Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Real TV, Real People.

Ever get sick of the same fake encounters, fake people, fake smiles in your life and then come home to fake TV? It's absolutely overdone yet there is still a demand for these sugarcoated TV lives. Good TV to me is hardship, struggle and quirky, screwed up people. I like to see real people who have experience indifference and pain, telling their real, unfabricated, uncensored stories. I want to see an artists smoking dope and people who haven't showered in three days talking about the time they met an eccentric guy at the super market, or hitchhiked to California.

"Camp Hollywood" is one of those great movies. Low budget and real. Steve Markle a young producer/director/comedian that filmed the entire movie with what looked like a home movie camera and a tripod. In this two hour show Steve stays in legendary hotel in Hollywood where he meets and interviews struggling actors, musicians and porn stars. These people have
personality. This movie has character. This is a real reality show, I guarantee you whilst watching Steve's footage you will feel like you are part of the tenents large dysfunctional family yourself.

However with all low budget, independent movies/shows you will scarcely find them on the air waves. You'll be lucky if you get the chance to watch many, and sometimes equally fortunate if you even find anything about the actors/producers/and movie content online. When googleing Steve Markle I couldn't find any info other then " Steve Markle is a young producer/director/comedian who filmed and produced 'Camp Hollywood'.. " etc on the web. Not surprisingly the only picture I could find of this man of sparkling potential was the one I have posted.

What a crying shame that the best movies and TV shows are so hard to find on a regular televistion channel and are so under appreciated when watched. People these days are too impatient to watch anything that doesn't have constant make out sences and scripted gibberish talk. Falcon Beach is not good quality TV people!


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