Michael Dare's Bio

Member

Motion Picture Association of America

Los Angeles Film Critics Association



Television

Writer

Steven Spielberg Presents
Animaniacs

Warner Bros. Presents
Histeria!

Co-Producer

CBS MOW
The Bachelor's Baby
Starring Scott Bakula as me
Read the script or the book
and find out how my life became a
Movie-of-the-Week
 The Bachelor's Baby page chosen as the
FUN LINK OF THE WEEK:by

Critic/writer

Michael Nesmith's "Overview"
Tasty Movies
(both unsold pilots)
The Playboy Advisor on The Playboy Channel


Screenplays

My Video Shop - Robert Evans, Producer
Another Roadside Attraction - Hal Ashby, Producer
The Fat Man in the Bathtub - Hal Ashby, Producer
So You Wanna be a Rock 'n' Roll Star - Michael Nesmith, Producer
Campus Cops - Ed Elbert, Producer
El Healtho - John Simon, Producer
Soft Targets - Judd Nelson, Producer
A Valentine Carol - Michelle Manning, Producer
The Avant Guardians - The Artist's Rights Foundation


FILMS I APPEAR IN AS AN EXTRA

Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
Francis
The Blues Brothers
The Bachelor's Baby


Video

CONTEMPORARY EXTEMPORARY
(15 minute short)
A film by Robert Roll, Ken Yas, and Michael Dare
Grand Prize winner
Video Review Magazine'sfirst annual Home Video Shootoff

ANGEL FOOD - A TRUE STORY
(20 minute short)
Directed by Billy Hayes
Produced by Billy Hayes, Ken Yas, & Michael Dare
Shown at the Boston, Denver, and USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas


Freelance Journalism

Editor/Publisher/Writer
Disinfotainment Today

Editor

The San Fernando Valley Weekly
The Hollywood Free Press
The Los Angeles Free Press

Cover stories


Tracey Ullman

Interview Magazine


My Bachelor Life: Sanitized

New Times


Stanley Kubrick Wouldn't Do This - The Mellowing of John Waters

Movieline


No, I didn't write it, but my son and I appeared on the cover of the L.A. Reader

How I Survived the L.A. Riots

The Desert Post Weekly


  PDF of my LA Times Article on the Hollywood Christmas Parade (missing illustrations from print edition),
reprinted from Disinfotainment Today Issue #210 (with illustrations).

PDF of my LA Times Article "The Rules of Hollywood."


The First Earth Battalion - L.A. Weekly
The First Earth Battalion Manual
is an ethical tactical battle manual
for the army of the future.
Download the entire manual in PDF format.
5 meg PDF file but worth it.
I recommend using a resumable download program like GetRight.
You won't believe the Pentagon created such a document.

Reporter

The Desert Sun

Top of the World
Jazz with Craig Chaquico
The Desert Post Weekly

The Worst Movie Ever Made
"The Turkish Wizard of Oz"
The Website

My Articles

Union Station

Griffith Park Pony Rides

Southern Railroad - Griffith Park

Schindler House and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture

St. Elmo Village

Seattle's Best Coffee

Transamerica Center

Jayne Mansfield's Former Home


The Website

My Articles

Majors Now Minor in family Pix Divisions

No Crix' Darling, but Auds Love his Work (Spotlight on John Landis)

Beauty's got Brains and Talent (Spotlight on Demi Moore)

Critic's Take on Action Auteur (Billion Dollar Director Tony Scott)

Scripter puts Life on Screen - October 6, 1996

Porn Free: My Visit to a Porn shoot - November 17, 1997
 


First Person Columns


Lies to Get you Out of the House

Thus Spake Lennon

Juror
Grants Division of the L.A. Bureau of Cultural Affairs

Video columnist
Billboard
Movieline Magazine
L.A. Weekly

Film critic
The L.A Weekly
The Santa Monica Bay News
Parenting Magazine

Liner Notes
Films on the Criterion label

Flowcharts
Guide to the Life of a Screenwriter (535kb but worth it) - L.A. Weekly
Guide to the Life of a Film Critic - L.A. Weekly
Guide to the Life of a Stand-up Comic - National Lampoon

Misc. Articles
The Casting Couch - Film Threat
How Dependency Court Really Works
How to Write Like Tom Robbins
How the Last Shot in Being There Actually Got Made
Five Things You Didn't Notice in The Shining

Short (but true) Stories
Horror Story - I'm hired to direct a film but to my horror it's a horror film
Andy Kaufman's Final Performance



Roger Ebert quotes me in his review of FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!

Books


Comic novel about Hollywood in 1910.
Read the first chapter.

Here Comes the Son
Complete online
The true story of my custody battle for my son.
This became the CBS MOW The Bachelor's Baby

A Valentine Carol
Complete online
With apologies to Charles Dickens

Writer/Interviewer
McFarland Publisher's Movie Talk from the Front Lines

Assignment Editor
Collins Publisher's  A Day in the Life of Hollywood

The Spirit of Writing
Seeing your name listed in a table of contents
along with Annie Dillard, Stephen King, Henry Miller,
Joseph Conrad, Sylvia Plath, Octavio Paz, Robert Pinsky,
Erica Jong, Mark Twain, O. Henry, and Anais Nin
is pretty cool.


Photography


The Voyager Company
L.A. Journal Vol. 1
200 Celebrity Photos on Laserdisc


Polaroid/Rubber Stamp Art Shows

April Fools Show for Find the Children - Produced by Paul Mazursky
Tony Bill's Market St. Gallery
EZTV
The Lhasa Club
At Sunset
The Benham Gallery (Seattle)
The Long Beach Museum of Modern Art
Adding Media, Subtracting Signs (NTT InterCommunication Center - Tokyo)


Music and Stage

Regular appearances at the Lhasa Club & Club Lingerie
performing original songs on slide guitar and piano
Composer - Michael McClure's "The Beard" - The Company Theater
Performer - James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theater
Performer & Composer - The Odyssey Theater
Performer & Composer - La Mama West
Performer and Composer - Robert Patrick's Cheap Theatrics
Original Sins - the album (Tribute to Elvis Costello)


Radio

One of "The Three Guys from Hollywood,"
comedy newsteam on KROQ

Will Power, Bill Martin, Robert Roll, & Michael Dare

Free MP3s of some of our satirical news songs,
featuring Robert Roll and Richard Goldman

The Blind Sailor Man
Frozen Embryos
God Bless South Africa
On Steroids
Polyp
Killer Cheese
Teenage Hacker
Yoko, Stop Releasing My Outtakes


Training

Lee Strasberg, New York and Los Angeles...................1970-72


All the Stuff I Normally Leave off my Résumé


Art. Journalism. Music. Photography. Webpage design. Filmmaking. Lyrics. Scripts. Treatments. Fiction. Non-fiction. Flowcharts. Criticism. Whatever.

Come to the
Rummage Sale!
for everything I've done on spec


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