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Brandon Carter
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Posted: 11 May 2026 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

My high school Beta club did a fundraiser for Paul Newman's charities.  Paul Newman was in Louisiana filming the movie Blaze, based on the life of Louisiana governor Earl Long. Paul agreed to accept the donation in person. We got to watch a scene from the movie being filmed, (with Paul and Lolita Davidovich), then went outside to make pictures with Paul and give him the donation. 


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Shaun Barry
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Posted: 11 May 2026 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply


Kind of an amusing story I suppose:

During the summer of 2003, I worked on a small independent film that was shooting in Western Massachusetts.  The male lead was J.D. Cullum, who is the son of noted stage & small screen (and occasional big screen) actor John Cullum (SHENANDOAH, 1776 and "Northern Exposure").  I guess the son (or the filmmakers) pulled a small favor, and his father had a bit-part towards the end of the film, in which I acted face-to-face with the noted thespian.  My (future) wife and mother-in-law were both over-the-moon that I was working with "the" John Cullum, and he even graciously signed my wife's vinyl copy of SHENANDOAH (which she ordered me to bring to set!).

Cut to about 6 months later, and I heard through another actor on the film that entire project caved-in... the film was being directed by two college-age filmmakers, and rumor was that their relationship went kaput during post-production--because they both were fighting for the affections of the film's script girl.  So that little movie (titled "Help Wanted," I believe), never saw the light of day.

Cue over 20 years later, and my son was watching one of the seasons of the new TED series on Peacock... JD Cullum (the son) had a small bit part as a butler of some kind, and I didn't even recognize him at first.  When I read the credits, I exclaimed to my son, "Hey!!  I worked with that guy once!  AND his dad!!!"


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I have no personal connections with famous people, so far as I'm aware, but my parents did. The father of my dad's second wife flew in the same WWII torpedo bomber squadron as George H.W. Bush, and my mother and aunt went to high school with Wayne Newton, before he dropped out to pursue his Vegas crooner career.
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Posted: 11 May 2026 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I forgot this one, 'cos it's been about twenty-five years, but I once directed Barry Bostwick in a video promo for a nursing home group that my ad agency repped.

I genuinely had to keep fighting the urge to tell him that I was indeed man enough for Megaforce.
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