DRAGON, SCRIPT AND PIANO
Travis finished the screenplay,
Billy finished the scale model of the dragon's head and the piano was tuned,
so David Carr could play the songs. They had already recorded the
song demos from “The Red-backed, Scaly, Black-bellied, Tusked, Bat-winged
Dragon” so, it was time to unleash the monster on an unsuspecting
Hollywood!
Quite a crowd attended the
party, including a pair of high-rolling investor types. Everyone
posed with the dragon, enjoyed the refreshments, sang the songs and even
exchanged autographs, but when the anticipated funding fell through, Cine-
Media International, unable to secure the more than $32 million dollar
budget for Part One of Travis' medieval fantasy-adventure, generously withdrew
from the project. |
BELOW: Julie
Long (left); Lonnie Snyder (center); and Mary Moyers (right), sing "The
Red-backed, Scaly, Black-bellied, Tusk-ed, Bat-winged Dragon" for the
enthusiastic crowd of 60 guests!
BELOW, (Left to right):
In the delighted crowd, actress-choreographer Michelle Hart (who was the
action model rotoscoped for the "Sheena of the Jungle" cartoon TV series),
her husband, artist and author Don Rico (who got her to do it and who's
name you may remember from Marvel Comics' Captain America), and behind
Don, professional Irishman Arthur Gribben. Susan and Billy Bryant
are mostly hidden behind USC's beaming professor of computer science, Dennis
McCloud, and the cute gal on the right is Hollywood screenwriter Barbara
Snowberger.
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