Vanilla Fire Reality Show Concepts in Development
1. The Doc Side (The Documentarians) documenting Vanilla Fire independent renegade filmmaking couple's twists and turns on the Road To Riches, including some bumpy rides in the reality TV world. The Doc Side is the behind-the-scenes of Vanilla Fire Productions as they followed their Sports Client Blake Leeper on the Road To Rio 2016 and as they continue to make more military films. Sports. Fitness. Entertainment. Comedy. Oscars. Emmys. Award Shows. Film Premieres. Red Carpets. Inspiration. Vanilla Fire. Inspire. Serves the military, passes the torch and continues the legacy.
To air on Reelz Channel, TLC, Sundance Channel, AMC, Bravo or The Documentary Channel.
Vanilla Fire will also be making the movie The Balloon Boy: http://vanillafire.weebly.com/balloon-boy.html
2. Real Housewives of Venice Beach (TBA) starring Venice Beach's Tamara Henry who has lived in the heart of the tsumani zone since 2001 and other wives of couples friends of Vanilla Fire.
To air on Reelz Channel, TLC, Sundance Channel, AMC, Bravo or The Documentary Channel.
Vanilla Fire will also be making the movie The Balloon Boy: http://vanillafire.weebly.com/balloon-boy.html
2. Real Housewives of Venice Beach (TBA) starring Venice Beach's Tamara Henry who has lived in the heart of the tsumani zone since 2001 and other wives of couples friends of Vanilla Fire.
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Sports Military Film THE CARRIER
"God Shed His Grace On Thee ... From Sea To Shining Sea"
From 9/11 to Haiti to Terrorist Osama Bin Laden to 11/11/11
"God Shed His Grace On Thee ... From Sea To Shining Sea"
From 9/11 to Haiti to Terrorist Osama Bin Laden to 11/11/11
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Gracie Awards: Tamara's military sports film The Carrier was up for a 2014 Gracie Award!
New Al Michaels video coming soon via differently abled disability reporter Tamara Henry
New Al Michaels video coming soon via differently abled disability reporter Tamara Henry
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I need a photo opportunity
I need a shot at redemption You can call me Al Disability Reporter Tamara Henry is Differently Abled |
The Doc Side
Vanilla Fire: Parcel To His Package
(one Edith Wharton clip - full doc coming soon)
On this comedy episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire returns to the scene of the crime in Santa Monica to the place they met ten years ago at the Will Rogers Post Office. At that time Tamara was working for a product integration company to put herself through her masters degree in spiritual psychology when she met Steven who was selling advertising in a luxury magazine.
The Doc Side
Vanilla Fire: Saving Starfish Benji
Full 19-minute raw documentary. On this comedy episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire returns to the scene of the crime on Venice Beach to the place they met ten years ago on an early morning starfish covered beach. At that time Tamara was a former beauty queen news anchor who had washed ashore ... until this former cruise ship director grabbed her like a rip current.
Vanilla Fire: Saving Starfish Benji
Full 19-minute raw documentary. On this comedy episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire returns to the scene of the crime on Venice Beach to the place they met ten years ago on an early morning starfish covered beach. At that time Tamara was a former beauty queen news anchor who had washed ashore ... until this former cruise ship director grabbed her like a rip current.
Saving Starfish Benji on Venice Beach - watch more funny videos
The Doc Side
Vanilla Satire: Stop The Madness!
On this comedy episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire is cooking up The Blue, Running and Gunning and Breaking Bad in the Desert on the Road To Rio, but Tamara's alter ego "Janice" ends this video on a positive note for Memorial Day Weekend 2014. http://tamarahenry.weebly.com/military-barbie.html
Vanilla Satire: Stop The Madness!
On this comedy episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire is cooking up The Blue, Running and Gunning and Breaking Bad in the Desert on the Road To Rio, but Tamara's alter ego "Janice" ends this video on a positive note for Memorial Day Weekend 2014. http://tamarahenry.weebly.com/military-barbie.html
The Doc Side
The Doc Side: QuantumLeeper.com
http://tamarahenry.weebly.com/spiritual.html
What are YOU listening to? @MonsterProducts
And ya'll can get 'em at Walmart ;)
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The Doc Side
29th Anniversary Sports Spectacular Gala.
Sports Spectacular is dedicated to linking world-class athletes, favorite sports and entertainment personalities with innovative medical research to advance healthier futures for all and help aid the effort against diabetes and obesity.
Take a Leep of Faith and #bespectacular
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/tamarahenry/media_set?set=a.10152281693308159.1073741894.562863158
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Be Spectacular - watch more funny videos
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The Doc Side [R]
Vanilla Satire: PTSD
The lighthearted side of an old WWII Hero. Producer Tamara "The Director's Muse" has her very own Zamperini and keeps him alive with love, laughter and levity. And a few cantankerous censor bleeps as well ;)
Vanilla Satire: PTSD
The lighthearted side of an old WWII Hero. Producer Tamara "The Director's Muse" has her very own Zamperini and keeps him alive with love, laughter and levity. And a few cantankerous censor bleeps as well ;)
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PTSD - watch more funny videos
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The Doc Side
ED HARRIS of The Truman Show tells the story of the great dragon slayer Steven "Carborundum" Barber
ED HARRIS of The Truman Show tells the story of the great dragon slayer Steven "Carborundum" Barber
The Doc Side [R]
JOE MANGANIELLO of True Blood on
IN the Foxhole with Henry
JOE MANGANIELLO of True Blood on
IN the Foxhole with Henry
JOE MANGANIELLO of True Blood tells the story of his name
to the great Tamara which means "palm tree" in Hebrew.
Yes, she's got a lovely bunch of coconuts!
to the great Tamara which means "palm tree" in Hebrew.
Yes, she's got a lovely bunch of coconuts!
The Doc Side [R]
Game Show Audition!
Watch what happens when casting needs to see this couple bicker and fight.
Sweet southern belle princess kitten Tamara tries her best to show casting she can be mean.
Game Show Audition!
Watch what happens when casting needs to see this couple bicker and fight.
Sweet southern belle princess kitten Tamara tries her best to show casting she can be mean.
The Doc Side:
From the Battle of Tarawa to the Battle of Tamara...
Dark, Deep, Dirty Little Secrets...
Oscars 2013 Steven gets kicked out of the Night of 100 Stars and Tamara gets tossed out of the Oscars Governor's Ball Preview. The next day they are on Larry King Now. You don't have a reality show if you can't create constant conflict. And what was that Einstein said about, "Great genius is often met with violent opposition..."
Airing the day after the 2013 Oscars, February 25, 2013
From the Battle of Tarawa to the Battle of Tamara... Groomzie told me I deserved an Oscar in couple's therapy today but expressed how he was still was driven by his bitterness about not getting the nomination. The military filmmaker was driven to vortex when he was gifting John Ratzenberger (Cheers) a copy of Until They Are Home (2012 Oscar Shortlist) as they were discussing (Cheers) Kelsey Grammer's narration of Vanilla Fire's 2012 Oscar shorlisted documentary Until They Are Home. And Wink Martindale and his wife told us they were having lunch with Kelsey Grammer just the day before the Night of 100 Stars.
Promo: http://youtu.be/Kp19losnI-w
From the Battle of Tarawa to the Battle of Tamara... Groomzie told me I deserved an Oscar in couple's therapy today but expressed how he was still was driven by his bitterness about not getting the nomination. The military filmmaker was driven to vortex when he was gifting John Ratzenberger (Cheers) a copy of Until They Are Home (2012 Oscar Shortlist) as they were discussing (Cheers) Kelsey Grammer's narration of Vanilla Fire's 2012 Oscar shorlisted documentary Until They Are Home. And Wink Martindale and his wife told us they were having lunch with Kelsey Grammer just the day before the Night of 100 Stars.
Promo: http://youtu.be/Kp19losnI-w
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Promo: Deep, Dark Dirty Little Secrets
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The full show:
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Vanilla Fire just flew to the South Pacific to shoot next film June 1-14, 2014!
http://vanillafire.weebly.com/return-to-the-philippines.html
Vanilla Fire sold Until They Are Home to Walmart on Memorial Day 2013!! Celebration on November 11, 2013 along with Premiere of The Carrier.
"Steven, Your nerve is truly beyond anyone I've ever encountered. I think it's great..."
~ Michael Bay, March 2008
"Steven, I think you are the greatest pitch man I have ever encountered."
~ Masamichi Kogai, Mazda, May 2014
'Transformers 4': Kelsey Grammer Plays the Villain in Michael Bay's Film
The Decepticons are getting some competition in the bad guy category: Kelsey Grammer has signed on to play a villain in the next installment of the “Transformers” franchise.
The former Cheers and Frasier actor, who has recently racked-up awards for his performance as a hard-balling, womanizing Chicago mayor on the Starz series, Boss, will now play a character named Harold Attinger, who is said to be "a counter intelligence guy" and "a key villain" in the fourquel and the main (human) antagonist in the movie.
That’s a bit of a role reversal for Grammer, who’s known for playing affable characters like Frasier Crane on “Cheers” and “Frasier,” and Dr. Hank McCoy (a.k.a. Beast) in 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand.”
Grammer joins the film, which takes place four years after “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”
The Decepticons are getting some competition in the bad guy category: Kelsey Grammer has signed on to play a villain in the next installment of the “Transformers” franchise.
The former Cheers and Frasier actor, who has recently racked-up awards for his performance as a hard-balling, womanizing Chicago mayor on the Starz series, Boss, will now play a character named Harold Attinger, who is said to be "a counter intelligence guy" and "a key villain" in the fourquel and the main (human) antagonist in the movie.
That’s a bit of a role reversal for Grammer, who’s known for playing affable characters like Frasier Crane on “Cheers” and “Frasier,” and Dr. Hank McCoy (a.k.a. Beast) in 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand.”
Grammer joins the film, which takes place four years after “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”
SONGS FOR SHOW OPEN AND SHOW CLOSE:
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The Doc Side of Vanilla Fire
Vanilla Fire. Serves the Military, Passes the Torch, Continues the Legacy.
LOGLINE:
Caffeinated Comedy Couple Vanilla Fire on the Road to Oscar, on the Road to Rio, Pitching Billionaires and Making the Treacherous Transition from Documentaries to Feature Films.
Director Steven C. Barber and his Muse, Producer/Anchorwoman Tamara Henry
and Jimmy Chew and Kozy Mel and all our crazy friends in the biz
Documentary Filmmaking Couple living their caffeinated life on The Doc Side. We have been manufacturing reality since 2004, when we met on the legendary TV show Blind Date. Yes, we've been making noble films that have landed on the 2010 & 2012 & 2016 Oscar Shortlist, but we have also secretly been living out our entire romantic life on Reality TV.
They met on the legendary TV show Blind Date in 2004. This is the REAL Love Boat Story - they were the first TV wedding of 2015 on VH1! Honeymoon on board an aircraft carrier in San Diego at the Marine Corpse Ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFs5cXUHs3U
Director Steven C. Barber and his Muse, Producer/Anchorwoman Tamara Henry
and Jimmy Chew and Kozy Mel and all our crazy friends in the biz
Documentary Filmmaking Couple living their caffeinated life on The Doc Side. We have been manufacturing reality since 2004, when we met on the legendary TV show Blind Date. Yes, we've been making noble films that have landed on the 2010 & 2012 & 2016 Oscar Shortlist, but we have also secretly been living out our entire romantic life on Reality TV.
They met on the legendary TV show Blind Date in 2004. This is the REAL Love Boat Story - they were the first TV wedding of 2015 on VH1! Honeymoon on board an aircraft carrier in San Diego at the Marine Corpse Ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFs5cXUHs3U
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SYNOPSIS:
SHOW OPEN: Monster Mountain Biking on bike path, Solar Powered Blinking STOP Sign on Access Hollywood HOAX! Stamp, Cocktails! from Blind Date, Freddie Travelina says Put Him On The Show Jay. Are you IN Buzz?
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:
A Docu-Style Reality Series for Television called "The Doc Side" where a disheveled writer and his muse and former Beauty Queen take their military and Olympic documentaries on the Road To Oscar and transform one small town hero into a legend as they took America on the Road To Rio 2016.
Specific issue or event that everybody can relate to: The Military, The Oscars and The Olympics. The game: NFL, NBA, NASCAR, The Road To Rio. Interactive. Global. Spanning all demos. Vanilla Fire. Inspire. The super human experience.
Specific and unique: Family. It's complicated! From the making of their own Doritos Super Bowl commercial... to Blake's national Believe campaign for the California Lottery... the juxtaposition of a cynical writer who blames his new age muse for not having gratitude. The Doc Side shows Tamara's attempt at using male/female communication skills to crack the tough guy exterior. Alchemical transformation, Jungian psychology and The Shadow Side of envy, rejection and success. Modern day Mad Men / Jerry Maguire. Oscars, Emmys, Film Premieres, Red Carpets, Night of 100 Stars, LA Comedy Awards, LA Music Awards, Talk Shows.
Concepts and subjects: Highly marketable, easily integrated into lead-up to the Olympics in 2020 on NBCU.
Titles: The Documentarians. Keeping Up With The Jonses. The Doc Side. On this episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire is heating up Sundance. The Doc Side rolls off the tongue easily, provokes conversations about double entendres, and simply tells you exactly what you’re going to be watching, The Doc Side of two writers as they slip into the independent and spirit-filled filmmaking business. What's their alchemical formula to A-list action? The Muse knows. Numerology, word magic and sacred story weave into curiously caffeinated creations. Add an occasional weekend of grab ass under a full moon and voila you have the magic that makes the movie. “The Doc Side” "Blind Date" "Vanilla Fire" "Santa Mannequins" "Ducker Pucker" "Dumpster Bob" "Momma T" "Jimmy Chew" "Wife Swap" and "Stretchy Pants Zombies" are nick names that peak curiosity.
"Story," core concept and story elements: Quirky love story like Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Anchorwoman like in To Die For. Jerry Maguire for the 21st Century. Reality TV Royalty as Steven is great Nephew of Keeping Up With The Jonses Family. From Pentagon Intelligence to protection from all four branches of the military. The uncanny resemblance to The Truman Show, as Ed Harris narrates all the films for Vanilla Fire.
Unique Professions or Lifestyles: The story of two writers who found themselves the unlikely love interests trapped in each others story. Insatiable curiosity viewers have to gain insight into the lives of upper class unemployment and jobs with no bosses, no agents, no entertainment attorneys, no net, no rules. Vanilla Fire’s “The Doc Side” is a guilty-pleasure glimpse into the spoiled and faux-glamorous lives of a certain group of independent hipster filmmakers at the Charlie Chaplin beach bungalows and editing studios on the beach in Los Angeles, California. AKA VB. But there's one old school cat who tanks the neighborhood over - Carborundum Barber. Big Fat Hollywood Head Janet from wardrobe across the street yakking her shit, as Steven puts it. Take us out to the shade of the life-guard towers on the beach... with vagrants and street urchins juxtapose architects and activists battling plastic pollution as they fight to Heal the Bay. [MD] Documentary style format, The Documentarians may have an inborn need to tell compelling stories as a profession which makes no money, but the labor of love inspires us with journeys of current day American heroes. Directors, producers, editors run and gun to capture the spirit of sports stars and war heroes. Again, it's not just pitching the idea to corporate instead of the agency, but pitching the CEO of the company with Snark Tank Steven's uncanny back door approach to closing the deal. Slay that dragon!
Plays in morality or social experiments gone wrong. The Doc Side is a microcosm of the filmmakers and activism that keep this beach town afloat. We are stuck living together, therefore we must get along in this tsunami zone of Venice Beach walk streets. The Academy members’ votes are counted by Ernst & Young and determine if Vanilla Fire gets nominated. It isn’t always fair, and therein lies the fun in that pressure-cooker atmosphere we see the players true character rise to the surface. To put a baby boomer, a generation x and a millennial together on the same journey that are living, working and playing creates an inherent “soap opera” for the audience to watch, and it opens up the young or old viewing audience to a new form of compelling TV.
Money Business. “The Doc Side”’s character Director Steven C. Barber takes on the corporate jungle. The aspiring entrepreneur business maven must work together under the scrutinizing eye of Studio Heads and CEOs. A marketing person will tell you that people will tune into this show to see how Barber delivers his pitch after he comes home from a monster mountain bike ride. True! But the reason viewers find it compelling to watch is because of the specific moments of drama and rejection that come out of situations and challenges that face us all. As in most dramatized pieces, it is a "heightened reality" that makes it entertaining to watch. His creative idea-monkey muse tries failingly to get him to bring spirituality into business, as she tracks synchronicities and tries to crack numerology codes like 11:11 4:04 and 8:08.
Makeover and transformation. A simple and entertaining formula that brought opposite worlds together when a hapless five o’clock shadow devil-may-care desheveled writer with mis-matched socks is thrown to the mercy of a perfectionist former beauty queen fashionista, in hopes of spiffing up his lifestyle and appearance, but it's always a little too "gay" for his taste. The result of bringing these two mismatches together... comedy and quality entertainment. The lynch pin in this show isn't the obvious "comedy that ensues", but the heart strings that the show touches when someone's life is changed for the better. And Tamara just may never come out of her dream world long enough to get away from her captor, who keeps her chained to her desk (with a view of the ocean) making her do screen grabs and print up invoices.
Paradox. Oxy Moron. Diametrically opposed in philosophy and taste. The grass ISN'T always greener when they experience sense of teamwork and family life through someone else's perspective and practices. Vanilla Fire. Serves the Military... Passes the Torch... Continues the Legacy.
Characters we all know: the former beauty queen, the cock strut, the professionally trained clean comedy clown, the bully, the tank, the passive-aggressive sniper, the ego maniac with the inferiority complex, the gossipers, the stretchy pants zombies, the hipsters, etc. Some will already be huge successes, some will have taken turns for the worse, most will be insecure and frustrated. Crazy CATastrophies and Daddy's dog "Jimmy Chew" has PTSD. Night of 100 Stars. Vanilla Fire. New Content For Old People.
Romance: Producers pull drama from specific moments of tension and anticipation between Steven & Tamara. It’s classy, it's caffeinated, it’s romantic, and again- it’s real drama that we’re watching. And one thing that puts it a cut above the rest is that it isn’t necessarily a journey of breaking hearts as much as it is a journey of two people finding true love with each other (that hopefully lasts at least until they can appear on a reality show about divorce). The show romanticizes the long term relationship process and we can't get enough of it. Kiss the frog and voila!
Hidden-camera, like the show Steven was on with Al Michaels “You’ve Been Sacked.” ABC NFL comedy and drama. CIA. Spy.
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Project outline: describing show 3 pages in length:
Groomzie: Great Nephew of Edith Wharton, Oscar Shortlisted Documentary Director, Sports Publicist/Manager, Creative Marketing Ad Man, Sales Closer, Film Financing. Snarky social pungent commentator.
Biodegradable Beach Bride: Daughter of Pentagon Intelligence Bronze Star Recipient, Anchor of Emmy winning TV show, Miss Arkansas USA 1997.
There is magic in the style and format and tone of the show. This is a hybrid scripted parody on real life journey of the holy trinity on the way to see Jesus in Brazil. Flashbacks to black and white painful episodes from childhood along with miserable What The Bleep neurons. When Steven speaks, a Blind Date thought bubble appears over his head.
Steven is old school. Tamara is new age. They are diametrically opposed in philosophy and taste.
It’s complicated!
OMG!
They met before social media even existed. Before Facebook. Before Youtube. They still have the emails from their courtship when these two budding marketing geniuses met. Their mothers had taken great pains to send them to dance class and raised good little self-obsessed narcissistic self-perpetuating over-achieving machines through constant instamatic and Polaroid shutterbug picture taking for the perfect shot to accompany an article in the local newspaper every time they farted.
Their fathers were polar opposites, leaving Steven a bulling tank spit out from Ft. Defiance and Tamara a covert introverted passive-aggressive sniper born her Daddy’s Bronze Star of Pentagon Intelligence. The lion and the lamb. The New York bully and the sweet Southern belle. She’s the yin to his yang.
Ten Years Apart – Ten Years Together. Steven and Tamara have communication issues, need we say, which are obvious apparent in their pathetic attempts at working out their parenting skills on their messy pancake stack of pets. Jimmy Chew has PTSD and will chew your hand off, and was sent to the ER for attacking the stunt man neighbor’s dog Bear. Kozy Mel is autistic but can play a mean game of chess. (We’ll explain later.)
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:
A Docu-Style Reality Series for Television called "The Doc Side" where a disheveled writer and his muse and former Beauty Queen take their military and Olympic documentaries on the Road To Oscar and transform one small town hero into a legend as they took America on the Road To Rio 2016.
Specific issue or event that everybody can relate to: The Military, The Oscars and The Olympics. The game: NFL, NBA, NASCAR, The Road To Rio. Interactive. Global. Spanning all demos. Vanilla Fire. Inspire. The super human experience.
Specific and unique: Family. It's complicated! From the making of their own Doritos Super Bowl commercial... to Blake's national Believe campaign for the California Lottery... the juxtaposition of a cynical writer who blames his new age muse for not having gratitude. The Doc Side shows Tamara's attempt at using male/female communication skills to crack the tough guy exterior. Alchemical transformation, Jungian psychology and The Shadow Side of envy, rejection and success. Modern day Mad Men / Jerry Maguire. Oscars, Emmys, Film Premieres, Red Carpets, Night of 100 Stars, LA Comedy Awards, LA Music Awards, Talk Shows.
Concepts and subjects: Highly marketable, easily integrated into lead-up to the Olympics in 2020 on NBCU.
Titles: The Documentarians. Keeping Up With The Jonses. The Doc Side. On this episode of The Doc Side, Vanilla Fire is heating up Sundance. The Doc Side rolls off the tongue easily, provokes conversations about double entendres, and simply tells you exactly what you’re going to be watching, The Doc Side of two writers as they slip into the independent and spirit-filled filmmaking business. What's their alchemical formula to A-list action? The Muse knows. Numerology, word magic and sacred story weave into curiously caffeinated creations. Add an occasional weekend of grab ass under a full moon and voila you have the magic that makes the movie. “The Doc Side” "Blind Date" "Vanilla Fire" "Santa Mannequins" "Ducker Pucker" "Dumpster Bob" "Momma T" "Jimmy Chew" "Wife Swap" and "Stretchy Pants Zombies" are nick names that peak curiosity.
"Story," core concept and story elements: Quirky love story like Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Anchorwoman like in To Die For. Jerry Maguire for the 21st Century. Reality TV Royalty as Steven is great Nephew of Keeping Up With The Jonses Family. From Pentagon Intelligence to protection from all four branches of the military. The uncanny resemblance to The Truman Show, as Ed Harris narrates all the films for Vanilla Fire.
Unique Professions or Lifestyles: The story of two writers who found themselves the unlikely love interests trapped in each others story. Insatiable curiosity viewers have to gain insight into the lives of upper class unemployment and jobs with no bosses, no agents, no entertainment attorneys, no net, no rules. Vanilla Fire’s “The Doc Side” is a guilty-pleasure glimpse into the spoiled and faux-glamorous lives of a certain group of independent hipster filmmakers at the Charlie Chaplin beach bungalows and editing studios on the beach in Los Angeles, California. AKA VB. But there's one old school cat who tanks the neighborhood over - Carborundum Barber. Big Fat Hollywood Head Janet from wardrobe across the street yakking her shit, as Steven puts it. Take us out to the shade of the life-guard towers on the beach... with vagrants and street urchins juxtapose architects and activists battling plastic pollution as they fight to Heal the Bay. [MD] Documentary style format, The Documentarians may have an inborn need to tell compelling stories as a profession which makes no money, but the labor of love inspires us with journeys of current day American heroes. Directors, producers, editors run and gun to capture the spirit of sports stars and war heroes. Again, it's not just pitching the idea to corporate instead of the agency, but pitching the CEO of the company with Snark Tank Steven's uncanny back door approach to closing the deal. Slay that dragon!
Plays in morality or social experiments gone wrong. The Doc Side is a microcosm of the filmmakers and activism that keep this beach town afloat. We are stuck living together, therefore we must get along in this tsunami zone of Venice Beach walk streets. The Academy members’ votes are counted by Ernst & Young and determine if Vanilla Fire gets nominated. It isn’t always fair, and therein lies the fun in that pressure-cooker atmosphere we see the players true character rise to the surface. To put a baby boomer, a generation x and a millennial together on the same journey that are living, working and playing creates an inherent “soap opera” for the audience to watch, and it opens up the young or old viewing audience to a new form of compelling TV.
Money Business. “The Doc Side”’s character Director Steven C. Barber takes on the corporate jungle. The aspiring entrepreneur business maven must work together under the scrutinizing eye of Studio Heads and CEOs. A marketing person will tell you that people will tune into this show to see how Barber delivers his pitch after he comes home from a monster mountain bike ride. True! But the reason viewers find it compelling to watch is because of the specific moments of drama and rejection that come out of situations and challenges that face us all. As in most dramatized pieces, it is a "heightened reality" that makes it entertaining to watch. His creative idea-monkey muse tries failingly to get him to bring spirituality into business, as she tracks synchronicities and tries to crack numerology codes like 11:11 4:04 and 8:08.
Makeover and transformation. A simple and entertaining formula that brought opposite worlds together when a hapless five o’clock shadow devil-may-care desheveled writer with mis-matched socks is thrown to the mercy of a perfectionist former beauty queen fashionista, in hopes of spiffing up his lifestyle and appearance, but it's always a little too "gay" for his taste. The result of bringing these two mismatches together... comedy and quality entertainment. The lynch pin in this show isn't the obvious "comedy that ensues", but the heart strings that the show touches when someone's life is changed for the better. And Tamara just may never come out of her dream world long enough to get away from her captor, who keeps her chained to her desk (with a view of the ocean) making her do screen grabs and print up invoices.
Paradox. Oxy Moron. Diametrically opposed in philosophy and taste. The grass ISN'T always greener when they experience sense of teamwork and family life through someone else's perspective and practices. Vanilla Fire. Serves the Military... Passes the Torch... Continues the Legacy.
Characters we all know: the former beauty queen, the cock strut, the professionally trained clean comedy clown, the bully, the tank, the passive-aggressive sniper, the ego maniac with the inferiority complex, the gossipers, the stretchy pants zombies, the hipsters, etc. Some will already be huge successes, some will have taken turns for the worse, most will be insecure and frustrated. Crazy CATastrophies and Daddy's dog "Jimmy Chew" has PTSD. Night of 100 Stars. Vanilla Fire. New Content For Old People.
Romance: Producers pull drama from specific moments of tension and anticipation between Steven & Tamara. It’s classy, it's caffeinated, it’s romantic, and again- it’s real drama that we’re watching. And one thing that puts it a cut above the rest is that it isn’t necessarily a journey of breaking hearts as much as it is a journey of two people finding true love with each other (that hopefully lasts at least until they can appear on a reality show about divorce). The show romanticizes the long term relationship process and we can't get enough of it. Kiss the frog and voila!
Hidden-camera, like the show Steven was on with Al Michaels “You’ve Been Sacked.” ABC NFL comedy and drama. CIA. Spy.
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Project outline: describing show 3 pages in length:
Groomzie: Great Nephew of Edith Wharton, Oscar Shortlisted Documentary Director, Sports Publicist/Manager, Creative Marketing Ad Man, Sales Closer, Film Financing. Snarky social pungent commentator.
Biodegradable Beach Bride: Daughter of Pentagon Intelligence Bronze Star Recipient, Anchor of Emmy winning TV show, Miss Arkansas USA 1997.
- In this magnetically charming reality tv docuseries based on the popular genre of documentary filmmaking, Director Steven C. Barber and his Muse Tamara Henry are caught in the conundrum of the path to stardom and somehow end up in the land of stretchy pants zombies – the beach side of Los Angeles filled with Santa Mannequins and Venice Beach hippies on their way to yoga and juicing. She lives in the historic old stomping grounds of Charlie Chaplin and has big dreams for a wedding at the old mansion where the Kennedy’s and legendary movie stars hung out with Einstein in the Gold Coast Era. The very edge of California is where they met some memorable friends (Richard Heene The Psyience Detective, Dumpster Bob, Rosie of the Pink Panters and an “adopted” little black boy with no legs, Blake Leeper) and others (Marki Costello, Norby Walters and Ryan Seacrest) on their journey down that long piece of upholstery that leads to a magical land. The Night of 100 Stars. The gatekeeper of Hollywood (the evil greedy one, you know who he is, we’re not saying who) says he can help them make their first feature film and possibly grant their new friends their goals of looks, money and fame (brain, heart and courage.) An Oscar, and Emmy and an Olympic Gold Medal. Depending on which parallel universe you travel down.
- The Road To Oscar. The Road To Rio. The Road To Reality. (You know, it’s made of bricks, kinda paved with gold. Super position theory says all the roads exist all at the same time. Is reality TV really real? Well, what about reality itself? And then there’s Ultimate Reality. Just ask Albert Einstein what he thinks about reality. Why ask him? Because that's what really turns on metaphysical reality TV star Tamara Henry. Metaphysics, and … “being on tee vee” of course. Combine the two, add coffee, and she's off into the stratosphere, contemplating the super position theory of all possible outcomes of her parallel, holographic universe. An alchemical journey of transformation off the periodic table and into the uncharted plastic polluted (enter Marina Debris) waters of the Santa Monica Bay, which uncannily resembles the set of The Truman Show (Tamara is onto them, she knows it’s the Truman Show but she plays along anyway, cuz she’s friendly helpful people like Toyota) and it’s no coincidence that Christoff aka Ed Harris lives there in Malibu next to their own little “Zamperini” cantankerous WWII Vet Leon Cooper, who spends his days being bleeped out &^$&^% (every other word is cock-sucker) and writing books on patents for things like Smoke in a Can, which rivals Richard Heene’s Shake Down. And Heene’s Bear Scratcher. Hey, you scratch my back – I’ll scratch yours. Steven C. Barber is Reality TV Royalty, says Roger Lodge. He was the first reality TV star fresh off the cruise ship wearing an Omega on the legendary Blind Date before Mark Burnett even moved to Los Angeles from the mother ship to The Other Side where he turned green and then was Touched By An Angel. By the way, Steven holds the Guinness World Record for being kicked off more cruise ships than any other love sick bipolar manic-depressive alcoholic sailor. Yes this is The Doc Side, where they are Breaking Reality TV Records (and we’re not talking vinly.) But don’t worry, they are only pretending to be Bad cuz they had to go to 12-step and they already did all that jazz and got sober and all that - so fast forward past the Lindsey Lohan and Robert Downey, Jr drama and pour yourself a sixth cup of coffee. Yes, they are a Caffeinated Cinema Couple with Cute pets. Pagan. Manic Movie Makers. Manic Monday! They use word magic and numerology and the mystery of sex transmutation from chapter 11 of “Think And Grow Rich” to make the magic happen. Elixirs. Coffee. That’s not the coffee talking!
- In his unconventional Steven Spielberg-ish back-door approach to Hollywood, he pops onto the scene and even scares himself with his instant success."
- Tammy grew up at the end of a gravel road in a small town where there was nobody to play with. So all her friends were on television. She is hired as the weeknight news anchor in Little Rock, Arkansas while she is still wearing her Miss Arkansas USA crown (and delivers dirty words on the teleprompter) during the years Bill Clinton is President. She moves to California at the turn of the century and washes ashore on Venice Beach landing in the old apartment building Alec Baldwin used to live in during the 80s. She dries out, heals her inner toxicity while getting a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology while getting break-up counseling from her boss, a Reverend, as she works as his executive assistant in product integration until one day she runs and errand to the Santa Monica Will Rogers Post Office and is spotted by the World of Wilshire, fast talking, deal pitching entrepreneur Steven C. Barber, who sells advertising in a totally contained unchallenged market, the number one sales guy at the Robb Report Luxury Magazine. Things are strange and exciting, but Tamara just wants to break up with the stressed-out over-caffeinated multiple-cell-phone-toting monster-mountain-biking adrenaline-addict. But she just can’t seem support herself through her own contributions so she finds herself stuck. She is stuck but a ambush TV breakup by Shannen Doherty doesn’t stick. She even tried to leave him three times with the help of the good witch Patti Stanger of Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo, but she just couldn’t find a Prince with her Cinderella desperation. And she suffered a botched TV news anchor career boost from the Wicked Witch of the West Marki Costello on “The Drama Queen” on E!
- When a nasty landlord tries to evict them for a bad pet smell in the common area, Tamara takes matters into her own hands, and uses Febreze to spin lemonade out of lemons during the commercial breaks of “Bye Felicia” on VH1.
- A tsunami warning in Venice Beach gives them a wakeup call. Tamara aspires to be America’s Next Weathercaster.
- Tamara turns Steven into a documentary filmmaker at WestDoc. Steven gets 10 Billionaires to write him checks and Vanilla Fire got their start as documentary filmmakers when Mark Burnett wrote them a check for a rough cut for their first film Unbeaten (2010 Oscar Shortlist, Top Ten Olympic Film by TIME magazine.) The movie starred JP Dejoria, and so did the episode of "Metro Motion" which won an Emmy this year - Tamara has been the car free Anchor of Metro Motion for ten years: Metro Motion 2014 Emmy Winning Episode by Tamara Henry 8:34
- Over the past ten years, the filmmaking duo has secretly lived out their entire romantic life on multiple serial reality TV shows (and we’re not talking Wheaties, Lucky Charms and Fruit Loops) starring on different networks.
- The pain and rejection of losing the Oscar leaves Steven and Tamara fighting like cats and dogs “LA Shrinks” on Bravo, after Bridezilla Season 10 left them with cold feet at the altar 4 ½ weeks before their wedding, saying Tamara was not “zilla” enough. They lost the Oscar nomination thanks to the Camille Grammer “Hell Hath No Fury” destruction of the good name of Cheery Kelsey Grammer who had narrated their military documentary which should have beat out Searching for Sugarman and Randy Newman’s “We Belong Together” Toy Story 3. In an attempt to win her heart back, Steven tries to send her to the moon. Jay Leno. Buzz Aldrin. They don’t just want a honeymoon they want a honeyMARS! Shoot for the moon and you will land among the Night of 100 Stars, where Steven proposed to Tamara on the Red Carpet while Bernie Kopell from the Love Boat looked on. Steven was actually living the Love Boat while Tamara was watching it on TV eating her Lucky Charms – and if you are what you eat - fast forward to today and no wonder her life is filled with Suns, Moons and Stars. She interviews the second man on the MOON at the Night of 100 STARS and goes home each night to watch the SUN rise and set over Venice Beach. Maybe it’s just the luck of the Irish, but she meets Kevin Carr from Access Hollywood who gives her the sobriquet “Green T” and they attempt to save the planet before Ed Begley, Jr does. If they can’t heal Tamara’s obsessive-compulsive ADHD idiot-savant, attempt at self-actualization, then they just help the 2010 Miss America Contestants GO GREEN, install the first solar powered blinking stop signs in Santa Monica, Heal The Bay and turn into a Dirty Venice Girl in a nose-blinding attempt to conserve water. Can “Green T” really walk her talk or is she EnvironmentallyIncorrect.com? The granola glam “hot mess” suffers pitiful incomprehensible demoralization when Patti stings her by pointing out her unsuspecting “camel toe” on national television. Tamara turns 40 and she decides to give up on her pointless uterus, and Steven and Tamara “adopt” a little black boy with no legs. Awww how sweet. The mad marketing publicity machine duo transform their little bundle of Bible Belt joy into a super-human bionic sports-star overnight talk-show sensation who takes Nascar, the NFL, the NBA and MLB by storm. Yes the boy is eating his Wheaties but his sports manager Carborundum Barber is on the java juice. And the sweet passion that is Vanilla Fire. Momma T is holding the Light. Hey, that’s not the coffee talking! My bad, exclaims Blake. My blonde, exclaims Tamara. My gaaawd, exclaims Steven. Cut to heavens with Bo Jackson coming down to touch Blake Leeper. Bo Knows. Crack of baseball bat flies out, around globe, to Brazil to the Jesus statue. Momma T.
- Steven C. Barber and Tamara Henry have been on the road to OSCAR since they met in 2004, SECRETLY living out their entire romantic life on 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. Join this producer/director duo as they take America on the Road To Rio August 2016.
- Vanilla Fire is shocked and surprised to be the first reality TV wedding of 2015. Vanilla Fire. Portmanteau.
- Tamara is swept away to a magical land during a tsunami warning and embarks on a quest to find out who the man she married really is. But first she’s gotta kiss this frog!
- Vanilla Fire. The only place old people can get new content. New content for old people. RLN. Night of 100 Stars. Obit. In Memoriam, hosted by Suicide Blonde. Femme Fatale.
- Suns Moons & Stars.
There is magic in the style and format and tone of the show. This is a hybrid scripted parody on real life journey of the holy trinity on the way to see Jesus in Brazil. Flashbacks to black and white painful episodes from childhood along with miserable What The Bleep neurons. When Steven speaks, a Blind Date thought bubble appears over his head.
Steven is old school. Tamara is new age. They are diametrically opposed in philosophy and taste.
It’s complicated!
OMG!
They met before social media even existed. Before Facebook. Before Youtube. They still have the emails from their courtship when these two budding marketing geniuses met. Their mothers had taken great pains to send them to dance class and raised good little self-obsessed narcissistic self-perpetuating over-achieving machines through constant instamatic and Polaroid shutterbug picture taking for the perfect shot to accompany an article in the local newspaper every time they farted.
Their fathers were polar opposites, leaving Steven a bulling tank spit out from Ft. Defiance and Tamara a covert introverted passive-aggressive sniper born her Daddy’s Bronze Star of Pentagon Intelligence. The lion and the lamb. The New York bully and the sweet Southern belle. She’s the yin to his yang.
Ten Years Apart – Ten Years Together. Steven and Tamara have communication issues, need we say, which are obvious apparent in their pathetic attempts at working out their parenting skills on their messy pancake stack of pets. Jimmy Chew has PTSD and will chew your hand off, and was sent to the ER for attacking the stunt man neighbor’s dog Bear. Kozy Mel is autistic but can play a mean game of chess. (We’ll explain later.)
