I've worked with dozens of celebrities. Maybe two were not gracious, friendly, accommodating and amazing, even the ones who are paid to be assholes. Hollywood is an expensive place to be an asshole because we all share stories of who's nice and who isn't. Even the ones that get written up all the time in the tabloids - I mean, I worked with Christina Aguilera a week after she fucked up the Star Spangled Banner. I would describe her as "guarded" but how can you not be when there's an entire subclass of journalist whose profession is to take pictures up your skirt?

Kevin Reynolds got kicked off of Waterworld by Kevin Costner. Reynolds discovered Costner back in the day and pretty much made all of his movies up to Waterworld, at which point Reynolds said "we're making a terrible mistake and was shown the door.

Ever seen Steel Dawn?

It's great because it's pretty much a low-budg US version of Road Warrior (yes, a low budg version of Road Warrior) with some Beastmaster thrown in. It cost very little, it didn't care, and it's entertaining for what it is.

Waterworld was written for a two million dollar budget contemporaneously with Steel Dawn. It should have been a campy, ridiculous tale of mutants and trimarans with some dudes on jetskis wearing eyepatches on Lake Mead pretending that the shore isn't visible if we tilt the camera down a little. Instead, it cost a rumored $350 million.

Jeanne Tripplehorn is at her hottest. Dennis Hopper throws himself unabashedly into the most ridiculous role he ever played. Even Tina Majorino gives it her all. But it is to Steel Dawn what World War Z is to Shaun of the Dead.

I nearly did the fishing boat thing when I was in college. I chose not to when my uncle pointed out "yeah, you'll make money, but you have to understand there's a small percentage of those boats that don't make it back." My second job after college I had an office literally overlooking the Seattle Fisherman's Memorial.

I was dating a girl who worked for one of the boats back then when the Arctic Rose went down. I watched them add the names, I watched them hold the memorial, and I saw a few people I'd partied with in the crowd. Then every year after, I watched more names be added.

There's still a lot of room on that memorial.