The First Commandment:
Do Not Bore Your Audience

Danny Heap writes: The first question I ask myself is "Was I bored?" A film can be bad but hugely entertaining. Why else would films like Plan 9 from Outer Space and Terminator 2 still play to packed cinemas?
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Ali Kayn interviews Peter Fonda and Jerry Lewis in Melbourne, and says: "You expect a performer to work the room on stage, but I enjoy watching performers work the room at press conferences and autograph signings."
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Ali Kayn writes: Peter Fonda flashes a smile in the foyer of Melbourne's Cinema Nova. He's jet lagged-to-hell, but for a moment he's forgotten the gruelling round of theatres and meeting rooms. Nicholson and Fonda, side by side, in dark glasses and smiling teeth would fill an entire room.
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Ali Kayn writes: Relaxed and casual, the consumate performer on stage and at a press conference. He breaks the ice, making the press corps comfortable. "It's like the Nuremberg trial", Jerry Lewis said facing the cameras. All press conferences, he explained, begin the same way: with a staring contest between the press and their subject.
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Terry Frost says: Nobody likes a good movie more than I do. Conversely, nobody likes a bad movie more than I do. Hudson Hawk may have made twelve dollars fifty at the box office but unless you have shares in a movie studio, who gives a curdled fluffy duck about that? If you like it, you like it.
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