BearManor Media News — q&a

Q&A with Thomas Shubilla, author of King Kong vs. Godzilla Q: What was the inspiration behind the book? A: I tend to fall into topics when brainstorming ideas. Originally I had an idea to talk about “Monster Rally” films, movies with multiple monsters thrown together like Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man or House of Dracula, but when I started to write I decided I wanted to focus on a singular topic and realized that no one had ever written a book about King Kong vs. Godzilla so  I called an audible and shifted my focus.  Q: How long have you...

Q&A with David Inman, author of Truth and Consequences: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s and Their Aftermath (This post contains an amazon affiliate link) Q. Mystery guest, will you sign in, please?A. Hello! My name is David Inman and I grew up watching too much television. Fortunately, I was able to parlay that into a gig as "The Incredible Inman," a nationally syndicated TV and movie trivia Q&A column that ran from 1981-2013. I've also supplied material for Turner Classic Movies hosts Ben Mankiewicz and Dave Karger, and I've written several books about movie and TV history, including...

Q&A with Charles Tranberg, author of Christmas TV Specials & Movies of the 1970S (This post contains an amazon affiliate link from which the publisher may make a commission that helps support his business.) Q: You’ve mostly written biographies of people like Agnes Moorehead, Fred MacMurray and Fredric March—why did you do a book on Christmas programming of the 1970’s?   A: Well, I love Christmas, and I grew up watching those shows with my family and I still enjoy watching them.  I grew up during the 1970’s which I think is the golden age of Christmas programming.  There are...

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...