Guys:

Association with the Cadillac brand forbids me from calling GM directly and
trying to pad the vote, SO I NEED YOU GUYS TO GET OUT AND DROP BALLOTS!

The April 27, 2008 standings for The Cadillac Award: The Audience Choice for Best Feature Film

1. Under Our Skin
2. Man on Wire
3. Playing For Change: Peace Through Music
4. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
5. Celia the Queen
6. The Wackness
7. Kassim the Dream
8. Lioness
9. The 27 Club
10. Gotta Dance

If you're in the NY area and want to see a truly inspired paen to music and humanity
and witness one of the greatest global outreach programs ever, check out 'PLAYING FOR
CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC' in one of its two final screenings.

Tue, Apr 29, 12:00PM
AMC Village VII 4
66 3rd Ave. NY, NY

Fri, May 02, 9:00PM
AMC Village VII 3
66 3rd Ave. NY, NY

Get out there and make our dreams manifest! WE BEG OF YOU! We covet all
manner of quickly-forgotten yet business-critical awards so dammit, VOTE!

JC

Guys:

This is one of the reasons I'm considering just closing the site down. When
bores like this plop down in here and everybody wonders why I don't post comments any
longer: It's the death of every good moment I can squeeze out of a day. But since I
started this, here goes:

When losers and lost causes are given public forum, you get guys like JOHN ATKIN who
come onto this site and claim to be the cousin of my first A.D. on NARC and
then go on to misspell his last name. It's not JORDAN moron. It's MICHAEL
JOHNSON. Next time, if you want to randomly attack me, at least visit IMDB
and get the guy's name right. Michael and I got on pretty well. So well in fact
that I tried to get him on several films after NARC and actually bring him to L.A.

You never visited the set and if you had, you wouldn't have heard any yelling from
me. I don't yell fu*ckface. Ask anybody WHO ACTUALLY WORKS IN THE BUSINESS.

So again, we've got a case of some assh*le coming onto the site and just spewing
trash. Only this particular assh*le didn't have the common sense to do it anonymously
so if you're interested, you can check out 'Actor and Performer Of Special Skills'
(I'll bet they're REAL SPECIAL hoss) JOHN ATKIN at the following:

http://www.globalproducer.com/ID22347

As one of the leads in the short film 'Billy Bites People' John is uniquely qualified to
comment on my career trajectory and its considerable failings.

And pally, before you go throwing around 'Fat and Bald' comments, you might want
to update that handsome headshot you've got online.

That's it. I've taken precious time out of my life that I won't get back, addressing this
putz, who doesn't even have enough gas in the tank to be a f*cking footnote in the
entertainment biz.

John, I'd wish you luck but all the luck in the world ain't gonna get
it done for you. THIS, sadly, will be the closest you will ever get. Sparring
with yours truly, which is like me having a slapfight with a eighty-six year old
invalid.

So next time you pick that fight, make sure you do it like the rest of the chickensh*ts
who take swipes at me on this site and just 'John Doe' it. And next time, try to post
something APPROACHING the truth.

Wow. What a waste of time. Sorry to the regulars for this idiotic post but I wasn't gonna give
this guy a pass for those comments. My daughter is sitting next to me at the airport, we're both
bored stiff and she begged me to retaliate, so there you have it.

JC

Guys:

The venerable Liz Smith issues a little love for the Mark Johnson/Jonathan
Walls documentary I was lucky enough to be involved with. Below is from
today's VARIETY:

THE TRIBECA Film Festival bows Sunday and documentary makers are hotly anticipating the next biggie. Two years ago, "Jesus Camp" launched the Tribeca and went on for an Oscar nomination. Last year "Taxi to the Darkside" bowed and won this year's documentary Academy Award. Sizzlers this year are "Chevolution," a look back at Che Guevara from Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, who also made: "Little Children" and "Little Miss Sunshine." Then there's a crime documentary from Andrew Lauren titled "This is Not a Robbery," all about America's oldest bank robber. We'll see Julia Checokway's "Waiting for Hockney," about a man who spent eight years drawing a photo of Marilyn Monroe and then set out to show it to the artist David Hockey. Let's add "Kassim the Dream," about a child soldier turned boxer ... the Joe Carnahan produced feel-good music documentary "Playing for Change" ... and the Beastie Boy/director Adam Yauch's sports documentary "Gunning for That #1 Spot."