I’ve been friends with filmmaker John Anton since I was in high school.  Back then he wasn’t the movie guy, he was the owner of the legendary punk rock/heavy metal club Blondies.   I’ve stayed friends with John for over twenty years and one thing has always been consistent, he’s a class act.  Over the past ten or so years he’s been working hard on the ambitious film Guns, Drugs and Dirty Money.  It’s a movie that features a cast of well over 100 parts and action sequence after action sequence that rivals the stuff you see in big blockbuster movies like Stallone’s Expendables.

I had a chance to sit down with John in his office at the Token Lounge while we were filming my television show Deadpan.  Always the generous friend, John was letting us film a large chunk of our show in his club without asking for anything in return.  He’s a guy I’m proud to call my friend.  I’m equally proud of him because Guns, Drugs and Dirty Money has finally come out and has already generated a lot of buzz.

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