A trio of Denver thespians are taking the stage. Now in their mid-20s, Alex Harvey, TJ Miller and Erik Hellman started off in kindergarten together at Graland. They acted here in high school, then in college, then in Chicago. Now they’re going national.
Harvey, 27, is directing this summer at the Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival.
Miller has just landed a feature role in the upcoming ABC sitcom “Carpoolers.”
And Hellman has just wrapped a role in the next “Batman” movie, “The Dark Knight,” being shot in Chicago.
Growing up theatrically in Colorado, the trio were “Denver Dadaists,” says Harvey. “We were always doing really bizarre acts, stunts, making things happen. We all kind of loved the unusual.”
Which didn’t mean that classmates all loved them. To say that they were marginalized is putting it mildly.
“It wasn’t until halfway through high school that we realized it was way cooler to be like this than to be cool,” says Harvey.
Miller even went on to become Head Boy at East High School. Now they are all on to bigger things.
Hellman just spent one day on “The Dark Knight,” due out next July. They shoot at night – and Hellman plays a junkie who is pulled from his car, mumbling, and thrown on the ground. This he did about 40 times. “I can’t really say more than that,” he tells me.
The glories of show business.
Fumes
The Big Green Bus pulls into Colorado today through Tuesday.
Eleven Dartmouth students are cruising the country in a converted school bus fueled by vegetable oil. By the time they get back to school, they’ll have traveled 12,000 miles.
They’re in Colorado Springs today, and they fill up at The Kitchen in Boulder on Friday. That’s going to be some high-quality veggie oil! Plus they’re staying for dinner.
The unctuous 11 come to Denver on Saturday through Monday, then move on to Telluride – looking for oil.
If you see the bus, throw some greaseballs their way – and check them out
at.
Dashing
Terry Oakes, the guy who dressed
Denver’s daddios at BolderDash before
he shuttered it in March, is back in business. Well, the real-estate business. He first moved to the mountains for
some skiing, where he was hit
by a chairlift in
a windstorm.
So he took
the real-estate exam and is now selling it with Fuller Towne & Country.
City spirit
Here’s an inconvenient truth – Al Gore is coming to Aspen on July 18 to speak at the Greentech Innovative Network Summit. … We hear that Iron Mountain Winery is thisclose to going into the old Mel’s space at 235 Fillmore. It’s a custom wine shop, making wine from grape musts (juices) from around the world served with pizza, soups, salads, cheese and desserts. You can check one out at FlatIron Crossing and at. Winery president Karen Oldham hopes to be open by the end of August. … Sez who: “I don’t need Viagra. I need a pill to help me talk afterward.” – Garry Shandling
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