04.21.07
Posted in "The Invisible Man", Interviews, Videos, Vincent Ventresca at 1:24 pm by Amanda Rogers
A few years back there existed a really great website dedicated to Vincent Ventresca called vincentventresca.net. The site was attractive, well organized, and a fan could find virtually everything about Vince’s roles and career there. Danielle, a very talented fan, created and ran the site.
Well, life got busy for Danielle and the website is no more, but a whole slew of her videos she either saved or created are residing on YouTube for our enjoyment. Danielle was kind enough to let me post links to her videos so that you can easily find and enjoy them too. She’s got a great assortment of videos.
To start things off, here’s the actual trailer used to advertise the pilot of The Invisible Man.
Invisible Man Trailer
Here’s a great interview with Vince where he answers questions from the old Invisible Man bboard. The audio seems to be a bit out of sync and it abruptly stops after seven minutes, but it’s still worth watching.
The Invisible Man Bboard Interviews Vincent Ventresca
Danielle created a whole slew of I-Man music videos that are a lot of fun to watch.
In The End
Die Another Day
Enemy Within
Darien’s Rap
The Return
On My Own
Break
Disappearing Boy
Eberts Day
Clueless
These 5 Words
Friends
One Wish
Sexy Darien
Danielle created this Prey music video.
Hungry
Here’s a old commercial from 1995 that Vince was in.
Vincent Ventresca Pepsi Commercial
Finally, here’s a music video dedicated to Vince’s various roles.
The Many Faces of Ventresca
Enjoy!
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04.16.07
Posted in Greg Yaitanes, MySpace, Paul Ben-Victor, TV, Videos at 10:59 pm by Amanda Rogers
So Paul Ben-Victor’s performance last night in Drive reminded me a lot of Bobby Hobbes…a lot of the same mannerisms. Anybody else see that?
I love that Greg Yaitanes twittered a shout out to The Invisible Man when he wrote, “the truck driver is played by Paul Ben Victor who played VINTAGE Bobby Hobbes on the Invisible Man. Which I directed.” He could have just as easily named another role that Paul is known for, but he chose I-Man. Yes!
If you missed Paul’s performance last night, no problem, you can watch it right now on Drive’s MySpace page! The name of the episode is “Partners.” I just love that networks are starting to stream TV shows on the Web.
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04.15.07
Posted in Greg Yaitanes, Paul Ben-Victor, Reviews, Special/Visual Effects, TV, Videos at 4:35 pm by Amanda Rogers
One of the I-Man directors that I like to keep track of is Greg Yaitanes. Back in 2003, Greg did a SciFi.com chat with fans for his movie Children of Dune. During the chat he graciously acknowledged The Invisible Man and all the dedicated and hopeful I-Man fans (myself included) who came to the chat with “Save I-Man” in front of their handles. Some of you old timers might remember that.
In addition, Greg has hired Paul Ben-Victor for an episode of Alias and Fastlane, Vincent Ventresca for an episode of Cold Case and, of course, who could forget when he put Vince and Paul together for an episode of Las Vegas.
But it doesn’t end there. Tonight is the premiere of Greg’s new show Drive and Paul has a guest role as a truck driver. The show has a (very unusual) two-night three-hour premiere, with the first two hours airing tonight at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. central and the third hour airing tomorrow at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. central on FOX (check your local listings).
Greg not only directs the pilot in this series, but he also steps out of his usual director role to become one of the executive producers of the show. During tonight’s premiere, Greg will be twittering live a director’s commentary while the show is airing. I can’t say I’m familiar with how twittering works, but it appears that you can access Greg’s comments via text messaging on your phone, instant messaging, or the twitter foxdrive web page. If you’re interested in participating and new to twittering, it would be a good idea to get signed up early and explore the website to get familiar with the service and how it works.
One of the things I find fascinating about this new series is that most of the action is done via visual effects. Greg, along with the Visual Effects Supervisor, Loni Peristere, takes us behind the scenes in this interesting video interview at ifilm that explains how the visuals effects are done.
Articles, Reviews and Interviews
Zap2it From Inside the Box - “Review: Fox’s Drive”
The Chronicle Herald - “Computers driving force behind series”
Movieweb - Drive Races Into High Gear on Fox!
Drive Fans - EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Greg Yaitanes
The Hollywood Reporter - Yaitanes steering Fox’s ‘Drive’
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04.06.07
Posted in Jason Makiaris, Mike McCafferty, TV at 6:42 pm by Amanda Rogers
This is a quick reminder that Acceptable TV is on tonight on VH1 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time. It repeats again at 11:30 p.m. and re-runs play throughout the week, so check your local listings.
Will Mike McCafferty and Jason Makiaris beat the competition with their show L33t Haxxors 2? Watch and find out!
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04.02.07
Posted in Jason Makiaris, Mike McCafferty, TV at 9:20 pm by Amanda Rogers
As a follow up to Friday’s post, I want to remind everyone that your vote is very much needed to help Mike McCafferty and Jason Makiaris’ show L33t Haxxors Episode 2 get on VH1’s Acceptable TV this Friday. If they don’t get enough votes, their show doesn’t air…simple as that. And that would be a shame!
Time is short as Jason informs me that the voting ends Wednesday afternoon. So please take a minute and go the Acceptable TV website and vote. Jason has written some great instructions, complete with pictures, on how to register and vote, which I’m copying and pasting below for you.
Hi Everybody!
Hopefully some of you caught our big VH1 debut last Friday night. Thanks for all of your help and well wishes! A number of you have mentioned that you voted (which is great) and a number need some more info.
Time is quickly running out to vote for our show “L33t Haxxors Episode 2” on the Acceptable.TV website. (if you missed episode 1, click here)
We’d like to be the first user-submitted show in the history of AcceptableTV to return for a second episode. You can help us conquer Hollywood with a simple click of your mouse. There are 7 easy steps to helping us do this:
Step 1. Log on to the Acceptable.TV site. We’ve made it easy for you. Just click on the link here.
Step 2. Click on “register” at the top right of the page to sign up for an account. (You will not receive any sort of spam or unwanted e-mail as a result of signing up.)
Step 3. Fill out the fields with your information with a vaild e-mail address so that you’ll receive your registration confirmation.
Step 4. Make sure that you have checked the box signifying that you accept the user-agreement and the box verifying that you are over the age of 18. Then click “submit my info”.
Step 5. Go to your e-mail account, where you should find an e-mail that looks like the following. Click on the link to confirm your account.
Step 6. Once you are brought back to the AcceptableTV page by the link, make sure that you are logged in. From AcceptableTV’s home page, scroll down to the user submitted show section in red. Find our show on the list, and click on it.
Step 7. At the top of our video’s page, you will see a list of eligible videos to choose from. Click on the heart with “vote for this video” next to it.
The heart should change into text that says “You Voted For This Video.”
That’s it!
We appreciate the support and, hopefully, you’ll see us on your picture boxes this Friday night!
- Jason
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