Liken’s Brush with the Great White Way

Ours is a small office. So when a TV producer from New York City orders a set of our Gold Series (our four Liken titles based on stories from the Book of Mormon) awhile ago, word tends to travel. A little online research revealed that the customer was a producer for the creators of South … Continue reading →

P.S. On the Shake Thing

We got this graphic today in an email from the film festival. I’m posthumously upgrading the classification of the banana cream pie shake mentioned in my last post from “consolation” to… oh, I don’t know… “celebration” doesn’t seem quite right. All I know is it was whatever label I want to put on it, it … Continue reading →

On the Lot-ish

With hourly checks on the overnight render/Blu-ray burn fest, sleep wasn’t the best Wednesday night. Still, a good night, because it resulted in our first, full-length, playable Blu-ray of the movie, with hours to spare. I dropped Ken off at a bank in Chinatown, where he would work the morning (although, ever the producer, he … Continue reading →

That’s a Wrap for 2010

It’s the first Sunday of the year, plus my congregation is moving to the later schedule, so I find it a good time to take a look back at the old year and give some thoughts to the new. WordPress, the blogging tool I use, sent me a little recap of my posts for 2010, … Continue reading →

Memory Lane: The Search for Mary

If I don’t take a stroll down Memory Lane from time to time, it gets overgrown and pretty much unpassable. So here’s a little trip involving a Liken that is celebrating its 5th anniversary, “The First Christmas.” When we were looking for a house in Utah, my mortgage broker very kindly came to visit me … Continue reading →

Embracing Our Inner Kids’ Movie

A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at a symposium, which was well attended (the symposium, I mean, not my presentation). Most of the presentations at the symposium were of the scholarly sort, featuring something called “research” (sp?). How mine got in there, I don’t know. Here’s what I covered, more or less. Sometimes, … Continue reading →

One Good Woman

The last time I saw Lynne Carr was a little over a year ago at the premiere of Christian Vuissa’s “One Good Man,” in which Lynne had a part. Suzanne and I bumped into her in the lobby. I didn’t know Lynne well, since we had only really worked on one project together, when she … Continue reading →

The Battle for Abish

First of all, it helps provide some context for what is to follow if you know that I’m not a dog person. Not really even an animal person at all, actually. It’s a character flaw, I know. Probably keep me out of heaven all by itself. A little more context: When we broke the news … Continue reading →

Revisiting Alma

A week or two ago, Josh did a little piece in our subscriber newsletter (you can – and probably should – subscribe here) about “Alma & King Noah’s Court” celebrating its 5th anniversary. Alma is from our Gold Series, which features stories from the Book of Mormon. (Our other series is the Liken Bible Series.) … Continue reading →

Rethinking the Dreaded Group Project

As my daughter was sharing with me the “joy” of working on a college group project recently, it was strangely comforting to know that things haven’t changed that much since deep into the last century when I was in college. Seems like the key working parts of the group project are still pretty much the … Continue reading →