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Hollywoodland
The fastest way to my heart is through my ribcage.
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You are so sweet! thank for being a part of it all these years.
xoxo
-C
12 of 12 December 2012 - Fuel Me Up Buttercup
I can't believe it's over! From the Untitled Chad Darnell Project "12 of 12 (Year 6): December 2011. THIS IS IT!! The final 12 of 12!" Now I haven't posted for 6 years or every month but it's a fun little project. It's a great way to tell one's story via pictures and a few simple words. An...
You just have to make it work. An internship is an investment. I worked as in intern, put myself through school and worked part time on the weekends. I worked every odd job I could find in order put myself through school and eat.
And you quit when you decide. That's not something I can answer for you.
An Open Letter to the BLACK SWAN Interns
An Open Letter to Alex Footman and Eric Glatt: So I guess that whole "suing Fox Searchlight thing" isn't going to work out for you, is it? In the future, be sure to sue the production company that MADE the movie and not the company that acquired the film after it was made. It's kind of like a ...
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12 of 12 (Year 6): June 2011
I'm using Linky Tools, so you can enter your website and the links are updated immediately. But to maintain a streamlined look, please enter them as follows. It's very easy to do. I've entered my website as an example to show you how it should look. 1) Click on "Click Here to Enter" 2) Under "...
I produced LARAMIE 10 YEARS LATER at Hollywood United Methodist last year and they claimed they were going to protest us as well. We had an amazing cast: Zachary Quinto, Pauley Perrette, Julie Benz, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Lisa Edelstein, James Cromwell...
They never showed. Later, Megan Phelps said, "oh, I meant we'd be there because we're always there as characters in the play."
Morons.
Westboro Baptist Church says it will protest L.A. stage production of 'The Laramie Project'
The Westboro Baptist Church is once again threatening to protest "The Laramie Project." This time, the production of the play on the church's radar is in Los Angeles. Headed by Fred Phelps, the fundamentalist group is planning to picket "The Laramie Project," currently being produced at the Pi...
She did look great last year and she looked great this year from the neck up. I was commenting on the dress she wore this year.
Chad And Zen Run 11 Miles
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Mar 15, 2010
It should work now. I set it to "private" thinking it couldn't be found in a search, but apparently that means only 25 people can view it.
Anatomy of a Scene: "Hotel Bar"
This is the hotel bar from our location scout. This is going to be a really cool location, because we will shoot in here with three different casts (of two actors) doing the same script - each with different endings. In the first "Hotel Bar 1" - the lovely Chane't Johnson and her (as yet to be c...
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Anatomy of a Scene: "Hotel Bar"
This is the hotel bar from our location scout. This is going to be a really cool location, because we will shoot in here with three different casts (of two actors) doing the same script - each with different endings. In the first "Hotel Bar 1" - the lovely Chane't Johnson and her (as yet to be c...
Oh that sucks! The worst airline experience I ever was Christmas 2002 - I was casting ALIAS at the time and I had just cast the SWAT team for the big Superbowl episode when they would blow up the SD-6 and was flying home to Atlanta. But, if they moved the scene, I was screwed, because I cast the entire team from the people working on the Colin Farrell movie "S.W.A.T."
American Airlines was on terminals 2 and 4 at LAX. They kept sending me to the wrong terminal. Pouring rain. Missed flight. Had to get a new ticket. Two hours going through the security line and finally... six people from going through the metal detector, the production office called to tell me they were moving the scene to another day. I had been at the airport for six hours at this point, I hadn't slept, no coffee, had to go to the bathroom and I heard: "We're blowing up the CIA on Monday."
To which, I screamed, "I thought we were blowing up the CIA on Tuesday! That's what I planned for!"
It look less than two seconds for me to get yanked out of line and have a mini strip search.
I sat there for 20 minutes as they went through my bags, took out scripts, the whole nine yards before I spoke up and explained the situation.
Hope you make it home. And don't mention anything about blowing up the CIA.
My Crack-of-Dawn Travel Adventures From Hell (Or: Why Northwest Airlines Can Effing Shove It And Die)
Over the last four years I've done a lot of traveling. I've made the round trip from Minneapolis to New York City about two dozen times during that time, among many other trips, and I've had a few travel mishaps and lessons learned along the way. But today's travel adventures? They're in a whole...
So glad you are still employed! I hate that everyone's web sites are getting shut down, because all of those stories are gone. Not only your publications, but all the stories of my youth in Atlanta with Southern Voice. Even when Gaywired shut down, I lost all the stories I had written for them. You would think in this day and age that it would be easier to store and keep them. Alas, not so.
DEMISE
There has been much news about the company I work for, Window Media, going kaput. Window Media owned a bunch of gay publications along the east coast. But running a big corporation comprised of local newspapers and magazines...doesn't work too well. New York Times Company? Struggling. Tribun...
THAT is how you do a shirtless picture.
Josh & Josh Do Key West
In October Josh and I went to Key West, Florida, on assignment for Passport magazine. Passport sent us for six days to shoot footage for a six-minute travel video about Key West and all the fun stuff to do there. Josh H (left) served as on-camera guide and Josh K as videographer and editor. A...
THANK YOU for being you. You would be pleased to know Julie Benz from DEXTER played "you" today.
And thank goodness your schematics are so easy to understand!! The final wings were beautiful.
Hate on Me Hater
I need to be in bed. In less than eight hours, all of my actors will be reporting to the church parking lot for the read-through. I've had an amazing and exhausting week or five. There's a much longer story here, but I'm producing THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER. It is the epilogue (se...
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Aug 11, 2009
Honey, people have been trying to get me to adjust my sense of humor for years. I don't see it happening any time soon.
Chad Darnell Passed Away Today
It is with heavy heart that I tell you that Chad Darnell passed away today. It happened suddenly. He didn't feel any pain. He went quietly. Memorial services will be planned both in Los Angeles and Atlanta. We're still not certain what happened. We're not sure exactly when he passed away. ...
It just looks warm. It's not. It's very cold. And rainy.
12 of 12 IV: February 2009 - ME
10:00 AM My Bed So cold. So very, very cold. The entire front of our house is glass, so it's like waking up in an igloo. 10:23 AM My Living Room I'm a juror on the Macon Film Festival. I have to stop saying yes to these things. You forget you have to watch EVERY SINGLE film. It happ...
130 calories, 17 carbs. Not bad.
That says LIPSTICK. "Set up the LIPSTICK."
And what the hell is a left handed cigarette? I've asked a dozen people and they don't know what it is! I don't smoke, if that's what you're saying.
12 of 12 IV: February 2009 - ME
10:00 AM My Bed So cold. So very, very cold. The entire front of our house is glass, so it's like waking up in an igloo. 10:23 AM My Living Room I'm a juror on the Macon Film Festival. I have to stop saying yes to these things. You forget you have to watch EVERY SINGLE film. It happ...
I think it's because when I was at home, I was logged into your computer. Sorry. Though it makes me look like I have multiple personalities.
And have you even TRIED the Tofutti's? They are very good. Taste just like a real ice cream sandwich.
12 of 12 IV: February 2009 - ME
10:00 AM My Bed So cold. So very, very cold. The entire front of our house is glass, so it's like waking up in an igloo. 10:23 AM My Living Room I'm a juror on the Macon Film Festival. I have to stop saying yes to these things. You forget you have to watch EVERY SINGLE film. It happ...
glad you still have those silky locks. But Tofutti "please" the chemo must of killed your taste buds. Love ya
12 of 12 IV: February 2009 - ME
10:00 AM My Bed So cold. So very, very cold. The entire front of our house is glass, so it's like waking up in an igloo. 10:23 AM My Living Room I'm a juror on the Macon Film Festival. I have to stop saying yes to these things. You forget you have to watch EVERY SINGLE film. It happ...
I'm $699 overpriced.
I Can Be Yours for Only $700
Eric Schwabel, the amazing photographer who shot me for THE ADVOCATE is selling limited edition prints of me for $700. Why anyone would spend $700 on a picture of me, when they could own ME for much less is anyone's guess, but GO HERE to see the pic. A WORD OF WARNING - I cropped this photo,...
I'm not sure how they did the snow. Tara thought it might have been soap. There wasn't anything on the ground two minutes later. But it totally looked like snow.
12 of 12 (3) - December 2008 - ME
10:00 AM My Mirror I have no shame any more. Trust me, I cropped the worst part out. As I told Zen tonight, I look like Nicole Kidman when she was nine months pregnant. I nearly took a picture of my boy parts but trust me, if they horrify me right now, I can only imagine what they would d...
Thanks David. But you haven't seen the boobs. :)
12 of 12 (3) - December 2008 - ME
10:00 AM My Mirror I have no shame any more. Trust me, I cropped the worst part out. As I told Zen tonight, I look like Nicole Kidman when she was nine months pregnant. I nearly took a picture of my boy parts but trust me, if they horrify me right now, I can only imagine what they would d...
Thanks Amy! We'll have to get together when I'm in Atlanta for sure. Thanks for the note.
xoxo
-C
12 of 12 (3) - December 2008 - ME
10:00 AM My Mirror I have no shame any more. Trust me, I cropped the worst part out. As I told Zen tonight, I look like Nicole Kidman when she was nine months pregnant. I nearly took a picture of my boy parts but trust me, if they horrify me right now, I can only imagine what they would d...
It's not you... it was the flash. And my crappy camera.
12 of 12 (3) - December 2008 - ME
10:00 AM My Mirror I have no shame any more. Trust me, I cropped the worst part out. As I told Zen tonight, I look like Nicole Kidman when she was nine months pregnant. I nearly took a picture of my boy parts but trust me, if they horrify me right now, I can only imagine what they would d...
Gavin... no link! Send it again!
xoxo
-C
In a message dated 12/12/2008 10:43:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
12 of 12 (3): December 2008
THANK YOU to everyone for putting your links correctly!! It saves me hours! I beg of you... PLEASE list your day as first name - parenthesis - city - comma - state (or country) - end parenthesis. Once your day is complete and your links are set, please reply in comments in this order: Your na...
I know, right. New clothes? Trip to Europe? 300 venti green teas?
No. My car.
Dude, Seriously. I Give Up.
Dear God: Thanks for the "blessing" of a $600 car bill. Whatever. -Chad
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