03.08.08
Posted in Paul Ben-Victor, Reviews, Theatre/Plays at 10:03 pm by Amanda Rogers
Paul Ben-Victor, as well as co-star Frances Fisher, have received high praise from Variety for their performances in Sexy Laundry. It’s great to see Paul recognized for his talent! Here are a few excerpts from the article:
Canadian scripter Michele Riml is fortunate to have such accomplished pros as film/stage vets Frances Fisher and Paul Ben-Victor inhabiting the personas of sexually challenged mid-lifers Alice and Henry…
Fortunately, Fisher and Ben-Victor are more than up to the task of realizing all the emotional twists and turns while investing a rollicking humor into the Alice/Henry travails.
It is a tribute to Ben-Victor’s craftsmanship that Henry’s emotional turnaround in the perplexing final scene makes the scripter’s feel-good ending actually seem plausible.
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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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03.07.07
Posted in Paul Ben-Victor, Reviews, Theatre/Plays at 5:57 pm by Amanda Rogers
More articles have been written about Paul Ben-Victor’s play The Good Steno, which he co-wrote with his mother, Leah Kornfeld Friedman.
Bloomberg.com writes an entertaining and informative article about the play and in it we also get a tidbit of personal info about Paul. Paul’s age is revealed to be 48. It also says that he is the youngest of three children.
Reading farther down the article, I was happy that we finally get to hear an update about Paul’s screenplay Should’ve Been Romeo, which he collaborated on with his mother, “about a middle-aged actor forced to care for his live-in grandfather.” According to the article, it “is currently making the rounds of producers’ offices.” Let’s hope it gets optioned!
Heading over to the The Good Steno website, you’ll see that a blog has been added to the site. Just click the link at the top of the page or scroll down a bit to see it. Clicking on any article will take you to the actual blog site. Do check out the pictures of Paul and his parents!
Exploring The Good Steno blog even more, you’ll see that Variety magazine wrote a very nice review about the play that is quoted in this blog post.
There are just three more weeks left to see Paul perform live on stage! So if you don’t want to miss out, go to http://www.thegoodsteno.com/ to purchase tickets.
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11.21.06
Posted in "The Invisible Man", Interviews, Reviews, Vincent Ventresca at 8:14 pm by Amanda Rogers
I recently came across an old interview that Vincent Ventresca did for SCI FI Weekly, which is a section of scifi.com. The interview is called “Now You See Vincent Ventresca, Now You Don’t.” In it, Vince talks about his new (at the time) role on The Invisible Man.
In addition, included in the interview is a link to a review of The Invisible Man by Patrick Lee of SCI FI Weekly.
It was fun to read these articles again. Many websites and online articles for The Invisible Man have disappeared over the years, so it’s great to see that some material is still around for us to enjoy.
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