Whose Life Is This Anyway ?” – Is a new internet television show.
It is the story of a middle aged man who has had a Video store for Thirty years and now has to close down.
“I figured that when I made the move to DVD’s I was ahead of the curve. Who knew people would be able to watch everything for free on the Internet. How can I compete with “Free,”
Lenny Fleshler has to move back in with his aging mother, The show focuses on Lenny who still has some growing up to do, under difficult circumstances.
A lot of his middle aged friends have lost their jobs and have to re-invent themselves. Three of his friends find themselves without jobs and they try to reform their Punk band “The Sticklers.” These men may seem like losers, but to Lenny these guys are all he really knows.
Lenny wanted to go to film school but, ” My mother told me she was dying and that I should wait till she died before I went off to UCLA to go to film school. She told me her Doctor told her five years to live tops…Here it is thirty years later and she’s still kicking… That woman will outlive everyone!…”
Lenny – Jewish, fat, balding, but still optimistic and kind of magical… He is an everyman who still thinks he can dream about making movies. He has James Thurber kind “The Fantasy Of Walter Mitty”… So, there is the reality of what his life is and then the fantasy of what he says his stories are. So, he might be telling a story the way Hitchcock might… So, suddenly, the mundane comes to life and looks vibrant and exciting.
Every episode will have a parody scene that looks like a famous directors: John Waters, Carpenter, Hitchcock, Truffant, Capra, Lang, and of course Ed Wood.
Mom- Mom is like a Shelly Winters… She is frail , but still powerful and manipulative. She is typical passive aggressive Jewish Mom who threatens to put her head in the oven,”You want me to join the rest of the family.” – She is dark, dark, soul with a sense of humor.
Kenny- Kenny was the drummer of “The Sticklers” who lost his job as a librarian and now pushes to have the band reformed
Willie- Willie is the bass player in the band. He lost his job at OTB. He is bitter and resentful that the City could not make money with gambling
Terry- lost his Union job making ball bearings. He likes to tell people “They make all the balls overseas.”
Susie- Lenny’s girlfriend is career minded and at an age that she wants a baby… She pushes Lenny into different career paths every episode.
