Greg Lastrapes
Director / Screenwriter / Editor
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Male
41 years old
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 4/7/2009
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Greg Lastrapes's Film Bio
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| Directors | Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, Hal Ashby, Federico Fellini, Bob Fosse, Mike Nichols, Sofia Coppola, Michel Gondry, Todd Haynes, Terry Jones, Terry Gillliam, Michael Powell, Tom DiCillo, and on and on... | | Professional Affiliations | SAG - AFTRA |
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Greg Lastrapes's Interests
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| Music |
Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Count Basie, The Beatles, Tom Jones, Al Green, Donny Hathaway, Led Zepplin, Joni Mitchell, Velvet Underground, Patsy Cline, Talking Heads/David Byrne, Betty Carter, Jonathon Richman, Parliament, Deep Purple, Cole Porter, Herbie Hancock (pre-80s), John Coltrane, Clifton Chenier, The Rolling Stones, Gladys Knight, Stephen Sondheim, Thelonius Monk, The Band, AC/DC, Blossom Dearie, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder (pre-1977), Henry Mancini, Franz Wexler, Bernard Herrmann, Squeeze, Paul Simon, Frank Zappa, Elton John (pre-80s), Marvin Gaye, Charles Mingus, John Prine, Tito Puente, The Staples Singers, Dean Martin, Art Tatum, Aretha Franklin, Medeski Martin Wood, Prince, Fiona Apple, Peter Gabriel, Roger Miller, Sly & The Family Stone, Shooby Taylor... to be continued. | | Movies |
This is by no means a comprehensive list. Nonetheless, here's a smattering: Being There, Sunset Boulevard, 2001, Network, Phantom of Liberty, Rosemary's Baby, The Apartment, Lolita, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, Ikiru, The Big Lebowski, eXistenZ, The Trial, Eyes Wide Shut, Blue Velvet, All About Eve, Showgirls (you read right, bitch!), Adaptation, Repulsion, Fellini Satyricon, The Trial, Rear Window, Exterminating Angel, Lost In Translation, The Loved One, My Man Godfrey, Safe, Hannah & Her Sisters, Kiss Me Stupid, Singin' In The Rain, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, La Dolce Vita, Citizen Kane, Femme Fatale, Vertigo, All That Jazz, The Lady Eve, Citizen Kane, All Buster Keaton, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Welcome to the Dollhouse, A Nous La Liberte, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe?, Swimming Pool, The Lady Eve, Juliet of the Spirits, Candy, A Face In The Crowd, The Naked Kiss, Annie Hall, Beauty & The Beast (Cocteau & Disney), Bringing Up Baby, Dr. Strangelove, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Last Picture Show, Adam's Rib, Blood Simple, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Being John Malkovich, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, The Third Man, Sideways, Amarcord, And God Created Woman, The Jerk, Happiness, The Best Man, Mulholland Drive, Our Gang, The Party, Kurosawa's Dreams, Election, The Gold Rush, Testament of Orpheus, The Blues Brothers, The Philadelphia Story, The Shining, 10, The Music Man, The Blue Angel, The Red Shoes, The Pianist, A History Of Violence, The World's Greatest Lover, M, Children Of The Paradise, Storytelling, Kiss Me Deadly, Birth, Belle Epoque, Blazing Saddles, Paths Of Glory, North By Northwest, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Killing, Crash, Ace In The Hole, City Of God, In A Lonely Place, Flirting With Disaster, After Hours, The Stranger, Knife In The Water, The End, Black Narcissus, Match Point, The Three Amigos, Sideways, Eraserhead, Under The Roofs of Paris, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock), Amelie, The Ruling Class, Half Baked, Velvet Goldmine, Harold & Maude, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, The Thin Man, Psycho, The Triplets Of Belleville, Young Frankenstein, Taxi Driver, Ishtar, Carnal Knowledge (the very first movie my parents took me to see), The Producers, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Raging Bull, Sullivan's Travels, The Graduate... I'll stop here. For now. | | Television |
All-time favorites: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, The Twilight Zone, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I Martin Short Goes Hollywood, Strangers With Candy, Twin Peaks, All In The Family, Sanford & Son (the first two seasons, anyway), Gimme Gimme Gimme, Really Weird Tales, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Father Ted, Peep Show, Rescue Me, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Sopranos, The League Of Gentlemen, Your Show of Shows, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, The Singing Detective, The Gong Show, Peep Show, The Office (BBC & NBC), SNL (the first four years), David Letterman (on NBC), You Bet Your Life, The Human Face (with John Cleese), Six Feet Under, The Jack Benny Show, The Andy Kaufman Special, Steve Martin's network specials from the 80s, The Decalogue, Chappelle's Show, UnScripted, Big Love... must stop... can't... Laugh-In. | | Books | Blue Movie & Dig This by Terry Southern. Portnoy's Complaint. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Tom Robbins is often a kick. Kafka. John Irving. Conversations with Wilder. Bird By Bird. Edgar Allen Poe. The Dangerous Husband. PG Wodehouse. David Sedaris. If plays count (and why wouldn't they?), The Odd Couple. Memoirs of an Amnesiac. The Groucho Letters. Shakespeare's all right. Todd Parr. Dr. Seuss. Lewis Carroll. Roald Dahl. Shel Silverstein. Lolita. The Oxford Dictionary. Anything by award-winning hack, Martin Lastrapes. The unexpurgated works of Benny Coma. Above all, Dorothy Parker.
| | Heroes | Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Hal Ashby, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, Preston Sturges, Ray Charles (I should do so much heroin), Herbie Hancock, Paddy Chayefsky, Tom Jones, Fred "Mister" Rogers, Count Basie, Cole Porter, Jimmy Carter, Walt Disney (the man, not the empire - All except the bit about the nazis), Ernie Kovacks, Rod Serling, Stephen Sondheim, Sarah Silverman, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Dorothy Parker, Steve Martin, Bob Fosse, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Carl Reiner, Hugh Hefner, Nichols & May (together and apart), Paul Williams, Bob & Ray, Martin Luther King, Jr., Uncle Mando, my great-grandfather Demetrio, my grandmother and my marvelous parents. |
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Greg Lastrapes's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Burbank, CA | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer | | Children: | Proud parent |
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Greg Lastrapes's Blurbs |
About me:
Greg Lastrapes was born on July 13, 1968 in Los Feliz, CA across the street from what is now the Scientology Headquarters on Vermont. And if that doesn't say absolutely nothing about the man, I don't know what does.
He was nominated for an Emmy in 1984 (as a performer) for a show you never saw, was an extra on Three's Company once and Diff'rent Strokes twice, and - oh yeah - has studied production design with no less than the legendary Gene Allen (My Fair Lady, A Star Is Born) and soon-to-be-legendary Corey Kaplan (X-Files, Cold Case Files). When not flexing his cinematic muscle creating the kinds of films that make one nod and scratch one's beard while puffing on one's pipe, he labors at video editing, concocting concept boards (I stashed some on my Pics page), graphic design and anything else someone might pay him handsomely to do (Not you, Pat Robertson!).
They say that when he was a kid, his father, Larry who happened to have been moonlighting as a wedding photographer at the time used to make Greg lug around camera bags, tripods, lights, take exposure readings, make coffee, pose the clients and take photographs while he split for a round of golf and a Finnish sauna. At the end of the day, Greg got five shiny green dollars. Why the old man's not a producer, I'll never know.
So the reason I bring it up is because Larry was, and is, a gadget enthusiast. If something is going to be obsolete in five years, he owns it. Consequently, everything Greg knows about multimedia which could fill volumes and theoretically justify a war he learned from hijacking and deconstructing his dad's expensive equipment.
Eventually, he got a hold of Larry's Minolta 8mm movie camera and, at the tender age of ten, invented what is now known as The Upskirt. He routinely spent his weekly allowance at the drug store, buying and developing film. When he was in the fifth grade, he began production on his first adaptation of a literary work. Based on the Cracked Magazine send-up of the same name, The Masked Bandito had everything: Swashbuckling action, some girl from school he promised to make a star and a navy blue beanie.
Production stretched out over a year, the budget skyrocketed and the character of the bad guy had to be re-cast because Greg and Steve weren't hanging out that summer. But one fateful night, Uncle Mando dropped by to look for UFOs with Greg's telescope, watched the rushes instead and insisted upon taking the role. People, that's just the way the universe works sometimes. The fact that Uncle Mando was at least 50 lbs heavier and about a foot shorter than the actor he was replacing, made for what is universally regarded as the single greatest continuity error in the history of the cinema.
For decades, The Masked Bandito was assumed lost and irretrievable. But during a Spring 2004 housecleaning spree, Greg's mother, Kathy, recovered the only existing print all six minutes of it - from a box in her garage. A phone call from the Criterion Collection is doubtless forthcoming.
Greg has a wife, two kids and a neatly trimmed moustache.
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Who I'd like to meet:
The question is, who would YOU like to meet. Start here...
Here's a sort of impressionist documentary I made about my Uncle Mando. Click on his mug below and transport yourself to digital documentary-style bliss:
 
And when you're done with that, check out my film about the immensely talented Zak Schaffer:
 
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