JELLYBEANS

It has been an incredible week. We are moving forward with our next feature - JELLYBEANS. We had a great meeting with our Casting Director, Sheryl Roberts who has done casting on Beverly Hills 90210, Face Off, and Rocky III and is as excited about this story as we are. Its a comedy about the importance of a good sexlife in a marriage. You can follow the production updates on Twitter or Facebook

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

The Brain and the Blonde

Guest Blogger

Gilley Grey. Stuntman, producer... astronomer. Gilley is an actual rocket scientist who worked at Sandia National Laboratories, which led to his flying AWACs in Desert Storm.

Watch out when you give Gilley his green iced Starbucks tea. Yesterday we ended up making a Twilight Zone style video called HOLLYWOOD CUTBACKS. Today it was THE UNIVERSE IS FLAT, the first of what we are calling our THE BRAIN AND THE BLONDE series, featuring a new beautiful blonde whenever we can manage it! Noel's gonna be hard to top, she's a great talker.



But coolest of all was that we played Sagan's video before on my new Blackberry and that inspired all this. The kicker? The Gilley Grey/Noel video I filmed is linked on this page on YouTube. So Gilley Grey, Hawkings and Carl Sagan are together somewhere now on Google on the theory of a flat universe.





Sill don't believe the universe is flat and that ancient man was actually ahead of his time thinking the Earth was flat?! Check out this Wikipedia story Gilley showed me.

A Candid Conversation With Mark Fergus

I had an extremely enjoyable evening. I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Mark Fergus, part of the writing team responsible for IRON MAN.

Unlike most writers I have worked and dealt with, Mark was very candid and forthcoming about the trials and tribulations he endured in his quest to become a "Professional Writer."

He left me with this quote: "Writers are egomanics with low self esteem!" (Priceless)

Coffee With Christopher Titus

I ran into Chris Titus, of TITUS and stand-up fame, today working for my iced green tea at Starbucks and talked about perhaps working together on a film. These kind of happy accidents are what makes living in LA so cool.



I introduced Chris to my director pal and they hit it off as they share a mutual pal, a genius producer named John Amodeo who in addition to producing TITUS for Chris also has produced such hit shows as INK, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and SAMANTHA WHO?

Gilley Grey's Magic Bag

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Gilley Grey, top Hollywood stutman/coordinator, producer and founder of Q2 Studios, has a gift, the gift to always have whatever any production needs in his magic bag.

No joke. Gilley's bag really is magic. The kind of magic every director needs. I'm a director navigating through these rough economic "jobless recovery" times. Read about how Gilley's magic bag has saved my butt many times over on my blog sometime, 7 Years in Hollywood.

I met Gilley this past summer when he sought me out for advice on his new Q2 Studios in New Mexico. Why me? Because I built Oprah Harpo Studios, so I know my way around a construction site.
John Lamb, Oprah, Jeff Jacobs and me

I liked Gilley instantly and happily introduced Gilley to my pal Jim McShane, of McShane Construction, another can do spirit, and the two hit it off.

When I hit rock bottom in the bad economy two weeks ago and, yes, ended up evicted from my luxury apartments, Gilley pulled a guest bedroom with it's own private bath out of his magic bag for me to crash in. A recovery that's coming along nicely with my new BuzzBroz company doing video content creation and Social Networking to build buzz.

This morning I woke up only to find my Apple G5, usually super dependable, was frozen up and needed to go into the Apple shop. So I thought I was out of business for few days. But Gilley dug into his magic bag and pulled out a spare laptop computer.

As I sat in amazement while Gilley set up the laptop, grateful as hell, he started to tell me the story of his magic bag that always seems to have what people need, from checks that saved another pal's home to the button for a girl in an airport in this video GILLEY GREY'S MAGIC BAG.



I have to thank Oprah one day for the thread that brought Gilley into my life. We are going to make a lot of magical movies together.

Q2 Founder Gilley Grey Talks About His Stunt Horse

Top Hollywood stuntman and Q2 Studios founder Gilley Grey talks about how he lost his fearless stunt horse Mimms to a modern day horse thief.