Anonymous ID: 2be387 March 2, 2018, 10:37 a.m. No.533357   🗄️.is 🔗kun

been digging into the John Landis Twilight Zone trial from 1987. found some interesting things, notably a mental health/child actors connection. Donna Schuman's husband, psychiatrist Harold Schuman, helped find the child actors in the Twilight Zone film through his mental health work in LA's Asian community. the casting director Marci Liroff also worked on ET, Poltergeist, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which all featured child actors.

 

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long article worth reading here: washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/03/18/risk-and-reality-hollywood-on-trial/af2e50bb-dd76-4edd-be1c-921d83281314/

 

"That Landis conceived this idea and sold it to Warner Bros. is not under dispute, but what happened next, in large measure, is. It is agreed by both sides that a production secretary named Donna Schuman asked her husband, who worked at a mental health center that served Asian immigrants, to help Landis find the children, and that the two selected were a 6-year-old Taiwanese girl named Renee Chen and a 7-year-old American-born Vietnamese boy named Myca Dinh Lee.

 

It is agreed that the children were hired illegally, with the permission of their parents, but without the work permits required by the state. It is agreed that they were hired to work at night, considerably past the curfew normally set for child actors. It is agreed that they died, as did Vic Morrow, when the helicopter crashed on them in the midst of a series of mortar explosions, one of which had been set off by a technician who did not look up and note the position of the helicopter as he fired. It is agreed also that Morrow was killed before he was able to utter his principal line in the scene being filmed: "I'll keep you safe, kids," Morrow was supposed to have said. "I promise. Nothing will hurt you. I swear to God."

 

Marci Liroff, the casting agent who was helping Landis select speaking actors for his picture, testified that she told Landis the hiring of the children would be illegal for the night scenes, and that the plan sounded dangerous. Virginia Kearns, a hair stylist on the set, testified that she overheard a script supervisor tell Landis the shot should not be done, that it was dangerous, and that Landis told the supervisor to " 'shut up.' " Donna Schuman testified that she overheard two of the codefendants discussing an assistant director's worry about the children, and that one of them laughed and said Landis would not stand for any substitute for the real thing."

 

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Harold Schuman's obit: legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=186227028

 

"November 25, 1925 - July 21, 2017 Hal was a husband, father, grandfather, brother, cousin and friend. USNR 1943-46, USC Medical School, licensed in Psychiatry 1950. He loved cooking, sailing, rodeos, wine, jazz, show business and animals. Requested that his only memorial be remembering him with a smile.

 

Published in the Los Angeles Times from July 28 to July 29, 2017"

Anonymous ID: 2be387 March 2, 2018, 11:18 a.m. No.533584   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>533525

 

big happening from Nov 13, 2017 (reported November 20 on DEADLINE) concerning the "theatrical casting software business"

 

deadline.com/2017/11/hollywood-casting-business-disrupted-breakdown-services-casting-networks-fox-1202211710/

 

"TV & Film Casting Biz Disrupted: Fox’s Decision To Drop Breakdown Services For Casting Networks & Its Fallout"

 

The Chaos: How It Started And How It’s Being Fixed

 

A shockwave went through the casting community November 13. After calling its casting directors on Friday, November 10, Fox followed up with an email Monday to tell them that effective November 20, 2017, Fox “will be using Casting Networks (in partnership with Cast It Systems) exclusively for the distribution of project materials, including project briefs, role descriptions, and other casting-related information.”

 

The same day, at 1:16 PM, Marsh, founder and owner of Breakdown Services, which has been creating and distributing breakdowns on behalf of all networks and studios for free for the past 41 years, received a brief email from Liz Paulson, 20th TV SVP Casting, confirming to him that the company was going with a new provider. It was followed moments later by an identical email from Ronna Kress, Fox film EVP Casting. Breakdown Services proceeded to immediately shut out all Fox projects, leaving 20th TV scrambling to cast all series that were currently filming.

 

Fox TV and film studio and Casting Networks had planned a slow rollout, with the aim to have the system up and running completely and glitch-free by pilot season. Instead, the platform went live right away last Monday, before it was ready, leading to the slew of problems. They are being fixed, according to Rafi Gordon, co-CEO of Casting Networks/Cast It and Managing Partner of co-owner POV Partners.

 

“What was going to be an extremely organized process became kind of a free-for-all at the beginning of the week and started to stabilize by the end of the week as we started rolling out special processes and procedures,” Gordon said.

 

Asked why the company did not spend more time preparing Casting Networks and integrating it with Cast It before the Fox deal was announced — so the company would be ready in case Breakdown Services pulled the plug — he said, “I don’t think we were prepared for everyone to be shut off their existing platform. That’s certainly not the way we intend to treat our customers.”

 

Marsh said he removed all Fox breakdowns from his service because he perceived the email from the Fox TV and film studios, which he described as “terse,” as a termination letter. (Breakdown Services’ partnerships with studios is based largely on a gentleman’s agreement, and I hear there are no formal contracts in place.) The three-line letter, after notifying him that Fox had chosen to work with Casting Networks, concluded with “Should we need your services in the future, we’ll be in touch.”

Anonymous ID: 2be387 March 2, 2018, 12:13 p.m. No.533845   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>533724

 

Can anyone find the episode this happened in? Perfect for memes!

 

"I have been acting since I was a child. On one of my very first jobs I was playing a sick kid on some bad TV show and Alec Baldwin was giving me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Alec Baldwin! I couldn’t wait to get to work. I would sit and stare at him all day long. I couldn’t stand not to be around him. I think I was eight years old at the time."

 

greginhollywood.com/chad-allen-shares-his-coming-out-story-38899

 

"In a 1983 episode, Chad Allen, then 9 years of age, "played a kid who got hurt and had to be given mouth-to-mouth and carried to the waiting chopper by Dr. Hal Wexler." Years later, Chad reminisced that "I thought it was the greatest job I had ever gotten," because Alec Baldwin was Dr. Wexler.[2]"

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_to_Houston