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My Dinner With Siny 1975
Tom Sinclair, better known to some of his compatriots as Siny, is my oldest friend. Not in age, of course, but in longevity. We had similar interests – Marvel comics, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Combat! (the TV series not the activity), and book collecting. With Alan Saly and Christian Doherty – whom we joined up with in 1968-69 – we were the creative quartet behind Guardian publishing and Apar Films.
Rent a Child
OUR LITTLE JOKEMy brother, Pete, phoned me the other day to tell me about an article he had just read in The New Yorker."Hey, check it out," he said with excitement. "It's all about rent-a-family."
The Place Revisited
Act NaturallyMy Life and Apar FilmsPart 2: Horror(The Place, 1972, 2011) New Jersey location for the new version of THE PLACE.
Memories of Our Movies
Act NaturallyMy Life and Apar FilmsPart I: Beginnings(Clayton Rogers and the Parfarganian Menace, 1969)
ACD Daze
There were four of us: Tom (“Siny”) Sinclair, Alan Saly, Christian Doherty, and me.
From the Editor 24: Discipline
(DON'T) LET THEM EAT CAKE from HABITAT, DECEMBER 2010 Being on a board is like being on a diet. You know it’s for your own good, but it can get very tedious. Sure, you should eat soup and salad but doesn’t the cream-filled chocoate cake seem so much tastier? It must be better for you, right? You feel good after eating it – until you’ve eaten so much that when you look down you can’t see your feet anymore.
Patrick Macnee
A CLASS ACTBy TOM SOTER
A Guy Named Joe
JOE, WE HARDLY KNEW YEBy TOM SOTER and TOM SINCLAIR Siny (left) and Joe, with Jesse Owens in 1966.
Jerry's Fantasies
Tom Soter (far right in white jacket) in 1985 with the N.Y. Improv Squad.A BLAST FROM MY PASTMy Life as an Improvisor, Pt. 2"Tom, you'd better sit down," said the voice on the other end of the line. "I want you to be prepared for what I'm about to tell you.""I'm sitting down," I said, not recognizing the name "Janet Smith" on my caller ID nor the voice of the man on the phone. "This is Jerry Patterson, Tom." "Jerry Patterson," I said slowly. I paused. "It's been a long time."Twenty-five years, in fact.
From the Editor 18: Tenure
GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY Tom Soter, in his office. from HABITAT April 2010It all started with a handshake.
