The Film Society of Lincoln Center just announced that they'll be hosting a "Talking About Tom Schiller" event at the Walter Reade on Sept. 6, and I am most definitely going. Schiller, son of the famous TV writer Bob Schiller (
I Love Lucy, among many more), grew up in L.A. and made a documentary about Henry Miller before he was recruited by Lorne Michaels to be one of the original writers of
Saturday Night Live. Along with creating some of the show's best early sketches -- most famously John Belushi's samurai -- and performing as a featured player. Schiller distinguished himself with a series of absurdist shorts that were shown on
SNL, including the ingenious
Dieter's Dream (Marv Albert is the villain).
But perhaps Schiller's greatest work is one which has never been seen: 1983's
Nothing Lost Forever, a science-fiction/social satire starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd which was dropped by its distributor, MGM, never to be seen again. The Walter Reade will be screening the film along with several of his shorts. I got to know Tom a little bit when his wife Jacque (pictured above) and I worked together at indieWIRE, and he may be the funniest person alive. Buy tickets
here.
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posted by Matthew Ross @ 8/20/2005 01:44:00 PM
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