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The Film Experience
(DEER VALLEY, UT – Saturday) It’s the second day of Sundance and festival film-goers are forming a long line in a yellow-lamped alley alongside the Egyptian Theater at 8:30 am. People are queuing up...
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“We’d Like to Thank the Academy, Garrett Popcorn…”
(DEER VALLEY, UT – Saturday) Tonight’s the night! The good folks at Garrett Popcorn, (sponsor, booster and official energy supplement for Our Longest Drive) are throwing a party at which the trailer...
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Party Tome
(DEER VALLEY, UT – Sunday) At least half the people I meet at Brenda Sexton’s Windy City West party are neighbors of the couple that owns the condo in which the former Illinois Film Board’s president...
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Starved for Attention
(CHICAGO, IL – Monday) If I was home in Chicago, it is doubtful that I would rise at 7:00 am to drive across town to a frozen parking lot from which I had to take a bus to get to the Jewish Center for...
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I Pure It
(Tundra, NorthwestTerritories, Arctic Continent) A few miles shy of the Arctic Circle, we notice a spot at the side of the road where we park the RV and look out at the tundra. The landscape is...
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Breakfast at the Arctic Half-Circle
(EAGLE PLAINS, YK) On the night before our last day of driving, as we sat at a picnic table on the edge of a gravel parking lot, enjoying some brats grilled in a frying pan and drinking wine as if we...
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Sour-Toed Cocktail
(DAWSON CITY, YK) One gets the feeling from being in Dawson City that the citizens believe that their town is the end-all of everything. We meet very few people who drive up the Dempster Highway like...
View ArticleDetour
(CHICAGO, IL – January 17, 2013) Sometimes it seems like the road hasn’t ended. Dan, Jim and I made it to Inuvik nearly two years ago. But our fans and Kickstarter.com contributors are still waiting...
View ArticleFirst Things Next
(CHICAGO, IL – May 3, 2013) The job of sending Our Longest Drive DVDs, tee shirts and posters to Kickstarter contributors is finished. We’ve now set our sights on getting the film screened in...
View ArticleWinning Two Awards
(CHICAGO, IL – May 4, 2013) Nobody creates anything in the way of an artistic work without expecting to produce an artistic result. But rarely does winning awards figure into the planning. When you’re...
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