Brian Jaynes has made something of a name for himself in the world of low-budget horror films. Over the past three years, the East Texas filmmaker has helmed a string of cult successes, starting with Boggy Creek, about a bloodthirsty Sasquatch. That was followed last year by Humans vs Zombies. Completing the trifecta is the recent Patient Zero, also about zombies.

Those movies may have been low-budget, but they still cost money, so Jaynes enlisted Dallasite Bruce Kahn. Kahn, perhaps best known as that guy who tried (and failed) to buy the famous Nevada brothel Chicken Ranch, set up three single-purpose entities -- Boggy Creek Productions LLC, Humans vs Zombies LLC, and Patient Zero Productions LLC -- to oversee production of the films.

Under this setup, Kahn who put down the necessary capital. He says he paid for the lighting and props and other equipment. He bought the pricey HP editing suite with which the final cuts were produced. He even loaned Jaynes $75,000 to cover his living expenses while the films were being produced.

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Jeff Rohrer and Doug Cosbie played together on the consistently mediocre Cowboys teams of the 1980s, Rohrer as linebacker, Cosbie as tight end. Like their teammates and the rest of the NFL, they subjected their bodies to massive punishment each week -- the type of punishment now linked to all sorts of neurological problems, from chronic headaches and memory loss to Alzheimer's and depression.

Now, the former teammates want to make a movie. Rohrer and Cosbie are joining up with an L.A. production company to make Konkussion Stories, a feature-length documentary exploring the after-effects of a career in the NFL. The trailer you see above features a handful of former Cowboys -- Charlie Waters, Drew Pearson, Robert Newhouse, Mike Renfro -- speaking about their experiences.

"I was knocked out, I want to say, an average of about three games a year, maybe more," Waters says. Pearson remembers getting his bell rung and being asked how many fingers a coach was holding up. "If I said two and they only had one, they would say that's close enough."

Before they can finish making the documentary, and before James Caan can come do the narration he's signed on for, Rohrer, Cosbie and Barry O'Brien, their Hannah Montana co-creating business partner, they need to raise $375,000. Rather than try to squeeze money from the Hollywood machine, they're turning to Kickstarter. They have $3,600 so far, but, hey, it's still early.

A few days after Arlington's now-outed Reddit troll Michael Brutsch sat for an interview in a Fort Worth hotel room with CNN reporter Drew Griffin, the rest of us finally got to see it. It's a bit of a trainwreck.

CNN's first shot of Brutsch shows him fidgeting nervously as he licks his lips and overgrown goatee. He looks shrunken and embarrassed as Griffin leads him through a series of questions about jailbait, rape jokes, and what the hell he was thinking.

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You might not expect the granddaughter of H.L. Hunt, the oil magnate who inspired Larry Hagman's character on Dallas, to be particularly fond of public radio. But as it turns out, Lyda Hill is very fond indeed of her local NPR affiliate, KERA.

The station announced today that Hill's foundation is writing the station a $1 million check to expand local news programming. It was her largesse that has made possible the weekly Health Checkup segment with Sam Baker and two series, Going Green: The Practical Payoffs and Engineering Hope.

KERA spokesman Chris Wagley said that in the wake of those programs KERA conducted a focus group with community leaders on what they wanted from the station.

"The outcome of that was they wanted more local news, and the kind of news that only public media can provide," Wagley said.

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The first season of the revamped Dallas may be over in the United States, but it's just getting started on the other side of the pond. It's scored solid ratings in Britain and is, apparently, garnering attention in countries not inhabited by Anglophones. Take Germany, for instance, where Hagman gave an interview with Bunte magazine.

"Der Dallas Star raucht wieder Marihuana," the magazine announces, or: "The Dallas star smokes marijuana again." German not being Unfair Park's strong suit (it's our third language behind English and Libtardese), we'll turn to the UK's Daily Mail for a translation.

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Glenn Beck has seen the face of hatred in America, and it looks like a surly flight attendant. In a transcript from his radio show, posted to his website this morning, Beck claims that an American Airlines employee slammed his drink down, barked the word "breakfast" at him, and delivered a monologue on being a "former Israeli soldier" and "how he was so proud of the very liberal cities in America."

What, he didn't manage to work in a reference to being a gay, Communist, Bible-burning, flag-defecating-upon Obama voter too? Can we just safely assume that part, Glenn?

The Passion of Glenn Beck began in New York over the weekend, when he says he was treated rudely in a "minority-owned" barbecue shop and then "openly mocked" the next day by patrons at a breakfast spot. But all of that was a mere prelude to his treatment on American while flying back home to DFW.

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Bravo

In her new show, Courtney Kerr is going to prove "that having it all isn't easy." Right.

If you missed season one of Most Eligible Dallas, Bravo's glimpse at what life is like for those Dallasites who are young, rich and telegenic enough to star in a Bravo reality show, never fear. Mixmaster can fill you in on all the juicy details, episode-by-episode.

Start reading now if you want to know who Courtney Kerr is in time for the debut of her own reality show, Courtney Loves Dallas. That's right, the Hollywood Reporter is, um, reporting that Bravo has ordered a Most Eligible Dallas spinoff.

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Mavs owner Mark Cuban is making sure conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart will continue to provoke some five months after his death. Big Hollywood, a site Breitbart founded, reported yesterday that Cuban's company, Magnet, plans to release "Occupy Unmasked" in theaters.

"This film is controversial, and that's exactly the reason we want to be sure it can find its audience prior to the November elections," Cuban said, according to the site.

"Occupy Unmasked," a Citizens United production, is a not-exactly fair and balanced look at the Occupy Wall Street movement. From the film's official website:

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Peter Calvn

Bobby Patterson, a longtime KKDA disc jockey, was laid off in May.

It was probably inevitable, what with the decades-long trend from AM to FM, from DJ to computer, but that didn't lessen the shock when KKDA abruptly laid off most of its on-air staff. We mourned it at the time on our music blog as a loss for Dallas radio, now devoid of the unique blend of old-school soul leavened by tales spun by hosts like Bobby Patterson that Soul 73 offered. You can still find the station on the dial, but its soul has vanished.

KKDA was always about more than music, though, and its diminishment means more than the loss of a place to get your fix of Gladys Knight or Lou Rawls.

"It was like the big mom and pop store," said Edna Pemberton, a longtime community activist in Oak Cliff. It might not have had the selection of Walmart, but it's part of the community, the place everyone goes to to get food, sure, but also to get news and gossip. "Everybody turned it on to hear about big momma and little momma," Pemberton said. Then, you'd hear the world news.

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Entertainment Weekly

Update at 2:34 p.m.:Okay, now we know. DPD's statement hit my inbox a few minutes ago:

In response to the shooting that occurred in Aurora, Colorado, the Dallas Police Department has instructed patrol officers to provide extra visibility and to be extra vigilant at public locations where large numbers of people gather, such as movie theaters. The Dallas Police Department does have plans and procedures in place to quickly and effectively respond to incidents of this nature. Police officers have been receiving training for several years on how to respond to an incident involving a person who is actively firing a weapon in public buildings.

As always, the Police Department requests the public to immediately call 911 whenever suspicious activity is observed.

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