KC Confidential

It was just another day for a Hidalgo County, Texas woman as she went to the barn to feed her horses…

But in Nadia’s stall, she found a man lying in the hay with a broken leg. The man, Cirilo Castilllo, told her he had been in a car accident and crawled his way to her barn looking for help.

But when the authorities arrived, they knew who Castillo. was. They knew something else, too. That he wasn’t looking for help, he was looking for love. It seems Castillo had been twice arrested in 2013 for having sex with a horse named Nadia.

This was the same barn, the same Nadia and the same man with lovin on his mind.

After Castillo’s second arrest, back in February, he’d been ordered to stay away from the barn. But it’s June, love was in the air and Castillo simply couldn’t resist.

This time though, things went a little different than planned.

Nadia kicked him to the other side of the stall, rejecting his advances. Continue reading →

Upon my arrival in Los Angels I was told some horrible tragic news…

That Gordon Gray‘s two young daughters, ages 2 and 4, had contracted Batten, an extremely rare brain disease. Batten is a neurodegenerative disease that attacks the body destroying your mobility before then blindness sets in and then death. With children it occurs between 6 and 12 and so far there is no cure.

Who is Gordon Gray, you ask?

He’s the CEO of Mayhem, the company doing my King of Sting movie.

And I’m out here working with director David Jung on the script. We’re doing a rewrite of the first draft in coordination with Gordon’s staff at Mayhem. Social media giant Deadline broke the news yesterday.

Hundreds of celebrities got right on board to help fight for the girls lives with a new charity that will raise upwards of $10 million for research to Batten. It’s a fight to save the lives of these two little girls.

Many people have worked in Gordon’s films, but hundreds more just care.

The first to get involved were The Rock, Mia Hamm, January Jones, Mark Wahlberg, Channing Tatum and so many more. Continue reading →

I left Friday for a drive 178 miles south of where I actually wanted to go…

So I mentally adjust my attitude to, “Hey, it’ll be time away with the girl” and that’s always nice given the rush of life.

But why did it have to be Wichita?

My first head scratching moment came when I reserved our suite at the “Marriott WaterWalk.”  It was River Fest weekend and the town was booked solid. I asked for a suite facing the water, only to be told the property wasn’t on the water. You can’t even see the water. Now, I don’t have Hearne’s brainpower or Craig’s tenacity, but what would the name “WaterWalk” insinuate to you?

I’ve been to the River Walk in San Antonio. You know what they have? A river.

We arrived, checked in and headed to the rehearsal dinner in Andover.

Moment No. 2 came when I experienced a “loafer” for the first time. Not the shoe but an Italian style loaf of bread, stuffed with your choice of meats, cheese and veggies, then baked. It’s then sliced into inch-wide, five inch long bites of culinary education.

Apparently, it’s a really big deal – you know, in Wichita

Zigzagging across this sad town, I began to notice a trend. I’ve seen this in KC, but one pickup after another had a last name emblazoned across its back window, a memorial message commemorating a dead loved one, or a mural. In one case, it was a mural of the very truck it was painted on with the presumed driver taking a siesta under a palm tree.

That said, I saw no palm trees in Wichita.

Which went well with the WaterWalk with no water. Continue reading →

I’m thinking about returning it…

1. IT’S A LOUSY WATCH

I’m addicted to time, I want to know what it is, and the Apple Watch performs this function very poorly, in that its face is not always on.

I could live with that if it came up when it was supposed to, but every time I flipped my wrist it didn’t.  Especially when I’m lying on the floor doing my back exercises – it can’t cope with that.

Worse yet, I can do no timing.

Because the damn thing shuts off almost instantly, or at best stays alive for 20 seconds, and most of my back exercises are 30 seconds. So, how can I study the watch when I can’t see it? And often times I can’t touch it, because my hands are holding my knees!

And when I’m in the bathroom, I can’t time how long to clean my contact lenses, nor can I prop it up while I’m in the shower to see how much time I have left before I have o leave.

All of those things I can do with my Rolex.

Or even the cheap Timex I wear to third world locations. It’s frustrating. And I could buy a series of clocks, but…

2. I CAN’T SEE IT

I’m too old, my eyes are too bad.

Actually, they’re not that bad, since I’ve started wearing RGP contact lenses my reading power is actually pretty good. My prescription is +1.25, which is miniscule. But so is the type on the watch. If you’re older and you don’t wear bifocals 24/7 I’m not sure the Apple Watch is for you. There’s great functionality, you just can’t see it an arm’s length away.

And that’s a huge problem, the No. 1 reason to return the watch, but it gets worse. Continue reading →

Craig’s date Gia

As the rain pounds down today, I’m preparing to fly back to LA…

The plan is to work with writer director David Jung on my movie script for The King of Sting. It was a year ago that David and I made a deal with film company Mayhem to make the picture. Contracts and negotiations took nearly all this time to finish. Boy, have things changed in Hollywood dealings since I started this journey in the 1980’s.

Yes, it’s been a long, strange trip to finally get my life story on the big screen.

I’ve worked with some of the best, from Nick Kazan (Reversal of Fortune) and Robert Roy Pool (Outbreak) to John Heyman (Passage To India) and more recently Eric Eisner, Robert Lorenz and Clint Eastwood. The book’s only other script was written by Dan Gordon (Wyatt Earp, Hurricane).

Hopefully we’ll finally get it done and the movie made. Continue reading →

We’re in like month No. 3 of rain…

Almost daily – if it’s not raining it’s cloudy and ugly.

Woodside opened its pool early this year because they thought it might be a hot spring. They opened all four pools in early April,and yet they haven’t had one decent weekend yet. Memorial Day was packed with people hoping it would clear up, but it never really did – cloudy and drizzle.

My pal Gary Amble at KCTV says we have more rain coming all week and into next.

My Lord, when will it end?

I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life here or in other cities I’ve lived in like Los Angeles or Phoenix. If this had happened this past winter, we’d have been under 10 feet of snow. And don’t you love it when the weather people tell you how, “We needed this rain.”

Really? Yeah, maybe for a week or two but not the entire Spring! Continue reading →