Chillaxing in my Trailer
This SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!
Yours truly will be making a special appearance on the show “Leverage.” It’s the one that stars Academy Award Winning Actor Timothy Hutton. (Best Supporting Actor for the 1980 film “Ordinary People.”)
I’ve got a great little comic scene with another of the show’s stars Gina Bellman who some may remember from the British sitcom “Coupling,” which was based on “Friends” except that the Brit version was much more funny. And much more raunchy. Which I like.
Needless to say, Gina and I have a very sexy scene together that, one would hope, will live in infamy. Or at least be as memorable as that death scene in TV’s short lived “the Fugitive” wherein I played the logger… the logger that died. Remember?
A funny tangent, or two… when my dad saw ”the Fugitive” episode, he called to tell me that I should have known better than to be standing so close to those logs as they skidded by. It was dangerous and that I should have known better. After all, a few summers before, we had logged the property, cut, bucked and skidded the logs ourselves. I should have known what I was doing… Well, dad, I explained, those were good times, weren’t they?
(In his defense, while we were logging, he was always very concerned about my safety)
My friend Dale Smith was a long-haul trucker at the time. Apparently, he was in some Podunk bar in some Podunk town that had a TV tuned to that station. Dale had just saddled up the bar and ordered a beer when he looked up at the TV and saw his old buddy Shawn Telford acting alongside Tim Daly, the show’s star. Dale got very excited and began to tell everyone in the relative vicinity, “Hey, I know that guy! I really know that guy.” But before he could buy a round for everyone in the place, I was dead.
I still like hearing that story… despite the anti-climax. And the sad fact that Dale’s brother also died in a logging accident.
Needless to say, to hear the dirt on Gina or more about our long conversation regarding the ins and outs of working with director Mike Leigh, simply send a note or take me to lunch. By the way, if anyone ever wants to have lunch with me, all they got to do is buy me lunch. It’s that simple.
The nitty gritty: Sunday August 1st 8 or 9PM (check your local listing) on the TNT Network. The show is called “Leverage.” and this is episode 3.8, “the Boost Job,”… or as I call it “The Boob Job,” and I play the boob.
Yours in longing,
Shawn
Bumbershoot is fast approaching and for the third year in a row, I’ve got a film playing 1-Reel. That film is of course “Safe Passage” featuring my friends Khanh Doan, Rob Manning and one of the finest actors of my generation Francile Albright. 
As you may know, this year my friends and I had the honor of making a Fly Film for the the Seattle International Film Festival. Our film was completed in April, screened twice during the festival then once at Rawstock. In case you missed those, it’ll play again at Bumbershoot Sunday the 6th of September at 1PM.
After a successful two screenings at the Seattle International Film Festival, my third film “Safe Passage” will screen July 25th at Rawstock V. Our little film that could is meeting the little festival that could.
This year the Seattle International Film Festival asked myself and two other Seattle-based narrative filmmakers to be a part of the Fly Filmmaking Challenge.