www.BillSchimmel.com - May 2005

and space - gives him the ultimate edge - the punk edge--the kind of edge that only the two forms together produce.

Mark Birnbaum holds court in Coney Island. He is an icon there. People know him as they pass him on the thoroughfare. They wave - he waves back. Many think that he is a magician--and, of course, he is - in the truest sense of the world.

Mark Birnbaum was the one man house band on the Joe Franklin Show -- for a long time --many years, to be exact. And...watch his indie-films on cable - they are original - that's an understatement. Even former president George Bush Sr. has seen and experienced Mark's indie-films --