Guest blogger Chris Kaltenbach here:
It doesn't always take a casting couch to make it big in the movies.
Take the heartwarming case of Joe Mooney (left), whose impromptu soft-shoe is just one of the many delights in Matthew Porterfield's Putty Hill, which had its local premiere Friday night at The Charles.
During the Q&A afterward, Mooney revealed the inspirational story of how Porterfield discovered him and he was cast in the movie. Aspiring thespians, take note:
"I was sitting in a bar," recalled Mooney, "and he said, 'I might have a part for you.'"
The bar, Joe says, was The Rendezvous, on 25th Street. What do you want to bet, aspiring stars and starlets start showing up there in droves, just waiting to be discovered? Kind of like an East Coast version of Schwab's Drug Store.
(For those who haven't seen Putty Hill yet, you'll get another chance, at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at The Charles. You owe it to yourselves not to miss it this time.)