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  1. MikeKardec

    Vintage trains

    I got a chance to move all those engines at Railtown (Jamestown, CA) around for a film that I was working on. One of the most exciting nights of my life. I wish I'd had a camera but we were working so hard I probably wouldn't have had time to shoot any photos. It takes a long time to boil up...
  2. MikeKardec

    "The Master" 2012 J. Phoenix | P. Seymour Hoffman

    There was a wonderful comment that I believe William Goldman made about "Casablanca" -- Richard Blane (Bogart's character) is asked why he came to Casablanca. He says something like, "I came for the waters." When reminded that there are no mineral springs in Casablanca he says, "I was...
  3. MikeKardec

    Jack London

    It is VERY interesting to read John Barleycorn (his real-ish autobiography) and Martin Eden (his fictional autobiography) back to back. It gives you an interesting perspective on how an author will adjust truth to form fiction without really departing from the truth ... or something. It's an...
  4. MikeKardec

    "The Master" 2012 J. Phoenix | P. Seymour Hoffman

    It's funny I liked both pictures initially for their parts, individual scenes and moments that I found fascinating. There Will Be Blood eventually constructed itself into a cohesive whole in my mind while The Master never really did. The Master relied on our believing that something...
  5. MikeKardec

    Doc Savage

    It's funny how James Bama, the artist who did most of those 1960s Bantam paperback covers for the DS series, used that particular model for a lot of his paintings in that era, Doc Savage or not. I think the guy was an actor who did the old Flash Gordon series but I'm not sure if I have that...
  7. MikeKardec

    Typewriters

    My childhood was played out against a score of typewriter music. Dad clacking away at a new novel in the little room that was his office. He used an Olympia until '57 or so and then bought a huge IBM Model B that sported gray wrinkle finish and smelled of warm and dusty oil. I have most of...
  8. MikeKardec

    Foreign accents by non natives in movies and TV

    Actually, it's pretty wonderful that actors do better these days than they used to. The preparation time (especially for a TV pilot) is often just a few days and the actors that I have met seldom spend any time practicing anything they are not contracted to use. I suspect that is different...
  9. MikeKardec

    WWII Photos - Taken / Collected by Family Members

    Dad, stateside Fall of '43, on the way to the Upper Peninsula to test winter gear ... he's smiling because it's not cold yet! Just after the Battle of the Bulge, hauling gas into Holland and Germany.
  10. MikeKardec

    The great flood of 1926-1927

    If memory serves, this event is occasionally used to illustrate the end of the independent or self sufficient era in America. A fund was created help out victims yet very few people applied ... they didn't want to be seen as taking charity, no matter the cost. By the end of the depression this...
  11. MikeKardec

    Money in Old West films

    Film makers often "split the difference" on details that would push audience members out of the entertainment experience ... details like a dollar amount that is so low that it would cause people to spend a moment thinking about it rather than following the story. If you are trying to get an...
  13. MikeKardec

    Foreign accents by non natives in movies and TV

    Stallone can not be blamed, he was trained from birth to use only vowels! Someone mentioned Andrew Lincoln ... it is definitely true that in the last 10 to 15 years several dialect coaches have cracked the code for British, Scottish, Irish, Kiwi and Aussie actors to speak with credible American...
  14. MikeKardec

    Some interesting books

    Here's some stuff I've been reading lately that might interest some of you ... The Singapore Grip - J G Farrell. An amusing, somewhat goofy but AMAZINGLY researched novel about the year leading up to the fall of Singapore. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace - Talbot Mundy. Middle Eastern...
  15. MikeKardec

    Mystery/ sic-fi radio shows online?

    There's a lot of people here with better recommendations that I can give but back when I was starting in this business The Mist by Steven King was the one to beat though it might be intense for a little kid. The recent Zorro production with Val Kilmer is also pretty good. For old mystery/crime...
  16. MikeKardec

    Audio History

    I figured I'd share this because I'm getting ready to sell it ... It is a 1942 Lansing "Iconic" Two-Way Field Coil Speaker system. The Iconic was the first, successful two-way speaker a ground breaking product in its day. It was widely accepted as the finest speaker available. It was...
  17. MikeKardec

    Rush

    Excellent movie ... for my money the best racing film ever made, though I like some of the older ones for their ambiance. Auto racing has always seemed like a great subject for motion picture treatment yet it has often been strangely uncinematic. This one mixes character and just enough of...
  19. MikeKardec

    Wes Anderson period film: The Grand Budapest Hotel

    I loved it but it is very GOOFY. One thing I was quite impressed with, it seemed that Ralph Fiennes was channeling Peter Sellers in some wonderful way ... not copying or imitating, just picking up on that amazing comic spirit from Sellers greatest days. It's wonderful he's had a chance to be a...
  20. MikeKardec

    "See your dentist twice a year": Products That Changed Our Habits

    I suspect that seeing a dentist twice a year also led to more need for silver mercury fillings (for smaller cavities) rather than gold "inlay." Older people I have known had mouths full of gold whereas dentists now tend to say, "that's not big enough for a gold inlay, I hate to take so much of a...
  21. MikeKardec

    Iron Sky and the real question about Nazi experimentation with flying discs...

    A mention just for fun ... last time I was in Hamburg (a few years ago now) I heard there were still a number of Type XXI subs in a collapsed Uboot pen. They had been almost completely forgotten! "Urban explorers" used to sneak in to see them. I was not one of these trespassers, though I...
  22. MikeKardec

    New Radio Drama

    Mr. Wolf, You caught me! I wrote and produced The Diamond of Jeru for USA Network. It's just about the coolest thing in the world to get to rework old material for a new medium and a new time-limit, 90 minutes of TV vs 180 for a Random House Audio production. Audio takes longer to tell the...
  23. MikeKardec

    New Radio Drama

    I've worked single mic style in the past. We even had the actors "ride their own volume" by moving nearer and farther from the single mic. In an old style mono show you could do a fair number of effects in real time if your performers are buttoned up. I like the technical ability to control...

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