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I've begun a substack called The Jedi Medic! It will include some excerpts from my recent release, My Jedi Memoir: A Double Life, and a lot of new memories/anecdotes/musings from my life as a writer of novelizations and television, my years as an emergency room doc, and random odd or funny life experiences.  The first week or so I'm frontloading with Jedi anecdotes, then after that I'll expand to ER, television, and other Hollywood lore. Here's the link:   substack.com/@thatjameskahn It's free, so I hope you subscribe, peruse my posts if you want, and toss 'em if you don't. They're short, readable, and...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the premiere of two of TV's all time favorite game shows. In the fall of 1956, Goodson-Todman Productions hired Bob Stewart as a new producer. Bob came with some new game show ideas, the first being a pricing game called The Price is Right, which premiered on NBC daytime  in November 1956.  The show became an instant hit, added a nighttime version and ran on TV until 1965 (moving to ABC in 1963 for its final years).  Seven years later, CBS revived the show with Bob Barker hosting a daytime version and Dennis...

Hollywood on the Tiber Vol. 1: An American in Rome – 250 U.S. Actors in Italian Cinema, 1950-1990 Q & A with Michelle Alexander   1       What is Hollywood on the Tiber Vol. 1: An American in Rome – 250 U.S. Actors in Italian Cinema, 1950-1990 about? Hollywood on the Tiber Vol. 1: An American in Rome – 250 U.S. Actors in Italian Cinema, 1950-1990 is an A-Z reference book featuring a selection of biographies and filmographies of 250 U.S. born actors who appeared in three or more Italian-funded (or partially Italian-funded) films. It opens with a survey of Italian...

John Carpenter with the Donald Pleasance book!