sound will be THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SWIFT, which will start post-production soon.

I had my first "Live chat" with some CRT fans last night. Lots of fun!

Thats all for now. Back to the editing desk.

If it's Monday ......

... I must be recording! Tonight we start recording Season 5 of POWDER RIVER with three episodes and guest stars REX TRAILER and SGT. BILLY O'BRIEN from TV's BOOMTOWN! Rex appeared with us in Season 3, and it's great he's coming back for these episodes. These episodes take place in California, so most of the regular cast does not appear in the season openers.

Also on Monday, I'll be starting to edit GUNS OF POWDER RIVER, which will be broadcast in July. Should be a fun show.

This coming Saturday I'll be hosting my first "live chat" with the members of our CRT Yahoo Fan Group. Should be fun!

A cold and damp day in Boston. How is it where YOU are?

NEW RELEASE!

CRT has just released FATHER BROWN - THE THREE TOOLS OF DEATH on Spoken Network.

POWDER RIVER SEASON 3

POWDER RIVER Season 3 is released on June 1st! Nothin' better than a good western for the summertime! Great for long car trips (Yeah, I'm soundin like a salesman - but its exciting!). This season features Sheriff Dawes on the cover.

WRITING, WRITING!

GUNS OF POWDER RIVER is 90% recorded; now I just need the "book end" scenes on Thursday night, and we're ready for editing. Just finished a 16 hour writing session, so this is a short entry.

MEMORIAL DAY

Honoring former CRT Players
William Nesti. d.1996 - Seabee's
Carl Malenchini. 1942-2003 U.S. Marines

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -John F. Kennedy

RECORDING DAY

In a few hours the mics will turn on and we'll be underway with GUNS OF POWDER RIVER!
I'm looking forward to this one. Sam Donato has flown up from sunny Florida to incredibly hot Boston, and he gets to do the same next week when we record the first three episodes of season 5! I am excited about the cast for this one - and I think it's an exciting script! I think we should have it ready for July!

Season 5 will be sporting some new opening credits, and the show will travel more - meaning not all the episodes will take place in Clearmont. In fact, the first three episodes of the new season take place in California. The season will record in June, July and August, and will kick off our third season on XM Radio in September!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUKE!

I can't believe that this weekend would have been John Wayne's 100th Birthday! I love the Duke, and here is a VERY COOL SITE and event that I would kill to attend! Watch a John Wayne picture this weekend and celebrate one of Hollywoods greatest movie stars!

Back to Woik

Back from NYC. Caught two shows - DEUCE Starring Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes, and INHERIT THE WIND starring Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy! Both shows were great. Deuce has been pretty much universally panned by the critics, but why is it these days every play needs to be Hamlet??? The sold out house that I attended was laughing, very attentive, and lots of smiles. It was a fun show and I loved it.
"Inherit the Wind" has always been one of my favorites, and this one was incredible. Front row seats, Christopher Plummer about 5 feet away doing a scene on the steps leading up to the stage ... a great night! Got to meet Brian Dennehy afterwards, so that was cool. Dinner at Sardis ...all in all, a good trip! Now back to the writing grind. We record GUNS OF POWDER RIVER this weekend, and then on June 4th the first three episodes of Season 5. Those are the scripts I'm doing now. So - its back to woik.

Whats new around here and Random thoughts

After a one year hiatus, I am going back into the editing room for some hands-on production work. The last production I edited for CRT was DANDELION WINE (and every production that came before it); and since then most of my CRT time has been spent scheduling, recording, and writing (and writing, and writing); but I've decided that I need more splicing and dicing in my life - so I am going to be editing!

Useless random thoughts?
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I feel very old
Mothers Day can really suck
I could easily move away from this New England weather. I need to think of that more.
-so why am I looking at a huge house in North Hampton NH?
My world moves much too slow for me
I write better in bars
I need a vacation ... But bad. It's been 7 years or so.
I dont listen to audio books, in fact, I dont even like them.
I heard an interview with someone from LA Theatre works lamenting on how 'young people dont go to the theatre anymore." LADY - an Orchestra ticket for a Broadway musical can reach $250.00! The cheap seats are 50!! TOUCH REALITY - ITS REFRESHING.

My top 10 Pet peeves;
1) A person talking with their mouth full. I dont want to SEE the process, thank you!
2) Guys wearing baseball caps in restaurants.
3) The same baseball caps worn backwards.
4) Cell phones in movie theatres!!! And people talking on them! I love paying 12 bucks to hear someones conversation.
5) Those awful "cricket phones" that chirp. Do they have a vibrate mode?? And then both parties shouting into them! Just what I want to hear in a nice restaurant.
6) Excuses.
7) People who are mean to kids
8) People who are mean to their pets
9) small talk
10)Leaf Blowers

Ok, I vented. now back to writing the script