May 27, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 31 "Candy Cain". Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Writer, Producer, Director and Actor Candice Cain. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening, and welcome to teeTime. Hey, everybody, welcome to
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tea Time. I'm so glad you'rejoining me. It is Monday, May
twenty seventh is Memorial Day. Yes, it is, so a lot of
people are off today. You know, we're remembering all those who served this
country and gave their lives. Andyou know, it's a really important day.
And I got my flag flying,and you know it's a day that
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we should all remember. You knowwhat I mean, This is an important
day. I also want to talkabout my weekend real quick and get to
my in studio guests. Friday,I was actually here for the open mic.
Every Friday night here for an openmic, Bobby. Let's say.
It was beautiful Paradise studios. Youcould do a monologue, you could do
We had an author come down andread a chapter from his book. You
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can do a new material. Ifyou're a comic, you can. We
had someone play the bongos and dopoetry. It's so much fun. It's
like meeting of the entertainment minds.And then Saturday, I was home learning
lines because I was just booked ineight different projects. I'm going to be
very busy over the summer. I'mexcited till September. So I'm learning lines.
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And then Sunday yesterday I went toa couple of barbecues on Dick's Hills.
Then I went to Hicksville. Iwas all over the place with family
and friends, and that's always funto do. I just want to remember,
remind you real quick. Murdered bythe Mob, which Boby's gonna put
up a picture of me playing Bunny. There I am, there's Bunny.
So Murdered by the Mob is thelongest murder mystery show in Manhattan. It's
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been running over thirty years and it'skind of like going to an Italian wedding.
Someone gets whacked and you got tofigure out who done it. Okay,
you eat, you sing, youdance, you drink. It's very
into active and it's so much fun. So go to Murder bythemop dot com
and look up when we have showscoming up. We have shows every month
at the Iron Bar in the Cityand downstairs it's called the Secret Room.
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It's like speak easy. So it'sa lot a lot of fun. All
right, So let me get tomy guest, because I'm so excited.
She's here on Memorial day and inIt's Crazy Crazy Weather Kansas. As she
knows, she's known as Candy Caine, and I love that she's a writer,
director, producer, and actor.And I want everyone to get to
know her, including myself. Becausea mutual friend had recommended her to come
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on the show, we're going tomention him later. So, hello,
welcome to the show. Thank youso much for having me excited your year.
And you are a fellow September babylike me, Yes, September twenty
third, on the sixth. Verynice. Yeah, so I'm excited about
that. So you are in aLong Island girl, yes, right,
born raised on Long Island. Youwent to Bellport High School. I did
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class in ninety four, so that'sthirty years this year. Oh my gosh,
thirty years. How fast does thatgoes? Insane? Yeah, my
kids are I have twins, they'resixteen and they go to Saint Anthony's and
they're wrapping up their sophomore year.So I know, and it's like yesterday,
you just gave birth. It's crazy. My daughter just got married six
months ago, and it's like itwas like I was breaking yesterday. I
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know, it's it's insane. It'sjust insane. How time does I suffest?
And so I know we talked alittle bit before the show, but
high school and school in general couldbe rough with kids with attitudes and jealousy.
And I know when I was inschool, I got bullied a lot.
I got bullied from my height.I got bullied because at a very
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young age I became very developed andyou know, they had some situations in
school. And I know you dotoo, And you started in the entertainment
industry very very young. You startedin pageants or did you start doing No,
I did a lot of theater Idid. I did a ton of
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theater. I modeled, and thenI went into pageants. Yeah, like
when I was I think my firstpageant was in ninth grade and I was
I wont to Miss Miss Metro Hospitalitysomething like that, was a finalist,
and then I did the Junior Misspageant. I did, you know,
a bunch of pageants and then Imodeled. I was the highest paid model
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for J. C. Penny andI was like, yeah, it was
crazy and I got you know,I got picked on bullied a lot too
because of my shot, you know. And then yeah, you know,
and I was on the Mickey mouseclub, and I did, you know,
a bunch of different things. AndI was really into theater, but
I also played softball and baseball andbasketball and all those things. Yeah,
so I just I never had likea clique of friends. I was friends
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with everybody, or you know,I was like kind of a lone wolf
that I just was all around andthose were the kind of you know,
when I had my sweet sixteen,all the different people came from all the
different places. Another tough thing wasmy mom was a teacher at the school,
So yeah, that was rough.She was but she was like,
she's an awesome teacher and everybody lovesher. And if you ask who's you
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know, who had Miss Marada,she is like the best art teacher and
everybody loved her. And I wasterrible at art, terrible at art,
and she was figure, tell meabout it. That's what I say.
I like, figure, I can'tdo it. And my sister was there,
you know, and it was justit was tough. But when you
say you got into theater, wereyou talking about school productions outside both and
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this is something obviously that your momhad to be sure of course behind you
and say yes, I'm gonna takeyou and yes, I'm gonna this is
what you want to do. Sodo you sing as well? You do
musical theater? I do, yeah, musical theater. I do music the
theater. I am. I'm acharacter actress. I used to be a
character actress. I haven't acted ina long time. I stopped acting when
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I got pregnant with the twins becauseyou know, we have fertility issues,
how to go through a whole bunchof different things, and I stopped acting.
And then you know, a coupleof years later, I got behind
the camera. Yeah you know,I lived in l A. Yeah,
you were there, you were there. Let's get let's get back. Yeah,
into you like chronicological audio. Sorry, So it's okay because I want
to know, but I want tomention everything and I don't want to I
don't want to skip anything. Butthe theater thing that that's what you know,
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that's what you were doing. Andthen you know, when you graduated,
you actually studied. Well before Igraduated, I was doing professional theater.
I was doing like community and professional. I did Gateway, Oh yeah,
Gateway theater. I was with likeplaycrafters. I was the only student
that was actually cast in as acommunity theater and Playcrafters. And then when
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I was in college, i'd comehome. I mean, I did a
lot of stuff in college. Iwas in contact and me of the State,
and I started my own theatrical companydown there. You did, you
did? You? You went toGeorge Washington University and you studied. You
got a BA in Dramatic literature,and you wrote while you were there.
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You wrote direct it and produced threestage plays, what Happened Last Night from
Muda Triangle and Stay Correct. Andthen you also studied creative writing. Yes,
I actually was the only student tograduate with three miners, so I
had. It wasn't on purpose,it was because I changed it. I
changed my majors seven times, muchto my mom's chagrete. So I had.
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Uh, I had a BA inDramatic Literature with miners in English,
dater and creative writing. Wow.So, but did you always know,
like deep in the back of yourhead that you wanted to write this is
what you wanted to do? Well? I always wrote anyway. I mean
I wrote my first full play orfull movie script when I was nine years
old at Brockaven Elementary School, calleda Journey to Chocolate Land, and we
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ended up it was did Enrichmond withMissus Steiner, and I remember like Canis
Minyani, Sean White, Mike depre Wal Mujoka and we actually put it
on and they filmed it and itwas it was really it was just really
cool. So I've always always alwayswritten like, you know, very cool
people, like there are people thatare like they're addicted to chocolate, chocoholic.
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My mom loves chocolate, yeah,or you know some people just like
have vices. My vice are notebooks. And I know that sounds crazy,
but you can go into my carright now and I have like six notebooks
tucked in. And my daughter didn'tknow it. To get me for Mother's
Day this year, She's like,your mommy, here's a pretty notebook.
And I was like, oh,yes, but I I love notebooks.
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And even when actors. If anactor buys me a notebook as a parting
gift, like Adam Adam has justgot me, when Jason Frederick got me
one a couple of people got megift, it reminds me of them,
and then I end up writing ascript with them as that lead character.
So it's it's fun. So nowlike the Secret got out that I you
know, I get notebooks and allof a sudden, I write roles for
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actors, like for people that connectto It's great. It was great,
but you always you were always infront of the camera until you decide it
like later on, like you said, you know you had your kids,
But how old were you when youfirst first performed? Like, I know
you were young, but do youremember how old you were? Actually were
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seven? Yeah, I think itwas seven. Wow. And do you
dance as well? Because you knowthe theater, you usually have toy So
if I get choreography, yeah,I am a triple thread or like what
used to be. I used tobe a triple threat. It's been a
while, but if you give mechoreography, I can follow the chore I
do tap dance. I know atap you know a stage door school of
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Dance with Miss Jean was there andthe Giatinos and Mary the daughter she took
over her mom's Diane's business, andyeah, you know, I learned to
dance there. But I was nevergraceful. My mom actually called me grace
because it was like sarcastic. Sobut yeah, I did, you know,
like I did, anything goes andI was. I was Charity and
anything goes So I tap danced andyou know, all those different shows.
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I was Maggie and dancing at Lunisa. So I did the Irish step dancing.
So if you give me choreography,I can hold my own. I'm
not a rocket or anything. I'man act hind dance. Well, actually
I didn't have the height for that. No, I do have the height.
Yeah, no, it was gonnatake me for So let's talk about
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so you did pageants for a while. Did you do that into you know,
all through high school? Not really, I don't know. I don't
remember how many I did. Idid a few. I did one like
I was Miss California at one pointwhen I lived out there. But J.
C. Penny, that's a that'sa that's a crapload print work.
Well, actually I was Runway.I did run with really, yeah I
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did. I was spin. Iwas modeling all over like all their trades,
all their buyers shows and whatever.I almost fell off the runway once
I did it. I did aspin. The music was too fast and
I did a spin. I didn'trealize it was like right at the end,
I caught myself. Oh my God, thank god. That's like,
that's like, I think that's amodel. If I was seventeen, I
wanted to die. I wanted tojust die. But yeah, I did
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a lot of runway because of myheight and I was I was much thinner
back then. And you know,it was a fit model. I've done.
You know, I did commercial uhprint, you know, that's so
so was fun. I did stuntswhen I was older. I know you
mentioned that stunts. That's that's awesome, that's that's crazy. Did you have
to because they have stunt schools?Did you go to a school? No?
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It was pretty much like can't you'rethe only one who could fit the
harness. No, get in theget in the helicopter. You're the only
one who could fit the harness.And it's like okay, And they stuck
me in the helicopter on this moviethat I worked on, and they gave
me somebody else's harness to hold.It was such a dangerous set. I
was twenty years old. I neversee age. Right, in hindsight,
I'm like that that probably wasn't agood idea. I could have dropped the
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guy to his death because the helicopterwas hovering over the Swamp. Wow.
And I'm not gonna say what movieit was, but if you look at
my IMDb, you'll be able tobe like, oh, I know what
she's talking about. So you knowit was crazy speaking about IMDb. Woman,
you got a lot of creds.I mean, you've been doing this,
like you said, a long long, long time. And you know
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you mentioned the The Mickey Mouse Clubthat was back in ninety three. I
know, thanks for reminding me ofmy age though appreciate it. It's okay.
I'm so much older than you,it doesn't matter. But you had
you you know, you you wereout in California. You mentioned that before.
And while you were out there,obviously you did some shows out that
you did Ally mcbeel. I wasa dance captain on Ali mcbeel. See
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that. There you go, thereyou go. That's where the dance came
in Angel America, sweetheart. Hedid stunts on Angel. I did stunt
seventy show R not another teen movie. Let me tell you. Can I
talk about it? Yeah? Yeah, Because you never know where you're where
your inspiration is going to come from, where your mentors are going to come
from. And I I was cast. This is Actually how I joined the
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Union was Sage was on another teenmovie and the role was it was actually
cut from the film, which isfine, which is fine, but it
was basically Jamielen Presley's character. Itwas the cheerleader tryouts and one of the
cheerleaders has tourette syndrome, who wasplayed by Joanna Garcia. And there are
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a couple of other girls and Iwas one of the other girls, and
they wanted me because I was thebiggest one, like tallest one, and
I was larger than these little skinnyblink girls. I was like a size
eight, I know. So itwas she goes fat, ankles, fat
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something and points at me and goesoutrageously fat elbows. You can't get fat
on your elbows, and that wasthe joke. So but but that was
the joke. So Joel Gallon,who I think he just won an Emmy
for Chris Rock or a Golden Globefor Chris Rock's thing, Joel the eighty
came over to me and he's like, hey, the director wants to talk
to you. And I was likeokay, and brought me over to Joel
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and he introduces like I am JoelGallen, I'm the director. He's listen,
there's this role. It's like,I don't want you to think that
I think you're fat. I don'twant you because listen, do you know
how many directors I've worked with,And this man went above and beyond to
treat He didn't know who I was. I was just some little extra and
he pulled me up and he wasso kind and he was just he so
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open, and I was like,I'm gonna be like him, like if
I ever become a director. Andnow look at me, you know,
I just finished my twentieth movie.Like I always always always think of Joel
Gallan with love and respect, andlike he doesn't you know, we're friends
on Facebook, but I'm sure hedoesn't remember me from Adam, but he
made such an impression on me.Just to get you don't know who you're
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gonna impact, you gotta be kindand like I always think about that,
and I always think about how kindJoel was to me, just a little
nobody, you know, but hetreated me like I had feelings, which
I did, and I wouldn't havethought anything of it because you know,
as an actress, you know,because I I'm able to compartmentalize. It's
like my superpower. But he waslike, I don't want you to be
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offended. I don't think you're fat. It's a joke. You're gonna be
the butt of the joke. I'mlike awesome. He's like really, and
I'm like yeah, he's like great, you were a sack. No,
it was awesome and I did it. It was cut from the movie,
but it was just fine. ButI was I worked on that movie.
Man, I got my sad cart. It was it was great. It's
good. That's good. All goodthings came out. Yeah, and you
know, but but honestly, Joel, I just he was just he deserves
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nothing but but good things. Yeah. He was just great. And his
son is doing really well. Andlike I follow him on Facebook and just
keep tabs and I send him amessag. I'll send him a message tonight
and be like, hey, here'sthe link, and yeah, yeah,
talking about I send it to everyonebecause you know who we mentioned ill you
know, I'll send the show to. But hey, listen, we have
to take my first break, Bobby. We're gonna play that thing later when
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we mentioned him, it doesn't makesense to play it now. So well,
uh, well, we'll move backright after this. Don't go away.
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
making. It. To see thatimpact in my community inspires me to work
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even harder for everyone around me.All right, everybody having that's what I
thought a pad Studio York, giveyourself a round for plus coming out tonight.
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Well, Hi there, Teresa.It's Jian Yorke from General Hospital.
I am just checking in because apparentlyyou have a great talk show called Tea
Time on Strong Island TV. Iwant you to have continued great success and
have a lot of fun. Itsounds like you're having a lot of fun
and that's pretty much the key toeverything, isn't it. So continued success.
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I'm proud of you. Have agreat day, Teresa. Bye,
Hey everybody, welcome back to TeaTime. I'm so glad for you're joining
me. Thank you. John Yorkfrom General Hospital, he is hopefully going
to return to gh The man's beenbattling cancer for a while and you know,
continue prayers for him and rescuing families. Gina and Vinnie. They are
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a non prop and they help peoplerenovate their homes with disabilities. Look them
up. It's a great organization.I am excited. She's a writer,
director, producer, actor, CandiceCandy Caine is here. She's in the
house, and I'm just so excitedthat she's here. She's has an amazing
an amazing resume and a great storyto tell. And we were talking before
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the break of you know, IMDband what cred she had and that she
went out to California and came backobviously, and she's done things like CSI,
and she did Malcolm in the Middleand dead Wood, and it just
goes on and on and on andon and on. There's like just a
plethora of things. And then we'regoing to talk about what she wrote and
directed. But in the meantime,in twenty fifteen, you actually became the
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founder and CEO of your own productioncompany called Jamela Jamelli Jamelle, sorry,
Jamelle means twins and Italian. Ah. Okay, yeah, all one hundred
percents of scillion. I should knowthat consider Twins is a matter with you
up there right. Jamelli films basicallyfor independent filmmakers, and what I love
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is that it's an all female productionteam that you work with, the decision
makers and producers huge. I mean, listen, I have Kevin Ye and
Joe Pasani who are my right andleft and there. Joey is like my
sound group. One's post. Kevinis my creative director, but Pam Steinland
is my executive producer. Now I'mworking Amy Mint or Amy Irons, Kristin
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Martino, like They're all people thatI just adore. And you know what,
I started my company because as awoman, I was just tired of
waiting for permission. And I said, you know what, good my husband
had been in a colma the yearbefore, and he's fine, you know,
but I said, you know,life's too short, and I am
tired of asking permission and waiting aroundfor somebody to be like, you know
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what, you can make your movie. And I said, I'm going to
make my own. And we justfinished and that was twenty fifteen good and
we just celebrated. We just wrappedmy twentieth film, last amazing meet God
blessed not creating the three TV shows. Oh my gosh, listen, we
have a picture because I put upeveryone's picture when they first start out.
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I can't wait to see this.Yeah, okay, and I'll come up
a s the one of me justlike Darth Vader. Oh okay, now
I could. I could send youanother picture that was actually two usual.
Yeah, I'll throw up everyone's blackand white because that's how we did it.
Back. When we're wrapped here,i'll show you my black my very
baby's first head shot. Really wrapup. Oh my god, I can't
wait to see it. But yeah, we did black and white headshots,
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Yes, we did. Day Iactually just posted we had to throwback,
and I throw back Thursday. Iput up a pick of me at Carolines
when I did Carolines for the firsttime, in between the acting gigs comedy,
and everyone's like that's you, yes, like nineteen ninety five or something.
It's crazy. But then I havethe black of white pick and everyone's
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like wow. I'm like, yeah, no one does black away. You
know. Adam Husker, his friendof mine. I just saw that picture
yesterday and he texted me and he'slike, Candy, I was looking something
up, damn, and I'm likeit was so. For those of you
don't know, because I'm a hugeGeneral Hospital fan. I'm watching since high
school. Adam plays Nicholas Cassadine andhe is in your film. A couple
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of them, A couple of them, which which we're gonna mention, but
thank you, and uh, thepicky after that, put up the pick
after that, because you know,god, by bye, Candy Caine and
I love I love this picture.There there he is, there, he
is. I love that picture.It is so I love it. I
just love it. So you startedcalling you Candy? How did that happen?
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Well, okay, well that's thatpicture to shout out Lauren Halliseelly from
a Moment in time photography out onLong Island, and yeah, Pank did
all those photos for me. She'samazing. Her son is my son's best
friend. She's she's all. ButI'm I married a man named Kane.
Like his last name is Caine.And I had one friend that called me
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Candy in college and it was like, okay, well you got to be
called Candy Cane. I actually,when I acted, I had a character
that was a weathercaster. I didimprov, yes, and she was like
the weatherman weather girl wherever. Hername was Candy Caane, you know,
And it was just a joke.And I ended up marrying my husband.
If you hyphenate me, my usban'scook some cocaine and so my entire wedding
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invitation because I also lived on CrystalRock when I got married, So my
entire wedding invitation was on the Janlenoshow girl. I know. Oh my,
so I got told. Back intwenty eighteen, Amy Minter and I
went to mipcom, which is thisbig buyer's conference, and we went and
I met with somebody from Real OneEntertainment, this wonderful woman named Anna,
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and she goes, your name isCandy Cane. Why are you not making
Christmas movies? And I'm like themoment and then well, you know,
and then I had funding come in, Like somebody came to was like,
hey, i'll give you funding.What can you do? And you told
me how much? And I waslike, I want to do a Christmas
movie. He's like yeah, Sowe made Ivy and Mistletoe. Wow,
and it just kind of the CandyCane yeah, yea, yeah, yeah,
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to speak. Wow, that's that'sit's it's wild, it really is.
But I wanted I wanted to justmention your your production company, because
it's really wholesome entertainment, which youknow, we definitely need more of these
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days, you know, for theentire family to sit around together as a
unit, which is not done likewe used to years ago, and watch
something that's that's family friendly and everyonecan watch together. Uh. So basically,
you know, you do classic romanceto modern dramas, and I love
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how it's written that you take transitiontraditional values and you put them in contemporary
uh storylines, which which I love. And again it's they feel good movies,
you know what I mean, Likeyou leave feeling good and and I
love movies like that. I mean, like who doesn't you know there's enough
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blood and gore and and and moband cursing and you know, and but
there aren't too many movies like that, you know. But I will say
also with because we have done acouple of you've done horror. You've done
horror, but there's no sex,there's no cursing, you know, there's
but there's no need to be right, I agree. It just shows you
that you don't need it, youknow what I'm saying. Peekaboo is awesome.
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That's the one because you know,my mother always said to me,
what makes a horror movie really scaryis the music, because if you shut
the volume off right, you're justnot that scary. Correct, But it's
the it's the music composer, especiallyfor those hards. The one that I
usually work with is John Sopulvida,and he lives out here on Long Island,
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and the guy is unbelievable. He'sjust he just is a savant.
And the music he comes up with, he makes his own instruments, he
makes his own sounds. He's wild. Wow. And yeah, he's he's
just incredible. Well, you wrotea crapload of movies, like a crapload,
and you you started out with shorts, isn't unspoken? Oh oh that's
okay, Yeah, that's that wasfrom a film festival. It's not it's
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not like I set out for ashort. Ok that was the Disability Film
Challenge. I wouldn't. Yeah,that was like a lot of hood.
It was also another film. Sothose are and and I'm just correcting you.
I'm not trying to be no,no, no, because there are
people like Tara Westwood is a friendof mine who made this short that like
shorts can win Oscars, and like, yeah, they you know, definitely
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like their high budget. I madeUnspoken for sixty eight dollars because I bought
pizza for everybody, you know whatI mean. So it was it was
an exercise. The same thing withNeighborhood. It was like one of those
forty eight hours where they're like,here, you have to make a three
to five minute film and you haveforty eight hours to do it. So
like what a challenge. That is, right, and it's fun and it's
an exercise, But I wouldn't callit a short because people do and I
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can't write short films. I havetried to write chils. I am too
verbose and I just I'm not goodat it. So that's why I'm that's
incredible. I don't want to takesomething that other people can did, But
you still did it. Hello,But you've done a comedy what Happened last
Night? You did every Little ActAction, Every Little Actor was a short
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film series. Yeah. Yeah,you did New Dogs Old Tricks TV show
YEP, and you also produced anddirected that as well. Right, and
a Little Cupid. You did TVseries Ivy and Missiletoe. Uh, this
with the Christmas movies Joy and Hope, Deck the Heart Now Deck Pot won
an award, right, I thinkit won an award. And our friend
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Al Sapienza always in that, soyou know I'm gonna send them this.
Yeah, he love loved doing it. I love all love doing it.
I love it too good people.Yeah, I think we won. Uh,
you want something? I think Iwant to tell you award for that?
Okay. I think I won theBronze Telly for that. Okay,
you did, and you know wegot a nomination the Young Artist Academy Award
nomination. Two of our girls,Alison Mallani and Ren Taylor, both got
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nominated for that. You did themiss uh the Maltese Holiday. You did
Baking Up Love, Hearts and theBaking Up Love. My daughter actually played
the lead in that, and shewon the Young Artist Academy Award in twenty
twenty two for her role in thatWow, and she's currently nominated for twenty
twenty three for a role in santaSecond Wife and Ensemble and Santa's Second Wife,
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and twenty twenty four for a leadrole in Prank Squad. Oh my
god, that's innate. And myson is nominated for Prank Squad too.
The following the faily, No,I don't think they'll do it. They
do it because you know, Imean, I treat them like employees,
like some money, all right,you gotta work, you gotta work for
it. And also Hearts and Vinealso won a music Yeah, that one.
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I think that that one. Yeah, John won that one and a
bunch of musicians. But John wasat the helm for that, John Supulvida,
and I think that one the bronzeTelly also for use of music.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, you did a Holiday Homecoming, which
was a TV movie Magic. That'sthe first movie. Holiday Homecoming was our
first movie to get dubbed into Spanish. Was released in Guatemala last year on
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English. And the Magic and Halleand that one is silver Telly Welcome to
Hope, which was a TV series. You also directed and also acted in
that one. Yeah, but thatwas because the actress didn't show up that
day and we needed somebody who couldbe just like car Maria Sarbello and her
(30:00):
mannerisms because it was her mother.But it was meant to be that Yeah,
so I did look at things.You know, things happen for a
reason, that's for sure. Anda couple of people were on the short
list for the Emmy Awards. Weweren't nominated, but a couple of actors
got on I know rayshawna te Barklift, which was awesome and that Welcome to
Hope. I believe we won aBronze Telly for Best Drama. Nice.
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Twenty twenty two, you did Santa'sSecond Wife, Yes, I Love It,
which was a movie. Twenty twentythree Prank Squad, Yes, I
love that one. That was myfavorite experience. That was my favorite experience.
I wasn't working with the kids.Twenty twenty four, he did Holiday
in the Hamptons, which was alsoa TV movie. But you know you've
well that's not out yet. No, it's not in Hampton. It hasn't
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been released yet. No, butit's complete. Yeah, I mean I
have several I have Christmas for three, Holiday and the Hamptons and Royal Runaways,
which we did in twenty three,and then at the end of twenty
three we did a jarful of Christmasand this year we did Christmas at the
Interlock in Yes, I have that. I have that right here, and
(31:07):
we just finished I just got thetrailer for that, so that's be released.
And then we've got Peekaboo and wejust finished the wedding Bell. Yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, we'regoing to talk about that too, all
right, but wait before we talkabout that, please don't go away.
Oh and thank you everyone for watchingthe show. Please like it. I
appreciate you watching because I know it'sa holiday. We're going to be back
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Kindis, Dracy Farwrell. Make sureyou follow Teresa on Facebook. Tee Time
with Teresa Knnis, Dracy Fowrell.We'll see you there the way you say
my name. Hey, everybody,welcome back to tea Time. Thank you
for watching and sharing and enjoying.I'm with Candace Candy Cane. She's a
writer, producer, director, Actor'sdone She's done it all and she just
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finished her twentieth film, Twentieth films. It's incredible, you know, like
she said, you know, yougotta take the boob of the horn.
Sometimes you have to make things happenfor yourself. You can't just wait and
you can't knock on boys. Yougotta kick him in. And that's and
that's what she's just gotta give you. Timing though, because oh, well
this didn't happen overnight. Well no, no, no, because in twenty
fifteen we shot my first movie,yes, and then we did a spin
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off series, New Dog's Old Tricks. Yes. And the week after we
finished the pilot was my fortieth birthday, okay, and I tripped in New
York City over the sidewalk and Ishattered my ankle. I collapsed the marrow
in my bone. I was outfor a year and a half. Wow.
So I've made nineteen films since Aprilof twenty nineteen. So that's nice
things in five years. You're amachine, Yeah, we are. We
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are well oiled machine. It's takenme a lot of people, and we
still have, like you know,rotten apples that get yeah yeah, yeah,
no, I've got a really greatI totally get it. Well,
so you have some that complete here, you did Royal Runaways, Christmas for
three, A jaw Full of Christmas. You've directed all these two double booking
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that's coming up. We start shootingthat next month, okay, and Christmas
at the interlocking with trailer's coming outand mentioned Peek a Boo, which you
mentioned Wrath and Mirituals that you directed. So we have the the poster Bobby
of the wedding Bell, which isgonna put up. There's the wedding bell
(35:07):
poster now. So this just completeda couple of weeks ago. And so
you have Eric roberts in that washis beautiful wife. Yes, oh they
are they are. No, that'sno, that's not that. That's Monica.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's Ericand Monica. Sorry, that's my
production manager. That's the picture.That's Eric Adam. Okay, Monica gets
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around taking pictures. I'm sorry,I have to correct that. Yeah,
they'll get a kick out of Monicawill be thrilled. Monica is everywhere and
takes care of me, so that'sjust appropriate. She is the Louise to
my Thelma. So it's good Ihave one of those two. So you
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just completed two weeks ago. Sothe wedding Bell is with Eric and his
wife and an Adam hust like Imentioned, he's he's Nicholas Caston in General
Hospital now fabulous actor. And whileyou were filming, he found out that
Eric and his wife never had awedding, I know, and you said,
I'm gonna throw them in the wedding. I did, and like,
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within twenty four hours, you puttogether this incredible last minute wedding like nothing.
If you want a twenty four hourwedding, you gotta do one.
She's the one to call. Andyou had it at the Baiting Hollow fom
Venue correct and they've been married thirtyone years. Yeah, so how wild
was? It was amazing? Itwas you know, I love Eliza to
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pieces. I've worked with her onso many films and she was just twiling
in this dress and it was thisbeautiful flowy dress from Sable bridle Ye and
I was like, you know,you look so pretty. She's like,
I've never worn a wedding dress.I'm like, wait, wait, wait,
wait what She's like, yeah,we never had a wedding and she's
like, my first time, mightdidn't wear what? I was like,
Eliza, what do you mean?She was well? Eric and I we
just you know, signed the papersand it very and I'm like, do
(36:59):
you want to have a wedding tomorrow? And she's like, oh my god,
really and I'm like that is I'llplan you a wedding. Well.
I used to be a destination weddingplanner, so I said all right,
I said, I'm gonn plan youa wedding. And I got on the
phone. I contacted Dominique Baiting Hallof Farm Vineyards, Steve Kelly and they're
like, we're on it, andthey got like a charcouterie company involved,
and they got they gets are calledvegan because they're vegan. You're Eliza's vegan,
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and they got It was amazing.It was just amazing. And Jace
I was a maid of honor ormatron of honor. Joey Pisani was Eric's
best man. Kevin Yee walked herdown the aisle. These are all people
that work read well. Jason wasordained and it was hilarious and and she
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invited her family to come in andwe had the crew and then we had
wine at the vineyard and we hadcharcuterie boards which were just magnificent. All
that food was so it was.It was fun and and we had a
second dress that she got in andI'm also black, gave Erica tucks to
wear. It was crazy, andJason had a tuxsman to muscle black and
(38:05):
Tom Greco over there. Just unbelievable. And uh, Gina from jac Beauty.
Yeah, you know, that's justlike a priceless moment. It was
great. You know, you'll neverforget. Yeah, Tom Limbuie Eli hot
Shots just sent me all the pictureson my way here. Oh that is
so cool. It was wild.It was pretty wild. So that's that's
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wrapped. Yes, right, you'vedone like a post production. David Pollard
he's out in Vegas and he's doingour editing on that one. So he's
gonna, you know, piece ittogether for us. Yeah, put it,
make it the magic happen in theediting. Sure. Oh wow.
Let me ask you a question.I know you love you love to film
a Loong Island and that's basically whereyou do most of your filming. Yeah.
(38:46):
Okay. We have a movie comingup at the end of the year
called Mocha and Mistletoe and it's inColorado. You go momdadmovie dot com for
details and a guy named Eric Martinezwho's Java Dad life on to talk approach
me and we're going out there justto Colorado, but everything else will be
on the island. Wow. Great? And how I mean, look,
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I know you've been doing this fora short amount of time, but and
you are a resident out there,So is it easier now for you to
find locations to film? Was itstill a little challenge? Well, I
mean locations is always challenging, whetheryou're a resident or not. You know,
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I have an incredible locations manager namedGabrielle Pickele, who I love.
I've known her for she worked onIvy and Mistletoe with me on my first
Christmas movie, and she's just she'sincredible. And she and Monica who whose
pictures you saw, work together,you know, to do this. But
you know, it's not like I'mCandy Cane and I'm gonna use you.
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It's you know, no. Butbecause you've you've I'm sure you've had repeat
locations. Yeah, oh yeah,when the door like, hey can I
come back? Yeah? But it'sbecause we like the people, you know,
for example, well Bating Hollow FarmVineyard. It's it's not just this
small little winery with a tasting room. We didn't even use the tasting room
this time. They have this gorgeousbarn now with its set up, and
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then they have like the outside andthey have it's just such a marvelous piece
of property. You know. Weuse Georgio's, we use all these different
things. And something I really liketo do is put money into the local
community. You know. I've mycompany has put in about three million dollars
since we started into the local communityhere. And I was just named another
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power Woman of the East Ends secondyear in a row, which is awesome,
you know, and I'm very proudthat I'm able to put money into
the community. Like I'll go toAirbnbs instead of a hotel chain, right,
more like mom and pop, right, So, you know, people
really like that, and I do. I try to use them by name
if I can. Like Georgio's,we use East Wind, we used yeah,
(40:51):
yeah, and and like a shotof it just so people. Yeah,
people know, and then they go, oh, that looks nice.
I'll look it up. It's calledtelevision tourism. That's something that's done.
It's almost like product place exactly.It's brand integration. And then you know
they're like, oh, I wantto go check that out, and it's
actually a real place right right right, And and people like that, they
like that, like they which whenthey watch something and they're like, oh,
(41:14):
yeah, I want to you know, go there, right And sometimes
so example, story Brook Maine Onceupon a Time is like one of my
favorite TV shows, like narrative TVshows, and you people have gone to
try to find Storybrook, Maine,but it's not Storybrook Maine. It's shot
at the studios in Vancouver. Youknow. So if you're going to go
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see Baiting Hallo Farm vineyard, guesswhat you're going to be able to go
into the barn where these characters gotmarried. Yes, that's cool. Yeah,
to stand where they were, standthere, you know, like that
and take pictures where they are.You know, it's a lot of fun.
And I do everything that I canto get that placement because I also
want to drive you know, businessto them because they're good people and the
people that let us come into theirlocations to film. You know, I
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want to make sure that they're notonly benefiting from us for paying them,
but that it's residual. So that'sthat's something I try really, really really
hard to do. You're very awareof it. Yeah, yeah, no,
that's that's great. Why should Hollywoodbe the ones getting all the money
and getting all the tours? Butyou're right, Why you're right? You're
right? Where can't it be inyour own backyard? Right? And Long
Island is so great. I meanyou have the South Shore with the sandy
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beaches, you got, the NorthShore with the rocky beaches, the north
Shore with the cliffs, you gotthe show shore with the ocean, you
got you know, everything in between. Okay. I love shooting here because
you can make it look like anywayanywhere you really can. Yeah. I
like you're right, especially in thesummer when you find when you find palm
trees. Right, you're driving andyou see palm trees and you're like,
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oh wow, that's really cool,right, and you know and then you
could do you know right, Well, that's where we're shooting Heavy Hitters here
in August. And yeah, HeavyHitters is a baseball film, a series,
a series series, and she's casting, right, I am so on.
You can go to Can I givethe email the website? Yes,
give the website heavy hitterstv dot com. Okay, we're looking for guys.
(43:07):
That can actually play baseball. Yes, because I think that the reason that
baseball series fail is because they don'tfocus on baseball. They focus on politics
because they're like, oh, peopleare gonna wat it because it's baseball,
and then it's like all of thispolitical agenda garbage. And my show focuses
on the mechanics of baseball. It'sabout an MLB pregraft combine. Well not
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MLB, it's just a Major Leaguepre draft. I have to talk to
MB to see if I can getin there. I've worked with them before
and I have a couple of connections. Yeah, I'm blame me up.
Yeah. So so we have theseauditions and I have to cast three hundred
and forty six baseball players. Yeah, okay, that's just the players,
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and like I think sixty eight ofthem have lines, and we have featured
and like every single person and there'ssomething you'll notice with my shows. Every
single person that appe years on cameragets a credit because I believe that if
you even step on camera, youdeserve a credit, because how are you
going to build? Like, youcan't have an empty street? So I
want to know who my pedestrians are. Yeah, they deserve the credit because
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they were there and they worked fortwelve hours. Twelve My first step,
my first day on Deadwood was twentytwo hours. It was a nightmare.
But people deserve credit. They needto be acknowledged for what they do.
So, you know, but withHeavy Hitters, I need people that know
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baseball. Yeah, it's the bottom. I know a few people. I
know a few people because yeah,because there's something I'm in, call bat
boy and give me a recle sowe'll see magic. Yeah, you go
to Heavy Hitters TV dot com.Yeh, you fill out the form.
It's Wednesday. There are three sessionsand then finals from six to ten,
Greg Alfanofield and Patchog. And you'restill looking for an AMT to be on
(44:59):
set. Yes, I do needan EMT nurse. Anyone out there who
wants this to be a medic forthe day, pymedic just to hang out
with the other day. There yougo out with some baseball players, so
get a credit in the show asas medic. There you go, there
you go, oh lovely, Hey, listen, we're gonna take our last
break. And before we do,we got a special person to say something
(45:22):
real quick about Paradise Studios. We'llbe back after this Strong Island television.
I love that one woman was everythingto little girls, especially that looked like
(45:47):
me. She stands for being avoice for people that need a voice.
My organization renovates homes for people withdisabilities, and when I come home self
care routine makes me feel my best. I'm very proud of the difference that
we're making. It. To seethat impact in my community inspires me to
(46:07):
work even harder for everyone around me. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa from
teen Times. What's my show about? I interview people in the entertainment industry,
producers, directors, actors, andguess what My show is on every
Saturday morning at ten am on Channeltwenty on Optimum TV. So tune in
(46:34):
because it's fun, interesting and exciting. Nah. Who's the best comedian you
know? Tera Barrow? And whoyou know? Jisa Barrow? Radio Kreisa
(46:58):
Barrow? Who's your favorite guinea rightnow? Teresa Farrow? All right,
I love you, love you.We're back. Hey, welcome back to
tea time. This goes so fast, but I'm so excited. You know,
Candice Candy Kane is here and sheis a producer. She's a writer,
(47:22):
director, actor, form a modeland back anymore. No, she's
more behind the camera now, writingand directing. That is that is like
your wheelhouse. Yes, and anduh, we're just having a blast here
and I'm so glad. Thank shoutout to Alice at Pienza for saying,
(47:43):
get that woman on your show.Love you. She's great. He's he's
up in Canada now too. Soso, like I said, she she's
done so many things, written somany movies, done so many movies since
twenty nineteen. How many movies sincetwenty nineteen, nineteen nineteen that is seen
movies and television two television shows.Incredible, incredible. So I want everyone
(48:06):
to follow her, know what she'sdoing. You know, she's having these
casting calls. You have to knowhow you can find out. So it's
Kansas Kane on Facebook. Okay,it's Kansas t Kane on Insta and Twitter.
It's Mom the Villain on TikTok He'sso not a villain. Jamelly Films
on Instagram also, and then thewebsite is jamellifilm dot com and you could
(48:31):
go there and there's just so muchinformation. And like she said, right
now she's having auditions. She needsthree one hundred and forty six men from
the ages of like eighteen to twentythree ish who can play ball. Okay,
in the tryouts of the twenty ninthOkay, so go to her Facebook
(48:52):
page. All the information things there, you fill out the form, show
up with your mitya right, justbring your own TV dot com sign up
and you'll get an email from Amyand uh I actually sent it to Carmine
who Cammine is in bat Boy YankeeMiracle with me. So I just sent
it to him. So hopefully I'lltext them and he'll he'll look for it
(49:14):
again. And you're gonna be starting. You to be filming August nineteenth to
the twenties. No, no,that's just that's just the first episode.
That's just the first August to October. Okay. Yeah, it's we're doing
six episodes or six hour long episodes, and it's going straight through straight.
Yeah. It's really very excited.Did you have a play softball as a
kid? Oh? I did,Yeah, I played soft baseball yeah yeah
(49:37):
yeah yeah, so and I likeI really know baseball, like really really
really well, like the mechanics,so growing up what fan we are?
Mets? Come on, Well,I'm originally from Queens. Ye, so
yeah, actually exact, you likeyou're the you're a Yankee fan, Well,
I'm I'm a New York fan.Oh, I'm a New York fan.
But no, originally it's Mets.It's Mets. Okay, then then
(49:58):
you stay Mets. Can you bea fan brother your Mets. You believe
blue and Orange. You can't goto the Yankees. No offense, Yes,
network, I understand, but Ido. But if listen, if
that, if the Yankees are playingand they're playing against Boss, and I'm
not rooting for Boss, see,I like three teams. Okay, I
like the Mets and anybody playing theYankees. Okay, yeah, it goes
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that connection. No, it's fine. No, Honestly, my director of
photography dad was a Met fan.I grew up a Met fan. Pat
Zachary, who played with the Mets, who was a pitcher, lived around
the corner from me in Baside,So yeah, I mean I grew up
in me. But my my directorof photography on Heavy Hitters, or Land
Junior, actually he used to pitchhis he is a massive Yankees fan,
(50:45):
and we just we go at it. Well, you know, I had
Doc Gooden on my show, andhe was both. I pitched against Doc
Goodin, did I did? Ipitched against her? You know he is
only an island now. Just tolet you know, listen, Okay,
I'm him. I want to gethim. I want to get him on
my show on Heavy Hitters. Allright, I can make a call.
Let me tell you. I pitchedagainst Dwight Goodin in twenty eleven. My
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friend Wendy Mercado was with me.I was invited to a fantasy game and
he let me throw a fast oneon him, and I kid you not,
I got a strike on him andthen he had a triple off me.
But it was like better than mywedding. It was incredible. Yes,
and I was just at his retirementceremony. No, it was Yeah,
I love I love him on myFacebook doctor man. Yes, I
(51:30):
would die. I would die tohave Dwight good In in Heavy Hitters as
one of the coaches we'll get Iwould die. I'll tell you after the
show how we're going to get him. We have like three minute left.
What do you want to talk about? Are you? Are you working on
anything else other than Heavy Hitters?And and oh wait hello, yes we
have to talk about Hello, you'realso the owner of Kane Casting. Oh
(51:53):
well, King Casting Talent Management.Honestly, I kind of stopped doing that
COVID. I still get people,you know, contacting me for casting calls
and okay, but you know,once COVID hit, and it was all
of those, but it wasn't justthat. It was a lot of you
know, and I'm not trying tobe controversial here, but it was like
(52:15):
you weren't allowed to work on showsif you didn't get the vaccine, and
a lot of parents wouldn't get theirkids a vaccine. Yes, And I'm
not going to pressure parents and givethem opportunities because hey, like that was
not okay. There were people thatleft General Hospital. Oh I know,
I know now now one returned,right, But but once that hit,
yeah, I lost a lot ofrespect for the industry, and I stopped
(52:40):
doing union productions. Yeah, becauseI was until they finally turned everything around
July twelfth last year, because Idon't think that it's right to do that.
To agree, I agree, Iagree, it's very it's a personal
decision, and yeah, it's notnice to I don't want to get on
(53:00):
a soapbox and no politics, butIt's just I don't think that you should
be forced to give your child aexperimental for all intents and purposes, not
FDA approved, you know, vaccine, just to be a TV star.
I'm sorry. I agree. Itotally, I totally, totally, totally
agree with that statement. So allright, So again let everyone know about
(53:23):
the the audition. Please visit heavyHitters tv dot com. There are some
people that came out. We hada scrimmage last week and Mark Tyerman,
a town of Icelip, hooked usup with a field and we had very
cool twenty guys come out and playand it was it was so manchy.
Hey, you know what in thelast minute and a half, do you
(53:44):
know what April eighth is? Aprileighth is Kansas King Day? Yes,
it is, is Town Cayman.And that's that happened back in twenty sixteen.
It did nothing. Girl, yougot a day name. I know
it's the day before my anniversary,so you can't forget no. So and
(54:05):
my friend Becca errand like on Aprileighth, she always goes Happy Candy Cane
Day and everybody's like, oh,happy birthday. They're like no, No,
her birthday is in September today iscandy Cane Day. That is that's
awesome. What a beautiful proclamation.It was awesome. Yeah, it was.
It was really cool. It wasreally cool. Yeah, I was.
That was Edwarmaine and Lee's Eldon andJesse. Garcia was at the home
(54:30):
because Don Diane Garcia is one ofmy best friends, and they pulled all
the strings behind me. It was. It was wild. But yeah,
April eight, put on your calendar. April a candy cane Day. That's
all I'm talking about. List Thankyou so much, thank you for having
Honestly, this was a lot offun. I'm so happy you had fun.
Flew by, I know it fliesyou come by My doors open anytime,
(54:50):
come back anytime. Thank you somuch. Listen, I want to
thank everyone for watching tea time andsupporting me. I really do appreciate it.
Thank you everyone for watching the showand sharing it. Remember this is
going to be on Saturday, tenam, channel twenty four. People who
will get Optimum Long Island, We'regonna be on DV all right, So
listen, tell everyone you love youlove them, and I'll see you next
week. Chow. Everybody,
Good evening, and welcome to teeTime. Hey, everybody, welcome to
(01:23):
tea Time. I'm so glad you'rejoining me. It is Monday, May
twenty seventh is Memorial Day. Yes, it is, so a lot of
people are off today. You know, we're remembering all those who served this
country and gave their lives. Andyou know, it's a really important day.
And I got my flag flying,and you know it's a day that
(01:46):
we should all remember. You knowwhat I mean, This is an important
day. I also want to talkabout my weekend real quick and get to
my in studio guests. Friday,I was actually here for the open mic.
Every Friday night here for an openmic, Bobby. Let's say.
It was beautiful Paradise studios. Youcould do a monologue, you could do
We had an author come down andread a chapter from his book. You
(02:07):
can do a new material. Ifyou're a comic, you can. We
had someone play the bongos and dopoetry. It's so much fun. It's
like meeting of the entertainment minds.And then Saturday, I was home learning
lines because I was just booked ineight different projects. I'm going to be
very busy over the summer. I'mexcited till September. So I'm learning lines.
(02:28):
And then Sunday yesterday I went toa couple of barbecues on Dick's Hills.
Then I went to Hicksville. Iwas all over the place with family
and friends, and that's always funto do. I just want to remember,
remind you real quick. Murdered bythe Mob, which Boby's gonna put
up a picture of me playing Bunny. There I am, there's Bunny.
So Murdered by the Mob is thelongest murder mystery show in Manhattan. It's
(02:51):
been running over thirty years and it'skind of like going to an Italian wedding.
Someone gets whacked and you got tofigure out who done it. Okay,
you eat, you sing, youdance, you drink. It's very
into active and it's so much fun. So go to Murder bythemop dot com
and look up when we have showscoming up. We have shows every month
at the Iron Bar in the Cityand downstairs it's called the Secret Room.
(03:13):
It's like speak easy. So it'sa lot a lot of fun. All
right, So let me get tomy guest, because I'm so excited.
She's here on Memorial day and inIt's Crazy Crazy Weather Kansas. As she
knows, she's known as Candy Caine, and I love that she's a writer,
director, producer, and actor.And I want everyone to get to
know her, including myself. Becausea mutual friend had recommended her to come
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on the show, we're going tomention him later. So, hello,
welcome to the show. Thank youso much for having me excited your year.
And you are a fellow September babylike me, Yes, September twenty
third, on the sixth. Verynice. Yeah, so I'm excited about
that. So you are in aLong Island girl, yes, right,
born raised on Long Island. Youwent to Bellport High School. I did
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class in ninety four, so that'sthirty years this year. Oh my gosh,
thirty years. How fast does thatgoes? Insane? Yeah, my
kids are I have twins, they'resixteen and they go to Saint Anthony's and
they're wrapping up their sophomore year.So I know, and it's like yesterday,
you just gave birth. It's crazy. My daughter just got married six
months ago, and it's like itwas like I was breaking yesterday. I
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know, it's it's insane. It'sjust insane. How time does I suffest?
And so I know we talked alittle bit before the show, but
high school and school in general couldbe rough with kids with attitudes and jealousy.
And I know when I was inschool, I got bullied a lot.
I got bullied from my height.I got bullied because at a very
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young age I became very developed andyou know, they had some situations in
school. And I know you dotoo, And you started in the entertainment
industry very very young. You startedin pageants or did you start doing No,
I did a lot of theater Idid. I did a ton of
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theater. I modeled, and thenI went into pageants. Yeah, like
when I was I think my firstpageant was in ninth grade and I was
I wont to Miss Miss Metro Hospitalitysomething like that, was a finalist,
and then I did the Junior Misspageant. I did, you know,
a bunch of pageants and then Imodeled. I was the highest paid model
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for J. C. Penny andI was like, yeah, it was
crazy and I got you know,I got picked on bullied a lot too
because of my shot, you know. And then yeah, you know,
and I was on the Mickey mouseclub, and I did, you know,
a bunch of different things. AndI was really into theater, but
I also played softball and baseball andbasketball and all those things. Yeah,
so I just I never had likea clique of friends. I was friends
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with everybody, or you know,I was like kind of a lone wolf
that I just was all around andthose were the kind of you know,
when I had my sweet sixteen,all the different people came from all the
different places. Another tough thing wasmy mom was a teacher at the school,
So yeah, that was rough.She was but she was like,
she's an awesome teacher and everybody lovesher. And if you ask who's you
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know, who had Miss Marada,she is like the best art teacher and
everybody loved her. And I wasterrible at art, terrible at art,
and she was figure, tell meabout it. That's what I say.
I like, figure, I can'tdo it. And my sister was there,
you know, and it was justit was tough. But when you
say you got into theater, wereyou talking about school productions outside both and
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this is something obviously that your momhad to be sure of course behind you
and say yes, I'm gonna takeyou and yes, I'm gonna this is
what you want to do. Sodo you sing as well? You do
musical theater? I do, yeah, musical theater. I do music the
theater. I am. I'm acharacter actress. I used to be a
character actress. I haven't acted ina long time. I stopped acting when
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I got pregnant with the twins becauseyou know, we have fertility issues,
how to go through a whole bunchof different things, and I stopped acting.
And then you know, a coupleof years later, I got behind
the camera. Yeah you know,I lived in l A. Yeah,
you were there, you were there. Let's get let's get back. Yeah,
into you like chronicological audio. Sorry, So it's okay because I want
to know, but I want tomention everything and I don't want to I
don't want to skip anything. Butthe theater thing that that's what you know,
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that's what you were doing. Andthen you know, when you graduated,
you actually studied. Well before Igraduated, I was doing professional theater.
I was doing like community and professional. I did Gateway, Oh yeah,
Gateway theater. I was with likeplaycrafters. I was the only student
that was actually cast in as acommunity theater and Playcrafters. And then when
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I was in college, i'd comehome. I mean, I did a
lot of stuff in college. Iwas in contact and me of the State,
and I started my own theatrical companydown there. You did, you
did? You? You went toGeorge Washington University and you studied. You
got a BA in Dramatic literature,and you wrote while you were there.
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You wrote direct it and produced threestage plays, what Happened Last Night from
Muda Triangle and Stay Correct. Andthen you also studied creative writing. Yes,
I actually was the only student tograduate with three miners, so I
had. It wasn't on purpose,it was because I changed it. I
changed my majors seven times, muchto my mom's chagrete. So I had.
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Uh, I had a BA inDramatic Literature with miners in English,
dater and creative writing. Wow.So, but did you always know,
like deep in the back of yourhead that you wanted to write this is
what you wanted to do? Well? I always wrote anyway. I mean
I wrote my first full play orfull movie script when I was nine years
old at Brockaven Elementary School, calleda Journey to Chocolate Land, and we
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ended up it was did Enrichmond withMissus Steiner, and I remember like Canis
Minyani, Sean White, Mike depre Wal Mujoka and we actually put it
on and they filmed it and itwas it was really it was just really
cool. So I've always always alwayswritten like, you know, very cool
people, like there are people thatare like they're addicted to chocolate, chocoholic.
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My mom loves chocolate, yeah,or you know some people just like
have vices. My vice are notebooks. And I know that sounds crazy,
but you can go into my carright now and I have like six notebooks
tucked in. And my daughter didn'tknow it. To get me for Mother's
Day this year, She's like,your mommy, here's a pretty notebook.
And I was like, oh,yes, but I I love notebooks.
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And even when actors. If anactor buys me a notebook as a parting
gift, like Adam Adam has justgot me, when Jason Frederick got me
one a couple of people got megift, it reminds me of them,
and then I end up writing ascript with them as that lead character.
So it's it's fun. So nowlike the Secret got out that I you
know, I get notebooks and allof a sudden, I write roles for
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actors, like for people that connectto It's great. It was great,
but you always you were always infront of the camera until you decide it
like later on, like you said, you know you had your kids,
But how old were you when youfirst first performed? Like, I know
you were young, but do youremember how old you were? Actually were
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seven? Yeah, I think itwas seven. Wow. And do you
dance as well? Because you knowthe theater, you usually have toy So
if I get choreography, yeah,I am a triple thread or like what
used to be. I used tobe a triple threat. It's been a
while, but if you give mechoreography, I can follow the chore I
do tap dance. I know atap you know a stage door school of
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Dance with Miss Jean was there andthe Giatinos and Mary the daughter she took
over her mom's Diane's business, andyeah, you know, I learned to
dance there. But I was nevergraceful. My mom actually called me grace
because it was like sarcastic. Sobut yeah, I did, you know,
like I did, anything goes andI was. I was Charity and
anything goes So I tap danced andyou know, all those different shows.
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I was Maggie and dancing at Lunisa. So I did the Irish step dancing.
So if you give me choreography,I can hold my own. I'm
not a rocket or anything. I'man act hind dance. Well, actually
I didn't have the height for that. No, I do have the height.
Yeah, no, it was gonnatake me for So let's talk about
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so you did pageants for a while. Did you do that into you know,
all through high school? Not really, I don't know. I don't
remember how many I did. Idid a few. I did one like
I was Miss California at one pointwhen I lived out there. But J.
C. Penny, that's a that'sa that's a crapload print work.
Well, actually I was Runway.I did run with really, yeah I
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did. I was spin. Iwas modeling all over like all their trades,
all their buyers shows and whatever.I almost fell off the runway once
I did it. I did aspin. The music was too fast and
I did a spin. I didn'trealize it was like right at the end,
I caught myself. Oh my God, thank god. That's like,
that's like, I think that's amodel. If I was seventeen, I
wanted to die. I wanted tojust die. But yeah, I did
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a lot of runway because of myheight and I was I was much thinner
back then. And you know,it was a fit model. I've done.
You know, I did commercial uhprint, you know, that's so
so was fun. I did stuntswhen I was older. I know you
mentioned that stunts. That's that's awesome, that's that's crazy. Did you have
to because they have stunt schools?Did you go to a school? No?
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It was pretty much like can't you'rethe only one who could fit the
harness. No, get in theget in the helicopter. You're the only
one who could fit the harness.And it's like okay, And they stuck
me in the helicopter on this moviethat I worked on, and they gave
me somebody else's harness to hold.It was such a dangerous set. I
was twenty years old. I neversee age. Right, in hindsight,
I'm like that that probably wasn't agood idea. I could have dropped the
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guy to his death because the helicopterwas hovering over the Swamp. Wow.
And I'm not gonna say what movieit was, but if you look at
my IMDb, you'll be able tobe like, oh, I know what
she's talking about. So you knowit was crazy speaking about IMDb. Woman,
you got a lot of creds.I mean, you've been doing this,
like you said, a long long, long time. And you know
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you mentioned the The Mickey Mouse Clubthat was back in ninety three. I
know, thanks for reminding me ofmy age though appreciate it. It's okay.
I'm so much older than you,it doesn't matter. But you had
you you know, you you wereout in California. You mentioned that before.
And while you were out there,obviously you did some shows out that
you did Ally mcbeel. I wasa dance captain on Ali mcbeel. See
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that. There you go, thereyou go. That's where the dance came
in Angel America, sweetheart. Hedid stunts on Angel. I did stunt
seventy show R not another teen movie. Let me tell you. Can I
talk about it? Yeah? Yeah, Because you never know where you're where
your inspiration is going to come from, where your mentors are going to come
from. And I I was cast. This is Actually how I joined the
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Union was Sage was on another teenmovie and the role was it was actually
cut from the film, which isfine, which is fine, but it
was basically Jamielen Presley's character. Itwas the cheerleader tryouts and one of the
cheerleaders has tourette syndrome, who wasplayed by Joanna Garcia. And there are
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a couple of other girls and Iwas one of the other girls, and
they wanted me because I was thebiggest one, like tallest one, and
I was larger than these little skinnyblink girls. I was like a size
eight, I know. So itwas she goes fat, ankles, fat
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something and points at me and goesoutrageously fat elbows. You can't get fat
on your elbows, and that wasthe joke. So but but that was
the joke. So Joel Gallon,who I think he just won an Emmy
for Chris Rock or a Golden Globefor Chris Rock's thing, Joel the eighty
came over to me and he's like, hey, the director wants to talk
to you. And I was likeokay, and brought me over to Joel
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and he introduces like I am JoelGallen, I'm the director. He's listen,
there's this role. It's like,I don't want you to think that
I think you're fat. I don'twant you because listen, do you know
how many directors I've worked with,And this man went above and beyond to
treat He didn't know who I was. I was just some little extra and
he pulled me up and he wasso kind and he was just he so
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open, and I was like,I'm gonna be like him, like if
I ever become a director. Andnow look at me, you know,
I just finished my twentieth movie.Like I always always always think of Joel
Gallan with love and respect, andlike he doesn't you know, we're friends
on Facebook, but I'm sure hedoesn't remember me from Adam, but he
made such an impression on me.Just to get you don't know who you're
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gonna impact, you gotta be kindand like I always think about that,
and I always think about how kindJoel was to me, just a little
nobody, you know, but hetreated me like I had feelings, which
I did, and I wouldn't havethought anything of it because you know,
as an actress, you know,because I I'm able to compartmentalize. It's
like my superpower. But he waslike, I don't want you to be
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offended. I don't think you're fat. It's a joke. You're gonna be
the butt of the joke. I'mlike awesome. He's like really, and
I'm like yeah, he's like great, you were a sack. No,
it was awesome and I did it. It was cut from the movie,
but it was just fine. ButI was I worked on that movie.
Man, I got my sad cart. It was it was great. It's
good. That's good. All goodthings came out. Yeah, and you
know, but but honestly, Joel, I just he was just he deserves
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nothing but but good things. Yeah. He was just great. And his
son is doing really well. Andlike I follow him on Facebook and just
keep tabs and I send him amessag. I'll send him a message tonight
and be like, hey, here'sthe link, and yeah, yeah,
talking about I send it to everyonebecause you know who we mentioned ill you
know, I'll send the show to. But hey, listen, we have
to take my first break, Bobby. We're gonna play that thing later when
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we mentioned him, it doesn't makesense to play it now. So well,
uh, well, we'll move backright after this. Don't go away.
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
making. It. To see thatimpact in my community inspires me to work
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even harder for everyone around me.All right, everybody having that's what I
thought a pad Studio York, giveyourself a round for plus coming out tonight.
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Well, Hi there, Teresa.It's Jian Yorke from General Hospital.
I am just checking in because apparentlyyou have a great talk show called Tea
Time on Strong Island TV. Iwant you to have continued great success and
have a lot of fun. Itsounds like you're having a lot of fun
and that's pretty much the key toeverything, isn't it. So continued success.
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I'm proud of you. Have agreat day, Teresa. Bye,
Hey everybody, welcome back to TeaTime. I'm so glad for you're joining
me. Thank you. John Yorkfrom General Hospital, he is hopefully going
to return to gh The man's beenbattling cancer for a while and you know,
continue prayers for him and rescuing families. Gina and Vinnie. They are
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a non prop and they help peoplerenovate their homes with disabilities. Look them
up. It's a great organization.I am excited. She's a writer,
director, producer, actor, CandiceCandy Caine is here. She's in the
house, and I'm just so excitedthat she's here. She's has an amazing
an amazing resume and a great storyto tell. And we were talking before
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the break of you know, IMDband what cred she had and that she
went out to California and came backobviously, and she's done things like CSI,
and she did Malcolm in the Middleand dead Wood, and it just
goes on and on and on andon and on. There's like just a
plethora of things. And then we'regoing to talk about what she wrote and
directed. But in the meantime,in twenty fifteen, you actually became the
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founder and CEO of your own productioncompany called Jamela Jamelli Jamelle, sorry,
Jamelle means twins and Italian. Ah. Okay, yeah, all one hundred
percents of scillion. I should knowthat consider Twins is a matter with you
up there right. Jamelli films basicallyfor independent filmmakers, and what I love
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is that it's an all female productionteam that you work with, the decision
makers and producers huge. I mean, listen, I have Kevin Ye and
Joe Pasani who are my right andleft and there. Joey is like my
sound group. One's post. Kevinis my creative director, but Pam Steinland
is my executive producer. Now I'mworking Amy Mint or Amy Irons, Kristin
(20:30):
Martino, like They're all people thatI just adore. And you know what,
I started my company because as awoman, I was just tired of
waiting for permission. And I said, you know what, good my husband
had been in a colma the yearbefore, and he's fine, you know,
but I said, you know,life's too short, and I am
tired of asking permission and waiting aroundfor somebody to be like, you know
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what, you can make your movie. And I said, I'm going to
make my own. And we justfinished and that was twenty fifteen good and
we just celebrated. We just wrappedmy twentieth film, last amazing meet God
blessed not creating the three TV shows. Oh my gosh, listen, we
have a picture because I put upeveryone's picture when they first start out.
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I can't wait to see this.Yeah, okay, and I'll come up
a s the one of me justlike Darth Vader. Oh okay, now
I could. I could send youanother picture that was actually two usual.
Yeah, I'll throw up everyone's blackand white because that's how we did it.
Back. When we're wrapped here,i'll show you my black my very
baby's first head shot. Really wrapup. Oh my god, I can't
wait to see it. But yeah, we did black and white headshots,
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Yes, we did. Day Iactually just posted we had to throwback,
and I throw back Thursday. Iput up a pick of me at Carolines
when I did Carolines for the firsttime, in between the acting gigs comedy,
and everyone's like that's you, yes, like nineteen ninety five or something.
It's crazy. But then I havethe black of white pick and everyone's
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like wow. I'm like, yeah, no one does black away. You
know. Adam Husker, his friendof mine. I just saw that picture
yesterday and he texted me and he'slike, Candy, I was looking something
up, damn, and I'm likeit was so. For those of you
don't know, because I'm a hugeGeneral Hospital fan. I'm watching since high
school. Adam plays Nicholas Cassadine andhe is in your film. A couple
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of them, A couple of them, which which we're gonna mention, but
thank you, and uh, thepicky after that, put up the pick
after that, because you know,god, by bye, Candy Caine and
I love I love this picture.There there he is, there, he
is. I love that picture.It is so I love it. I
just love it. So you startedcalling you Candy? How did that happen?
(22:45):
Well, okay, well that's thatpicture to shout out Lauren Halliseelly from
a Moment in time photography out onLong Island, and yeah, Pank did
all those photos for me. She'samazing. Her son is my son's best
friend. She's she's all. ButI'm I married a man named Kane.
Like his last name is Caine.And I had one friend that called me
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Candy in college and it was like, okay, well you got to be
called Candy Cane. I actually,when I acted, I had a character
that was a weathercaster. I didimprov, yes, and she was like
the weatherman weather girl wherever. Hername was Candy Caane, you know,
And it was just a joke.And I ended up marrying my husband.
If you hyphenate me, my usban'scook some cocaine and so my entire wedding
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invitation because I also lived on CrystalRock when I got married, So my
entire wedding invitation was on the Janlenoshow girl. I know. Oh my,
so I got told. Back intwenty eighteen, Amy Minter and I
went to mipcom, which is thisbig buyer's conference, and we went and
I met with somebody from Real OneEntertainment, this wonderful woman named Anna,
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and she goes, your name isCandy Cane. Why are you not making
Christmas movies? And I'm like themoment and then well, you know,
and then I had funding come in, Like somebody came to was like,
hey, i'll give you funding.What can you do? And you told
me how much? And I waslike, I want to do a Christmas
movie. He's like yeah, Sowe made Ivy and Mistletoe. Wow,
and it just kind of the CandyCane yeah, yea, yeah, yeah,
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to speak. Wow, that's that'sit's it's wild, it really is.
But I wanted I wanted to justmention your your production company, because
it's really wholesome entertainment, which youknow, we definitely need more of these
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days, you know, for theentire family to sit around together as a
unit, which is not done likewe used to years ago, and watch
something that's that's family friendly and everyonecan watch together. Uh. So basically,
you know, you do classic romanceto modern dramas, and I love
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how it's written that you take transitiontraditional values and you put them in contemporary
uh storylines, which which I love. And again it's they feel good movies,
you know what I mean, Likeyou leave feeling good and and I
love movies like that. I mean, like who doesn't you know there's enough
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blood and gore and and and moband cursing and you know, and but
there aren't too many movies like that, you know. But I will say
also with because we have done acouple of you've done horror. You've done
horror, but there's no sex,there's no cursing, you know, there's
but there's no need to be right, I agree. It just shows you
that you don't need it, youknow what I'm saying. Peekaboo is awesome.
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That's the one because you know,my mother always said to me,
what makes a horror movie really scaryis the music, because if you shut
the volume off right, you're justnot that scary. Correct, But it's
the it's the music composer, especiallyfor those hards. The one that I
usually work with is John Sopulvida,and he lives out here on Long Island,
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and the guy is unbelievable. He'sjust he just is a savant.
And the music he comes up with, he makes his own instruments, he
makes his own sounds. He's wild. Wow. And yeah, he's he's
just incredible. Well, you wrotea crapload of movies, like a crapload,
and you you started out with shorts, isn't unspoken? Oh oh that's
okay, Yeah, that's that wasfrom a film festival. It's not it's
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not like I set out for ashort. Ok that was the Disability Film
Challenge. I wouldn't. Yeah,that was like a lot of hood.
It was also another film. Sothose are and and I'm just correcting you.
I'm not trying to be no,no, no, because there are
people like Tara Westwood is a friendof mine who made this short that like
shorts can win Oscars, and like, yeah, they you know, definitely
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like their high budget. I madeUnspoken for sixty eight dollars because I bought
pizza for everybody, you know whatI mean. So it was it was
an exercise. The same thing withNeighborhood. It was like one of those
forty eight hours where they're like,here, you have to make a three
to five minute film and you haveforty eight hours to do it. So
like what a challenge. That is, right, and it's fun and it's
an exercise, But I wouldn't callit a short because people do and I
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can't write short films. I havetried to write chils. I am too
verbose and I just I'm not goodat it. So that's why I'm that's
incredible. I don't want to takesomething that other people can did, But
you still did it. Hello,But you've done a comedy what Happened last
Night? You did every Little ActAction, Every Little Actor was a short
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film series. Yeah. Yeah,you did New Dogs Old Tricks TV show
YEP, and you also produced anddirected that as well. Right, and
a Little Cupid. You did TVseries Ivy and Missiletoe. Uh, this
with the Christmas movies Joy and Hope, Deck the Heart Now Deck Pot won
an award, right, I thinkit won an award. And our friend
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Al Sapienza always in that, soyou know I'm gonna send them this.
Yeah, he love loved doing it. I love all love doing it.
I love it too good people.Yeah, I think we won. Uh,
you want something? I think Iwant to tell you award for that?
Okay. I think I won theBronze Telly for that. Okay,
you did, and you know wegot a nomination the Young Artist Academy Award
nomination. Two of our girls,Alison Mallani and Ren Taylor, both got
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nominated for that. You did themiss uh the Maltese Holiday. You did
Baking Up Love, Hearts and theBaking Up Love. My daughter actually played
the lead in that, and shewon the Young Artist Academy Award in twenty
twenty two for her role in thatWow, and she's currently nominated for twenty
twenty three for a role in santaSecond Wife and Ensemble and Santa's Second Wife,
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and twenty twenty four for a leadrole in Prank Squad. Oh my
god, that's innate. And myson is nominated for Prank Squad too.
The following the faily, No,I don't think they'll do it. They
do it because you know, Imean, I treat them like employees,
like some money, all right,you gotta work, you gotta work for
it. And also Hearts and Vinealso won a music Yeah, that one.
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I think that that one. Yeah, John won that one and a
bunch of musicians. But John wasat the helm for that, John Supulvida,
and I think that one the bronzeTelly also for use of music.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, you did a Holiday Homecoming, which
was a TV movie Magic. That'sthe first movie. Holiday Homecoming was our
first movie to get dubbed into Spanish. Was released in Guatemala last year on
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English. And the Magic and Halleand that one is silver Telly Welcome to
Hope, which was a TV series. You also directed and also acted in
that one. Yeah, but thatwas because the actress didn't show up that
day and we needed somebody who couldbe just like car Maria Sarbello and her
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mannerisms because it was her mother.But it was meant to be that Yeah,
so I did look at things.You know, things happen for a
reason, that's for sure. Anda couple of people were on the short
list for the Emmy Awards. Weweren't nominated, but a couple of actors
got on I know rayshawna te Barklift, which was awesome and that Welcome to
Hope. I believe we won aBronze Telly for Best Drama. Nice.
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Twenty twenty two, you did Santa'sSecond Wife, Yes, I Love It,
which was a movie. Twenty twentythree Prank Squad, Yes, I
love that one. That was myfavorite experience. That was my favorite experience.
I wasn't working with the kids.Twenty twenty four, he did Holiday
in the Hamptons, which was alsoa TV movie. But you know you've
well that's not out yet. No, it's not in Hampton. It hasn't
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been released yet. No, butit's complete. Yeah, I mean I
have several I have Christmas for three, Holiday and the Hamptons and Royal Runaways,
which we did in twenty three,and then at the end of twenty
three we did a jarful of Christmasand this year we did Christmas at the
Interlock in Yes, I have that. I have that right here, and
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we just finished I just got thetrailer for that, so that's be released.
And then we've got Peekaboo and wejust finished the wedding Bell. Yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, we'regoing to talk about that too, all
right, but wait before we talkabout that, please don't go away.
Oh and thank you everyone for watchingthe show. Please like it. I
appreciate you watching because I know it'sa holiday. We're going to be back
after this. Don't go away.So much more to talk about with Candy
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me. She
stands for being a voice for peoplethat need a voice. My organization renovates
homes for people with disabilities, andwhen I come home a self care teams
makes me feel my best. I'mvery proud of the difference that we're making,
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Kindis, Dracy Farwrell. Make sureyou follow Teresa on Facebook. Tee Time
with Teresa Knnis, Dracy Fowrell.We'll see you there the way you say
my name. Hey, everybody,welcome back to tea Time. Thank you
for watching and sharing and enjoying.I'm with Candace Candy Cane. She's a
writer, producer, director, Actor'sdone She's done it all and she just
(33:38):
finished her twentieth film, Twentieth films. It's incredible, you know, like
she said, you know, yougotta take the boob of the horn.
Sometimes you have to make things happenfor yourself. You can't just wait and
you can't knock on boys. Yougotta kick him in. And that's and
that's what she's just gotta give you. Timing though, because oh, well
this didn't happen overnight. Well no, no, no, because in twenty
fifteen we shot my first movie,yes, and then we did a spin
(34:00):
off series, New Dog's Old Tricks. Yes. And the week after we
finished the pilot was my fortieth birthday, okay, and I tripped in New
York City over the sidewalk and Ishattered my ankle. I collapsed the marrow
in my bone. I was outfor a year and a half. Wow.
So I've made nineteen films since Aprilof twenty nineteen. So that's nice
things in five years. You're amachine, Yeah, we are. We
(34:23):
are well oiled machine. It's takenme a lot of people, and we
still have, like you know,rotten apples that get yeah yeah, yeah,
no, I've got a really greatI totally get it. Well,
so you have some that complete here, you did Royal Runaways, Christmas for
three, A jaw Full of Christmas. You've directed all these two double booking
(34:46):
that's coming up. We start shootingthat next month, okay, and Christmas
at the interlocking with trailer's coming outand mentioned Peek a Boo, which you
mentioned Wrath and Mirituals that you directed. So we have the the poster Bobby
of the wedding Bell, which isgonna put up. There's the wedding bell
(35:07):
poster now. So this just completeda couple of weeks ago. And so
you have Eric roberts in that washis beautiful wife. Yes, oh they
are they are. No, that'sno, that's not that. That's Monica.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's Ericand Monica. Sorry, that's my
production manager. That's the picture.That's Eric Adam. Okay, Monica gets
(35:30):
around taking pictures. I'm sorry,I have to correct that. Yeah,
they'll get a kick out of Monicawill be thrilled. Monica is everywhere and
takes care of me, so that'sjust appropriate. She is the Louise to
my Thelma. So it's good Ihave one of those two. So you
(35:51):
just completed two weeks ago. Sothe wedding Bell is with Eric and his
wife and an Adam hust like Imentioned, he's he's Nicholas Caston in General
Hospital now fabulous actor. And whileyou were filming, he found out that
Eric and his wife never had awedding, I know, and you said,
I'm gonna throw them in the wedding. I did, and like,
(36:13):
within twenty four hours, you puttogether this incredible last minute wedding like nothing.
If you want a twenty four hourwedding, you gotta do one.
She's the one to call. Andyou had it at the Baiting Hollow fom
Venue correct and they've been married thirtyone years. Yeah, so how wild
was? It was amazing? Itwas you know, I love Eliza to
(36:36):
pieces. I've worked with her onso many films and she was just twiling
in this dress and it was thisbeautiful flowy dress from Sable bridle Ye and
I was like, you know,you look so pretty. She's like,
I've never worn a wedding dress.I'm like, wait, wait, wait,
wait what She's like, yeah,we never had a wedding and she's
like, my first time, mightdidn't wear what? I was like,
Eliza, what do you mean?She was well? Eric and I we
just you know, signed the papersand it very and I'm like, do
(36:59):
you want to have a wedding tomorrow? And she's like, oh my god,
really and I'm like that is I'llplan you a wedding. Well.
I used to be a destination weddingplanner, so I said all right,
I said, I'm gonn plan youa wedding. And I got on the
phone. I contacted Dominique Baiting Hallof Farm Vineyards, Steve Kelly and they're
like, we're on it, andthey got like a charcouterie company involved,
and they got they gets are calledvegan because they're vegan. You're Eliza's vegan,
(37:22):
and they got It was amazing.It was just amazing. And Jace
I was a maid of honor ormatron of honor. Joey Pisani was Eric's
best man. Kevin Yee walked herdown the aisle. These are all people
that work read well. Jason wasordained and it was hilarious and and she
(37:42):
invited her family to come in andwe had the crew and then we had
wine at the vineyard and we hadcharcuterie boards which were just magnificent. All
that food was so it was.It was fun and and we had a
second dress that she got in andI'm also black, gave Erica tucks to
wear. It was crazy, andJason had a tuxsman to muscle black and
(38:05):
Tom Greco over there. Just unbelievable. And uh, Gina from jac Beauty.
Yeah, you know, that's justlike a priceless moment. It was
great. You know, you'll neverforget. Yeah, Tom Limbuie Eli hot
Shots just sent me all the pictureson my way here. Oh that is
so cool. It was wild.It was pretty wild. So that's that's
(38:25):
wrapped. Yes, right, you'vedone like a post production. David Pollard
he's out in Vegas and he's doingour editing on that one. So he's
gonna, you know, piece ittogether for us. Yeah, put it,
make it the magic happen in theediting. Sure. Oh wow.
Let me ask you a question.I know you love you love to film
a Loong Island and that's basically whereyou do most of your filming. Yeah.
(38:46):
Okay. We have a movie comingup at the end of the year
called Mocha and Mistletoe and it's inColorado. You go momdadmovie dot com for
details and a guy named Eric Martinezwho's Java Dad life on to talk approach
me and we're going out there justto Colorado, but everything else will be
on the island. Wow. Great? And how I mean, look,
(39:07):
I know you've been doing this fora short amount of time, but and
you are a resident out there,So is it easier now for you to
find locations to film? Was itstill a little challenge? Well, I
mean locations is always challenging, whetheryou're a resident or not. You know,
(39:27):
I have an incredible locations manager namedGabrielle Pickele, who I love.
I've known her for she worked onIvy and Mistletoe with me on my first
Christmas movie, and she's just she'sincredible. And she and Monica who whose
pictures you saw, work together,you know, to do this. But
you know, it's not like I'mCandy Cane and I'm gonna use you.
(39:49):
It's you know, no. Butbecause you've you've I'm sure you've had repeat
locations. Yeah, oh yeah,when the door like, hey can I
come back? Yeah? But it'sbecause we like the people, you know,
for example, well Bating Hollow FarmVineyard. It's it's not just this
small little winery with a tasting room. We didn't even use the tasting room
this time. They have this gorgeousbarn now with its set up, and
(40:10):
then they have like the outside andthey have it's just such a marvelous piece
of property. You know. Weuse Georgio's, we use all these different
things. And something I really liketo do is put money into the local
community. You know. I've mycompany has put in about three million dollars
since we started into the local communityhere. And I was just named another
(40:31):
power Woman of the East Ends secondyear in a row, which is awesome,
you know, and I'm very proudthat I'm able to put money into
the community. Like I'll go toAirbnbs instead of a hotel chain, right,
more like mom and pop, right, So, you know, people
really like that, and I do. I try to use them by name
if I can. Like Georgio's,we use East Wind, we used yeah,
(40:51):
yeah, and and like a shotof it just so people. Yeah,
people know, and then they go, oh, that looks nice.
I'll look it up. It's calledtelevision tourism. That's something that's done.
It's almost like product place exactly.It's brand integration. And then you know
they're like, oh, I wantto go check that out, and it's
actually a real place right right right, And and people like that, they
like that, like they which whenthey watch something and they're like, oh,
(41:14):
yeah, I want to you know, go there, right And sometimes
so example, story Brook Maine Onceupon a Time is like one of my
favorite TV shows, like narrative TVshows, and you people have gone to
try to find Storybrook, Maine,but it's not Storybrook Maine. It's shot
at the studios in Vancouver. Youknow. So if you're going to go
(41:35):
see Baiting Hallo Farm vineyard, guesswhat you're going to be able to go
into the barn where these characters gotmarried. Yes, that's cool. Yeah,
to stand where they were, standthere, you know, like that
and take pictures where they are.You know, it's a lot of fun.
And I do everything that I canto get that placement because I also
want to drive you know, businessto them because they're good people and the
people that let us come into theirlocations to film. You know, I
(41:59):
want to make sure that they're notonly benefiting from us for paying them,
but that it's residual. So that'sthat's something I try really, really really
hard to do. You're very awareof it. Yeah, yeah, no,
that's that's great. Why should Hollywoodbe the ones getting all the money
and getting all the tours? Butyou're right, Why you're right? You're
right? Where can't it be inyour own backyard? Right? And Long
Island is so great. I meanyou have the South Shore with the sandy
(42:20):
beaches, you got, the NorthShore with the rocky beaches, the north
Shore with the cliffs, you gotthe show shore with the ocean, you
got you know, everything in between. Okay. I love shooting here because
you can make it look like anywayanywhere you really can. Yeah. I
like you're right, especially in thesummer when you find when you find palm
trees. Right, you're driving andyou see palm trees and you're like,
(42:42):
oh wow, that's really cool,right, and you know and then you
could do you know right, Well, that's where we're shooting Heavy Hitters here
in August. And yeah, HeavyHitters is a baseball film, a series,
a series series, and she's casting, right, I am so on.
You can go to Can I givethe email the website? Yes,
give the website heavy hitterstv dot com. Okay, we're looking for guys.
(43:07):
That can actually play baseball. Yes, because I think that the reason that
baseball series fail is because they don'tfocus on baseball. They focus on politics
because they're like, oh, peopleare gonna wat it because it's baseball,
and then it's like all of thispolitical agenda garbage. And my show focuses
on the mechanics of baseball. It'sabout an MLB pregraft combine. Well not
(43:29):
MLB, it's just a Major Leaguepre draft. I have to talk to
MB to see if I can getin there. I've worked with them before
and I have a couple of connections. Yeah, I'm blame me up.
Yeah. So so we have theseauditions and I have to cast three hundred
and forty six baseball players. Yeah, okay, that's just the players,
(43:49):
and like I think sixty eight ofthem have lines, and we have featured
and like every single person and there'ssomething you'll notice with my shows. Every
single person that appe years on cameragets a credit because I believe that if
you even step on camera, youdeserve a credit, because how are you
going to build? Like, youcan't have an empty street? So I
want to know who my pedestrians are. Yeah, they deserve the credit because
(44:12):
they were there and they worked fortwelve hours. Twelve My first step,
my first day on Deadwood was twentytwo hours. It was a nightmare.
But people deserve credit. They needto be acknowledged for what they do.
So, you know, but withHeavy Hitters, I need people that know
(44:34):
baseball. Yeah, it's the bottom. I know a few people. I
know a few people because yeah,because there's something I'm in, call bat
boy and give me a recle sowe'll see magic. Yeah, you go
to Heavy Hitters TV dot com.Yeh, you fill out the form.
It's Wednesday. There are three sessionsand then finals from six to ten,
Greg Alfanofield and Patchog. And you'restill looking for an AMT to be on
(44:59):
set. Yes, I do needan EMT nurse. Anyone out there who
wants this to be a medic forthe day, pymedic just to hang out
with the other day. There yougo out with some baseball players, so
get a credit in the show asas medic. There you go, there
you go, oh lovely, Hey, listen, we're gonna take our last
break. And before we do,we got a special person to say something
(45:22):
real quick about Paradise Studios. We'llbe back after this Strong Island television.
I love that one woman was everythingto little girls, especially that looked like
(45:47):
me. She stands for being avoice for people that need a voice.
My organization renovates homes for people withdisabilities, and when I come home self
care routine makes me feel my best. I'm very proud of the difference that
we're making. It. To seethat impact in my community inspires me to
(46:07):
work even harder for everyone around me. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa from
teen Times. What's my show about? I interview people in the entertainment industry,
producers, directors, actors, andguess what My show is on every
Saturday morning at ten am on Channeltwenty on Optimum TV. So tune in
(46:34):
because it's fun, interesting and exciting. Nah. Who's the best comedian you
know? Tera Barrow? And whoyou know? Jisa Barrow? Radio Kreisa
(46:58):
Barrow? Who's your favorite guinea rightnow? Teresa Farrow? All right,
I love you, love you.We're back. Hey, welcome back to
tea time. This goes so fast, but I'm so excited. You know,
Candice Candy Kane is here and sheis a producer. She's a writer,
(47:22):
director, actor, form a modeland back anymore. No, she's
more behind the camera now, writingand directing. That is that is like
your wheelhouse. Yes, and anduh, we're just having a blast here
and I'm so glad. Thank shoutout to Alice at Pienza for saying,
(47:43):
get that woman on your show.Love you. She's great. He's he's
up in Canada now too. Soso, like I said, she she's
done so many things, written somany movies, done so many movies since
twenty nineteen. How many movies sincetwenty nineteen, nineteen nineteen that is seen
movies and television two television shows.Incredible, incredible. So I want everyone
(48:06):
to follow her, know what she'sdoing. You know, she's having these
casting calls. You have to knowhow you can find out. So it's
Kansas Kane on Facebook. Okay,it's Kansas t Kane on Insta and Twitter.
It's Mom the Villain on TikTok He'sso not a villain. Jamelly Films
on Instagram also, and then thewebsite is jamellifilm dot com and you could
(48:31):
go there and there's just so muchinformation. And like she said, right
now she's having auditions. She needsthree one hundred and forty six men from
the ages of like eighteen to twentythree ish who can play ball. Okay,
in the tryouts of the twenty ninthOkay, so go to her Facebook
(48:52):
page. All the information things there, you fill out the form, show
up with your mitya right, justbring your own TV dot com sign up
and you'll get an email from Amyand uh I actually sent it to Carmine
who Cammine is in bat Boy YankeeMiracle with me. So I just sent
it to him. So hopefully I'lltext them and he'll he'll look for it
(49:14):
again. And you're gonna be starting. You to be filming August nineteenth to
the twenties. No, no,that's just that's just the first episode.
That's just the first August to October. Okay. Yeah, it's we're doing
six episodes or six hour long episodes, and it's going straight through straight.
Yeah. It's really very excited.Did you have a play softball as a
kid? Oh? I did,Yeah, I played soft baseball yeah yeah
(49:37):
yeah yeah, so and I likeI really know baseball, like really really
really well, like the mechanics,so growing up what fan we are?
Mets? Come on, Well,I'm originally from Queens. Ye, so
yeah, actually exact, you likeyou're the you're a Yankee fan, Well,
I'm I'm a New York fan.Oh, I'm a New York fan.
But no, originally it's Mets.It's Mets. Okay, then then
(49:58):
you stay Mets. Can you bea fan brother your Mets. You believe
blue and Orange. You can't goto the Yankees. No offense, Yes,
network, I understand, but Ido. But if listen, if
that, if the Yankees are playingand they're playing against Boss, and I'm
not rooting for Boss, see,I like three teams. Okay, I
like the Mets and anybody playing theYankees. Okay, yeah, it goes
(50:19):
that connection. No, it's fine. No, Honestly, my director of
photography dad was a Met fan.I grew up a Met fan. Pat
Zachary, who played with the Mets, who was a pitcher, lived around
the corner from me in Baside,So yeah, I mean I grew up
in me. But my my directorof photography on Heavy Hitters, or Land
Junior, actually he used to pitchhis he is a massive Yankees fan,
(50:45):
and we just we go at it. Well, you know, I had
Doc Gooden on my show, andhe was both. I pitched against Doc
Goodin, did I did? Ipitched against her? You know he is
only an island now. Just tolet you know, listen, Okay,
I'm him. I want to gethim. I want to get him on
my show on Heavy Hitters. Allright, I can make a call.
Let me tell you. I pitchedagainst Dwight Goodin in twenty eleven. My
(51:07):
friend Wendy Mercado was with me.I was invited to a fantasy game and
he let me throw a fast oneon him, and I kid you not,
I got a strike on him andthen he had a triple off me.
But it was like better than mywedding. It was incredible. Yes,
and I was just at his retirementceremony. No, it was Yeah,
I love I love him on myFacebook doctor man. Yes, I
(51:30):
would die. I would die tohave Dwight good In in Heavy Hitters as
one of the coaches we'll get Iwould die. I'll tell you after the
show how we're going to get him. We have like three minute left.
What do you want to talk about? Are you? Are you working on
anything else other than Heavy Hitters?And and oh wait hello, yes we
have to talk about Hello, you'realso the owner of Kane Casting. Oh
(51:53):
well, King Casting Talent Management.Honestly, I kind of stopped doing that
COVID. I still get people,you know, contacting me for casting calls
and okay, but you know,once COVID hit, and it was all
of those, but it wasn't justthat. It was a lot of you
know, and I'm not trying tobe controversial here, but it was like
(52:15):
you weren't allowed to work on showsif you didn't get the vaccine, and
a lot of parents wouldn't get theirkids a vaccine. Yes, And I'm
not going to pressure parents and givethem opportunities because hey, like that was
not okay. There were people thatleft General Hospital. Oh I know,
I know now now one returned,right, But but once that hit,
yeah, I lost a lot ofrespect for the industry, and I stopped
(52:40):
doing union productions. Yeah, becauseI was until they finally turned everything around
July twelfth last year, because Idon't think that it's right to do that.
To agree, I agree, Iagree, it's very it's a personal
decision, and yeah, it's notnice to I don't want to get on
(53:00):
a soapbox and no politics, butIt's just I don't think that you should
be forced to give your child aexperimental for all intents and purposes, not
FDA approved, you know, vaccine, just to be a TV star.
I'm sorry. I agree. Itotally, I totally, totally, totally
agree with that statement. So allright, So again let everyone know about
(53:23):
the the audition. Please visit heavyHitters tv dot com. There are some
people that came out. We hada scrimmage last week and Mark Tyerman,
a town of Icelip, hooked usup with a field and we had very
cool twenty guys come out and playand it was it was so manchy.
Hey, you know what in thelast minute and a half, do you
(53:44):
know what April eighth is? Aprileighth is Kansas King Day? Yes,
it is, is Town Cayman.And that's that happened back in twenty sixteen.
It did nothing. Girl, yougot a day name. I know
it's the day before my anniversary,so you can't forget no. So and
(54:05):
my friend Becca errand like on Aprileighth, she always goes Happy Candy Cane
Day and everybody's like, oh,happy birthday. They're like no, No,
her birthday is in September today iscandy Cane Day. That is that's
awesome. What a beautiful proclamation.It was awesome. Yeah, it was.
It was really cool. It wasreally cool. Yeah, I was.
That was Edwarmaine and Lee's Eldon andJesse. Garcia was at the home
(54:30):
because Don Diane Garcia is one ofmy best friends, and they pulled all
the strings behind me. It was. It was wild. But yeah,
April eight, put on your calendar. April a candy cane Day. That's
all I'm talking about. List Thankyou so much, thank you for having
Honestly, this was a lot offun. I'm so happy you had fun.
Flew by, I know it fliesyou come by My doors open anytime,
(54:50):
come back anytime. Thank you somuch. Listen, I want to
thank everyone for watching tea time andsupporting me. I really do appreciate it.
Thank you everyone for watching the showand sharing it. Remember this is
going to be on Saturday, tenam, channel twenty four. People who
will get Optimum Long Island, We'regonna be on DV all right, So
listen, tell everyone you love youlove them, and I'll see you next
week. Chow. Everybody,
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