Doll Graveyard

Check it out...the director of the film I worked on when I first moved to LA started a blog. Funny, but the picture of him has to be at least 15 years old (he's the one who's NOT a doll). This guy's got the low budget/straight to video horror genre by the balls, I think he's produced like 250 movies or something, including the classic Puppetmasters. And the infamous (to only me) Dr. Moreau's House of Pain, on which I served as 2nd AD (promoted from PA, if that gives you any idea of the crack pot production they were running). Thanks to this film, I now have the best story ever of my first job in LA...which involved picking up a midget at the airport b/c the producer who was going to originally got into a bar fight with some Armenians the night before and injured his eye...his good eye (the other one lived permanently under an eye patch). So I'm at the airport waiting for the midget and I notice that the "professinal" drivers are all holding signs. I then scribble the actor's name on a piece of notebook paper, b/c I wanted to seem professional too and I didn't know if it was rude to assume that he would be the only midget in the airport. Eventually he glides down the escalator, but keeps walking past me b/c he can't read the sign (again, it's written on notebook paper...and in pencil). I kind of panic, wondering if that's my midget or just another midget who happened to be on the same flight (it could happen). Finally I just yell out his name hoping it's him and if not then I'm just some weird girl screaming out a name to no one in particular...and he turns around and takes a closer look at the sign that I'm still holding with two hands like a fucking dumbass. I kind of just nudge it towards him, as to say, "Is this you?" in case it's not actually him and he was just responding to the random girl shouting, you know how people like to stare at the crazies (I do). And that's my story. The end. It's much better in person, but you'll never know that version. Or maybe you already do and you remember how awesome it was. Or maybe you didn't like it b/c it's negative towards midgets. It's not really, people just tend to think "Oooh, funny story" when they hear the word midget. I can't change society's perceptions.
R.