The Doc Side: 
Manic Movie Makers!
Caffeinated Cinema Couple with Cute Pets 

Steven C. Barber and Tamara Henry have been on the road to OSCAR since they met in 2004, SECRETLY living out their behind the scenes drama on various REALITY TV shows. He lives in Santa Monica and she lives on Venice Beach. They have CUTE PETS. And lots of drama in the DOCUMENTARY world. This producer/director duo just took their newest Josh Brolin film Never Surrender (2016 Oscar Shortlist) to the military with a new country rock song "Colors Of Freedom" that features "Tammy Cash" singing in the Kenny C. gospel choir backups. Yee ha! Let's Make America Great Again.  

SEE YOU ON OSCAR NIGHT!
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2020

THE ROYAL WEDDING WATCH PARTY!
SATURDAY/SUNDAY MAY 19/20, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/events/2018978285009648/
The Vanilla Fire Wharton Royal Wedding Watch Party
​at the Boldt Castle in the 1000 Islands, New York

Breaking Reality TV Records on VH1 (and we're not talking vinyl) 
January 6, 2015 9pm, January 7, 2015 11am, January 8, 2015 10pm, January 11, 2015 6pm, January 9-12 check your local listing

http://www.prlog.org/12403269-vh1-filmmaking-couple-vanilla-fire-to-make-20th-reality-tv-show-appearance-january-2015.html

Queen Latifah Show! 
http://queenlatifah.com/lifestyle/heroes/blake-leeper-surprises-biggest-fan/
rerun on November 26, 2014 

Vanilla Fire celebrating TEN YEARS!
2014 Summer of Super Moons!  

TEN YEARS APART - TEN YEARS TOGETHER
2004 - 2014
Baby Boomer - Generation X 
1961 - 1971

TRAILER: Back in July 2004 they met for the first time at the Will Rogers Post Office in Santa Monica when Tamara was working for an entertainment product integration company for film & TV to put herself through her masters degree in spiritual psychology, she ran an errand to the post office and she was spotted by the Wolf of Wilshire who was working for the Robb Report:

Then back in 2004 they met for the second time one week later on the beach in Venice:
(WATCH THE FULL 19 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY CLICK ON 'MORE' AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE) 

VANILLA FIRE ~ Two Lost Angels  

https://twitter.com/RealityTVCouple

@RealityTVCouple   @TamaraHenry

Steven & Tamara "adopted" Blake Leeper after the London Paralympics when Steven became Blake's sports manager
Blake calls Tamara "Momma T" 
QUANTUMLEEPER.COM
This ethnically diverse trio of talent
spans three generations Baby Boomer, Gen X & Millennial 
and is transforming The Doc Side into Gold. 
*see more of the Road To Rio 2016 here:
http://vanillafire.weebly.com/quantum-leeper.html
https://www.facebook.com/TheDocSideOfFilm

Vanilla Fire: Bo Jackson shocks starstruck Paralympian on ‘Arsenio’
(click QuantumLeeper.com for Arsenio video clip)

Sports Manager Steven C. Barber wonders... Does Tamara remember our first date? 

Find out on CBS on "Who You With?" 
on The Arsenio Hall Show

http://www.prlog.org/12270084-valentines-day-2014-hollywood-filmmaking-couple-confess-their-love-is-reality.html

10 Years Apart - 10 Years Together 
1961 - 1971
Baby Boomer - Generation X
Old School - New Age 
Steven & Tamara celebrate their 10 Year Anniversary July 2014. 
2004 - 2014

Steven and Tamara... 
They've never been LEGALLY married. They never had HUMAN children. 
So... they "adopted" an adorable little black boy with no legs - awww... how sweet. ;) 
Blake calls Tamara "Momma T" 

"Our boy wins Gold!! Now he has a medal to match his heart." ~Vanilla Fire 

BLAKE LEEPER 
Leaps for the Gold 

 



​Lyon, France ~ Summer 2013 Games 
Men's 4x100m T42-46 Medal Ceremony 
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships
AMERICAN BLADERUNNER 
Blake broke a world record and won his first Gold Medal! 

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REALITY TV TRIVIA: 
Which Hollywood filmmaking couple
has SECRETLY lived out their entire life
on serial reality TV show appearances
since their first date
on the legendary reality show Blind Date in 2004?
See Vanilla Fire on Oscar Night 2014 talking about their most recent TV appearances
E! Entertainment - Access Hollywood - Mad Men 

2014 Night of 100 Stars: Mikki & Shay - watch more funny videos

Westside People ~ Sept 2013 

September 2013

Malibu Chronicle ~ Feb/March 2014

Westside People ~ November 2014

2013 Los Angeles Area Emmys

65th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards 
Tamara is the co-anchor of the TV show Metro Motion which was was nominated for an Emmy! 

  

Steven C. Wharton Barber     

LOOKS LIKE: ROBERT DOWNEY, JR
ACTS LIKE: GROUCHO MARX, MAD MONEY 
THINKS LIKE: RUSH LIMBAUGH 
BABY BOOMER 

Steven "Carborundum" Wharton Barber is an award winning filmmaker, motion picture combat photographer, sports manager, published author and great nephew of the Pulitzer Prize winning Edith Wharton.

​His 2010 Oscar Shortlist doc Unbeaten is on the 2012 Top 10 Olympic films by TIME magazine next to Spielberg's Munich. His military films (narrated by Ed Harris and Kelsey Grammer) air on Discovery's the Military Channel, made the 2012 Oscar Shortlist and are for sale in Walmart and on Netflix. His latest military film Never Surrender narrated by Josh Brolin made the 2016 Oscar Shortlist and is available on PureFlix.     

Barber is currently producing THE WORLDS MOST DANGEROUS PAPER ROUTE and other films and projects. 
    
Steven learned how to navigate the landmines of Hollywood from Augusta Military Academy in Ft. Defiance. He slays dragons and blows things up for a living in the military film world. Vanilla Fire serves the military, carries the torch and continues the legacy of military filmmakers. 

​https://stevencbarber.weebly.com/

http://www.stevencbarber.blogspot.com/

"She is my muse and my Princess Kitten. We call her P.K." 
~Steven C. Barber 

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Tamara Henry      Lights... Tamara... Action! 
​aka "Tammy Cash" 

LOOKS LIKE: ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY and MICHELLE PFEIFFER  
ACTS LIKE: MARION DAVIES and CAROL CHANNING 
THINKS LIKE: ALBERT EINSTEIN 
GENERATION X 

Tamara Henry, M.A. is a local news anchor, documentary producer, a red carpet host for awards shows, proven talk show host for the film arena and daughter of a Bronze Star recipient. She is a former beauty queen, Miss Arkansas USA 1997, and is the obsessive compulsive ADD Facebook addict and VP of Social Media for Vanilla Fire, a company she named in 2007 after her two passions: 1. Vanilla lattes and 2. Kindles, her Himalayan cat Sir "Kindles" Fire who left us in 2010. Sean Penn knew Kindles. >^..^<  

Lights... Tamara... Action! Tamara was the local news anchor and reporter for Santa Monica City TV Channel 16 for a decade and her TV show "Metro Motion" was nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy in 2014!

Tamara's father worked in Intelligence at the Pentagon and received the Bronze Star. She was born in at Ft. Belvoir Army Hospital, Alexandria, VA. She is a preachers sister and her brother was almost a professional baseball player for the Arkansas Travelers and went on to be a doctor. She is the niece in law of the late Johnny Cash. 

Tamara was appointed the weeknight news anchor for the WB/CW in Little Rock while she was still wearing her Miss Arkansas crown during the years Bill Clinton was President. She paid for her broadcast journalism degree by winning pageant scholarships and has everything on VHS tapes in the garage. She was the first Miss USA Contestant to meet Donald Trump in 1997 and she visited him in his office in New York in 2005.   

She is also a metaphysical reality TV personality: 
http://tamarahenry.weebly.com/reality.html

"In his unconventional Steven Spielberg-ish back-door approach to Hollywood, he pops onto the scene and even scares himself with his instant success." 
~Tamara Henry, MA

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Jimmy Chew 

LOOKS LIKE: SUZANNE SOMERS
ACTS LIKE: ROBERT DOWNEY, JR 
THINKS LIKE: SCHWARZENEGGER

Steven is obsessed with Jimmy Chew and takes him everywhere, even to couple's therapy! Jimmy Chew has his own IMDb page. 

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Kozy Mel

LOOKS LIKE: MARTY FELDMAN 
ACTS LIKE: RAINMAN 
THINKS LIKE: BOBBY FISCHER  

Didn't get a call back from Animal Planet's "My Cat From Hell." Kozy Mel is very smart and can "roll over" and fetch. 

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V A N I L L A   F I R E  
Director Steven C. Barber & Producer Tamara Henry 

DOCUMENTARIES ~ TV NEWS 

COMEDY ~ DRAMA

LOVE ~ OCEAN ~ SPACE ~ MOON ~ STARS

MILITARY ~ DISABILITY ~ OLYMPIC 

OSCAR ~ EMMY 

COFFEEEEE!!!

CUTE PETS 
>^..^<~

VANILLA FIRE: GOING FOR THE GOLD. HEART. INSPIRATION. 
VANILLA FIRE: SERVES THE MILITARY, PASSES THE TORCH, CONTINUES THE LEGACY. 
VANILLA FIRE: Service ~ Inspiration ~ Legacy. 

Breaking News: Valentines Day 2013
While Vanilla Fire was on The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda ..  
Vanilla Fire on FOX ~ CNN Feb 16 ~ 
~ Pierce Morgan Feb 19  ~
~ ESPN - Anderson Cooper 360 Feb 22 ~
~ March 9 in person at the LA Coliseum ~
~ KTLA May 7 ~

To the left: Blake Leeper and Oscar Pistorius in the middle, who is also on The Invincibles movie poster.  

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Blake Leeper and his manager on CNN:

VANILLA FIRE 
Director Steven C. Barber is Tom Cruise, "I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?" 

Blake Leeper is Cuba Gooding, Jr. "Show me the money!"

Tamara Henry is Renée Zellweger, "You had me at hello."

The Invincibles

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Vanilla Fire: Blake inspires Los Angeles on KTLA Tuesday May 7th, 2013 

VANILLA FIRE >>>

0:00 Groomsman "Buzz" Aldrin HoneyMOON? 
 
1:30 Best Man "American Bladerunner"
Blake Leeper 

2:00 Steven & Tamara on Jay Leno

THE ROAD TO OSCAR! 
Vanilla Fire has films on the 2010 Oscar Shortlist Unbeaten and the 2012 Oscar Shortlist Until They Are Home and the 2016 Oscar Shortlist Never Surrender
 http://www.prlog.org/11829526-2012-oscar-list-film-until-they-are-home-has-never-before-seen-wwii-war-kitten-footage.html 

Thanks to Clint Black's original song, Vanilla Fire's film Until They Are Home was on the 2012 Oscar List for the 85th Academy Awards. 

As seen in... 

VARIETY 
Awards Nomination Guide 
Dec 20th, 2012 

The New York Times 
Dec 30th, 2013 
(Harvey Weinstein called
after reading this article) 

The New York Times 
on Feb 11, 2013 

As seen on...
 
Larry King Now 
Feb 25, 2013  

NBC Today Show
Kathie Lee and Hoda
Feb 14, 2013

The Pet Show 
with Dr. Katy
January 19, 2013

Producer Tamara Henry on ABC 7 News ~ Jan 2013
http://www.prlog.org/11829526-2012-oscar-list-film-until-they-are-home-has-never-before-seen-wwii-war-kitten-footage.html

The Pet Show with Dr. Katy 
Washington DC's NewsChannel 8 ABC

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Producer Tamara Henry 
along with Jimmy Chew and Kozy Mel 
talk about the WAR KITTEN 
in the 2012 Oscar List film UNTIL THEY ARE HOME 

Documentary Filmmaking Couple Vanilla Fire
Director Steven C. Barber & Producer Tamara Henry 
Baby Boomer & Generation X


2004  -  2014
       A Decade Apart  &  A Decade Together
  Ten Years Apart  ~  Ten Years Apart
         1971 - 1961         

Steven can talk. Just call him right now at 310.806.5833
ask him to do his radio disc jockey voice for you
ask him about the Hum of Heineken ;) 
www.StevenCBarber.weebly.com 

Anyone who knows the spiritual schmiritual side of Tamara knows she thinks her life is The Truman Show. She even has a transformational documentary that she would die to have Jim Carrey narrate >>
During 2012 EMMYS she ended up on The Truman Show wall at Paramount. Sumner Redstone happens to be one of the ten billionaires that have contributed to Vanilla Fire films. And Ed Harris narrated one of them!  

Balloon Boy: The Documentary

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* For the fourth year in a row Vanilla Fire attended The Summer Spectacular hosted by Sharon Stone in 2014, Pat O'Brien in 2013 honoring Harry Hamlin for The Brent Shapiro Foundation For Alcohol and Drug Awareness co founded by Ron Burkle ... John Savage narrated the film The Carrier which premiered Veterans Day November 2013 in Santa Monica:
RSVP:  https://www.facebook.com/events/602022919836409/