Part 1: Sit this party out When our friend Daisy asked my wife and I to help her find a handsome Lebanese guy to play the leading man in an independent movie she was making, we figured she was just another crackpot. After all, there must have been 5,000 people in Brooklyn who claimed to be making movies. So while we did promise to call a friend - Tony Saad: tall, dark and handsome, with eyes as blue as Hitler's and a goofily suave manner (I'm getting goosebumps just thinking of him) - we never did it. The movie Daisy was making turned out to be the no-budget hit Party Girl, which launched the career of indy-film queen Parker Posey. And the guy who ended up playing the lead was a real schmo - not nearly as charismatic as Tony. If we hadn't been such Doubting Thomases, the movie might have been better and our friend might be a cult star!

Would we do it differently? Yes, but it may not have made a difference. Good looks and charisma in person often don't show up on the big screen.

Wish you had been in some no-budget movie? Tell simpleton. More movie regrets coming in Part 2: A Pink Flop BACK to the Beginning