I had a fantastic weekend....attended the independent film festival held at the old Laurelhurst Theatre in Portland. Met Diana Darrin's son, former 1980s kid actor Evan (Down and Out in Beverly Hills) Richards. Evan was showing his feature film IN A DAY. Filmed in England it is a cute romantic comedy/drama with a very nice story and message.
I drug my friends Ron, Mark and James to go see it and guess what...they all really enjoyed the movie! As did I! Evan is going to have a fine career as a director and a writer, I tell you! His film has already garnered some nice awards at different film festivals, and they were well deserved...and he is a very nice and funny guy!
A friend of Evan's from his acting days, former kid actor Chris Claridge (who now lives in Portland) was in attendance along with some of Chris' family members. After dinner Evan, Chris, Chris' parents, my buddies and I all went out to dinner and had a wonderful time!
Chris is also a budding film maker and has been trying to find a distributor for his film FLOPHOUSE, which I hope to be getting a DVD of soon...in fact I need to remember to e-mail Chris today about that.
Anyway, that was my weekend...it was fun!