The Tin Soldier

Trying to break into Hollywood back in the mid-90s, I was working for the catering company on the set of "The Tin Soldier" with starred a very respectful Jon Voight, a hilarious Dom Deluise and the rather quiet Alley Sheedy.

The entire cast and crew was very nice on that small set.

One morning I arrived on the Elysian Park set at around 4:30am to set up for breaktast. Usually I was met by the set security team, but no one was there, so I continued to prep for the cast and crew breakfast. Suddenly an LA cop shows up and tells me the security team was scared off by local gangs that ended up stealing as much as they could from the various star's trailers on the lot. And here I was, all alone, in the middle of a hot, gang area with no security of my own except that one LAPD cop that wasn't going to stick around for me or anyone else on the set.

So, the gang involvement in the script may not have been as close as some of you experts say it should have been, but there was some improve gang stuff going on.

I can't believe this low budget movie had the cast it did. But the movie was not good.

My Hollywood story. One of many I was lucky enough to experience in my life.