BearManor Media News — q&a

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...

Rick Greene Q&A for BearManor Media   Q: Tell us about your new book Promotional Pandemonium! Selling Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy To Depression-Era America Book One: The Hal Roach Studios Features.A: This is the third volume in a series of books exploring the many ways in which the classic movie comedy teams of the 20th century were promoted and advertised to America. The first book was called Marketing Mayhem and focused on Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, and came out in 2022. The second was Advertising Anarchy which covered the 36 films made by Bud Abbott & Lou Costello...

Q& A for Alexis Smith by Peter Shelley 1. What made you interested in writing a book on Alexis Smith?There was no book on her although a chapter was devoted to Alexis in Daniel Bubbeo’s book The Women of Warner Brothers. She didn’t write a memoir and neither did her husband Craig Stevens. I have written a number of biographies of film actors and actresses and I am always drawn to people who haven’t been covered in a substantial way. 2. Can you remember the first time you saw her?That was probably when she was in two of my favorite...