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t took several groups of writers
before the producers of the film
See Spot Run found a screen-
writing team they liked. That
was lucky for Danny Baron, formerly
of Oak Park.
Baron and his partner,
Chris Faber, were the
ones chosen to write the
final draft and do
rewrites during the film-
ing.
,
"Warner Brothers had
been working on the
script for a while,"
reports Baron, who now
lives in Los Angeles.
"They read something
that my partner and I
wrote and called us in
and asked what we would
do to rewrite it. I guess
they liked what we said,
"What I wrote covered
Danny Baron,
because we were hired. There
right, on the set of Jewish history from the
were a lot of changes along the
1890s to present day. It was
"See Spot Run,"
it started off as a
way
with his writing
a memorable occasion."
movie about a pig."
His next experience in
partner Gary
The film, which stars David
the dramatic arts occurred
Faber, left, and
Arquette, Paul Sorvino and
while attending Ferndale
actor David
Michael Clarke Duncan, is a
Arquette, center
High School, where he par-
comedy about a mailman, a
ticipated in school plays
little boy he's babysitting and a
and created short films.
drua-sniffma b dog
doa that is being chased
"I wrote, edited and acted in little
by the mob. While the reviews have
films, using video, which vas relatively
been mixed, Baron says critics' opin-
new in those days," says Baron, who
ions are not important to him.
went to Best Elementary and Lincoln
"The audiences love it, and it's well-
Junior High before graduating from
received all across the country," says
Ferndale in 1980.
Baron, who spent six weeks on loca-
After high school, he went to the
tion in Vancouver during the filming.
University of Michigan, pursuing
"The polling of people is very favor-
drama and majoring in art and social
able, and that's what matters. Some
change.
reviewers loved it and some hated it,
While he was in Ann Arbor, Baron
but I don't let a bad review ruin my
and some of his Oak Park friends
day. Plus, it's not a review-driven
started a thespian group called the
Film."
Royal Underwater Shakespeare
As for working with David
Traveling Troupe Society, with which
Arquette, Baron says the actor was
they performed short spoofs of
easy and fun. "He is open and friendly
Shakespeare plays at the Residential
and funny off screen and I think he
College.
was well cast."
also worked on documentaries at
For Baron, 37, an interest in drama
Michigan and won some grants," he
and writing began at age 14, when he
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was at the Jewish Community Center's
Jewish Parents Institute, now located
in West Bloomfield.
"I got my religious education at JPI,
and for the graduation ceremony
everyone in my class had to write a
Jewish historical piece and present it
in front of the whole audience," recalls
Baron.