| During my junior year in high school, my
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| | directed subjects for other producers and
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| best friend told me he was making a
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| | acted in several spoofs. In 1995, I felt
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| parody of Star Trek II: The Wrath of
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| | the time was ripe to make Space Cadets! I
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| Khan. What was really cool about this
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| | had created my first screenplay and
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| short project was that I would play a
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| | showed it to my friend Scott John, whom I
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| version of Khan and do my Ricardo
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| | had acted for his programs. After looking
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| Montalban impersonation. But much to my
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| | over the script, he phoned me and said,
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| excitement, the material never happened,
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| | "Jose, this is too long."My script was
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| as those involved later graduated, as did
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| | about 50 pages. John told me to consider
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| my buddy and I would a year later.Space
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| | how difficult it was to make any video
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| Cadets, my short film, would never die,
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| | based on sci-fi, especially when it came
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| as wouldn't Captain James Kirk, if he and
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| | to designing the props, the costumes,
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| his crew were caught in a same situation
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| | etc. He should know: he did a version of
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| on a reality show. After high school, I
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| | Doctor Who that took months and labor.
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| pretty much bumbed around taking odd jobs
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| | He recommended that I trimmed the script
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| before I finally enrolled in a small (but
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| | down, maybe to twenty pages. But I felt
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| expensive) college as a Communications
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| | that every page could be done. I wish I
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| Major. Since I was raised in a Catholic
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| | had listened to him.What begin as a spoof
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| home, my mom encouraged me to attend a
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| | of Star Trek turned into a version of
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| religious youth group that met every
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| | Kevin Costner's Waterworld, which had
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| Sunday. The members that preached the
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| | premiered in theaters that summer. In
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| word of God also acted in skits, and
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| | fact, this was the nickname I gave my
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| before I knew it, I was acting in those
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| | short film. And soon all the volunteers
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| skits as well. It took a year before I
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| | of the cable station would peak in the
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| introduced the members a skit I had
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| | editing room and ask, "So Jose, how's
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| written based on the original Star Trek
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| | Waterworld coming out?"
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| series, but with a Holy-twist: Jesus vs.
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| | They mocked and laughed as my production
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| Khan. They liked it, but the skit, some
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| | took from spring to the end of the
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| felt, was long, and to design the bridge
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| | Christmas holidays to make.During a fight
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| of the Enterprise would have been too
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| | scene between two actors, one of them
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| costly for a church budget. Again, my
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| | accidentally hit his head against a wall
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| dream of playing a villain from a popular
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| | when he was thrown against a stack of
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| series was closed out.One day I was
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| | chairs. When he got off the floor after
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| channel flipping on my television when I
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| | I yelled, "Cut", he had lost some of his
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| saw what was a home made, video spoof of
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| | memory! I rushed this guy, who had done
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| James Bond. I thought this was the
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| | stunts for other films, to the hospital.
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| coolest thing since cable was invented.
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| | The following day he recovered, thank
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| When the program was over, a screen
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| | goodness, and he repeated the same stunt
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| appeared with a number for anyone who
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| | the following week! As month passed, I
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| wanted to do his or her own program. The
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| | was burning grudges with the Director of
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| way it works is that I would take a class
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| | Program at the cable station, and the
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| in learning to run a camera, shoot a
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| | volunteers were upset with me for using
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| scene, and then edit my program, all for
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| | up the editing room. Everyone was soon
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| free! What excited me more was that any
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| | advising me to put Space Cadets! in the
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| program I created would appear on this
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| | can. They wanted me to quit. But
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| particular channel, public access
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| | whenever I had faced discouragement, I
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| television. Well, I called that number,
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| | pictured myself having a conversation
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| but it took about two to three months
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| | with William Shatner and telling him my
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| before I took my first class. I
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| | nightmare on filming this parody.
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| graduated, thank you, thank you, and
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