or so years ago. I thought to myself, “I wish I didn’t have to get a new job” and I started thinking, “What could one do and not have to work a day job?” So, that’s when I thought of the Tchotcke Thieves. These were thieves with manners that would only steal things from people’s back yards and porches. I also knew that I needed a likable outsider to come into this small town scenario and help the audience get to know the town of Pharisee. (That’s the name of the town that the thieves live in.) From there, the other characters came very easily; the prostitute, the corrupt mayor etc. etc.
We shot London Betty in two weeks on a budget too low to mention. I wrote the part of the newspaper owner, Maury, so that it could all be shot in one day; so we hired Daniel Von Bargen (Super Troopers, “Seinfeld,” “Malcolm in the Middle”) for the one day shoot