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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    July 11, 2023  CONTACT: Lynda O’Connor, O’Connor Communications Inc. lyndao@oconnorpr.com, 847-615-5462, or David Brimm, dbrimm@brimmcom.com, 847-444-1198 NOW ABAILABLE ON AUDIO - STARSTRUCK: HOW I MAGICALLY TRANSFORMED CHICAGO INTO HOLLYWOOD FOR MORE THAN  FIFTY YEARS BY CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDER MICHAEL KUTZA     Chicago, IL) –  Blackstone Publishing just released the audio version of Starstruck: How I magically transformed Chicago into Hollywood for more than fifty years read by the author Michael Kutza, who founded the Festival more than fifty years ago. This provocative, sexy, irreverent memoir is unabridged and features a collection of voices of “A List” movie stars and details...

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Q&A with Arlene Francis biographer, Jennifer Bitman   Why Arlene Francis? She was a trailblazer for women in television, and I’m not sure how many people know that. Besides her own 1978 memoir, there was no current biography available, so I wrote one. Wasn’t she on that classic game show “What’s My Line?” A Yes, she was on the panel for 25 years, but she did so much more: radio, TV, film, and Broadway. Can you explain the title “All Three Channels” It was her grandson, Sam Gabel’s idea. Back in the 1950s, there were only three major TV networks:...

Q&A with David Lewis on Red Cameras Roll1 Why did you write the musical?I have long admired the guts it must have taken Bette Davis to make this rather daring film, for at the time, Hollywood actors risked being blacklisted for even the most tenuous connections to the communist party and cause. And then, how Davis restrained herself in the role of the librarian – when her bent for histrionics could easily have tipped her into righteous indignation. She was widely praised for this quality by even the film’s most outspoken critics. 2 How does your musical in any way...