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CHILDREN OF THE CORN: A NEW CROP. That could have been the working title of Don Borchers’ latest filmic adventure for Syfy. Don’s been producing, writing and directing movies since the early 1980s. And in September of 2009 he revisited his past by once again aligning himself with Stephen King’s classic tale of murderous kids in a midwestern cornfield. Syfy’s CHILDREN OF THE CORN is Don’s faithful adaptation (produced, written and directed by Don) of King’s short story. Grim and gruesome, the film is not to be missed. Don’s tenacious, driven and determined to follow through on whatever he sets his sights on. Listen in and learn something. We did.
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Jennifer Yale is off to a fast start. Her first job in Hollywood was working for Mel Brooks helping to shape the filmed remake of The Producers and the musical of Young Frankenstein. Along the way she’s won an Emmy, pitched pilots, written screenplays, been on the team for the TV shows Day Break and Dexter and broken new ground on webisode stories for CBS’s Harper’s Island. Oh, and she almost died at 16. After that, the rest is easy. Listen in. It’s a good one.
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Let Del Reisman take you back to the Golden Age of Television. When he was a kid hanging out on the Universal backlot, or later in the midst of 35 missions as a bombardier flying over Germany during WWII, Del had no idea he’d wind up smack in the middle of one of the most creatively fervent periods in the history of American Broadcasting. When TV drama was in its infancy and young men like John Frankenheimer, Franklin Schaffner and Paddy Chayefsky were telling the country all about itself with live television productions, Del was there. He was also there with Rod Serling when a little CBS show called The Twilight Zone hit the airwaves and changed television forever. Listen in.
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Lee Goldberg’s resumé reads like a TV what’s-what for the last twenty years. His television creations are legion not only in the U.S. but he’s dabbled a bit in Europe as well. And if that’s not enough, he’s also a published novelist. Next up: splitting the atom. Listen in.
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Joe Dougherty is a playwright, novelist, director and Emmy Award winning writer for television. Currently penning plots and dialog for Holly Hunter on SAVING GRACE, he took some time out from his big deal successful writing career to talk with us pikers. Listen in and get your Joe on.
Joe Dougherty links: corporate HQ, original fiction, radio drama, his novel, another novel and radio scripts.
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In a break from tradition The Zicree Simkins Podcast reaches out to fellow podcasters and writers Jim Dunn and Sam Ernst and swipes their podcast. Well, actually, we borrowed their 40th episode with their permission. Sam and Jim were restaurant owners in Minneapolis when they decided to chuck it and become writers in Hollywood. You can follow their exploits over on their site. Or you can sample their infectious (in a good way) goodness by listening in right here.
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Mark Fergus, one-half of the writing team sharing credit on IRON MAN, talks with Zicree/Simkins about what life is like working with legends.
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Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander are screenwriters, film producers and directors. If you’ve seen ED WOOD, THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, MAN IN THE MOON, MARS ATTACKS, AUTOFOCUS or 1408 then you’ve seen their work. In this episode Larry and Scott chat it up and laugh it up with David and Marc. Note: This repost fixes a publishing error.
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