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  Q&A with Maggie McCormick, author of Sister Act - The Story of the Lane Sisters Who were the Lane Sisters? Priscilla, Rosemary, Lola, and Leota Lane were four sisters who performed individually and in various combinations in movies, on stage, on the radio, and on television, from the 1920s through the 1950s.  Priscilla, Rosemary, and Lola are best known, as they made many feature films, including Arsenic and Old Lace, Saboteur, The Roaring Twenties, Hollywood Hotel, Marked Woman, and the Four Daughters series.  Leota made a few shorts, but mostly concentrated on stage musicals, operettas, nightclubs, concerts, and opera....

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...

  "There was a time when aficionados of Hammer Films’ memorable film scores had to make do with the odd scrap recorded here and there. That, however, is a situation that has thankfully been remedied over the years, with most of the striking orchestral scores now available in some form or other — particularly those composed by the man who was the doyen of the field, and who might be called its most significant practitioner (in much the same way that Terence Fisher is recognised as Hammer’s key director): the late James Bernard. But Bernard was not alone in his...

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