9News entertainment guy Kirk Montgomery is king of the cameo, star of the hit “Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss Me.”
Over the years, he’s appeared in “Days of Our Lives,” “General Hospital,” “Ed,” “Passions,” “Third Watch” and more. So tune in to 9News from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday to see “The Event.” Montgomery plays a newscaster in a split-screen breaking-news segment. He’s on TV for about seven seconds, trying to calm down the world with these words: “Senior U.S. officials claim the sightings were a passenger jet.” As if.
“I taped it in early January,” Montgomery explains. “I read three parts, did like nine takes. It’s funny that another news team on the screen is from Detroit, and that’s where I’m from. I’m telling everyone it will be the most thrilling seven seconds they have ever seen.”
Paradise.
After the worst job in the world, Boulder’s Ryan Van Duzer just landed the best job in the world.
The 32-year-old videographer and adventurer is appearing on Discovery Channel’s “Out of the Wild: Venezuela.” In November, he was dropped, along with eight others, deep in the jungle and then filmed as they worked their way out. No pay, just bragging rights that they lived through it. Now that’s a bad job.
But Thursday he learned he won the host position in the show “Paradise Hunter,” a Web-based series on that has him traveling the world for one year trying to find the planet’s perfect paradise. He’s paid $60,000 for this adventure.
After the search, he’s given $150,000 to buy a piece of the place he found the most paradisiacal. Or he can use the $150,000 to rent pads in paradise, which is what does. Good job.
“It’s crazy,” says Van Duzer. “I bet I won’t be eating fried termites on ‘Paradise Hunter.’ “
Name that movie.
Britta Erickson at the Denver Film Society is asking for suggestions for this summer’s Film on the Rocks series. It runs weekly, June through August, with a band and a movie. Go to filmontherocks and sound off.
So far, buffs have suggested: “Trainspotting,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Dude, Where’s My Car?” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “True Romance,” “Stop Making Sense,” “An American Werewolf In London,” “Hellboy” and lots more.
City spirit.
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame bash comes down at Pasta Jay’s in Boulder on March 13 — with Jock Bartley of Firefall sitting in. Go to . . . On “Today” on Wednesday, Donald Trump, who owns the Miss USA Pageant, told Meredith Vieira that he heard about Colorado’s “homeless” Miss Colorado USA, Blair Griffith. “I hear she’s lovely,” he said. “Everyone is telling me what a nice person she is. I think we’re going to try and do something about it. I told my people to really look at it strongly and see if we can help out.” . . . Aspenites Karen and Don Ringsby have their Savannah, Ga., house overrun with the film crew from the movie “Savannah,” starring Hal Holbrook . . . Sez who: “There are no small parts, only small actors.” Konstantin Stanislavsky
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