[Dixielandjazz] Movie stardom

[David Richoux]

A friend of mine was a session and band drummer in LA for many years  
(he is now the editor of a Bay area drumming magazine.) He played  
drums in several scenes for the 1984 movie "Swing Shift" (with Goldie  
Hawn and Kurt Russell) and he knew  the camera on him a lot. When the  
movie finally came out, the only thing we could see of him was a  
small portion of his (very bald) head.

I was also interested in that film because a book my mother wrote set  
in the Big Band era was in consideration for screen adaptation at  
about that time - I guess they figured two movies even somewhat about  
the subject would just be too much...

Dave Richoux

On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:27 PM, John Farrell wrote:

> Larry said :
>
> "A couple of years ago I was in a made for TV movie (snip)  I sat
> around all day in tie and tails that were too small and they ended up
> catching my knee, fleetingly.  Oh well that's show biz."
>
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