"Glenn-bo" Frey is Camera-Ready
Author: Craig MacInnis
Publication: Toronto Star
Date: December 5, 1986
Abstract: Glenn discusses his role as Spence in Let's Get Harry and his desire to act more.
"This movie's not Gone With The Wind, but it's not a piece of shit, either," Glenn Frey muses.
"I would say it's flawed. But hell, I think my records are flawed too. There comes a point where you just have to let go of it and leave your work in the hands of others."
Let's Get Harry is Frey's feature film debut, and underneath the apologies beats the heart of a giddy, and proud, Hollywood neophyte.
"Can you tell me where it's playing in Toronto?" he asks. "My folks live in Detroit and it doesn't open there till after Christmas. I'd like to get them to drive up to Toronto to see it."
Frey, who shaped the course of California rock during the 1970s as a charter member of The Eagles, has been acting in front of cameras for five years.
"As I started to do music videos - even before MTV came along - people working with me would tell me: 'The camera likes you.' "
Working in steps, he graduated to an episode of Miami Vice last year, and then, on to the dizzying heights of a Pepsi commercial with Don Johnson.
In Let's Get Harry, he plays a midwestern plumber who shoots up the South American landscape during a rescue mission.
"The body-count got so high my friends started calling me Glennbo," he relates.
Frey enters the studio this weekend to begin recording his third solo album, but he makes it clear he'd like another turn under the klieg lights.
"I wasn't as sure of myself as I might have been, although working with Gary Busey and Robert Duvall made it so easy. I couldn't help but look good.
"Next time, I'll be more camera-ready."
He adds with a laugh: "I'm right on Stallone's heels right now, he can feel me coming."
