Meet The Movies!

A BRIEF STORY SYNOPSIS

It's not many guys who can say that Clint Eastwood held up the release of their first album, but Howie Klausner and Ron Eng can lay claim to this alibi for their near decade-long tardiness. Playing coffee houses and clubs in Southern California as a duo and the nucleus of a larger band in the late 90's, the boys were about to take a permanent break from playing Van Morrison, James Taylor and Eagles tunes for those fat sixty dollar a night paychecks and all the lattes they could drink... (funny how beer was never free).
	On the eve of giving up the dream of selling that "big spec screenplay" to Hollywood, (after a seven year, twelve script quest), Howie was writing songs to record, and preparing to return to school-teaching in the Orange County corrections system when screenwriter Ken Kaufman called him to join forces on the script that would become the feature film Space Cowboys. "It was fast," Howie recalls. "I was desperate, out of money till September, and we only had like a two-month window to write the thing."
Guess that was enough. Warner Brothers bought the script after every screenwriter's wildest fantasy, a studio bidding war, and Clint Eastwood agreed to direct and star in it. "Boom. After seven years of trying, lucky #13 was the one. I was in the movie business." At the same time, Eng was getting busier and busier as a sound editor, and the time between gigs grew longer and longer. The Dream was on hold, and might very well have gone the way of most dreams, had they not agreed to play a yacht club beer blast just for laughs.
	"It was a really good show, and we remembered how much we liked playing together," Eng recalls. "And as we're packing up in the middle of the night, Howie fumbles out Java Junky for me. When we both stopped laughing, we decided to pick it up where we'd left off."
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