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Michael Kutza's Memoir, "Starstruck: How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years", is now available in Audio
Want to hear behind-the-scenes stories from 50+ years of the Chicago International Film Festival in anticipation of this fall’s 59th edition? Check out Starstruck: How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years. It’s a captivating memoir by our Festival Founder Michael Kutza detailing his time at the helm of the longest-running competitive film festival in North America, with stories featuring stars from Sophia Loren and Steven Spielberg to Viola Davis and Al Pacino. As Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone says, “For many of us, Michael Kutza brought the great city of Chicago to life with his infectious love...
"Library Journal" Book Review - "The Novelizers"
"LIBRARY JOURNAL" BOOK REVIEW Spencer (Musical Theatre Writer’s Survival Guide) is not only an award-winning composer/lyricist but also a lifelong fan of novelizations and tie-in books. “Media tie-in writing is literature. Real literature,” he persuasively argues in this massive and affectionate history of novelizations. Screenplay novelizations of silent films began appearing in 1915, decades after stage play novelizations. Far from hack writers, among the notables who wrote novelizations are Pulitzer Prize winner Upton Sinclair (who novelized the play Damaged Goods in 1913); National Book Award winner Paul Monette who penned tie-ins for Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu and Brian De Palma’s Scarface; and Isaac Asimov, who novelized Fantastic...
Book Review - John Wayne's B-Westerns, 1932-1939
https://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-review-john-wayne-b-westerns-1932.html
Review of Suzanne Gould's Biography of Sheb Wooley
https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/movies/love-of-rawhide-puts-former-tulsan-on-trail-to-write-sheb-wooley-biography/article_c1b5a0f0-b78c-11ed-973b-ab2c0c26059a.html
John W. Harding Answers Questions About His New Novel, "Cast Aside"
Q & A with “Cast Aside” author John W. Harding Q: As a novelist what made you decide to focus on the early years of motion pictures? A: It took me a while to get there, actually. I was born in Los Angeles, raised under the Hollywood sign. So I heard these stories growing up. My classmates were often actors and the kids of filmmakers. My first crush in high school was on Terry Burnham, the little blonde girl who played the spooky child sitting outside a woman’s apartment in that famous episode of “The Twilight...