If you’ve ever walked into a pitch-dark house, only to have blinding lights turned on to a room full of friends who scream, “SURPRISE!!!”… That is the best way I can described my extreme shock and speechlessness of my siren screeching ambulance ride pitching me left and right as it darted in and out of traffic, my crash-cart rush through the ER as the excruciating knife jabbing pain pulsated in my chest, my gurney’s dream-like sleigh-ride down halls, up elevators, to the final sky-dive landing into the operating room, my left wrist burning like a forest fire. My body lay…
Author: Robert Hegyes
“Don’t follow trends, start trends” was the lesson Frank Capra instilled upon us all when he accepted the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1982. While other filmmakers of his day were unspooling mindless musicals, burlesque comedy and gangland shoot em’ ups, Mr. Capra was making films focused on his undying faith in the uplifting of the human condition by highlighting the actions one individual can make upon the community. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and my favorite, It’s A Wonderful Life all illustrate the conflict of the Good Man in Society v.…
I was having the most fun I ever had with my clothes on. Finally I had created a working environment where I was producing a project that I had written, was directing and also performing in. It parallel the theme to one of my favorite films of all time; François Truffaut’s “Day for Night”. It is Truffaut’s , journal of a filmmaker as he battles against the forces of nature and man’s innermost primal passions of survival and self-destruction. His cinematic journey swings like a pendulum in a tornado. In the end, he completes his film. Not like he envisioned.…