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TEN QUESTIONS WITH STEVEN PEROS (Editor and Contributor, GIANT BEAST CINEMA)

February 6, 2024 • peros • q&a

TEN QUESTIONS WITH STEVEN PEROS (Editor and Contributor, GIANT BEAST CINEMA) You are an established writer for film and TV, most notably writing Peter Bogdanovich’s THE CAT’S MEOW, starring Kirsten Dunst, A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS STORY with Dolly Parton, and one of the writers on Disney’s AROUND THE WORLD IN 980 DAYS starring Jackie Chan. How did writing and editing a book on giant monsters come about? Monster movies are my first love. I grew up in New York where our syndicated stations consistently showed old horror and sci-fi movies. I had a steady diet of monsters, aliens,...

Q&A With Gene Popa, Author of BRITISH INVASION ‘64

February 6, 2024

Q&A With Gene Popa, Author of BRITISH INVASION ‘64 Q: So, why a book about the British Invasion?A: My aim is to write the books that I want to read, but which aren’t out there. For being such a seminal cultural event, the British Invasion hasn’t really been given its historical due. When it is discussed, it is almost always as a component of the story of the Beatles. Or else it is a relatively brief segment of an all-encompassing study of rock during the Sixties. But the British Invasion was much more than just the Beatles, although obviously they...