One thing we like to do here at newsfromme.com is to plug our friends' business endeavors. I have this friend named Bob Logan, who's a filmmaker, writer, director, all those things. He's directed some successful comedies like Meatballs 4 and Repossessed and he's working now on a movie that will bring the old F Troop TV show to, as they say, The Silver Screen. I was especially impressed with a movie he did a few years ago called Up Your Alley, which was a comedy about homeless folks. You wouldn't think that would be a fertile topic for humor but it was. A few years later, Mel Brooks — working with about a million times the budget — made Life Stinks, also a comedy about the homeless, and I liked Bob's film a lot better.
In fact, Bob's film was a triumph of making a professional-looking movie for almost no money. I don't recall what he spent but it was probably about what Mr. Brooks spent on donuts for his film. To share his expertise with the world — and, let's be honest, make a few bucks — Bob is now conducting classes in how to do what he did on Up Your Alley and other film endeavors. He calls it The One Day $99 Film School and I'll bet the folks who take it learn an awful lot in that one day. End of plug.