Postby ebascoray » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:07 pm
Hmmm, interesting that you should mention "The Ref". I've seen that movie a few times too, and have it on VHS tape. The young actor who played that role was Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., who was in another movie in which he was bound and gagged in a few scenes, called "Bingo." That was when he was about 12 years old, so it was a few years before "The Ref." It's a typical "kids" movie, but still, fun to watch anyway, what with those scenes in it. But, it was from my rather idle curiosity about what had ever happened to Robert's acting career, that eventually led me to this site. Back around 2002, I was wondering whatever happened to him, and I did a search on his name. The search brought the usual stuff from the Internet Movie Database, of course, and one site that I landed on was something called "Bandannagag." Some time later, Bandannagag led into, quite by accident, Boundit, which most folks on here know about. But, back in 2004, while looking at the user forum on Boundit, there was a thread about the kid in the movie "Benji" being cleave-gagged by his kidnapper in that movie. I had never seen or read that term before. Even though I kind of knew what it meant, I did a search on that phrase anyway to see if my assumptions were correct, and amongst the search results, I came upon the Website by the great Doug R., and his stories. And, I think there was some kind of link from his Website to the original Canuck Website. So, one thing led to another, as the saying goes. But, if I had never, out of curiosity, wondered about the acting career of Robert Steinmiller, whatever happened to him after The Ref, I probably never would have come upon Canuck's site, or this one. Destiny, I suppose......