Casting Call for Punks, Look-Alikes

Hey, punk, you wanna make some filmmaker’s day?

All you have to do is turn up at Linda’s Doll Hut in Anaheim on Sunday at 6 p.m. looking like, well, a punk.

It’s not a Dirty Harry movie, but a short film called “It’s Hard to Say,” being made by a husband-and-wife production team from Riverside.

Co-producer Penny Styles-McLean said the film will cover a couple’s 30-year relationship in 15 minutes. The Doll Hut, at 107 S. Adams St., enters the picture after Beth, the wife, learns that Bob, the husband, has been “canoodling around” on her.

Styles-McLean, who is British, explains that “canoodling” is Brit slang for what you might suspect.

The previously prim Beth starts showing a wild streak in a nightclub scene, jumping up to sing with a punk band before passing out from too much alcohol. An L.A. group called Mumpo plays the band.

The year is supposed to be 1987, so extras should think punk-retro for their garb. Since punk is always retro, today’s punks shouldn’t have to stretch to look like the punks of a decade ago. Tattoos are OK, but for ’87 authenticity, it might be best to hide those facial and body piercings.

Styles-McLean said she came across the Doll Hut while scouting locations for another film. “I just love the place; it’s the coolest.”

Her husband and co-producer, Jack McLean, has a niche in early O.C. alterna-rock history: He was the staff photographer for Fullertone magazine, a defunct fanzine that covered the outbreak of punk and alternative rock in O.C. during the early ‘80s.