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- From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
- Subject: Re: Philip Michael Thomas article in Sunshine magazine (FL)
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 11:21:48 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- kbeal@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Ken Beal) writes:
-
- > Just read an article that upset me. I recently read the HUGE files
-
- "HUGE files"? The presskit is but a grain of sand, on the mountainous
- dune of my Wizard File (every date, datum, letter, phonecall, article,
- showing, illegal activity, etc x etc). Not to mention the other scripts
- and stories, thundering in stasis in my Amiga and these boxes of micronotes.
- Not to mention my brain, still holding all of this, plus every frame and
- sound and alternative and repair potential of WIZARD... Gotta download
- this someday, it's approaching critical creativity.
-
- >that Mike posted, with the cast. I remember reading that PMT used WoSaT as
- >a sort of springboard (Miami Vice producers saw him in it and wanted him,
- >or something like that).
-
- > Well, the October 18 issue (yes, I read slowly :) of Sunshine
- >magazine, which came in the Sun-Sentinel, had a cover story, 3 pages
-
- Would someone send me a good xerox of this article? (Practically every
- WIZARD review and article has come to me through friends and fans. None
- of the excellent two dozen newspaper reviews was ever furnished by our
- alleged "distributor", SGE.)
-
- >long, on him. Said lots about him, little about his private life (he
- >says you can find it in his songs), and mentions his beginnings, such as
- >_Hair_ (1968) and _No Place to Be Somebody_ (1971). 1979, he did a TV
- >movie, _Death Drug_. Then it jumps right into 1984, with _Miami Vice_.
-
- > I am disappointed.
-
-
- Could have been the magazine editor. Or maybe Philip forgot. Though I
- kind of doubt the latter - he's a very generous, gracious guy. (And he
- was genuinely appreciative when I sent him video copies of our feature,
- and saw that I'd edited out a line that my e.b.p. loved.)
-
- Some years ago, Philip was on The Larry King Show, and actually said
- on-air that he credited WIZARD with getting his starring role on
- MIAMI VICE:
-
- He was in a casting call, in a line-up with 400 other actors all vying
- for a role in the new series. They asked him what parts he had
- played. He answered that he'd "played a cop, in Wizard of Speed and
- Time". They then screen-tested him, and he got the part of Tubbs.
-
- Things could have been much different. Without WIZARD, Philip would
- have answered that he'd played a junkie, in BLACK FIST (a feature
- that my e.b.p. claims to have produced).
-
- On a similar note, Steve Brodie's obituary omitted WIZARD as Steve's
- last movie - crediting instead MUGSY'S GIRLS. I could stop there.
- Or I could mention that the obituary was written by Steve's son, Kevin.
- Who produced and directed MG. Which film was distributed by SGE (and
- quickly vanished). And last I heard, Kevin was being waltzed around
- by my e.b.p. Hollywood is a very strange wrinkle of reality.
-
- --mike
-
-