Saturday, December 12, 2009

Have Jeans, Will Travel

Here's something that may or may not seem worth staring at endlessly trying to see precisely what it adds up to:

The oft-mentioned-in-my-blogs Stuart Cornfeld (who I once knew before he was a film producer, and whose house I once went to in 1975 on the exact same day I saw 10-year-old Ben Stiller with his mom, Anne Meara, at the Century City Shopping Plaza, Stuart and Ben now together running a production company called Red Hour) is producing a movie, "Vamps", written and directed by the several-times-mentioned-in-my-blogs (Oct. 11, 2009 and April 13, 2009) Amy Heckerling.

The star of "Vamps" will be Krysten Ritter, which is among the few things presently known about this movie. So I looked to see if Krysten Ritter had ever been in anything upon which I had been a big influence, it being that I get "included" in an incredible amount of entertainment industry product: apparently not (emphasis on "apparently").

I did happen to notice how one of my important videos, "Gosk" (1994; 1998 - go to Archive.Org) has a title sorta similar to a 2009 short Ritter starred in, "Glock". The similarities to things Steinhoff does not end there. "Glock" was apparently named after a gun, and it turns out that all of the movie's characters are named after guns. When I made "Gosk", it was the one time I followed a similar approach, naming most of the Klugian characters after brand names of jeans (Tuxert/tuxedo being among the exceptions, Vinkalert and Gosk being others).

"Gosk, The Screenplay" (1993; posted at Archive.Org in 2007):
Wrangert = Wrangler; Levert = Levis; Jordert = Jordache; Dockert = Dockers; Buegert = Bugle Boy Jeans; Tuxert = tuxedo

"Gosk" Videos (1994, 1998; posted at Archive.Org as Part 1 and Part 2 in 2005):
Dockert = Dockers; Buegert = Bugle Boy Jeans; Tuxert = tuxedo in the video

Yet far more significant is the synopsis of "Glock".

He's got a license to kill but the mission never comes.Hailed as the next big star, Agent Glock is inducted into the mysterious government operation known as "The Cache," a group of black-ops trained killers and spies. After proving his worth by surviving the infamous "torture trial," Glock is given a cell phone through which he will receive communication detailing his first big mission. However the weeks pass, and the locked and loaded Glock begins to suspect the phone may never ring.

This is basically identical to a key element in a short story I copyrighted in 1987 (as part of my "'Inventing Air,' the Collected Works of Jonathan David Steinhoff"), "Gregory, The Unlucky Communist," which is part of my semi-novel, "The Coin That Came In Second", posted at Archive.Org in 2007 (pages 137-140; or Pdf pages 140-143). Gregory, The Unlucky Communist, who is very enthusiastic of being chosen at coming to here by Russia so he can being good secret Communist to overthrowing America, is told to wait for further instructions so he is happy. But then instructions never come, what is this.

So the similarity is obvious. You see, I am good, even Krysten Ritter want to be in movie with premise I give (even those who insist this is coincidence have to agree my idea good enough for them who make movie). So give me money, I do more stuff for you, please do this.

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