John Cleese joins the cast of The Seventh Python

Comedy genius and legend John Cleese shared his reflections and hilarious insights with the Frozen Pictures team during filming today for the nonfiction feature film, The Seventh Python. Cleese compared the work of the film's subject, Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes, to that of Charlie Chaplin and Steve Martin.

He said Innes' contribution to modern comedy and music is "irreplaceable."


Said executive producer Sean Connors, who was at Cleese's home office in Montecito, California: "Mr. Cleese was more generous with his time and spirit than we could have asked. He made a couple of dry, hilarious comments that were so funny that we had to stop the interview because we couldn't help but laugh out loud."


Meanwhile, our work on the Michael Lohan project continues in New York. So we'd say we're working coast-to-coast.

Next stop... London... for the final round of Seventh Python shoots.

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From Frozen's Michael Lohan shoot

Michael Lohan stars in Frozen television project

Frozen Pictures cameras were on Long Island, in the Bronx and all over Manhattan over the past week filming The Michael Lohan Nonfiction Video Project-- Hey, we're not going to call it a reality series!


From the Nassau County Courthouse, where Lindsay Lohan's father battled his wife Dina in divorce court-- to the Teen Challenge halfway house where Lohan works as a drug counselor in the ministry of the down-to-Earth, charismatic Pastor Jimmy Jack, to a neighborhood rally and revival-- to a hidden camera "game show" in which the benevolent are rewarded for doing good deeds-- Michael Lohan was always on the move-- only stopping to pray-- in his nonstop effort to clear his name, spread the Good Word, and save not only the world-- but his daughter.


Joining the Lohan team on camera were actress Alicia Arden and Annie Lobert. Annie's known in Christian circles for her group, Hookers for Jesus.





And yes, that's Michael Lohan, in disguise for his good samaritan TV show brainstorm, "Deeds," of which the "making of" is at the center of this project.



Stay tuned for updates and more information on the Lohan project.

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NY Times cites Frozen's My First Time series

"Steamy reenactments!"

A groundbreaking television docudrama series gets its due today as The New York Times runs a puff piece on the new off-Broadway play based on the My First Time website.

The site is filled with first-person stories-- some of them true-- about first sex experiences. The play, which features people sitting on stools reciting the stories, is notable for the gimmick of having audience members fill out questionnaires about their first bonks, which are read from the stage.

Parenthetically-- but accurately-- the Times article mentions that My First Time was already translated to cable television-- and even more creatively-- by Frozen Pictures, with our 26 episodes and two seasons of the groundbreaking adult docudrama series, My First Time, for Showtime:

(A 2003 series on Showtime was based on the Web site, though it involved steamy re-enactments.)

Far from a camp theatrical gigglefest, the series featured women speaking about their sexual initiations, and was most definitely honest in its emotional and graphic detail. Its high-quality interpretations were sparing, yet evoked eras and locales with sensitive though unsparing sexual frankness.

Frozen's silent partner in the series was the Ruddy Morgan Organization. Albert S. Ruddy is the two-time Academy Award® winning producer (The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby) who, along with Frozen partners Burt Kearns and Brett Hudson, wrote and produced the hilarious and socially insightful Burt Reynolds sports comedy, Cloud 9.

Coming soon

The Seventh Python is in post-production

Frozen Pictures is in post-production on its long-awaited musical documentary feature film, The Seventh Python.

The Seventh Python tells the story of legendary musical satirist Neil Innes-- a man who's managed to keep a low profile for about forty years, while being a prime mover in both the pop music and comedy worlds with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Rutles. Paul McCartney produced his first hit single; he appeared in Magical Mystery Tour; he performed with the Pythons on television, on tour, in films and in The Concert for George tribute to his friend George Harrison; he plays a mean ukulele; and he's even got a songwriting credit on a tune by Oasis, who acknowledged that it appropriated his song, "How Sweet To Be An Idiot."

The film includes interviews and appearances by many pop superstars, friends and associates of Innes, including Python Michael Palin, who says, "Neil was the nearest we’ve ever come to a seventh Python," and Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, who tells Neil: "I based all my work on the teachings of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band."

The documentary also features many musical performances that bring Innes genius and popular appeal into clear focus, including two star-studded shows that marked Innes' first appearances in Hollywood in close to a decade.

The Seventh Python is presented by Sean Connors Films, Ltd., executive producer of Frozen Pictures' forthcoming feature film, Psych House.

The documentary will be headed to festivals and theatrical release by the end of the year.