Before They Were Kings: Part Three

Original article published in VANITY FAIR, March 2004>>>>>


BEFORE THEY WERE KINGS

(Part 3 of .. God knows HOW MANY??)


Robert Duvall was the lead in that “A View from the Bridge, playing, at 26, Eddie Carbone, a sullen Sicilian longshoreman in his 40’s from Red Hook, Brooklyn, with accent to match. “In the first rehearsal,” says Hackman, “Bobby already had this kind of physical thing that he was doing – like an animal – kind of glided across the stage. I was really impressed.” Grosbard still recalls in wonder, “You see a transformation happen that you can’t put your finger on, except it’s unmistakable. What does he draw on to do that?”

Duvall was born in San Diego in 1931. His father, Howard, a naval officer who rose to rear admiral, resettled his family in a series of cities and ended up in Annapolis, Maryland. Adjusting to numerous schools, Robert, though smallish, found status as an athlete. In his loving, committed Christian Science family, everybody was a singer or performer. Howard, whom Robert sometimes referred to as the admiral, ran a tight ship. Discipline was “a good whack” and a “go to your room” says Robert’s brother, William. But because of Howard’s long absences on duty, their East Texas mother – extroverted, musical, a former drama major – was in charge. William Duvall describes Bobby as “a problem child in some areas; he didn’t always conform to the usual mother-father rules of the house. He had the rebel in him.”

Duvall was fundamentally at loose ends until, like his friend Dustin, he recognized his talent, probably inherited from his mother. A Duvall-family legend has four year old Bobby convulsing a table of cowboys at his uncles Idaho ranch by imitating and old sheepherder wolfing down his meal. Later, in front of a mirror, Robert would comb his hair like Lawrence Olivier and “do my own corny version of his Hamlet. I remember that. Yeah.” A conventional career was utterly alien. Remembering his days at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, Duval says “You don’t know where to go, what’s gonna happen. You feel lost. It was like, ‘What’s next? In my life? The next day?’”

Like Hoffman, he kept from flunking by becoming a drama major. Playing an adult in Arthur Miller’s ALL MY SONS, he spoke the final, emotional speech – “They were ALL my sons” – and felt spontaneous tears wetting his cheeks. He remembers, “I was like totally at peace. And I thought, Oh, wow, maybe I have something here.” His extremely critical acting coach assured him, “You can’t do much more with acting than that.” In 1955, after two years in the army, he moved to New York and was accepted at the Neighborhood Playhouse, presided over by the fearsome acting teacher Sanford Meisner.

The trio was completed in 1958, when Hoffman arrived in New York with $50 in his pocket and an invitation to sleep on the Hackman’s kitchen floor for a few days. To Hoffman, the city loomed cold and lonely and terrifying – “I didn’t know what I was supposed to do.” He clung to the two room apartment for three weeks, until Gene and Faye, with no privacy, had had enough. Finally Hackman placed Hoffman with Bobby Duvall in a sixth floor, three bedroom walk up apartment at 109th street and Broadway. Hoffman says “The feeling was that Bobby was the new Brando. I felt he was the one, and probably I wasn’t. In a sense I was their little brother – you know, ‘My friend Dustbone, he’s very talented.’ Gene was older and married, so I was the tagalong.”

(to be continued)

(view parts 1-3 HERE)

Breaking Bad and Buzzing

AMC’s BREAKING BAD video contest kept me up and buzzing til late last night… or EARLY this morning… JJ and I had about a 10 hour editing session til about 2:30AM. We were working on cutting together a couple of entries….

TEN HOURS! To cut two separate ONE-MINUTE videos.

Just for fun, shits, giggles… whatever…. Just to shoot something for the sake of shooting something…. last weekend, I rounded up a small crew and a few actors and we gave the whole BREAKING BAD thing a go.

THE CONTEST>>>

AMCtv.com is seeking submissions for its You Could Be On Breaking Bad contest. Entrants submit a short audition video using one of three Breaking Bad monologues provided on the contest website. AMCtv.com members will vote for and comment on their favorite entries to determine the 20 finalists and 10 first prize winners; one winner receives the opportunity for a walk-on role in a Season 3 Breaking Bad episode on AMC. Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad creator-exec. prod. Finalists will be announced May 4; winners will be announced on or before June 1.

Visit http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad-contest. Submission deadline is May 1. No fees or purchases required. Possible pay provided; Grand Prize includes $1,000 cash prize and the chance for a walk-on role in a Season 3 episode of Breaking Bad.


Seems simple enough… right? So after shooting til the wee hours of the morning last week, and editing til the wee hours of the morning THIS week…. We completed two entries… cutting footage together…then viciously chopping it all down to fit the time requirements. JJ and I had our 1 minute, 75 MB submissions ready to go… and they look almost identical… not only is the look and feel similar (we used the same lighting scheme.), but the approach to the material is the same… I think we both tried WAY too hard to deliver a poignant and moving performance… of you look at some of the other contest entries… many of the entries are just bobbing heads…somebody starting into their web cam…reciting…or trying to act… some better than others.... you can see that there are a handful of clips that get creative with the assignment… and thus are enjoyable to watch… I might be getting too critical of myself… which I usually am…. but I feel like we took ourselves too seriously… I mean they look cool… dark, edgy…kind of film noir-ish…. But we also had to cut a few lines from the monologues to keep the clip under a minute….. You’ll see… whenever they get posted… we submitted last night at like 3AM.

What’s funny is that there will be two practically identical videos… one featuring actor JJ HUCKIN…and one featuring actor JAMES HUFFMAN…

That’s going to be confusing…. Not to mention we sort of look alike… two white dudes with short brown choppy hair… the only difference is that JJ is 6 ft 6… I’m only 6 ft 1… but you can’t really tell that from the video.

We probably should have thought about that when we were shooting, but we just didn’t have the time and a big enough crew to whip up a totally different scheme for each actor.

The one thing we noticed after we submitted our videos was that you can only get official votes from people who are REGISTERED with AMCTV.COM… so if I’m going to hit up all my friends and ask everyone to vote for me in this contest… they will all be required to sign up with AMCTV.COM… and most people I now will be like “F%$@ that.”

I will ask anyway… of course

I will let you know when the video’s are up.


www.jamescliftonhuffman.com


(The indie city entertainment site is currently down. Apparently I unknowingly let the domain registration expire and now I'm trying to get a handle on how to fix the situation. I'm working on it)

TubeMogul and Me.

For the past two years, I have been maintaining and nurturing a creative/production collective that was democratically named INDIE CITY ENTERTAINMENT.

ICE will someday become a fully operational production/entertainment company...

Today... Indie City Entertainment officially registered with TUBE MOGUL…

“TubeMogul is the first online video analytics and distribution company serving publishers large and small who need independent information about video performance on the Internet and automated upload to the Web's top video sharing sites.”

http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/ICE

Currently, only one video has been uploaded and distributed, ASPIRING LINE: EPISODE 2.5. This particular episode will serve has a test run for future episodes of exiting and future web series projects like CATCH: THE WEB SERIES.

ASPIRING LINE 2.5 is available for viewing on the following sites….

YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxlYjA99-Jk

YAHOO: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4740497/12661557

MYSPACE: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=54634367

METACAFE: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2612122/

BLIP.TV: http://www.blip.tv/file/1916154

VEOH: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v18077604cZspP8tX

VIDDLER: http://www.viddler.com/explore/indiecityent/videos/1/

REVVER: http://revver.com/watch/1557493

There are many more sharing sites available for us to post on… but we are just getting started.

We’ve had a handful of hits on Youtube, which is where most of ICE’s video projects are posted first. A link to the Youtube version was also posted on Facebook, so that attracted a few more views. Most of the other sites have only attracted a few hits (IF THAT).

METACAFE, on the other hand, has, for some unknown reason, accumulated 120 hits. Since we are just getting started on TubeMogul and have little to no knowledge or experience with Metacafe, its hard to say if that some sort of error, a fluke, or maybe MetaCafe has some distribution method that is far superior to any of the other sites.

ICE is brand new to many of these video sharing sites so we don’t have much of a following. Building an audience on any one of the many online channels takes time and persistence: recruiting “Friends,” as well as rating and commenting on a variety of other videos.

There is a reason these sites use the term “Sharing,” and it’s a two way street.

So to all my dear friends, foes, pimps and ho’s…

Could you please do us a HUGE favor and visit some of these sites? Then rate and/or leave a comment?

If a site like Blip.tv or Metacafe requires you to register in order to leave a comment… no sweat… totally understand if you don’t want to do that or have TIME to do that… but if its as simple as a couple clicks…

Your participation/feedback/attention would be MUCH appreciated…

Thanks…and stay tuned!

JAMES

http://www.jamescliftonhuffman.com

http://www.indiecityentertainment.com

Some semblence of sanity

It’s an absolutely GORGEOUS day in LA.

It’s also really really quiet.

I don’t like when it’s quiet.

I’m going to try and NOT drive my car today. Do my part for the environment.

There should be a national “No Drive” day. Everyone leaves the car at home for the day. Of course there would be a few exceptions, but everyone else commits to not driving for a day. Transit authorities could use this opportunity to promote their services. Maybe they could create a festival atmosphere on trains and busses. Companies could promote their products and give away free samples. Free food and drink at the stations and depots. Private transportation companies could join in the fun and offer shuttle services. Set up bike rentals stands, Rent out scooters, mopeds, skateboards and rollerblades…. Juts for one day…can you imagine?

EARTH HOUR is coming up… its not exactly a “NO-DRIVE” day… but it’s a pretty amazing event… a valiant effort.

http://www.earthhour.org

“Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Coliseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness. In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights…”

EARTH HOUR starts at 8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009… do it.

I’m in the process of developing a new web series.

It’s going to be something different than your average web series… sort of a New Media melting pot, part variety show, part music video, with elements of video art, news, social commentary, sketches, Shakespeare and some semblance of sanity…or better yet… insanity.

I’m having trouble naming this project. I’ve been calling it my digital variety show, which is boring, hard to get anybody excited about the project without a cool or catchy name.

I have a big piece of project paper stretched across the wall in my apartment. I keep writing possible names…
CHUNK
FLIM FLAM
CATNIP
THE NEW COUP REVIEW
WUNZ N OH”S
FREE BALL
DIGI DOOKIE
SO LO-FI
WILD OUT
PUNCH PARTY
RAPID FIRE
WRECKING BALL
JIM AND THE JOHNSONS
THE NEW COOL COLLECTIVE
MISFIT MAGIC SHOW
A LITTLE LEAVE BEHIND
JIMENY’S JAM
WIKIWHATNOT

… Still thinking.


http://www.jamescliftonhuffman.com

Before They Were Kings: Part Two

Before They Were Kings: Part Two

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1930. His puritanical father worked on newspaper presses and restlessly moved the family to four states before settling in the backwater, corn belt town of Danville, Illinois. Gene dreaded hearing his mother say “Wait til Dad gets home.” He explains, “He always went too far. Laid it on pretty heavy.” Like Hoffman, Hackman went to a series of schools, but unlike his friend, he turned inward. In high school he never dated or went to a dance. At home in the basement, next to the coal bin, he built a cardboard house – “a place to hide. My own spot.”

His other sanctuary was the movie theater, where Jimmy Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Edward G Robinson were his favorites. Hackman says, “I loved the idea that somebody could convince me that they were a sea captain without being phony. I’d grown up shy – not unusual for actors. They want to show they’re more than that – people of import, substance. I think because I was shy I felt insecure, and acting seemed like a way of maybe getting around that. Getting to be somebody.” When Gene was 13, his father abandoned the family for years with just a wave of the hand to his son playing in the street. “It was a real adios,” says Hackman. “It was so precise. Maybe that’s why I became an actor. I doubt I would have become so sensitive to human behavior if that hadn’t happened to me as a child – if I hadn’t realized how much one small gesture can mean.”

His Mother moved in with his grandmother, who considered him a weak character. At 16, he served a night in jail for stealing candy and soda, and, on an impulse permanently escaped his life. He lied about his age and enlisted in the Marines, serving four and a half years in China, Japan and Hawaii. He rose to corporal but was busted for fighting. He also got a taste of show business as an announcer on Armed Forces Radio. After a serious motorcycle accident he was mustered out, and in 1951 he settled in New York, living at the YMCA and hoping to become an actor. In order t receive about $150 a month from the G.I. Bill as a wounded veteran; he had to go to school. The G.I. Bill refused to pay for acting classes; regulation required schooling that would lead to a job. However, the bill qualified “painter” as a profession and paid Hackman’s tuition at the Art Student’s league – drawing had always been a hobby – and then at the nearby school of radio technique.

In 1953, still afraid to commit totally to acting, Hackman tried television production, in Florida, and then back to Danville. He returned to New York in 1955. The next year he married his girlfriend, a bank secretary named Faye Maltese, and together they headed for California and the Pasadena Playhouse.

His quick dismissal from the playhouse only served to galvanize his determination. Thinking, I’ll show them, he boarded a bus with Faye back to New York. He managed to get an unpaid internship in summer stock at a theater in Bellport, Long Island, building sets, scavenging for props, setting up lights. In a two-week production of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” there happened to be one uncast role, Marco, a strong, silent Italian workman. The director, Ulu Grosbard, from the Yale School of Drama, filled it with Hackman, whom he came to know as “A complex guy; Very intelligent; a generosity of spirit; socially charming; a lot going on in him; a certain sense of being tormented with past ghosts and things. That’s part of what he brings to his work.” Grosbard was the first theater person to encourage Hackman. Backstage after one performance he told him, “Gene, you have got to keep at it.” Hackman, his voice trailing off in recollected awe, exclaims, “He actually said that, and, God it was just like…”

Robert Duvall was the lead in that “A View from the Bridge, playing, at 26, Eddie Carbone, a sullen Sicilian longshoreman in his 40’s from Red Hook, Brooklyn, with accent to match…


(To be continued)


http://www.jamescliftonhuffman.com

http://www.indiecityentertainment.com

Before They Were Kings: Part One

In 2004, Vanity Fair published an article titled BEFORE THEY WERE KINGS. It was a 6 page piece about Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, chronicling their careers from infancy to ultimate Hollywood success.

It’s a fantastic read…. Filled with stories about studying in New York City in the 60’s… about little breaks… big breaks… setbacks and survival… with plenty of anecdotes about chasing girls. I keep that article nearby, always, because it’s entertaining, it’s uplifting and it’s inspiring… and it never gets old.

I would recommend it to anyone and everyone…especially actors… the only problem is…its not available anywhere online. I’m sure you could go to a library and dig it up… but c’mon…who does that anymore?

So I thought I would do my part and try to archive the article… type it out here on my site… little by little… until I’ve created a document that showcases the entire story… I’ll do that because I believe that it’s time well spent… and I think other people out there will really enjoy it… and I hope that maybe another actor… aspiring, armchair or whatever…might also find some inspiration here…

Here goes>>>>>


BEFORE THEY WERE KINGS

Living on talent and odd jobs in 60s New York, Gene Hackman. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall knew what mattered: getting the break (and the girls). The stars talk to Richard Meryman about the friendship that kept them going.

The story begins in 1957 at The Pasadena Playhouse, in California. Gene Hackman – 27 years old, a married, ex-marine from Danville Illinois, rough hewn, six feet two inches tall, a self described :big lummox kind of person” – found himself surrounded by tanned, young “walking surf-boards.” He immediately latched on to a fellow misfit, 19 year old, five foot six inch Dustin Hoffman, who was burdened with a huge nose and a bad complexion and wore tattered Levi’s and a sheepskin vest over bare skin. Hackman recalls, “There was something about him that – like he had a secret. You knew he was going to do something.” An inspirational instructor, Barney Brown, sensed the same karma. He assured Dustin, “You are going to wind up being a theater person the rest of your life,” and persuaded him to go to New York against the wishes of his parents. “When Barney died,” says Hoffman, “I felt my ideal father had died.”

All three grew up in peripatetic families where fathers and discipline loomed large. Hoffman’s stickler Russian Jewish father, Harry lifted himself through sheer hard work ditch digger to Columbia Pictures prop man to set designer to founder of the Harry Hoffman furniture company, which went broke. His uneven fortunes moved the family into six Los Angeles neighborhoods, and Dustin had to find his place in six new schools. Short and acne riddled, he was mocked as “Dustbin.” “I felt ugly,” he says. “I was all nose.” He tried never to walk away from a girl in profile. When at last a pretty girl did pay a little attention to him, a boy stole up behind him and jerked down his pants, taunting, “Hit me, little Dusty.”

But his innate acting gifts saved him – sort of. He became the class clown and discovered the rush delivered by a laughing audience – though, he says “people used to say, OH, he’s a real comedian, which was like saying ‘He’s a loser.’” At home, says Hoffman “sometimes the house was as thick with tension as any house could be.” At dinners, for several days following a family fight, his father, mother, grandmother and handsome high-achieving brother would sit absolutely silent. Suddenly, eight year old Dustin would repeat the dialogue of the fight, taking all the parts. The family would look up, begin to laugh, and the tension erased. Hoffman muses, “I had never thought about acting. It was a great feeling to break the collective anger in the room. I mattered. I had an identity in the house.”

At Santa Monica City College, Hoffman studied medicine and music. To avoid flunking out, he took an acting course for a sure three credits and found that acting was “the first subject I ever felt I could concentrate on.” After a brief period at the Los Angeles Academy of Music, he enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse, where he and his friend Gene Hackman, agreed that they detested everyone else. Gene resisted the teachers approach to acting, and at the end of the first semester he received a grade of 1.4 – the lowest grade ever given up to that point had been 3.0 – and was dismissed.

(to be continued)

Vigilante Sex Scenes

I'm working CSI: New York tomorrow morning

I'm watching WILL FERRELL: GEORGE W BUSH on HBO.

It's really funny

I would expect nothing less.

For CSI tomorrow I was cast as a lieutenant.

They said they would have cast me as a detective, but my hair is too long.

I went to get a haircut tonight at RUDY'S on Sunset in Los Feliz.

My call time tomorrow is at 7:30AM at CBS Radford.

Wait a minute, doesn't a Lieutenant outrank a Detective?

I went to see WATCHMEN last night at The Arclight.

I loved it.

I think Marijuana should be legalized.

I was confused much of the time.

I still loved it.

I think Marijuana should be FRANCHISED.

GREAT use of soundtrack. Really good music.

Seriously.

The lift on Prohibition (the prohibition of alcohol) helped America out of The Great Depression.

Imagine the boost our economy would get from the LONG OVERDUE lift on the prohibition of a substance that is far less damaging than alcohol.

80% of all violent crime is alcohol related. Less than 10% is related to the use of marijuana.

SO..... WATCHMEN is rated R.

Vigilante sex scenes.

Really good movie.

Today, I went one more day without eating meat.

I watched the second episode of season 2 of BREAKING BAD last night on AMC.

It was damn good.

I'm gonna keep watching.

My favorite song this week is THE HOWLING by THE PHANTOM BAND.

I'm still working on my web series re-launch...

SOMEDAY.......


www.jamescliftonhuffman.com

www.indiecityentertainment.com

www.youtube.com/IndieCityEnt

www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Huffman/555441190

CATCH gearing up for relaunch

The basic concept is this:


Think DEXTER meets SERENDIPITY

or

HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU meets MR BROOKS

CATCH is a dark comedy that features Anne Judson Yager (BRING IT ON AGAIN, MINORITY REPORT) and Trevor Jones (NOTHING YOU'VE SEEN) as MAGGIE and JERRY, two star-crossed serial killers looking for love online.

What will it take to satisfy their quest for true love. How far will they go to find it? Are they destined to find each other? And will that magical moment be AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER? Or more like ALIEN VS PREDATOR? FREDDY VS JASON? MR.AND MRS. SMITH? And wait... what are they doing with all the bodies?

By the way, Maggie's father, Mike Fisk (Played by Bill Oberst JR.), is a former contract killer for one of LA's most powerful underground crime lords. Mike has recently been released back into society after serving a 25 year sentence at San Quentin. His one misson in the real world is to establish a relationship with his long lost daughter.

Ok, so while I do have a few episodes out there in the Universe, available for public consumption, I am in the middle of orchestrating a RE-LAUNCH of CATCH... the entire series, with new cuts of existing episodes (shorter, quicker, new music), and BRAND NEW episodes... EIGHT episodes total to mark a first season halfway point.... and it's all in the oven...almost ready.

Here is a link to a trailer for the series that is available on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixUSOwxsB0


The super special, super assorted CATCH All Star team has been hard at work getting it all together. The following is an email passed along to ICE's super talented sound designer DL Eric Bucklin....

Hey...

last song buddy... then we will have officially replaced every song previously used in the original CATCH 6 mix....

So... STARE TO THE SUN, by BOY/GIRL.... This song will be for the hard opening of CATCH 6... Living under the CATCH DOT COM banner ads (front and back).... if we use the first 29 seconds of the song...Then fade it out and match it with the first 29 seconds of CATCH..

We ALSO use the LAST 40 seconds of the song to close out the episode... instead of what's there...THEN we have a proper front and back end... nice little bookends.

Give it a listen and you'll see what I'm talking about...

Plus the title STARING AT THE SUN...as everyone peers into their laptop monitors... I LIKE it!

Keep in mind .. the CATCH 6 intro as it stands is only 15 seconds long... So we will need to make room for 3 title pages (Indie City Entertainment presents) (in association with Issara Films) (CATCH) that we will stagger... creating a 29 second opening to match the music...

We need to add those opening tiles anyway... it will work beautifully

Does that all make sense?

call me if you are confused...


Be on the lookout for the CATCH web series re-launch...scheduled for mid to late April.


(Posted originally on www.indiecityentertainment.com)

KUTIMAN MIXES YOUTUBE

I was browsing the web yesterday, reading a few of my favorite blogs, doing research, following links and what not...

I was scrolling through MOBY'S blog....

moby.com/journal

Moby posted a link to a video project titled THRU YO: KUTIMAN MIXES YOUTUBE...

I loved it... I got crazy inspired and started sending the link out to everyone I know....

Ok... so watch this video...or series of videos...its FREAKIN awesome... THIS is a 2nd or 3rd cousin of a project I am currently developing... it's somewhat in the ballpark at least.....

Imagine this KUTIMAN Youtube mix... but with a little more substance, relevance and variety...

Check it out...its really effin cool

http://thru-you.com/

Off to Anaheim

I’m getting ready to go work my second day at the Natural Product Expo in Anaheim. The days are long at trade shows like this… and I’m on my feet all day. But I’m grateful for the work…and I’m grateful that client, who is there working the booth with us…is a laid back, fun guy from Australia.

http://www.expowest.com

www.balancewater.com

The product is BALANCE WATER… which we call a WELNESS BEVERAGE because each of the four variations (As opposed to “flavors”) contains a certain assortment of flower essences, all grown and hand picked in Australia. Those essences, while tasteless and virtually undetectable, offer a certain level of functionality, acting a homeopathic remedy or supplement. The “Traveling” version…for example… is designed to help overcome jet lag and motion sickness and other conditions associated with travel.

Nice packaging, interesting product…relatively new concept to the mainstream beverage market.

Earlier this week I received an offer letter to play a role in an upcoming stage production….well…. forget that….

IXSNAY on the Ziegfeld project.

I suffered a blow to the ego last night when the producers of “ZIEGFELD'S FOLLY: My Rise to the Middle," sent me an email RECINDING the offer to play on their “Hunky Guys,” in a two-performance run in LA in April.

So yeah… I guess I’m not doing the show.

It’s fine… I’ll live. I’ll also lose five pounds, get in even better shape and SHOW those M&%$@ F%CKERS.

Last night I saw this posting on Craigslist….

How much do you hate the Boston Red Sox, Celtics, or Patriots?

Southern California Media Production company who is producing a documentary about hard core sports fans is looking for people with big mouths, tons of opinions, and mutual hatred towards any sport team located near Boston.

If interested in participating in this documentary, please send us an email with your contact information, any website info, and brief explanation of your hatred towards any or all of the beloved Boston sports franchises.

Thanks.

All I have to say is…

HELL YEAH… I want to be in your movie!!!

So I whipped up a little note….

Hi-

James Huffman here... I'm an actor, writer, filmmkaer, currently based in Los Angeles...and I HATE Boston teams....hate em.

First of all... I grew up in NJ, just outside of the Big Apple. I love New York City with all my heart. When I graduated college I moved into Manhattan and spent the next 15 years walking the walk in the greatest city in the world.

When it comes to the greatest BASEBALL team in the world... I remember the exact moment I became a Yankee fan. It was October 14, 1976, during the ninth inning of Game Five of the ALCS against the Royals at Yankee Stadium, Chris Chambliss crushed a first-pitch, walk-off home run that sent the Yankees to their first World Series since 1964. I was 8 years old and I was hooked. Of course the following season was the season of 77.. and as lifelong sports fan, that season left a life long imprint on my soul.

To answer your question... I F%$#@*&& HATE The Red Sox... I also hate the Patriots and The Celtics... but that hatred stems from my desire to inflict and pain and sorrow on Red Sox fans world wide. The day The New York Giants upset the Patriots in the Super Bowl was probably one of the happiest days of my life. While I'm embarrassed to admit it, I had to be separated the following day as I almost came to blows with a girl (Who is a friend of a friend) who is a former Patriots cheerleader.... I was boasting about the victory and she accused me of being a fair weather fan.... that I just jumped on the bandwagon... I seriously would have choked her out.... ok I'm kidding.... no I'm not.... probably would have just shoved her to the ground...

There is so much more....

Like the time I stood on my roof in Hell's Kitchen and spilled beer on the heads of celebrating Red Sox fans as they danced on the sidewalk (in NEW YORK), celebrating the 2004 World series victory.... Not in MY Neighborhood folks... not in my neighborhood.


So yeah…seems like a fun, socially relevant project… I hope they call me.

Off to Anaheim!!!