Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut

Tommy Avallones' latest nostalgia-packed documentary, THE HOUSE FROM. Narrated by My Name is Earl star, Jason Lee, the film is set to premiere on Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort Channel on Fubo, Sunday, October 27th, and will be available for purchase on TVOD platforms starting Monday, October 28th. THE HOUSE FROM. will premiere at Kevin Smiths' Smodcast Film Festival on Friday, October 25th.
Home sweet home...but what is a home? Most would describe it as a place to keep your belongings or where you would build a family and make memories. But what if the memories of your house were not exclusively yours? What if you lived in a famous house? A house that is extremely well known for being in a TV show or a movie that millions of people have grown up watching and have their own personal connections with. THE HOUSE FROM... is a documentary that explores the unique experience of living in a famous house from a TV show or movie. Narrated by My Name is Earl star, Jason Lee. Houses featured in the film include homes from: A Christmas Story; Breaking Bad; Can't Hardly Wait; Family Matters; Friday; Full House; The Golden Girls; The Goonies; Halloween; Home Alone; Mrs. Doubtfire; Old School; The Outsiders; Pee Wee's Big Adventure; Roseanne; Short Circuit; Silence of the Lambs; Planes,Trains and Automobiles; Twilight; and Uncle Buck.
"The web of pop culture ensnares eager oglers of the homes where our favorite fictional families lived in Tommy Avallones' "THE HOUSE FROM." - a terrific travelogue about mass media dwellings and the actual people who share them with fans, willingly or otherwise. A must-see documentary if you've ever enjoyed a movie or tv show in your life," said director, actor and host of Smodcastle Film Festival, Kevin Smith.
"Visiting these houses was something that I have been doing for years. Asking to come inside with a camera was just the logical next step. It's been amazing working with Maximum Effort and Fubo in releasing a documentary that uplifts and honors pop culture history in a purely joyful way," said Director Tommy Avallone.
"THE HOUSE FROM.is much needed comfort food, and we're thrilled to help dish it out to film and TV fans everywhere. Maximum Effort strives to deliver content that brings people together, and this is a true embodiment of that," said Kevin Hill, Head of Television at Maximum Effort. "We look forward to premiering the film at the Smodcastle Film Festival, before it's available to all on TVOD platforms."
"Get ready for a nostalgic trip," said Pamela Duckworth, Head of Fubo Studios. "From the feel good to the terrifying, we get to peek into these homes that are shared memories from some of our favorite movies and TV shows."
The documentary is directed by Tommy Avallone, who also serves as Executive Producer alongside Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, Kevin Hill, Raymond Esposito, Adam F. Goldberg, David Gandler, Pamela Duckworth, Lee Leshen, Derrick Kunzer, Charlie Parish and Brett Gursky.

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A.J. Foyt: Survivor, Champion, Legend (Volume One, Octane Press, October 2024), an extensive and highly entertaining biography of one of America's most popular, colorful, and controversial sports heroes, is now available for order. Art Garner-an award-winning author and finalist for the prestigious PEN/ESPN award for literary sports writing for his bestselling book, Black Noon-has captured the action on and off the track that led many to consider Foyt to be one of the greatest race car drivers of all time-and one reporter to write that A.J. stood for "another jerk."Known for his fiery disposition and bare-knuckled approach, Foyt's driving career spanned five decades-six if you count an exhibition race when he was five years old. He was the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four times and still holds Indy car records for most victories and championships. He is the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Daytona 500, one version of auto racing's triple crown. He also won the International Race of Champions in 1976 and 1977 and still holds the world closed-course speed record that he set in 1987. "Statistics tell only part of the story," Garner says. "Foyt likes to say, 'I'm just A.J., ain't no different than any other man,' but nothing could be further from the truth. He's one of the most complex and intricate personalities in the history of auto racing, perhaps all of sports." The biography also explores the unique relationship between Foyt and his "Daddy," Anthony Joseph "Tony" Foyt Sr. Although they often clashed-it was Tony who said working with his son could be like "dancing with a buzzsaw"-A.J. called him "the only man I can trust." It was Tony who instilled in his son an overwhelming drive to be the best, teaching him that victory was expected, excellence assumed. And it was Tony who told a crowd celebrating A.J.'s fourth Indy 500 victory that his son had "done fair."Through tireless research and hundreds of hours of new interviews with Foyt, his family, friends, and the biggest names in motorsports-including Mario Andretti, Roger Penske, Al Unser Sr., Johnny Rutherford, Jackie Stewart, Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, and many others-Garner has compiled an unprecedented look at Foyt's life and career. At 656 pages it includes ninety-five photos, some from Foyt's family albums, and fifty-five pages of source notes and index. 

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For decades, passionate fans of the Grateful Dead have speculated about the contents of a "lost manuscript"-a sort of holy grail to the origin story of a band that is practically a religion for many.Indeed, THE SILVER SNARLING TRUMPET: The Birth of the Grateful Dead-The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter, has been pulled from the attic after more than 50 years. It will be published with a foreword by John Mayer (Dead & Co), an introduction by Dennis McNally (renowned historian of the Dead) and an afterword by Brigid Meier (a close confidant of Jerry Garcia's and core member of the early scene described in the book).
As McNally writes in the foreword: "The subculture that became known as the Grateful Dead began as a cluster of relationships long before there as a band; Trumpet is the story of that earliest community."
Essential reading for Dead Heads and anyone with an interest in early 60s counterculture, THE SILVER SNARLING TRUMPET is as Mayer puts it in the foreword, "a lost box of film that, when developed, reveals some of the most striking images you've ever seen, the kind that make you go slack jawed and your heart race." In these pages, readers are privy to the early days of Hunter, Jerry Garcia, and their cohorts, who sit at the coffee shop passing around a single cup of bottomless coffee because they lacked the funds for more than one. "We created our own culture simply by being friends and allowing that circle of friendship to expand organically," writes Hunter's friend Brigid Meier in a heartfelt Afterword. "If you thought you were one of us, you were welcome to join in."
With the publication of this long awaited manuscript, we get to follow Hunter, Jerry Garcia, and the rest of the band into the stacks at Kepler's Books, to rent instruments at Swain's House of Music, and through the countryside on road trips. We witness impromptu jams, inspired intellectual pranks, and a dialogue that is, by turns, amusing and brilliant and outrageous. Hunter shares his impressions of his first gig with Garcia for a college audience, along with descriptions of his most intense dreams and psychedelic explorations. All of it is enlivened by Hunter's visionary spirit and profound ideas about creativity and collaboration.
This is an exciting season for fans of the Dead: Robert Hunter's career-spanning archival series recently launched through Rhino; Dead & Co. just finished an engagement at The Sphere, and the band will be honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in December.

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The Vert family is celebrating a very special occasion: it’s Ivan’s birthday! And Estie knows that every birthday needs a great party, with lots of guests, party hats, and twinkling tin foil stars. Because that is what everyone wants on their birthday, right? But did Estie ever ask Ivan?

Young Estie is an extrovert and Ivan is an introvert, and by watching excited Estie mistakenly plan a lively birthday celebration for quiet and understated Ivan, readers learn the same important lesson as Estie: It’s more than okay to be yourself, whoever that may be.

The New York Times bestselling duo of award-winning author Ann Patchett and Fancy Nancy artist Robin Preiss Glasser, first combined their superpowers of humorous, engaging text and vivid illustrations to create fun and captivating picture books with Lambslide and Escape Goat. Now they’re back at it again with The Verts, a heartfelt story about honoring our differences.

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A true multi-hyphenate, Blair Underwood is enjoying success in film, television and theatre, as an actor, director and producer. Underwood returned to Broadway starring opposite David Alan Grier in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Solider's Play" for director Kenny Leon and the Roundabout Theatre Company. He also co-stars in Justin Simien's "Bad Hair" which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Underwood also starred opposite Octavia Spencer & Tiffany Haddish in Netflix's limited series "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker" . Underwood appeared in the Netflix Emmy-Award winning limited series "When They See Us." He also had a recurring role on the Netflix comedy series, "Dear White People" and can be seen in Clark Johnson's "Juanita," opposite Alfre Woodard, also for Netflix. He spent two years as a series regular on the ABC drama series "Quantico," while also recurring on another hit ABC drama "MARVEL AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. " He also had a co-starring role in "The After Party," from writer/director Ian Edelman, which Netflix released late in 2018. Past television credits include series regular roles on "Dirty Sexy Money," "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "In Treatment," "The Event" and "L.A. Law". Film credits include "Deep Impact," "Set It Off," "Rules of Engagement," "Just Cause," "Madea's Family Reunion" and Steven Soderbergh's "Full Frontal." Underwood co-starred opposite Cicely Tyson in the Lifetime telefilm & theatre production of "A Trip to Bountiful," based on the Tony Award-winning play. In 2012 he made his acclaimed Broadway debut in the iconic role of Stanley in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," for which he earned a 2012 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination. He also starred in "Paradise Blue" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and "Othello" at the Old Globe Theatre. In 2010 he made his feature film directing debut with "The Bridge to Nowhere," which starred Ving Rhames, Danny Masterson, Bijou Phillips and Alex Breckenridge. Underwood is an Emmy Award-winner (as producer of the philanthropy-centered NBC Saturday morning series "Give"), a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and has been nominated for 17 NAACP Image Awards (seven wins). He won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word as co-narrator of Al Gore's audiobook, An Inconvenient Truth. A newly minted member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he is also active in several philanthropic endeavors.

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It’s no secret, I’ve dedicated my life to learning how to love and respect all people.  To do this requires learning more about people.  Do the Russian soldiers in Ukraine have a choice to be there or not to be there?  Plus most people take the process of making a choice to a level of giving it away.  What leads to that choice? I’m Arroe.  Life is a series of choices.  Who decides when you’re not making it the right choice?  Is it the fear of going wrong?  The greatest lessons in life are often lost inside hidden away attempts and concepts.  It’s time to reopen your heart. Having a choice is a daily gift.  On this highway we learn to trust mirages… What is the choice? 

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The song Jingle Bells… What’s this rumor about it not being written for Christmas but rather Thanksgiving?   Plus… Christmas decorations seem to be going up earlier and earlier every year.  When did it all begin? I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…

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Those old sayings. Who what where when and how? Some of those old sayings are not only ancient but still carry an impact today. Look at what the cat dragged in...

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