» On 5/28/2007 06:30:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Please, no photographs. A little over a year ago, during my tenure as Online Editor at Palm Springs Life magazine, I had the chance to moonlight in an under-three-line acting rôle on a TV pilot created by Kevin Williamson (Dawson's Creek, Scream 1-4, The Vampire Diaries). The experience was good fodder for PSL's online magazine "The Life," and the series was eventually picked up for 8 episodes. However, the production company decided Palm Springs was too expensive to use as a continuing location, so they rented a cheap studio out here in the Phoenix area to shoot the other 7 episodes.

Well, my episode the pilot episode of Hidden Palms is finally scheduled to air on the CW Network (here in Phoenix: KASW, CW6, broadcast channels 61 and 49, Cox Cable channels 6 and 706), this Wednesday, May 30, at 7pm (8pm in some parts of the country). Gail O'Grady (from NYPD Blue) is one of the stars, and she has an ice-tea-sipping interlude with 2 other women on a country-club patio. Look for me and my blue polo shirt - it plays a crucial backup rôle in that scene (YouTube video).

Side note: The director moved me around many times, probably looking for the precisely-right combination of Gail's lovely blonde hair and the blue of my shirt: "Hey, you in the blue polo, move right a bit." After a couple of orders like that, the AD came over and asked for my name. For the rest of the scene (45 minutes of on-and-off filming), it was: "Hey Alan, move right a bit." By the end of the scene, you'll notice that I was on the other side of Gail's head. The director treated me well, for a lowly day player. I was the envy of all the other extras. 😉

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