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The Halsted Street TV Show was a video project started by Tom Weinberg and Scott Jacobs. At a storefront on Halsted Street in Chicago, independent videomakers and artists held screenings and discussions of their work. This tape is of a private booth where attendees could voice their opinions on the night’s show (the contents of which are not completely identified).
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An 6 min 30 sec. rough cut of the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood”, which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This cut centers around the comments made about acting by actors Julius Harris and Robert Walden while eating dinner at Derrick’s Restaurant.
![[Making It In Hollywood raw #19]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/644185469_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. Continued footage from one of actress Sally Kirkland’s “press” parties. “Making It” director Frank Cavestani interviews various actors and show business people about struggling in Hollywood. Those interviewed include casting director Marvin Paige, playwright Tom Eyen, actress Tina Scala, and actor/comedian Charles Fleischer.
![[Making It In Hollywood raw #42]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/644193219_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. A continuation of footage with actors Julius Harris, Robert Walden, Sally Kirkland, and Gregory Rozakis at Derrick’s, a restaurant in Los Angeles. Actress Cissy Colpitts joins the crowd at dinner. Judy Thomas, a co-owner of the restaurant and part-time talent manager, talks about up-and-coming actors that she is managing. Walden talks about TvQ ratings (industry popularity and recognition ratings); actress Debralee Scott and writer Jennifer Gladstone join the crowd. There is a general discussion about working with “difficult” actors, and the practice of “dishing” and “gossiping” in Hollywood.
![[Making It In Hollywood raw #62]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/644196043_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. Tourists are interviewed in front of Grauman’s (Mann’s) Chinese Theatre. They are asked about what they “think of [movie] stars.” Most respond that they prefer the movie stars from the “old days.”
![[Making It In Hollywood raw #5]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653845846_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This tape features an interview with Sally Kirkland at her home.
![[Steve Dahl at Chicagofest Tape 2]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/650550310_640-228x160.jpg)
Footage from radio personality Steve Dahl’s performance of several parodies of well-known rock songs in “Rock on the Roof” during Chicagofest in 1981.
00:00 Opens with a three-minute sketch titled, “On the Way to Broadway (Seven Free Women)” in which actress and comedienne Lily Tomlin plays several different women as they take a road trip to Broadway, as well as the other characters they encounter along the way. 03:34 The opening credits for “Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely” roll. 04:15 Shots of the outside of the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, where a performance of “Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely” is on […]