Entertainment reporter Kirk Montgomery may ham it up at 9News at 4 p.m. — but he’s no Smithfield when it comes to the movies. He’s appearing in two movies made in Colorado this summer — and although he jokes that they are part of his “don’t blink or you will miss me resume,” he has some screen time to reckon with here.
Just this week, he wrapped a role as a museum curator in the movie “Tengu: The Immortal Blade,” which he describes as a sci-fi thriller with “martial arts, time travel and evil lords.” It should be out next year.
Montgomery has a bigger role in “Fishing Naked.” To our communal relief, he promises he does neither.
He will be on set in Nederland for three days in September. He plays a reporter on the banks of a river in the movie that searches for Bigfoot. Montgomery is skedded for about eight minutes of face time, which is a long time in movieland. “It’s a great scene where I am surprised by something,” he says. I’m scared already.
These aren’t Montgomery’s first celluloid rodeos. His roster of movie/TV appearances includes “Gathering of Heroes: Legend of the Seven Swords,” “The Event,” “Serpent Rising,” “Suburban,” “Passions,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Third Watch,” “Ed,” “General Hospital” and his unforgettable turn as a body double in 1989’s “Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge.”
Who dat?
Denver’s ever-ready ambassador of howdy, Visit Denver communications director Rich Grant, spotted Sean Penn coming out of Appaloosa Grill on the 16th Street Mall on Wednesday afternoon. The unflappable Grant said, “Welcome to Denver.” Penn said, “Thanks, man.”
Penn had a smoke on the corner. He was in town as the featured speaker at the Global Business Travel Association convention.
Bite me.
Comedian/vet Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald was making his usual Monday-morning appearance on Ch. 2’s “Daybreak” with Tom Green when things got dicey. He brought three snakes with him — the first one being a rather large blood python.
“They are kind of like a fire-eating dragon,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re a high-strung snake, and they can be pretty aggressive, so they are not for everybody.”
No kidding. With Green sitting as far away from the snake as possible, he took a nip at Fitzgerald’s hand as he tried to get him back in the box.
“Aw, it was just a pinprick,” Fitzgerald told me.
You can Google “Kevin Fitzgerald vs. powerful snake.”
City spirit.
Mayor Michael Hancock will be in the audience tonight for the Afterthought Theatre Company’s production of “The Wiz” — his wife, Mary Louise Lee, stars as Glinda. . . . I love the story that a couple did a dine-and-dash at Mezzaluna in Aspen on Saturday, leaving a $51.23 tab and dashing off on horseback, chased by a cop car before making their escape. . . . Sez who: “Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.” W.C. Fields
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Friday. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or bhusted@denverpost.com. Take a peek at Husted’s next column at .
