Jeff and I are having a quiet Sunday dinner tonight at Chateaulin, a French bistro in Ashland (good food and owned by a New Yorker, of course), when I hear him yell an enthusiastic hello across the room to a guy sitting at a table alone. The man comes over and shakes our hands while Jeff introduces me. "I'm sorry...who are you again?" I say dumbly, thinking this was just another friend of Jeff's. Nope, turns out this is Diedrich Bader, Oswald from "The Drew Carey Show" and Napoleon Dynamite. I was really impressed that Jeff knew his name, but anyway, Diedrich was super friendly and he has done some great work over the years.
Diedrich's in town shooting a baseball film called Calvin Marshall that will be out next year. The movie's being shot in Ashland and Medford and brings Gary and Anne Lundgren of Broken Sky Films back to the Rogue Valley where they shot the award-winning short "Wow and Flutter."
I could have kicked myself afterwards because I should have mentioned to him that I'm on the advisory board of the Ashland Independent Film Festival and it would be really cool to have him and the director back for a screening of the movie next year. I have no excuse whatsoever because earlier today I met Anne Ashbey for coffee. She's in charge of the Internet group at Harry and David, a fellow Council member, and the person who got me involved with the AIFF. Oh well, even I have a brain lapse once in a while. :)
Here's the article about Calvin Marshall that was in today's paper.
