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Q & A With Rolfe Kanefsky – Author of “MAKING NOTHING AT THE AGE OF 20
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Q & A With Rolfe Kanefsky – Author of “MAKING NOTHING AT THE AGE OF 20 Q: Why write a book? A: Well, there’s an old saying, “Write what you know”. And “Making Nothing” is definitely something I know since it’s the story of my life through the development and eventually distribution of my first professional feature film, “THERE’S NOTHING OUT THERE”- “A Horror Film of Comic Proportions”. Q: What was the inspiration of the book? A: My judgmental college advisor. I was attending Hampshire College trying to major in film. While I was making Super 8mm...
AMERICAN CABLE Q+A WITH AUTHOR JOSEPH BRUTSMAN
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AMERICAN CABLE Q+A WITH AUTHOR JOSEPH BRUTSMAN1. Your latest new book, AMERICAN CABLE sounds epic in both subject and theme. Is that indeed the case?Joseph Brutsman: After a great deal of work, research and introspection, I believe it arrived at that place. I wanted to present an overall history of “Cable”, as I also serve up the true-life adventures of those who put “Reality” programming together. Utilizing my own personal timeline as one of the earliest and longest-running creatives in cable and reality, I go through the evolution of this media, as I also tell of my own journey. The...
Q&A with Jeffrey L. Carrier on the Patsy Ruth Miller letters
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(Q) These letters are more than thirty years old. Why are you sharing them now? (A) Patsy Ruth Miller made a lot of films in her career as a silent movie star but the only one that is still well-known today is THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. It is regarded as one of the hallmarks of silent cinema and it was released in October of 1923, one hundred years ago. That sort of an anniversary seems an appropriate time to publish letters from one of its stars. She was Esmeralda, and Lon Chaney was Quasimodo. It’s too bad I...
NEON NIGHTMARES Q+A WITH AUTHOR BRAD SYKES
NEON NIGHTMARES Q+A WITH AUTHOR BRAD SYKES1. Your latest endeavor is a new book entitled NEON NIGHTMARES: L.A. THRILLERS OF THE 1980s. What can you tell us about the inspiration behind it?Brad Sykes: In 2017, around the time I was finishing up writing my first book, TERROR IN THE DESERT: DARK CINEMA OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, I started watching a lot of urban thrillers made in the 1980s– many of which were set in Los Angeles - as kind of a counterbalance to all the rural desert films I’d been devouring. I was having a lot of fun watching these...
TEN QUESTIONS WITH STEVEN PEROS (Editor and Contributor, GIANT BEAST CINEMA)
TEN QUESTIONS WITH STEVEN PEROS (Editor and Contributor, GIANT BEAST CINEMA)1. You are an established writer for film and TV, most notably writing Peter Bogdanovich’s THE CAT’S MEOW, starring Kirsten Dunst, A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS STORY with Dolly Parton, and one of the writers on Disney’s AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS starring Jackie Chan. How did writing and editing a book on giant monsters come about? Monster movies are my first love. I grew up in New York where our syndicated stations consistently showed old horror and sci-fi movies. I had a steady diet of monsters, aliens, werewolves, and vampires....