Penny Peyser, Doug McIntyre toot Jack Sheldon's horn

Talk about marital commitment. It took Doug McIntyre and Penny Peyser almost as long to shoot and edit their self-financed, self-distributed documentary "Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon," which opens today at the Westwood Crest Theatre, as the couple has been married. "We ate the elephant one bite at a time," McIntyre joked recently about their maiden filmmaking venture, over tea with Peyser at a Studio City restaurant.

By Gary Goldstein

May 30, 2008