Lovely tales of slicing through life, Rick, especially the skydiving episode, recalling similar adventures that still take up a lot of mind space. It sounds as if you learned about improv when you took your first breath.
Wow! What great stories. One comment on this: "Finally, on about the sixth day of rushes, at the Phi Psi House introduction, I noticed one of the senior members fraternity ID pins laying on a table and I just snatched it up. I pinned it on my jacket, just under the hankie pocket, and started interviewing the pledges (kids my age) myself, riddling them with the usual inane questions." My comment: Where was your video camera and sound man when you needed them? :-)
Lovely tales of slicing through life, Rick, especially the skydiving episode, recalling similar adventures that still take up a lot of mind space. It sounds as if you learned about improv when you took your first breath.
Thanks Galen, for reminding me that it takes a lot of improv just to survive!
Wow! What great stories. One comment on this: "Finally, on about the sixth day of rushes, at the Phi Psi House introduction, I noticed one of the senior members fraternity ID pins laying on a table and I just snatched it up. I pinned it on my jacket, just under the hankie pocket, and started interviewing the pledges (kids my age) myself, riddling them with the usual inane questions." My comment: Where was your video camera and sound man when you needed them? :-)
Yes Steve, we all missed documenting some important life-stuff, and I feel privileged to have caught some of YOUR amazing moments for movies!
Thank you, Rick! My comment was just to note that your Filmmaker Self was already at work ... just didn't have the camera and equipment yet. :-)