LITTLE ORPHAN DUSTY (1978)

After giving Rhonda Jo Petty her first feature role in 1978’s Disco Lady, director Bob Chinn was approached by Jaacov Jaacovi, friend and sometime crew member, to help direct Little Orphan Dusty from a screenplay that Jaacovi had written with his then-wife, Svetlana. As he had never made a film before, Jaacovi needed Chinn’s help […]

BABY CAKES (1980)

In Bob Chinn’s Baby Cakes, a group of female bicyclists begin a 500 mile coastal trip to participate in a race in Los Angeles which they slowly forget about as they get wrapped up in their own romantic entanglements with a group of surfers they meet along the way (kinds like Breaking Away meets L’Avventura […]

DISCO LADY (1978)

The problem with most New Year’s Eve movies is that they’re going to become much more bittersweet as the world changes and our connectivity is more virtual than it is real. These days, loading into the middle of the city on New Year’s Eve with a bunch of inebriated strangers just doesn’t have the same […]