This pic is of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz hanging out with me.

Man, do I look ugly...

If anyone ever needed an extreme makeover it's me!

Anyway, Willard and Gloria are way cool! They truly are fun, smart, artistic, talented and I believe some of the wealthiest people who I know.

They wrote "American Graffiti" and a whole lot of stuff!

I was asking Willard if he wrote a film called, "The Devil's Eight."

He looked shocked.

He had worked on it.

I couldn't quite remember if he had, but I always remember that film because it was about moonshine and fast cars.

At the Drive-In where my brothers and I were watching it in Buffalo, Missouri, they were actually drinking moonshine and Buckhorn Beer. At one point someone was laughing so hard at a joke on screen that they got choked and began throwing up out the window of the car.

Then people drinking in the other parked cars also began throwing up because they caught sight of my brother vomiting.

I told Willard this, but he didn't find the humor in it, as he, I believe felt the vomiting had to do with the film. That's not the case at all, I have fond memories of "The Devil's Eight."

Remember Christopher George and Fabian?

Well, I do, and I was just 6 years old!

I'll have to see if I can find that film on DVD.

Walt Disney's Miramax has just started a layoff of 65 of 485 workers to cut costs.

They need fewer and fewer people to haul around the boxes of cash "The Passion of the Christ" is siphoning in...

Some friends of mine just bought a house too...

John Sayles has a new movie coming out that's a political satire. It's got Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Daryl Hannah and Richard Dreyfuss. Sounds like it'll be pretty cool.

I just watched "Lone Star" for the 50th time the other day. I love it!

I was having a lunch with a friend that works for Taschen, we were talking about the release date for the new Stanley Kubrick Archives book by Alison Castle and just as the pizza was coming, I overheard people at the next table saying that Warner Bros. had bought the monolith.

I thought they meant the prop from "2001," but they were talking about Monolith, the game maker that created "Tron 2.0," "Alien vs. Predator 2," and "No One Lives Forever," and how it will become part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, that produces the multiplayer online game, "The Matrix Online."

In other great news, drummer Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones is being treated for throat cancer. Singing or even talking wasn't big on his list of things to do anyway.

There is a plan afoot that would allow the publisher of Penthouse magazine to rise from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection later this month. Making it possible for me to see hot looking chicks drink their own urine again!

Now if only Omni magazine would come back into print. Kinda think you'll see pics of Arthur C. Clarke drinking his own urine before that happens.