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Garrett Craig: I didn’t know how close to production they were and that they had not cast Captain Marvel. From the distance it even looked like the spark of a firing success…but as I got closer it was more like a blindfold and firing squad. He tossed the script to me, “I think you can see more humor in it.” It seemed like a really hot idea at the time. “Why don’t you rework this?” He said if I did, he would try to get me a meeting with Mr. My friend had a script of LOTS and thought I might get some work there. He was also a friend of Bill Carruthers, director of LOTS (with Chris Darley). Rumors about jobs are like flies…never a shortage of them but try catching one! I heard about LOTS, I was doing comedy punch-up (rewriting and adding jokes) for a producer friend of mine.
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Among the rides was credited with having built was the first rollercoaster that did a full 360-degree revolution and another mammoth rollercoaster named Colossus. Magic Mountain was later acquired by Six Flags Over Texas. My character was another superhero named Speed King who claimed to have built the park more or less single-handedly. I had also done seven or eight commercials for an amusement park in Los Angeles called Magic Mountain. I portrayed Flash Gordon as part of a “say no to drugs” campaign that was part of the Reagan administration’s drug policy it featured Nancy Reagan. I don’t recall the character’s name, but at one point the film was the title of the superhero and later changed. One was in a film called Hero at Large with John Ritter. Rod Haase: I don’t recall when LOTS came up in my illustrious film career however, I played a number of superheroes around this time. To my confidence-shattering surprise, when I opened my coat, the lady screamed, “That’s him, that’s the guy!” The detective leaned forward and squinted in my direction and said, “I don’t see anything.” The frantic woman: “I know…and I know what I didn’t see…and that’s him!” This particular evening was a three-card Monte of flasher…flasher…who can find the flasher? Everybody in the lineup had to open his trench coat, one at a time. It didn’t get me that sweet crib in Malibu but I did get to meet people like Johnny Carson, Redd Foxx, and George Carlin.īack in the day, you could pick up the price of a dinner by standing in a police lineup. I came with one-liners to fill the dead air. On a good night, comics love to say they “killed.” When they would come offstage, I would show them that I could mimic their rhythm, characters, and personality. But I quickly found an even easier way to make money. I did stand-up at the Ice House, Troubadour, and Comedy Store starting when Sammy Shore first gave comics a shot at open mike night. Garrett Craig: I came to LA to do comedy. What was your background before appearing in LOTS? How old were you when you appeared in LOTS?