OCTOBER 6, 1995/Hollywood-headquartered HKM Productions is going bicoastal, with the opening of a full-service production office in New York. Robert Wherry, former national head of sales/East Coast and Detroit rep for bicoastal BFCS, will head up the new location….Visual effects/online edit shop The Filmworkers Club, Chicago, has launched a Dallas-based telecine facility. The new office will be staffed by colorist Omar Godinez and general manager Tony Saldi Jr…..Director Mark Foster has signed with Complete Pandemonium, San Francisco. Foster will continue in his role as creative director/director at Gravy Inc., Santa Monica….
OCTOBER 5, 1990/Director Graeme Clifford has signed with Beechurst Film Productions, New York and London. He ends a three-year roost with Berkofsky/Barrett, New York….Animator/director David Daniels has joined Limelight Commercials, Los Angeles. He had been freelance animating and directing….Stephen Webb has joined Shafer & Shafer, Irving, Calif., as creative director, a newly created post at the agency. Previously, Webb was a senior copywriter at Forsythe Marcelli Johnson, Newport Beach, Calif….
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Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. Explore Generations, Old School vs. New School, In “Poppa’s House”
Boundaries between work and family don't just blur in the new CBS sitcom "Poppa's House" starring father-and-son comedy duo Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. They shatter.
"It's wonderful to come to work every day and see him and some of his kids and my sister and my brother and nieces and nephews. They all work on this show. They all contribute," says the senior Wayans. "I don't think there are words to express how joyful I am."
Wayans plays the titular Poppa, a curmudgeonly radio DJ who's more than comfortable doing it his way, while Wayans Jr. plays his son, Damon, a budding filmmaker who's stuck in a job he hates.
"My character, Pop, is just an old school guy who's kind of stuck in his ways," says Wayans, who starred in "In Living Color" and "My Wife and Kids."
Pop yearns for the days when a handshake was a binding contract and Michael Jordan didn't complain if he got fouled on the court. Pop laughs at the younger generation's participation trophies.
"It's old school versus new school and them teaching each other lessons from both sides," says Wayans Jr., who played Coach in the Fox sitcom "New Girl."
"They (the characters) bring the best out in each other and they're resistant initially. But then throughout the episode they have revelations and these revelations help them become better people," he adds.
The two have worked together before — dad made an appearance on son's "Happy Endings" and "Happy Together," while son was a writer and guest star on dad's "My Wife and Kids." But this is the first time they have headlined a series together.
The half-hour comedy — premiering Monday and co-starring Essence Atkins and Tetona Jackson — smartly leaves places in the script where father and son can let... Read More