I'd Done A Pilot [of

[townies] Was A Huge Cast. It Was A Bit Ungainly, I Think With 12 Regular Characters They Had To Keep Writing For.

I Was Playing This Sort Of Asshole Actor [in The Jenny Mccarthy Show]. And We Shot The Pilot, And It Was A Guaranteed Go. It Was Going To Be 24 [episodes] On The Air. No Questions From Nbc. And We Shot The Pilot, And I Was In Toronto Doing A Movie, And I Got A Call Saying They Cut The Character, That I Was Off The Show.

I Had Played Many Gay Characters Before, But They Were Finite - Guest Characters In Tv Shows Or Characters In Plays.

Andy Ackerman Directed The Episodes That I Was Doing, And He Directed A Lot Of Seinfeld [episodes]. And That Was Great.

The Things Had Been Made A Half A Dozen Times From Silent Pictures Through The '30s And '40s. In Fact, I Think There's A Version In The '50s. And Then, Of Course, Spielberg Eventually Did A Version Of The Lost World, But This [filming] Was '91, I Think. And We Shot It In Zimbabwe.