T-shirts for dollars
I am working on various ideas to promote the film. This is just one. Let me know if you like it. To date this has been a low2NO budget production.I have some fundraising possibilities about to happen. Digital has made this all so much more easier.
Of Dreams Not about John
I just awoke from a dream. I came home one night to a party. As I walked in and deftly manuevered through the din of tinkling glasses and buzz of conversation I see 2 people sitting on the couch. It is Nelson Mandela and a bespeckeled film or diminutive height and is not Woody Allen. […]
Contact continues…
I am still getting results from the Kankakee newspaper article. I was not able to get back down there to talk to people this week. I have a part time job and got wrapped up in some things. I have heard from a Keehan family member for the first time. I have discovered his family […]
Research-Do
Research… you gotta love it. In dealing with a subject where people have been dead for 30 years, where archival materials that existed before the dawn of digital have turned or are turning to dust, where information you need was deemed not important or had a low priority and was/is being destroyed presents some serious […]
The Old West Meets Poison Hand
So where am I with this project? I am starting this blog way late in the process, or maybe it is right on time. The things that have occurred in my research and locating subjects to talk to about Dante is really a fantastic journey of rediscovery of my own life. I drove down to […]
Searching for Count Dante
Searching for Count Dante
January 2006…still chasing ghosts
How did it all start? All I wanted to do was dispel a rumour. I was long over the conspiracy theories, long past worrying about someone controlling my world. But a fond childhood memory was involved, a guilty pleasure. Recollections come back in a flood of images. I was a fan of John Keehan aka […]
On the trail of the Count
It all starts in August of 2004 on the South Side, 47th Street, with a strange meeting with an old martial arts buddy. A rumor of a man we know being alive after supposedly being dead for 30 years and his gravesite with no headstone. John Keehan, PT Barnum of Martial Arts; hairdresser for Playboy; […]