That was just a disaster.”Ī creative disaster, perhaps, but in terms of commercial appeal, Merhi and his business partner Richard Pepin knew exactly what they were doing. And with the Anna Nicole Smith movie, well, you could write a whole book on that. They gave us a sheet that said “five minutes of story, ten minutes of action, ten minutes of story, five minutes of action” – a template! So we tried to follow it. ![]() I just dropped out and began working for them.” Roberts, Tiger Heart (1996), so that’s how I got started. He did, though, say he’d hire me to write this other movie with T.J. I had really wanted to be a screenwriter, and I had written a script which I brought to Joseph and he read it, liked it, but told me he didn’t want to make it. “A friend of my dad’s knew Joseph Merhi – they played tennis together, so I got a job as a second, second assistant director, which is basically a PA, on a bunch of PM movies. Hey, you’re either a fan of Son in Law (1993) or you’re not – and thankfully for Applegate, his Shore snub happened to lead to a more worthwhile opportunity: I was fired soon after though, because Pauly Shore asked me if I wanted an autograph and I said no!” The summer after my junior year at UCLA, I got a job as a production assistant on the Pauly Shore movie, Jury Duty (1995). ![]() I wanted to go to film school, but I didn’t quite have the grades. “I came to Los Angeles when my father was transferred here. “Yeah, I always wanted to be in film,” recalls Applegate. However, back in his college days at the University of California in the early ‘90s, he was desperate to break into the movie business. Dave chats with PM Entertainment scripter Bill Applegate and learns all about the chaotic circumstances around the shooting of this Anna Nicole Smith picture.Ĭurrently working as a producer for CNBC, Bill Applegate has been creating news channel content for the last two decades.
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