ONE MILLION B. C.

Posted Jun 6, 2016, 9:01:25 PM UTC

Sometime between 1999 and 2000, Patrick Curtis (he of the “I married Raquel Welch Club”) commissioned me to do an advertising cover painting to his portfolio he was putting together for yet another take on ONE MILLION B. C. I did a comp for him to see…he liked it…so I progressed with the art. When I finished, I called the number he gave me and his “secretary” said she’d let him know right away. Two weeks later I had heard nothing so I called back and he was “out of the country” I was told. Another two weeks and this time it was a male secretary, telling me that he would inform Patrick of the work.

Nothing.

So I called my Lawyer and HE said….”Do you have the art?” And I did. I was informed that since I retained the art and nothing had been done commercially that there was no point in proceeding, it being a small claims situation. Welcome to Hollywood.

I should’ve known that Curtis was full of crap because he had told me that he intended to shoot in the Canary Islands which, HE SAID, they had never done with these films…..Oh yes they did, both ONE MILLION YEARS B. C. and WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH were shot there.

He also said that HE was the one who shot the famous pose of his ex wife in that furry bikini on the rocky landscape.

He did not, because that was shot by the staff photographer that was working on the production…

I played dumb to all of this because I wanted the money.

He was full of great ideas….He was going to get his ex wife Raquel to play the Queen of the Cave People and , at that time, a new young and up and coming fashion model, Letitia Casta(s) would play the sensual new lead.

Turns out, he was just full of crap.

 

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