BearManor Media News — q&a

Q&A with Michael Mallory, author of It's a Mystery!  Q:        What prompted you to write this book?   A:        This is a collection of articles I wrote for Mystery Scene Magazine over a period of seventeen years. While some of the pieces cover other media such as television, radio, and even comic books, most of them focus on print authors who were enormously popular in their day, but with time have fallen into obscurity. A couple of them were so famous in their heyday that they appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. I...

  Q&A with Brian Gari, author of We Bombed In New London The Inside Story of the Broadway Musical Late Nite Comic  1. Where did you come up with that title?I recalled a play entitled We Bombed In New Haven and since my show started out in New London Connecticut and did not get the best reviews, I thought my title might be a funny parody. 2. Was the show based on a true story?Not entirely. I had a long relationship with a ballet dancer and wrote a lot of songs about her. I had also spent years in the...

Q&A with David Da Silva, author of Martial Arts in Cinema: From Tokyo to Hollywood  Q: What inspired you to write Martial Arts in Cinema: Volume 1 – From Tokyo to Hollywood (1945–1988) ?  David Da Silva: My father, Natalino, introduced me to Bruce Lee and martial arts films at a young age, sparking a lifelong passion. As a cinema historian with a PhD in film studies, I wanted to trace the genre’s evolution from post-war Japan and Hong Kong to its impact on Hollywood, highlighting its cultural and artistic significance. Q: How is the book structured, and what period...

Q: How long have you been a fan of the G.I. Joe franchise? JAMES McFADDEN: I've been a fan of G.I. Joe since the very start of its re-launch in the early 1980s. Q: What inspired your fascination with that universe, and why? McFADDEN: The property, at its beginning, was essentially a superhero adventure, blended with sci-fi and real-world military elements, all of which could be watched on TV, read in comics and played with every day through the toys. It's a mixture that was very difficult for a kid to resist. Q: How would you sum up the project...

Q & A WITH FILMMAKER/AUTHOR MARJORIE SHORT     Q:  Making Mischief: The Intern Diaries is a pretty unusual book. Why did you write it?   A: Actually, it was never intended to be a book! It was a journal of my experience as the Academy/AFI Directing Intern on the feature film Mischief in 1984. By the end, I had five notebooks of entries. I had to turn all that into a report to the AFI assessing my experiences.   Q:  What kinds of things did you write about in your diaries?   A:  When I first got to location,...