Peter Salett, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, IN THE OCEAN OF THE STARS musician, actor: Mr. Media Interview

Today is a big day for my guest, Peter Salett: his new album, In the Ocean of the Stars was released this very day.

Peter, if you don’t know him, is an accomplished musician whose career has been pumped up in recent years by his association with the hottest director of film comedies in the country, Judd Apatow. Peter co-wrote three songs for the recent movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall with its star, Jason Segel. Peter also had a brief on-camera appearance in another Apatow hit, Superbad,

And Peter has a continuing relationship with another director, David Wain, for whose films The Ten, Hot Wet American Summer and the upcoming Paul Rudd movie, Role Models, he has contributed songs.

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Bret Carr, RevoLOUtion, indie movie director, producer and star: Mr. Media Audio Interview

Bret Carr made a movie.

Lots of people make movies these days. Every idiot with a digital camcorder thinks he is Scorsese, Tarantino, or Apatow, but Carr approached his first feature film, RevoLOUtion, a little differently. He landed Quinn Redeker, the man behind The Deer Hunter, to write his screenplay. Rocky composer Bill Conti created the title song. Paul Michael Glaser, best known as Detective Starsky from the classic TV series “Starsky & Hutch,” is a producer. Carr even convinced Burt Young, who played Sylvester Stallone’s brother-in-law in the Rocky films, to be himself in RevoLOUtion.

But who to play Lou Benedetti, the stuttering, somewhat brain-damaged, yet ultimately inspirational star of the film?

That would be Carr himself, who also produced and directed RevoLOUtion. And wait until you hear about his unusual ideas about marketing.

You can LISTEN to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

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