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close together at tables of 10. David was looking very thin, but seemed to
be well and had a good appetite. He was especially enthusiastic about the
dessert table. While we were eating, I told him that I had gotten an EMail
from one of his fans Alisa, who wanted to know if he had any future plans
about Omega. People at the table wanted to know what that was and David
went into a long scholarly explanation about "Est" and Omega. The gist was
that he had no plans at present for going back there. Then I showed him the picture of me and Strenlich that Monica took at the '98 Fu Fest and sent to me because it was so funny. David looked at the picture of the Chief with his long blond curls and weird shirt and then he put it down, took out his reading glasses, and looked at the picture again. Then he said, that was a surprise wasn't it? He went on to say that he was recently with Rob Moses who is his personal trainer and said that Rob is also involved in his movie Kill Bill and even has a part in it. I said that Rob is a great favorite with Fu fans. Then I asked if he is also staying in touch with Chris? His face lit up when I mentioned Chris' name and he said, I sure am, he's a great guy. I said that I was very pleased about Chris' participation in a "A Wrinkle in Time" because it was a Disney classic and so should probably be shown more that once. I said that I was glad that Chris did not go back to QAF. David said that he felt the same way, that Chris wanted to try something different in signing up for QAF, but that now he was done with that so David said that it was good that Chris did not sign their new contract. Then David said that he couldn't watch QAF. That he tried 8 minutes of it and that was enough. I said that it seemed to me that beside Chris' Dr. Dave, the rest of them were all losers. I asked David if he d seen the article in Variety about his new movie. He said that he had and thought that it was good. I asked him if he was going to be Bill and would he look like himself? I said that I didn't like it when he didn't look like himself. He said that he was playing Bill, who was the evil head of an all female assassin squad. I said that the article said that there would be more flying in Kill Bill than in the Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger and I asked if he was going to be flying around. He said , yes he would be wired and that he hadn't been flying around since he was in the play Peter Pan with Veronica Lake, back when he was 14 years old. So I asked him, did it hurt? And he said a little bit. I told David that his song "Country Road" on his new CD reminded me of the opening scene from his movie "Americana" and that I wondered why he felt that it was so important for him to make that film? He said that at that time he had just finished making the film "Heaven with a Gun" which starred Glen Ford, and he was sitting in the extra back seat of a car with Barbara Hershey, when the guy driving turned around and for about four minutes told them this story. David thought that it was just great and he really wanted to make a movie out of it. But everything about getting it done was very difficult. First the rights to the movie were all tied up. He explained it to me but it was very complicated. Then there was the money thing, but he was able to borrow $5,000 from a friend and even Warner Bros. helped out. The location caused more problems, like having to move the carousel to Kansas and then having to wait months for the weeds and stuff to grow up around it so it would look natural. Then David talked about the terrible dog fight scene in Americana and that somehow brought up the horrible horse scene in his movie "The Serpents Egg".
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