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I should be at San Diego Comic-Con next summer, July 24-27, 2008 , but it could be up on a special panel. The reason can be found at www.omega1.tv. At the end of the yet to be finished site will be a listing of the folks tentatively scheduled to be part of this, one of which, will be me. This is one of those too good to be true moments, but come end of May, we'll see if it becomes real, so I can really believe....Preliminary schedule says I should be able to make the con and maybe even be part of an official announcement there..

Also on the more semi-normal Hollywood front, been busy working fulltime again now that the strike is gone, and hopefully SAG won't decide to destroy its own members by having their own strike. Been floating around the background of many a show on the air, and eventually I'll put up a few frames so you can see where you missed me.. Latest cool thing is that on the December 6th episode of Grey's Anatomy (4x10 Crash Into Me Part 2) Administrator Richard (Jim Pickens Jr) actually sends me off to get an item during an emergency by calling me by name and I did a little "uh-huh" that was audible as well. So I'm now "Arne, the attending physician" on Grey's. It's a cool thing. And have worked a few of the new episodes again as usual some of which co-star a returning person who went away, a tease for those fans of the show out there.

Another recurring role has been as the typecast artist in a 1960 Ad Agency on Mad Men and just did my fitting for my new 1960's suits for the new season which has begun. Some of the other recent stuff ahas been sitting in the gallery of a few Boston Legal episodes, a corpse on CSI:NY, a homeless person on CSI, and a churchgoer on Desperate Housewives.

Recent films have been Race To Witch Mountain, Hotel For Dogs, Untitled Paramount, American Carol,The Soloist and currently on Adam Sandler's Bedtime Stories. Coming soon will be Crossing Over and Get Smart and Iron Man, the Marvel comics character, played by Robert Downey Jr. Jon Favreau the director put me in a highlighted scene, so barring the cutting room floor, I'll be seen at a party wearing a hat, as well as on a bus. (Well cutting room floor it is. The Dubai party scene will hopefully show up on the DVD. The bus was too quick to recognize anyone). Also I'm in The Changling, Eagle Eye, G-Force (shaking hands with Bill Nighy, who calls me Barney (would have been Arne, unless they use the final take where he corrected that), and Frost Nixon, and Hancock (formerly known as Tonight He Comes), and Stepbrothers, Yes Man, and You Don't Mess With The Zohan.

And in the past have been on My Name is Earl as a regular recurring Crab Shack patron, Cold Case, Close To Home, The Shield, got to do the twist with Chubby Checker on Las Vegas, The Unit, played a prevert on Without A Trace, been on CSI:NY a number of times including as a detective, CSI original, Gilmore Girls, Related, The OC, E-Ring, and even played a doctor on ER. Other recurring roles have been a townee on the late Jericho and a detective on Medium. Single's Table never aired, oh well. Also been on Bones and Shark, as well as the 2nd Sleeper Cell.

And in movies, I was a rally person in the Clint Eastwood film, Flags Of Our Fathers (but only my left hand made it in the flick), got to play Greg Toland, DP of Citizen Kane, in the independent film, Man In The Chair, played a North Carolina townee in a Hallmark Movie of the Week, Valley Of Light, and a resident of Signal Hill, California, the location of CA's first oil well , in Paul T. Anderson's There Will Be Blood (last four all courtesy of the 40's haircut I got on Flags. Yeah, the ponytail is gone for those who knew my long hair.Was visibly in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (walking through the lobby just before the building comes down) and have worked a few scenes on Spider-Man 3 (barely visible in the Broadway audience as the camera pans to Harry and walking away from Gwen and Peter as they head for the Jazz club), and did a church scene in the Robin Williams starrer, License To Wed, an airport scene in the film Holiday with Cameron Diaz, played an ice skating judge from Montreal in Blades Of Glory, and am running for my life from giant robots in next summers blockbuster Transformers (which you can see in the 2nd trailer for the film. Soldiers are running down a city alley, camera tuurns around looking out the end of the alley at the street, just before the helicopter/decepticon lands, there are three people running to the left across the street, and the leader of them, is me). Rush Hour 3, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry with Adam Sandler and Kevin James..and I'm wearing my Robin Hood suit. Did a few short scenes in The Comebacks and the Bucket List, and Semi-Pro, where I play the NY Nets On-air announcer in the 70's,

An independent film I did when I first got out here, got released and is on IMDB, and in turn, so am I, a minor thing, but still kind of cool. And now there are more credits and more to come and be added And even cooler, I'm now SAG eligible. Now the trick is to come up with the expensive initiation fee, not a mean feat when you realize that , surprisingly enough, getting paid on a "non-human" ...er...non-union voucher means you are making about...minimum wage. And so it goes....