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i'm all american i say
what i think i win when i fight i lose
when i drink
i like my cars fast and my women too i
got just one thing to
say to you hey hey pretty mama
won't you come along with me and a cool
cat don't you see
hop in my car sit real close take a
little ride with hey
but you know that wife you're so fond of
oh but
i just ran her over with the lawn mower
oh buddy i'm so sorry man i'll get you
another one
i mean a lawn mower well Bud listen here
is the good part
remember that insurance policy i told
you about last week bud
one missing limb will get you 5 thousand
dollars so bud
why i see it man she's in so many
pieces right now you're practically a
millionaire
but bud man the neighbors will call the
cops bud
oh add me hi everybody
from the network giants that migration
continues tonight with the web and it's
making a colorado man an
internet star fox 31's tammy vigil is at
our internet center to explain tammy
libby so many people try to get famous
through television and film but denton
rose
is doing it through the internet i had
spent most of my life in the background
you know like circus peanuts and a candy
bowl
i was there but i certainly was not the
favorite i was the youngest and smallest
a frail kid whose dad always wondered
how could this be my kid
my sister said that well the milkman was
my dad
which would explain my creamy pale skin
in school i was background noise to the
other kids
my favorite sport well running from
bullies i gladly blended into the
landscape like a stink bug hiding openly
on my grandma's wood paneling
but somehow years later life as it often
coughs up something unexpected
just like my cat does deemed that i was
to be thrust into the limelight a
byproduct of
changing technology Bill Gates well he
never seen this one coming
i was absolutely nothing, my dog even
hated me
denton rose and his crew filmed
throughout the metro area their next
shoot is at a cruising event in
westminster saturday
we'll have a link to the go fish website
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so yeah denton was a fictional character
everyone knew that but he was so
believable
he was really bigger than life
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it was like watching pee wee herman or
something
like you knew this is an act but because
the act
is done well it plays as real
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and well denton was kind of funny and
cute i think one of his little shorts
now this this guy um does mindsplinters
films
there's this contest called american
dreams date i think they get this
whoever wins it's this huge film contest
gets like this special trip and stuff
and this guy won
and he does this character called denton
rose um
this outlandish guy denton rose now this
was the last one kelly watched i watched
a couple of more of them did you see
denton in space
i did not see that in space one
denton in space was freaking fantabulous
i could see this guy kind of like a
saturday night live skit yeah exactly i
could see him being a reoccurring little
five-minute character and
and now speaking of this now denton rose
is the character this guy made up that
kind of looks like an elvis guy
yeah wears the glasses huge hair
everything else like that good accent
and
he does these little tiny short films
and the guy is freaking hilarious the
character he creates so there it was
all of a sudden the focus of a whole lot
of attention the wall street journal,
fox local and national i mean newspapers
forbes magazine people from hollywood
were calling me this was
exciting stuff i was just so
unprepared for what was what was about
to transpire
and the people i would talk to and the
experiences i was
i was about to go through it was a very
exciting
and frustrating time because it seemed
like it didn't go anywhere but lately
i've been thinking about the whole
experience and just what it
all means and
i would like to to share that with you
so well
here's my story
i was not an actor i mean an actor is
somebody who actually acts who has some
sort of skills and some kind of training
and that's what they want to do you know
they play in the high school plays and
all this other stuff that was not me
i was not that guy you know
i was a kid in school who came in the
back of the room i had a stack of comic
books like this i had the big glasses
and girls didn't like me
i was never comfortable in my own skin
and
i never even really liked myself you
know i never liked
me my persona who i was i carried this
most this this image you know most of my
life
and so and but
oddly enough a few years back
a reclusive person like myself i found
myself
the center of attention of some
hollywood heavyweights you know
with the potential to be a major star
so how did this happen to a person who
doesn't
even act okay correct
let me correct myself i did have a
little bit
of an acting gig with a little show
called the simpsons
and the when the simpsons were real
popular and uh
i think it was the early 90s
and the simpson organization called my
theater company
because they wanted to have the simpsons
on tour in the costumes and whatnot
and they had called my theater company
and asked me if i had any actors
so i put together a core of actors and i
was included i
played homer simpson um actually that
company was
represented by william morris agency so
we were kind of under a
contract ourselves as actors with the
william morris agency they brought in a
choreographer from los angeles to teach
us choreography
while our um person playing marge
simpson had dropped out is actually my
ex-wife
she dropped out for whatever reason and
i brought dennis on
and he played uh marge simpson opposite
my homer simpson
we were in the big costumes and stuff
and he was he was excellent
okay so after the simpsons gig um
like i said that was not my ambition to
be an actor so a decade goes by
i get a job at the fortune 500 company i
get an education
i blend into society like a mole on a 90
year old
and and then one day in the early 2000s
i had this
crazy unfortunate idea um
you know i had gotten this decent camera
it wasn't hd but it was it was decent
and i started to uh
to you know just make little funny
videos you know
legal ones and i thought wouldn't be
funny if i made this little short film
about my crazy childhood you see i grew
up in a haunted house i mean it really
was
and i had this crazy dad who wanted me
and my sister dead
and we used to have all these stories
that we would always tell each other
you know usually around halloween time
and we'd all sit around
so i thought wouldn't be great if i made
this little
short film which i did i made a 16 16
minute little movie i played most the
characters that wasn't crazy enough as
it was
and then i showed it to my family on
halloween and they just loved it
and they roared and they thought wow and
then i
they thought it was funny but then i
thought wow this is this is great me
a non-actor playing all these different
roles and
and people are liking it i thought wow
this is kind of cool
so so it was 2002
the following year and i called my buddy
mark whitbeck and i said hey mark
you know people like that little 16
minute movie i made you know because
mark liked it he thought it was funny
i said why don't we make a
feature-length
version of the movie so we communicated
back and forth
we did this crazy script that was
partly true and probably fake news
um and and i took real events that
happened to me
some of those real crazy childhood
stories and then i blended those
with fake news and i took you know all
that stuff and i just put all together
the trouble is mark and i had no clue
what we were doing
yeah there's no real production value in
this movie i mean i spent
no money um and it was pretty horrible
uh like i said we had no clue how to set
up scenes
uh you know we had no clue how to edit
and all i had was this goofy little
editing suite it was pretty low quality
and we made this movie
the woodland haunting and we put it out
there
somehow lo and behold i got distribution
with the national well international
distribute distributor
it gets some press it gets in uh barnes
noble so it gets in tower records
um and it starts making some news
articles it's
it's crazy um and and all because of
that little film
i got to sit in some front of some of
the biggest names in hollywood
with opportunities that most actors and
producers
never get to the point of and all
because of this little
movie the woodland hautning
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so really i could blame early 70s tv
horror host sir graves
ghasly for wetting my appetite for cheesy
b horror movies
growing up outside detroit sir graves
every saturday morning delivered
creepy but not really too scary shows
that i was drawn to as a kid and sir
graves was
funny as well as creepy but not
really scary now this is a formula that
i
loved and i used to tell the almost
true story of the woodland haunting
so in 2003 mark and i scripted our very
own
cheesy campy horror comedy film the kind
we loved as kids
albeit this time it was based on some
actual facts
for example in the movie my dad filled
our basement with potatoes and left
that's true my dad put up bulletproof
windows around the house
now that was also true someone broke
into our house and stabbed pillows that
we had made to look like
people in bed that was true and also
quite ridiculous and my dad used me as a
hunting dog to scare up birds
since we don't got the dog you're gonna
have to go out there and wrestle me some
up
got it also true and sad at the same
time
now something attacked my sister sheila
in bed that was
true family was attacked by killer
potatoes
that was false but you know sir graves
ghastly i think he would have liked
that one
years ago in the not too distant past a
home movie would look
something like what you're seeing right
now the youth of today do not realize
that their iphone has better
film capabilities than many of the
professional cameras of yesteryear
and so technology has made it possible
for
everyone today to become a great
director
well maybe
my first 16 minute film i had the tools
that even steven spielberg dreamed of
as a kid the ability to edit and film
with ease based on modern technological
advances sadly
i was no spielberg and those advances
did me
little good but it did give me the
opportunity to become
sort of a filmmaker i know it's setting
the bar pretty low
but i was able to make a semi-funny
film and commercials and even tell
sort of a story so the story in the film
it was not great of course but it was
not
intended to be a serious work of art
this was a computer geek finding a
camera
and watching way too many sam raimi
films
on how to make funny pov or point of
view angles
and exploring my otherwise unknown
directorial abilities but really
my interest in making movies started
elsewhere in the family tree
the origins of my interest in film was
really my nephews they did this cheesy
horror werewolf short well before i did
anything
now eventually i got around to doing my
own movie in 2003 which was the woodland
haunting one
that was the short video i made the year
before the woodland haunting 2 that people
thought was
pretty funny i played most the
characters and made those potatoes my
dad stuck under the house when i was a
kid
to be demonic entities that attacked the
residents of the home
now based on the reception of the
woodland haunting one
the following year mark and i scripted
the feature-length version of the movie
and introduced a new character denton
rose
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after the woodland hunting one the local
press ran a story
on the forthcoming woodland haunting two
now they had no idea the twisted comical
bent we were putting on what
everybody thought was going to be a real
ghost story
following the article the film was
signed to a national distribution deal
and michigan public radio well they did
a story
on our little movie that's what happened
with dennis baker's film woodland
haunting
he made the movie as a joke video for
his family and friends but it developed
a little internet following and baker
got inspired to make another film and
that was really you know the impetus for
us
doing woodland haunting 2 too is that there was
such interest in the first one
i thought you know i got to do something
serious with this unfortunately
serious was not in our budget so we added
fictional characters just for fun to a
quirky nonsensical storyline
the other characters we based on real
people i played larry
my old brother-in-law who was really
cool in real life
my sister who seemed to attract evil
entities
and of course i used friends and family
to play the rest of the family members
including my siblings and i as kids shut
up
i'll used courtney palm a local
actress who debuted in the woodland
haunting 2 as the ghost girl
she would go on to play in movies like
sushi girl with star wars
mark hamill and other feature films but
the standout character was a ghost
hunter who dressed like elvis
i combined johnny bravo bubba hotep and
dropped him into a scooby-doo world of
solving ghostly affairs but i needed a
name
now for that i used the name of a
character my old friend matt thompson
had created
denton rose he invented this character
denton rose who went from town to town
doing these unique and crazy adventures
in would postcards home i
did ask matt recently how he came up
with that particular name well
um denton rose was
an imaginary character that i came up
with
and to tell the whole story you kind of
have to go back to the time
that i met dennis which was probably
about 1980
um and him and i both worked in a
contract security outfit in ann arbor
michigan
and i met dennis on the midnight shift
late at night um when i worked in this
office as a scheduler
and he was a security guard in an old
derelict hospital
derelict because it had just moved out
because the another hospital was built
to replace it
so the old hospital was in a state of um
disarray uh they hadn't at the time that
we worked very
um haven't even hadn't even cleaned out
the equipment and
um so it wasn't uncommon to find iv
poles in the hallways and
i even remember seeing an x-ray machine
in one of the halls and it was a
very old creepy building and when i was
working one night on the midnight
shift um dez came in
with a clock well we used to the
security guards used to have these
things called
datex clocks and they would go around
and they would put these keys in the
clock at various stations and they would
turn the key and it would press a number
into a dial inside the clock and that
would tell
their supervisors where they were so
dennis came into the office one night
and he had this clock
strapped over his shoulder and he also
had an acoustic guitar
strapped over his shoulder he was
strumming this guitar and he was playing
the song it was really cool
and about the time um that this happened
there was a really
kind of a sappy song on the radio that
was being played called
sailing by christopher cross and
um but the song that dennis was playing
kind of sounded like that but he had
kind of
flipped a few of the chords and made
this other song so
i kind of looked took a liking to this
guy because he was very creative you
know he was
doing things with music and he kind of
looked like a hippie security guard and
he sat down in my office and i invited
him to have some coffee
and he was very philosophical
even at that time he was telling me
about all the creative endeavors
that he wanted to pursue and i thought
that was very fascinating
that's how we met and uh over the years
dennis um was kind of unsettled went to
various places and
um throughout the united states and but
we always kept in touch
and he always got in touch with me um
to tell me about his latest creative
exploits
which i thought were fascinating um and
he
always told me about his interest in
making movies
and making stories um writing
books so the two of us were kindred
spirits
and my thing is i like to write
so i had this habit
probably started in the mid 90s
and i would send my friend dennis
postcards and i took these postcards
very seriously and i would actually
i called them epic postcards and i would
find
um very special postcards
that featured americana roadside motels
diners
um
you know other oddities like spaceships
that were
um actually restaurants and various
other
um roadside oddities
and then i would i would get a very fine
tip pen and i would write a story
a fictional story on each postcard and i
would do them in a series
and i always signed
the postcards your pal denton rose
and i i came up with that name because
growing up my parents
um had a member of the family named
denton which i thought was a
really weird unusual name very nice guy
by the way
and then when i lived with my pals matt
and brian
in ypsilanti we had a roommate that
lived in another apartment
upstairs whose name was rose i'm not
sure if that was his first name or his
last name
but i thought instinctively that the two
names together
were pretty cool so um
somewhere along the way
dennis tells me about this new uh
character sensation that he came
up with and dennis was always a funny
guy
and he said he's calling it denton rose
and
do i mind um using the name i says well
it's not trademarked or anything you
know
you go ahead and then i i saw the
character
denton rose who i thought was hilarious
um and i think the thing that was funny
about that
rose is that he looks like an elvis
impersonator
but there's absolutely no mention about
that aspiration
and um so i i after i
saw the character i said my god go ahead
use it i think that's fantastic yeah
here i'm in a
another haunted location
finally the movie came out the big
stores like barnes nobles and tower
records
there was only one problem it was
terrible the reviews were
terrible however one reviewer did point
out that
there was something special about the
character denton rose
so i grabbed on to that i created a solo
video of denton and i put it on a
website called goldfish.com
dogs screaming cats barking and i'll
tell you what man
uh my name is denton rose P. i. got a song
here for all my
lady friends out there and i got a
weekly paranormal investigating program
and i
i want you to be aware of that and uh
what i can do for you
so hang on
that's just the warm up man hang on oh
when you got yourself a ghost you need
it
out
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you call mr rose i can't
help you there is no doubt
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within just a few days denton had gotten
tens of thousands of views
he had really gotten the interest of the
audience and
not them only but also the producers of
a show called america's dream date
okay it's on i'm maggie vandenberg and
welcome to america's dream date the
world's first interactive reality show
now underway where guys and girls just
like you compete for people's votes
become america's dream date couple
and spend a week of luxury together in
paris
france join the cast by shooting a short
video showing us why you're such a dream
date
and uploading it to us at
gofish.com exactly what i did in the
weeks to come denton would put out video
after video getting the views and the
votes
in his quest to become america's dream
date
come on guys
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this interactive online reality show
lets you submit videos
join the cast of the show and fight to
avoid elimination
in hopes of winning a luxury dream date
vacation to paris
anyone can get in the action by
uploading their own videos
highlighting why they should be crowned
america's dream date
so far we have hundreds of cast members
we've had
almost a million people who've checked
out the show and watched videos
and since our launch of the show traffic
has nearly doubled every single week
because this whole interactive reality
show thing's really taking off they're
definitely going to be doing more shows
in the future on go fish
in the last two weeks onliners will
decide who will ultimately be crowned
america's dream date couple so there you
have it
i was a fictional character in a real
contest
i mean i was listed as a 26 year old guy
when in reality i was in my 40s
and i had three kids and well
nobody seemed to really notice i mean
even when i
serenaded girls for votes online
they're all made up i'm just i'll make
them up as i go along and
but this is kind of going to be the way
it is in fact everybody
just seemed to ignore the reality of
who denton was except for lucasfilm when
i started killing off their characters
and they told me to stop
turns off video thing this one no
this one
and i did after blowing up the jedi
planet of course
well denton rose tries to top him with his
magic
over the course of six weeks during the
american dream date contest
denton dazzled the fans with an unusual
variety of themes and situations that
propelled him to number one
and ultimately the winner of the contest
with more viewers than most
tv shows at the time
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dennis had called me says hey ken i'm i
found this website
that they want to do america's
dream date he said you should do it i
said i'm married
he said no no don't worry you can i saw
i said no i can't do it
so dennis did it kind of on a fluke
and it was real funny it was it was a
cross between like a
jim carrey and maybe andy kaufman
but he came up with this crazy elvis
character called denton rose
well he got so this was before the
internet really took off
he got so many hits i and i don't know
if they called him hits back then
that he won he won america's dream date
which was
national search they found a man and a
woman
and you went on the online and this uh
company i guess it was fox a division of
fox
they put it online and they got all the
votes like american idol this is
pre-american idol
and dennis won bonjour
the big day is finally here hi i'm
maggie
and i am about to announce the winners
of the first
interactive reality show america's dream
date
and the winners are denton rose
and rose
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oh my goodness i had won the contest
well denton rose had won the contest not
only did denton win the contest but he
had more views and votes than the other
top three guys combined and now
here denton and i were set for a trip
to paris france for a full
luxury hotel stay with a
with a 26 year old girl oh my goodness
how am i gonna tell my wife
and what about you denton what was it
about this contest that
sang to your heart i was just excited to
for the opportunity to
put myself on there yeah and for i was
excited for people to see me now it
wasn't just the fans of the press that
had taken notice
all of a sudden i had people in
hollywood who were
calling me now i already gotten robert
downey jr's agent
which led to a very interesting meeting
in this meeting it was just me and a
very powerful name in hollywood
this guy was responsible for my
all-time favourite sci-fi comedy movie i
mean
of all time so i get this call
i go sit in this little cafe we're
sipping having some drinks
and then he talks to me and says you
know
i can see you in the role of this
dreamworks film i got coming out
so my immediate impression was oh
my goodness this is it
this is the big time this was what i've
been waiting for
and so the meeting ends i leave i come
back to denver from hollywood
and i go home and all the way home i'm
just thinking man this is it
i made it i am gonna i'm gonna be a star
so i get home and i waited
and i waited
and i waited waited
doing guys it looks like your old buddy
damn rose
it's gonna hit the big time i finally
get that big time picture show
i've been looking for yeah
isn't that amazing man they never
thought i'd live this long to see this
day
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so i waited yeah
nothing dreamworks had shelved
my movie my tv and film deal well
it expired and denton like all freshly
baked cookies
eventually went cold
do you know how to tell the difference
between a pterodactyl and a pterodawn
no we did however film a bit of the
proposed movie that never happened
never went anywhere was seen by no one
and well
there you go and while i did feel
broken-hearted about my big movie no
deal
i had to jump back in the ring just like
rocky man i had gotten a taste of
success
i had to fight so yeah
i did another dating contest
now this time denton came in second
place in a show called seduce a
celebrity with a
mildly popular star as the prize date
and denton star ironically was beginning
to dim
so denton fans they were slowly leaving
the building
so the clips i did of denton at at that
point were more
forced they weren't fun they weren't
natural okay now hopefully
i'm back in some roman times to check
out some roman type dudes
now if i see one let's ask him some
questions
and like like i was trying to make it
instead of just
just having fun you know the first stuff
was all viral and crazy and people loved
it and then
at that point after people started not
watching you know
it was me trying to force it you know
and and i know and i wanted to point out
like i previously stated i did not have
a good self
image of myself even as an adult
so you know i was always the awkward
unattractive person who in a swimsuit
could play is starving prisoner of war
role so when denton started
to get thrown into the limelight and
millions of people were watching i
suddenly
thought hey this is something i never
had i was popular even though
it was this character of denton
that i literally became when i put in
this getup
i was somebody people like denton
so when that started to fade
uh that i i realized it was not about
art
it was about this weird alter ego i had
created
and uh but denton had lost his mojo so
i had to try something so mark and i
came up with new ideas
to keep the thing going
also really weird today according to the
associated press a ronald mcdonald
statue has been stolen outside of the
street so mark and i had to try
other show concepts we tried weird news
which was real stories about weird stuff
which was weird because well it wasn't
funny
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washington outsiders report a political
show and yeah
polls indicated it was not funny or
popular
and then there was monster hunters
before tv network started their monster
reality show bench
we did hours and well it was just as bad
as theirs
and i head to nashville tennessee this
is haunted america
and haunted america which was oddly
enough pretty good but
still nothing
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now we did make some traction with the
world's scariest videos online
which was hugely popular millions and
millions of views but no network cared
even though we did option the show to
one of hollywood's biggest reality show
production companies
they couldn't sell it either so idea
after idea
we tried to recapture the magic but to
no avail
then a magical call from a hero of
b-movie fame
yes the embers begin to glow
again
bruce campbell evil dead that's all you
got to say
he is the superman of b movie actors
and and bruce he was kind enough
uh to give me a call at that during that
time period and give me some good advice
about filmmaking and enacting and so
forth and i was heartened by that
sure i was down in the fourth quarter i
did it didn't look good but
like all filmmakers in a crisis i turned
to the nuclear option
zombies are serious business
so mark and my new partner john fields
teamed up with the horror channel
vo networks nbc universal and ghost
house pitchers and denton had a little
work with
america's top zombie and our next big
show
day of the dying hundred actors i teamed
up with mine splinter films out of
california
go fish.com and australia's gold coast
film festival to
try to set the world record for the most
number of zombies in an independent b
flick you america's next top zombie feel
the horror general and afterlife
productions have teamed up to bring the
greatest contest
in zombie history next on the itinerary
of why the hell am i doing any of this
was a little collaborative effort
between nbc universal's chiller network
ghost house pictures the horror channel
and my own mindsplintersfilms.com
what we did was a contest america's top
zombie
try to find people who would upload
themselves in front of a green screen
and we would bring those people into a
movie called
day of the dying living which would
premiere on
vo.com how would you like become part of
an
interactive zombie series well mind
splinters films and vo are making it
happen
and here's dennis to tell us a little
bit more about it george luke
you tell george lucas i'll call him back
later
these guys in hollywood and leave me
alone
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vo and i are doing this crazy exciting
new show called day of the dying living
it is the first entertainment project in
history that takes
professionals with just average guys who
just send us video footage we put all
that together
and we make one exciting internet tv
series
now originally day of the dying living
was going to be a feature
film everything okay what a budget of
only 1.5 million
trouble was it came up 1.499 million
dollars short
at least we're not going out with a
couple guys wouldn't it be cool if
anybody who put a video online could be
a part
of a professional project today's
entertainment
is interactive my idea is to have
everybody participate
a worldwide collaborative effort i'm
overlooking the horror and bloodshed
the once peaceful streets here in
nashville tennessee
we're going for the world record most
zombie extras in a film
peter frampton who did makeup effects
for braveheart he did our makeup effects
in australia for our zombies
i want viewers to number one be
entertained look behind you
number two i want people to participate
not just sit back and watch i want them
to get involved what do you want a
monster just come up and bite you
someday
this is not just my series this is our
suit let's giddy up and we will partner
together and make this
one exciting experience day of the dying
living was partly filmed in my new
hometown of nashville
once the series had launched we had
topped the internet's top 100 videos
twice
at that time on bo networks we were
number one
and we had gotten some really good press
the front page of the tennessean
now this article led to the possibility
of bringing denton
back from the dead so the writer who
interviewed me
uh asked for the tennessee and asked me
my history
which i divulged the demo rose story and
he said
he said you know you got to talk to this
guy john cherry who brought
ernest p world you know the commercials
the big screen
for disney and so he arranged this
meeting
and we met at the restaurant ironically
enough where
ernest goes to jail was filmed you know
one of the scenes there
and john and i hit it off you know i
gave him one
of the the denton rose dvds and all the
shorts on it
and he loved it and uh and then he
called me we get together again
and we signed a two-year development
deal to
make uh denton rose
kind of the uh the next incarnation of
earnest pure world what's doing ghost
junkies the word on the street is
denton rose investigator of the
paranormal is some kind of scaredy-cat
man i just gotta tell you that's just
not true the fact is
i ain't scared of nothing you mean
afraid whatever
now just to prove that i denton rose am
in fact brave i have come to one of the
most haunted houses in all of america
what's more you see that door behind me
man that door
leads to one of the most haunted rooms
in one of the most haunted
houses in all of america now i am going
to go behind that door
just me and maybe a bag of cheeses or
something and spend an entire night
i wake out in the morning just
completely refreshed man like nothing
ever happened because
i like i said am not afraid of anything
so
here i go i tell you what man i'm even
impressing myself here you know
i don't think i've really been afraid of
anything for maybe 10 years or so
not spiders not monsters not ghosts
not terrorists i don't think there's
anything
the scary thing behind the door video
was what i believe sealed the deal for
john cherry and denton rose for a
partnership
up until that point he had tried in vain
to revive the earnest franchise with an
earnest look-alike hey vern yo buddy
ernest got an idea that will
revolutionize
advertising he also tried an animated
earnest
hey vern what we have here is your
nearly dead deal
jim barney the original earnest appeared
unreplaceable
so when he's seen the possibilities of a
similar character
that could replace earnest without
trying to duplicate him
he was inspired and after this i was
hanging out at john cherry's house and
we'd begin production and plotting and
scheming and how to make denton rose
a star again is that the original booger
guy from uh
suddenly denton rose had production
value john immediately
started thinking of denton as the new
earnest not the same character but
similar enough to embark on the same
promotional techniques
okay vern now listen to your buddy
ernest trout
denton rose would like earnest start out
with commercials
with a whole lot less success i might
add and so
john turned to product placement in a
web series
and crank them in i'm not in the mood
denton oh what's ham in your head
ted no online visitors no advertisers no
money
i guess zappernews.com hasn't got a
chance unfortunately flavored drinks and
candy companies weren't too sweet on
sponsoring web series even with john
cherry at the helm
so john decided to go right for the
juggler get right to the point yes a
feature film just like ernest did for
denton rose
john read through the old ernest scripts
to try to find the one that matched
denton the best
the water baby about an alien baby who
befriended
earnest in space which was the earnest
equivalent of don knotts reluctant
astronaut but finally john along with
doug claiborne converted his script
called boxwell about jim varney fighting
off the zombie invasion
into a denton film the movie was called
scaredy cat
man your regular don juan real smooth in
the ladies department
we filmed some of the test footage
perfected the script flew to hollywood
and nothing yes
nothing denton was
well almost all right
dinner rolls jewels scarefest
2011.
we're getting ready to walk through the
gates this is going to be scary
john cherry after rejection had paused
but fields and i we teamed up with
national lampoon and went to tbs and
other networks
with a great denton concept and they
loved it
and had something oddly enough just like
it in the works
but we would not be deterred we filmed
our own denton movie short
denton and the grey ghost
got some mucus oh man i mean there was
like
intestines across the table
we want two smiley meals and can you
babysit that
we might as well splurge down the boat
the legend of the great ghost
is the story of denton rose a paranormal
investigator
working for detective dan agency who is
hired to discover
the mystery of the missing gold at an
old plantation
that is reportedly haunted now denton is
accompanied by a beautiful sidekick
jewels why well because she's beautiful
in the story
denton and jules cracked the case well
jules does all the cracking
and denton hedis takes credit for it the
film is a mix of kooky slapstick comedy
and once again
low caliber scares and the best we could
afford
graves mt graves empty graves
for a heart of gold in a death that's
hollow where you go
i must follow he led us to the gold
i got it the gold is buried right here
i've sold it
i sure wish we had a shovel right now
it was screened at scarefest where
denton was also
the host here
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denton had once again become the subject
of many pitches in
hollywood so another one of our
interesting hollywood adventures was and
it could have been even at the same time
as some of these others
we were involved with kind of what were
the last
strings of national lampoon um
at the time and we worked with two
beautiful people tom daniels and laurie
lustiga
who were the president and senior vice
president i think at the time they loved
the comedy character
and they helped us you know with
developing some of the
the scripts that we had going on at the
time
so we went out there using the national
lambroon lampoon
brand on our one sheets and on our pitch
materials when we went to some of these
meetings so it was intriguing to a lot
of the
the folks that we spoke to um it
ultimately
because of what happened with national
lampoon really going away um that kind
of ended that
and we didn't really you know
we didn't really glean much off of
that iconic logo
and name if you will but another chapter
in
denton rose is demise now he was teamed
with butch patrick of monster fame and
instead of a disney-like
comic character for feature films denton
was a
host of a reality tv show in the end
denton would be the host of nothing
forced retirement seemed to have a death
grip on denton rose
i quit denton
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come on i try new characters bad guy
what what is going on man average
citizen
what reverend righteousness
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of the united states of america yes sir
greatest country in the whole wide world
now as president i promise new show
ideas like
department z which had some life doing
for a feature film
but nothing loving husband my hollywood
career after more than a decade had come
to an end anti-climatic and antidotal
which what the heck does that mean
anyways
but was this all just a big waste of
time
we were at mtv in santa monica and it
was myself
dennis baker and we went in with a
producer named doug claiborne
who amazing career
had done everything worked on apocalypse
now up through a lot of the
coppola movies he produced including
john cherry's earnest saves christmas
which is how
they got together and how we were
introduced to doug so we go into this
meeting
and it didn't go very well our producer
didn't speak too much
at some point dennis jumps up goes out
puts on his denton rose character
costume and comes back in the lady was
just floored
and we did end up winding having a good
rapport with her
and we we sent her like sil
underwear with hearts on it from denton
and things like that it was pretty
amusing
but again developing relationships like
that
was something we were good at even if it
didn't get us a deal
ultimately you know we had a lot of fun
doing it at the same time
it's not really true that i i've wasted
the last 12 years of my life
of trying to pursue this thing of
producing and acting
in a way i felt betrayed
like okay so all of a sudden hollywood
comes
comes at me and says hey we can make you
a star
um you know having this vision in my
mind getting off the plane from l.a
coming back to denver
and getting off playing going home and
thinking wow i'm going to be a star of
a dreamworks film that's huge you know
and to have agents you know an agent
agents calling me and going to beverly
hills and talking to the agents you know
and going to the studios that's all cool
and they're interested in me and then
i get back home and get a phone call and
say oh we're really not interested in
you
and to me it was like it um
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it kind of brought me back to the
reality of and
this is in my mind okay you're really
not an actor
you're not an actor what happened to you
was purely a mistake
you need to go back to your day job and
i do have a good day job
now i got a good career i love what i do
and i don't ever plan on leaving it
and any acting or produce and i do is
going to be
for what i'm telling everybody else here
they should do
is you do it for art's sake you know you
do it because you love the craft
so what they were wrong about is to tell
me
in essence that they made a mistake that
i was not a good actor that i was
not a good producer because i've
produced some funny stuff
that i'm proud of and i i will continue
to do that
but i'm gonna do that not because i'm
trying to be a star
because i'm trying to be a big shot
trying to get into multiplex i'm going
to do it because i love
the art of creating and making stuff and
that's what everybody
should do if you produce stuff or you
act and you have 10 people that love
your stuff
that's great if you've got a hundred
people that's wonderful if you got a
thousand
that's also great it doesn't matter
how many people like what you do it
matters if you are doing it because you
love the craft of what you're doing
there are people who create
have created big films and they're just
money makers they don't care about the
art you know we are the artists some of
the greatest artists in history
never even discovered until well after
they had died
you know but i'm sure that when they
were creating that painting or doing
whatever they did
that they did that with the meticulous
detail and
and the the love for what their craft
was embedded in
every pixel that they they created so so
do your art because it means something
to you because it's inside of you
because that really that's what denton
was denton was this crazy character this
animated character that just came
bursting out of me and that i didn't
even know i was an actor
until denton introduced himself to me
you know in some of my other characters
and now i just do it because it's fun i
love it you know
it doesn't matter if just 100 people
watch it or if 100
million people watch it i i don't i will
never make a whole lot of money off of
it
it's just something fun that i've done
that i'll pass off to my kids to my
grandkids and say hey this is what your
grandpa
did he's crazy look at him so all you
actors and producers i'd say
do it because you love the craft and if
you make money at it fine
if you don't find just enjoy doing it
i like what my friend barry mcallister
had to say
about this very topic but once you get
to that level where you know
you're not gonna go where
you know where everybody else is
and once you kind of figure out that
you're not going to make it big
what do you do there's a lot of people
that
bail and go do something else sometimes
you have to with family situations but
there are a lot of us that you you just
never give up it's i mean it's always
going to be
in your blood to entertain to perform
uh i know you hear a lot of stage people
talk about that you know
the bright lights and the applause and
things but uh
there is really something about the idea
of entertaining
folks so today i work
i learn i enjoy what i do for a living
no more dreams of grandeur or visions of
me on the silver screen
or except in an oscar and maybe dating
angeline and jolene
well of course i never actually did that
but i will create
if only for a small appreciative
audience creative characters
compelling stories and explore the
potential of my creativity
and my fellow artists i would encourage
you
to do the same
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i and barry share a lot of the same you
know thoughts
about this um and hopefully you as an
actor or producer whatever you are
or even a painting whatever medium you
you know you you do your art
in dancing singing whatever it is
just do it out of your heart and because
you love it you know
and uh yeah
and there it is
somebody's calling me hello
hey denton what are you calling me for
i'm in the middle
of doing a film about you did you hear
the news
about guess who who
oh hold on a second then i got another
call
this is embarrassing hello
now brother there was a reverend
righteous
there was a certain name out there a
name that's been floating around that
you
need to be aware of and that name is
oh hold on hold on bad guy's calling me
now
bad guy what can i help you with i'm in
the middle of filming
it gets wet man guess you just strung
back into town
yeah i know i've heard that name from a
few people but who is this
milton morocco
yes milton morocco
yeah even at this point then um denton
rose might be
retired or semi-retired or whatever you
want to call it
um but bakerfield's production's indoors
we're still
full of ideas and um you know we have
some things going on
and um actually
so have you heard about
milton morocco
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