Exclusive: Palm Springs circa 1975 is the setting for a new scripted podcast starring Jason Alexander and Lance Bass.
The pair, along with Richard Kind, and Michael McKean, are voicing characters in Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn, a new series for podcast firm Audio Up.
Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn is inspired by the memoir of Melvyn Haber, the irrepressible owner of the infamous Melvyn’s Restaurant and Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, CA. Alexander stars as Mel.
Palm Springs was an ancestral home to legendary figures like the Rat Pack, a vacation staple for the mafia, and the favored haunt for celebrities behaving badly. Mel, completely inexperienced in the hospitality industry, struggles to get his new business off the ground, clashing with and catering to Hollywood’s elite – as well as a few drag queens, pornographers, and mobsters to boot.
Laura Ramadei and Ryan Willison wrote the audio series,...
The pair, along with Richard Kind, and Michael McKean, are voicing characters in Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn, a new series for podcast firm Audio Up.
Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn is inspired by the memoir of Melvyn Haber, the irrepressible owner of the infamous Melvyn’s Restaurant and Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, CA. Alexander stars as Mel.
Palm Springs was an ancestral home to legendary figures like the Rat Pack, a vacation staple for the mafia, and the favored haunt for celebrities behaving badly. Mel, completely inexperienced in the hospitality industry, struggles to get his new business off the ground, clashing with and catering to Hollywood’s elite – as well as a few drag queens, pornographers, and mobsters to boot.
Laura Ramadei and Ryan Willison wrote the audio series,...
- 5/12/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2012, before he became an Imagine Entertainment screenwriter, Justin Calen-Chenn received his film education in a crappy hotel room. He’d already worked on a handful of short films, but he also had a life in the violent Los Angeles underworld that forced him to spend weeks hiding out. To pass the time, he read classic screenplays like “Midnight Cowboy” while eating Domino’s Pizza.
Four years later, a close friend suffered a brutal death and Calen-Chenn said that’s when everything changed. “I had the choice to continue to the top, or give it all up,” he said.
Calen-Chenn, who’s now 36, chose the latter. He and his creative partner Stephen “Dr” Love workshopped “The 99” as part of Imagine Impact, an intense, eight-week program that seeks unknown or underrepresented writers with unique stories and gets their projects ready for sale.
An offshoot of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine,...
Four years later, a close friend suffered a brutal death and Calen-Chenn said that’s when everything changed. “I had the choice to continue to the top, or give it all up,” he said.
Calen-Chenn, who’s now 36, chose the latter. He and his creative partner Stephen “Dr” Love workshopped “The 99” as part of Imagine Impact, an intense, eight-week program that seeks unknown or underrepresented writers with unique stories and gets their projects ready for sale.
An offshoot of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine,...
- 12/12/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Wyoming Directed by Danya Taymor, Written by Brian Watkins Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003 January 15 - 31, 2015
Spaces on the set of Brian Watkins's new play, Wyoming, are defined almost exclusively by tables -- bar tables, diner tables, kitchen tables, locations that often forge and sometimes force connections between people. Tables are just part of a range of everyday objects, including a locked box, a child's headphones, and a slide projector, that take on symbolic resonance in this meditation on time, choice, secrecy, and -- or perhaps through the lens of -- family. Wyoming, set primarily in the mid-'90s, centers on a Thanksgiving dinner during which the past of the particular family in question becomes unavoidable in various ways and for various, interwoven reasons. This breaking both of bread and of silences is directed by Danya Taymor, niece of the iconic Julie, and features original music from Robin Pecknold,...
Spaces on the set of Brian Watkins's new play, Wyoming, are defined almost exclusively by tables -- bar tables, diner tables, kitchen tables, locations that often forge and sometimes force connections between people. Tables are just part of a range of everyday objects, including a locked box, a child's headphones, and a slide projector, that take on symbolic resonance in this meditation on time, choice, secrecy, and -- or perhaps through the lens of -- family. Wyoming, set primarily in the mid-'90s, centers on a Thanksgiving dinner during which the past of the particular family in question becomes unavoidable in various ways and for various, interwoven reasons. This breaking both of bread and of silences is directed by Danya Taymor, niece of the iconic Julie, and features original music from Robin Pecknold,...
- 1/26/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Carnival Kids Directed by Stephen Brackett Lesser America at Tbg Theatre 312 West 36th Street, NYC June 5th - 28th, 2014
Carnival Kids, by Lucas Kavner, offers a compelling snapshot of five people whose lives intersect via one New York City apartment. Mark (Jake Choi) is a law student whose father, Dale (Randall Newsome), formerly a keyboardist in a touring rock band, moves from Texas to stay with his son while he ostensibly looks for work; Dale’s entanglements with Mark’s roommate, Eckland (Max Jenkins), and a young woman, Kalina (Danelle Eliav), soon disturb the sediment of the family history. Mark’s past makes a second reappearance when he reconnects with Marisa (Laura Ramadei), who had a crush on him in high school. How Mark attempts to navigate these relationships drives this funny and affecting new play.
The cast members turn in uniformly excellent performances: Mark is neurotic and uptight, truly...
Carnival Kids, by Lucas Kavner, offers a compelling snapshot of five people whose lives intersect via one New York City apartment. Mark (Jake Choi) is a law student whose father, Dale (Randall Newsome), formerly a keyboardist in a touring rock band, moves from Texas to stay with his son while he ostensibly looks for work; Dale’s entanglements with Mark’s roommate, Eckland (Max Jenkins), and a young woman, Kalina (Danelle Eliav), soon disturb the sediment of the family history. Mark’s past makes a second reappearance when he reconnects with Marisa (Laura Ramadei), who had a crush on him in high school. How Mark attempts to navigate these relationships drives this funny and affecting new play.
The cast members turn in uniformly excellent performances: Mark is neurotic and uptight, truly...
- 6/15/2014
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The new web series Compulsive Love is an exercise in execution. The premise, about a hopeless romantic and his serial encounters with the opposite sex, doesn't seem particularly fresh. But by taking a fairly simple concept, neatly packaging it in a pretty box, and presenting it to us the flash and aplomb, Compulsive Love ends up being a whole lot of fun. Compulsive Love follows the life Aaron (Alex Anfanger), a young, relatable male lead who has recently been dumped by his longtime girlfriend. Aaron's rebound takes him pinballing off a number of different girls, with every encounter ending in eventual heartbreak. The first of eight episodes has been released on Compulsive Love's own YouTube channel. Aaron is an energetic lead, with elements of Ted Mosby, Charlie Kelly, and Don Juan mixed in. His friend Zoe (Laura Ramadei), with whom he works at a temp job, is a classic foil.
- 3/1/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Why Watch? This is a brand-new feature on the site, but we may never be able to top this entry. Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses lives up to its single-tear-inducingly brilliant name as the most straight-forward depiction of a conspiracy theory wrapped in a bad break up. It’s hilarious, inventive, it looks great, and it should give you a few ideas for how to get rid of that pesky girlfriend or boyfriend you can’t seem to break it off with. Or does it???? Conspiracy! What Will It Cost? Just fifteen minutes of your time (which may be the best fifteen you spend today). Does it get better any better than that? Only if we broke up with your annoying partner for you while you watch. Check out Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses for yourself: Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses: The Movie (2009) Directed By: Brian McElhaney Written By: Brian McElhaney & Nick Kocher Starring:...
- 3/9/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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