Re: Shameless deception
Edited by board administrator January 22, 2014, 10:08 pm
You've no doubt seen excerpts from this TV pilot, the most memorable scene being of Jim singing "He'll Have to Go" in a phone booth. But it was all lip sync. The staging and lighting were horrific, Reeves didn't appear to be wearing make-up -- even his toupe looked bad (something that was commented on by a New York media consultant). Jim was sick that day and didn't want to do it but Winkler insisted that he had booked the studio time. The script was virtually non existent so Jim fumbled around. It was a gross embarrassment and surely did JR's career more harm than good. That's why, when H&H and VoiceMasters put together a DVD a few years ago we did not use any of the film from that disastrous pilot. We only used live video clips of Jim actually singing on various shows. Ray Winkler was behind that awful TV pilot, and clearly out of his depth.
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