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“Nailing down a coffin lid is far easier than nailing down a universally agreed upon definition of the term film noir.”                                                                                          Robert Strom   Every so often a book comes along which somehow manages to evoke both our childhood and our love of films at the same time. Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir is such a book.     I grew up in a place I used to call Shadowland, a quiet suburb of Toronto known officially as Don Mills (the first formally designed suburb in North America) where there wasn’t much to do but listen to music and...

"Crain’s Chicago Business" story about the 60th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival:   https://chicagoreader.com/film/movie-feature/chicago-international-film-festival-60th-anniversary/

Growing Up in Disneyland, a Q&A with Ron DeFore Q. Is this book all about Disneyland?A. My book is not all about Disneyland. The title is a metaphor for my life growing up in a Hollywood celebrity family-and surviving. It’s also literal as my Dad, TV and movie star Don DeFore, was the only person to own a food establishment in Disneyland bearing the name of a real person–Don DeFore’s Silver Banjo Barbecue restaurant in Frontierland. Three chapters are dedicated to our experiences with Disneyland. Q. Was your father a famous TV/movie star?A. Yes, he was–from the 1940s to the...

Ten Questions for Bob Blackburn about his new memoir titled “Kathy Wood and I - How I Fell Down the Angora Rabbit Hole” 1. First of all, did you ever actually meet Ed Wood, Jr.?No I didn't and I wish I would have, now that I've been down this road since realizing that his widow, Kathy, was my neighbor. Ed died on Sunday, Dec. 7th, 1978 and I didn't move to Hollywood until March of 1989. 2. Why did you move to Hollywood in the first place? Well, I had helped a friends rock band relocate here in 1985 and...

You can bring your copy of Elvis, Rocky & Me for Carol Connors to personally sign.