BearManor Media News — q&a

10 Questions for Trav S.D. regarding the Marx Brothers Miscellany Who were the Marx Brothers? – The Marx Brothers were the most critically acclaimed and successful stage and screen comedy team in history. Their period of activity lasted from roughly 1905, when two of the five brothers started out in vaudeville, through 1977, when the most famous of the brothers (Groucho) passed away. The members were Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo (who quit in 1918), and Zeppo (who replaced Gummo and performed with the team through 1933). The brothers starred in movies, radio, television, and on Broadway. Two of them also...

Q&A with the author of An Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne, Nick DiMartino 1. What in the world led you to read all of Jules Verne? It was an accident. I like exploring an author in depth. I was a bookseller on the U. W. campus for fifty years. My top priority activity is reading. Lately I’d been amassing the works of Henry James, Balzac, Melville, Dumas and Sir Walter Scott, thinking I’d spend my retirement reading the great respectable literary “heavies” I’d avoided all my life. Instead, I opened an unread advance of a Verne novel I’d never heard...

Q & A With Sean Crose, Author of Catholic Girl: The Life and Times of Mabel Normand How did you come about the idea to write Catholic Girl?Believe it or not my original intention was to write about Charlie Chaplin, who Mabel was a -co-star, mentor, and director of – even though she was younger than he was. As time moved on during my research, however, I became more interested in Mabel than Charlie. Finally, I reached out to Mabel’s estate for information and her nephew Stephen (who operates the estate) put the idea in my head to write a...

10 Questions with Dan Harary, author of My Paranormal Life Dan, My Paranormal Life, really? What’s going on here?I know, I know, it sounds really wacky, right? But after sitting down with myself for 18 months jotting down a list of all of the truly odd, bizarre, and often inexplicable experiences I’ve had since a very young age, and especially after my long-dead grandfather visited me decades after he passed away, I simply came to the realization that sometimes paranormal and supernatural events really CAN happen to people in real life. There are a million reality-based TV shows these days...

Q&A for Chris “Sampo” Cornell, author of the MSTiepedia books 1. What was your first experience with MST3K?Like most people, I found it channel surfing. But there’s a backstory. Many years before, when the woman who became my wife and I were still dating, we were hanging out in my wife’s apartment with a couple of friends. On our little portable black-and-white TV was a movie called “Women of the Prehistoric Planet.” We got high, settled into the sofa and watched, and essentially did what MST3K does, cracking each other up with funny remarks (or they seemed funny at the...