By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis got a fascinating exposure to the complexity and difficult of movie making from nephew Kyle Hauseman-Stokes when Kyle and the keeper’s brother Orville visited; and Kyle showed a preliminary version of his movie about the heart-rending relationship between two young female Army veterans.
The extensive work that Kyle has already done, and the daunting hurdles he faces in bringing his creativity to the public through the commercial maze of today’s movie-making scene impressed the keeper; and gave him renewed pause about the movie prospects for his novel “Margaret’s War,” a part of the keeper’s (too) late-in-life fantasy.
Movie making, according to Kyle, is much about connections, and celebrity, and, of course, money, and experience, which Kyle has amassed with his successful production of notable TV commercials for the VA.
Kyle plans further filming next summer at a family cottage near Warehauser, pending his recruitment of a “name “ star to play the role of an old man. The keeper understands why he was not invited to audition for the role: too old, obviously.
Kyle will succeed: he has the drive and the smarts; and someday there will be a sensitive movie about the life and death experiences of young female innocents in the horrors of war.
The keeper is proud to share Kyle’s genetic composition; and wishes him well with his movie, so he can move on to Margaret’s War.
