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April 8, 2010

‘Dodo’ coming out on DVD

By Joe Pinchot Herald Staff Writer

SHARON — Bob Golub was ready to put “Dodo” in his rearview mirror.

A documentary comedy film mixing home movies, staged scenes and candid interviews, “Dodo” was Golub’s take on growing up in a large family in Sharon with an alcoholic, abusive father. The title is taken from the nickname of his father, Donald E. Golub Sr.

Golub had shown the film at a few film festivals since 2006, but interest had bottomed out.

“Dodo” was as dead as the dodo.

“I was ready to put it on YouTube and write off the 30 grand and say, ‘That’s that,’ ” Golub said, calling from his home in West Hollywood, Calif.

Then, he got a call about releasing it on DVD. “Dodo” was not so dead after all.

The DVD is officially released April 20 by Celebrity Video Distributors, and orders are being taken on Amazon.com or through Golub’s Web site, www.bobgolub.com

Once it’s released, the DVD will be available for rent from Netflix and Blockbuster, and some mom and pop stores will carry it, he said.

“It feels pretty cool,” he said of the upcoming release. “Whatever happens, I got it (expletive) released. I never give up.”

Interest has picked up for the film recently. Golub, 52, just returned from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he did a half-hour of stand-up comedy, showed the film, and then took questions from the audience.

“I had the biggest write-up in town — bigger than Alicia Keys,” he said of the coverage by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. “My picture was bigger than Lewis Black’s write-up.”

Golub will screen the film April 17 at the Rex Theater in Pittsburgh, and is looking to set up showings in this area, Cleveland, New York City and elsewhere.

The buzz also has kicked up interest in the one-man stage show that started it all, in which Golub plays his father.

At the core of “Dodo” is the fact that Golub Sr. never told his kids he loved them. Golub said he has met many men who had the same experience.

A young man who attended a screening at York (Pa.) College, stood up during the Q&A and said that was his experience.

“I told him he better do it before he dies,” Golub said.

The man contacted Golub later and said he had told his dad that he loved him.

“He said it was more uncomfortable for his dad than it was for him,” Golub said.

If what Golub has heard is true, 90 percent of independent films never get released. But, he also has heard that it is easier to make a second film than it is the first.

If “Dodo” has any bounce, Golub has ideas for additional films, including the story of legendary Farrell High School basketball coach Ed McCluskey, and a documentary on the football quarterbacks who have come from western Pennsylvania, including Joe Montana, Dan Marino, Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath.

He’s negotiating a television docuseries called “Deathbed Confessions,” and wants to shoot a special on his stand-up comedy act that he would submit to Showtime.

“You gotta shoot it and they look at it and buy it,” he said.

He’s also still rolling out his “Three Poles Walk Into a Bar Comedy Tour.”

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