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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....
Golden Girls book author Q&A
Author Q&A For A Tribute To The Golden Girls: From Sharing Cheesecake to Relaxing on the Lanai Tell our readers about your background in entertainment book publishing. I’ve always been fascinated by pop culture. I started as a freelance entertainment writer for print publications, including USA Today, People Weekly Variety, and Hollywood Reporter. I'm the author of 22- plus entertainment/celebrity books, including Timeless TV Trivia Quiz and Random Facts, Pop 'n' Rock Trivia Quiz: '60s to '80s, The Superheroes Movies Trivia Quiz Book and other entertainment/celebrity-themed tribute books, The Elton John Scrapbook, Starman: A Tribute to Bowie, The...
Paul Apel, on Ed Wood's I Watched Football the Day I Died
Paul Apel, on Ed Wood's I Watched Football the Day I Died1.) Why did Ed Wood, an infamously low-quality director, inspire you to become a leading authority on his life and work?It all started with the Tim Burton movie, Ed Wood. As a teenager I was interested in old horror movies, both the classics and the duds. When I saw that one of my favorite directors was making a modern black-and-white movie with Bela Lugosi as a major character, I was instantly enthralled. I loved the portrayal of Ed Wood, an eternally optimistic dreamer who made movies no matter what...
Q&A with Steve Bergsman, author of The Wanderers
Q&A with Steve Bergsman, author of The Wanderers - Killer Teens, Rebel Teens, Gang Teens and the evolution of the last Great Greaser Feature What is the book about?On the surface, it is about the making of the cult movie, The Wanderers, from 1979. However, the wider and more accurate summation is that the book is about all the factors that pushed this movie to be made including current affairs, trends in film genres and the abiding interest of the director.…This book has a more specific origination story, right?Yes, it is one of the few movies where the original inspiration...