I got a call from a Canadian film crew about a segment on an A&E series they have planned for next year on Trout: A True Story of Murder, Teens and the Death Penalty.
They sent me 10 questions in advance and we met at hotel not far from where I live. It was a very small room. There were three in the crew, a very tall young woman, a scruffy cameraman and the interviewer who looked like Joe Peschi and spoke with a French Canadian accent.
I wasn't particularly nervous. The Sentinel has trained us well to be interviewed on camera, so I knew the drill: flub up, start over, flub up, try again, flub up, repeat until you get a decent take.
There was none of that with the Canadians. We went though those 10 questions in about 15 minutes. If we started over it was because I knew I had to or look like a babbling idiot on television.
They assured me I did fine. Yeah, right. I took solace from my imperfect performance knowing Trout would be one of three segments, they were interviewing three other people involved with the case and my part of the show will consist of about two minutes. Out of those 15, there should be at least two decent minutes.
All I asked for was that they spell my name right on the screen and identify me as the author of Trout: A True Story of Murder, Teens and the Death Penalty.
The segment, for a series called "Killer Kids," is scheduled to air in October.
As unsatisfied as I was in my performance before the camera, the Canadians were equally disappointed in the Florida weather, which was cloudy, and little rainy and a bit cold by Sunshine State standards.
