I was innocently taking a coffee break, literally walking back to work with my coffee when I found myself walking next to Robert Duvall and a female companion.
mOOn platOOn
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The Bottom Line: This is a blog about mOOn platOOn, by Steve Games. Working in Hollywood but outside the bounds of studio controls, it’s a dream to create a movie – a TV series – a video game, books, interactive website and toys, and this is the beginning.
I Stalked Robert Duvall: a mOOn platOOn Confession
Now I’m getting confused.
Now I have to make decisions every time I encounter someone famous, and that seems to be happening more every week.
Why? Because I’m committed to writing about my actual Hollywood experiences and to taking advantage of every contact I can make. (I wasn’t quite so aggressive when I first got here, now I’m a contact barracuda…)
Wait a minute…Robert Duvall could play General Homer Boushey*. Of course! But I progress.
Robert Duvall brought this dilemma to my attention. How? I was innocently taking a coffee break, literally walking back to work with my coffee when I found myself walking next to Robert Duvall and a female companion.
I whipped open my cell phone and readied the camera before I realized that I’d actually have to approach the couple and interrupt their stroll to snap a pic. I had the same brain freeze weeks ago when Dionne Warwick and her folks came out of the Chinese restaurant Genghis Cohen (you have to try their Queen Chicken), and I snapped a pic of her getting into the car. Damn she’s old, too….
Then I thought, wow, am I a stalker? Or a paparazzi now? Am I obligated to record every “celebrity” encounter? Because I felt that I’d be intruding.
No one else seemed to be aware that it was Robert Duvall walking among them. He was wearing a duck bill hat and a new green and black sports jacket and was quite bow-legged. All that ridin’ for Lonesome Dove, I reckon. He’s an old man. Awwwww. He was also in The Godfather. Would I be whacked if I walked up and…?
We were surrounded by a hundred others, but no one else was noticing him. Maybe it would be “special” to him if I asked for a picture? Hmmm…
Yeah, right. It’s Robert-friggin-Duvall. The man does not need nor desire my recognition.
Wow. Is that a weenie attitude or what?
He ambled with the lady (much younger – who knows? A bodyguard? A gf? A niece? A merchant?) into Ambercrombie & Fitch. I stayed outside, feeling confused.
Hell, I might end up on a set working with him. Am I acting like the enemy by journalizing my Hollywood days?
Make up my mind!
It Came From Out Of The Script
General Homer Boushey (you may “google” that name – he was real) – was given a very special “final assignment” by outgoing President Richard Nixon. It would be up to him to manage and preserve the top secret military lunar base until the next “real” Republican administration could take office. Now it’s 1982, and General Boushey is now very, very old and has finally just revealed the secret to the USA’s oldest President ever, Ronald Reagan…
REAGAN
How in the devil did we hide the expense of a Moon Base in the budget all these years?
GENERAL BOUSHEY
Now that’s just it, sir. The first man establishing our permanent presence on The Moon was secretly aboard an Apollo Moon landing. There were six Apollo Moon landings. By the time they were over, ten years ago, we had a minimum of four men permanently stationed on The Moon, perpetually. Apollo crews were sworn to secrecy as a condition of their participation. When you wanted to go to the Moon this badly, you’d agree to a lot of things. We shot some unmanned supply rockets to The Moon and established the first crude version of Space Command Moon Base.
REAGAN
“Space Command?”
GENERAL BOUSHEY
Yes sir. The United States Space Command.
REAGAN
Well, I had a friend who did a guest shot on that show…!
GENERAL BOUSHEY
Sir? I’m sorry -! Space Command is a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
REAGAN
It is now, Homer. But first it was a kids’ TV show, back in the 50s.
If I Were Casting Now
The part of Brig. General Homer Boushey (you can google him), early proponent of a U.S. military Moon base, now very old, on final assignment: Robert Duvall
mOOn platOOn Byproducts
A daily comic strip featuring mOOn platOOners. Today is a one panel, featuring General Boushey. He's at a bookstore staging a protest. There are two tables set up with book displays. The first one has the guys from Queer Eye standing by it and a sign stands above it saying GAY PRIDE. The second table has General Boushey standing by it at attention with a stack of Bibles on that table and the sign above it says GAY SHAME.
mOOn platOOn Issues
In mOOn platOOn I assume that presidents of the USA do not have access to ALL of the secrets - that there is, in fact, a sort-of "shadow" government composed of those who survive all administrations deep in the bureaucracy. This enabled Nixon to keep secrets from Ford and Carter, passed on only to Ronald Reagan when deemed okay. What do you think? Is such a scenario plausible?
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Rule-Breaker
Or: We Know Not What You Mean
Premise for a science fiction script...
A daring expedition, based on an incredible long-shot, lands explorer Davis Mayhem and his companions into the midst of amazing adventures.
A species of humanoids is encountered that is remarkably similar to contemporary humans except for the stark contrast of having technology beyond ours, no concept of the permanence of death and absolutely no religion whatsoever. They are the First Ones.
They are the oldest surviving species of humanoid to evolve upon Earth. They never left Africa in the First Days, where they originally appeared among a tribe of prehistoric Ugandan mountain chimpanzees. Instead of wandering, they drove others away, formed a protective barrier against invasion and cultivated a civilized society, long before others of similar awareness could settle and form their own.
When the Chinese dynasties were forming, the First Ones were learning how to fly.
While the Pharaohs were building the pyramids, the First Ones were blasting to the Moon.
As the Greeks were reasoning the modern world into being, the First Ones were traveling the stars.
And even though the Romans were conquering the world, the First Ones were joining a Galactic Neighborhood.
Today they remain separate from mainstream humanity, though not above occasional interaction on a selective and small scale in an attempt to stay abreast of our social and biological evolution.
Except for the Rule-Breaker. He’s one of the First Ones, but doesn’t care if he blows the primitives’ minds.
The First Ones are in complete control of the major colleges and universities of the world, thus able to steer and “herd” the primitives. They watch, amused, as ritualistic behavior such as the Skull and Bones tradition at Yale is perpetuated among the primitive elite.
The First Ones also manipulate the fates of those in economic power by controlling resources and weather, when necessary.
The First Ones discovered an energy in free space (about 6000 B.C.) that is drawn into their magnet engines and released as trans-light propellant. This technique allowed them to explore the Galaxy within single lifetimes. They are the main cause of legitimate UFO reports from the past centuries.
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