Christopher Slater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, grip/best boy/boom operator/actor
Erdal Besikçioglu, Ankara, Turkey, actor
Eva Borusovicová, Levice, Czechoslovakia, writer
Rick Campanelli, Hamilton, Ontario, v.j./sportscaster/game show host
Troy Van Leeuwen, Los Angeles, California, musician
The menu of achievements in the human cafeteria is a little skimpy today. I’m gonna confess right now to a bias against Canadians, which rules out the blandly handsome and successful Rick Campanelli. (I’m strictly talking about the Canada Canadians here, with their oddball parallel CanCon entertainment industry. All the Canadians that come down here to do their tricks for us Americans – your Bill Shatners, your Neil Youngs, your Pat Kiernans – they’re all aces in my book.)
I guess Today’s Winner has to be Christopher Slater. In the technical categories, he’s lent a hand on the set of a couple of excellent indie neo-films-noirs, The Deep End and A Simple Plan. But the thing that really gives him the edge is his participation in a picture from 1999 called Go To Hell. It’s some kind of Velcro-budget (sub-shoestring) pulp romp involving gun-toting Elvis impersonators versus bloodthirsty Catholic clergypersons. You have to check out the cast of characters. This will be wafting its way to the pinnacle of my Netflix queue in 2010. Please comment below if you have ever even heard of this thing.
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