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In this episode, we open the valult and release the 2008 interview Alexandre O. Phillippe and Kerry Deignan Roy-- the makers of the documentary film The People vs. George Lucas as they are putting the documentary together.
Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss film director whose films include the documentaries Doc of the Dead, The People vs. George Lucas, and 78/52.. Philippe is Creative Director and co-owner of Denver-based Cinema Vertige and his most recent commissioned work for the City of Denver garnered four Heartland Emmy Awards.
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James interviews Grady Hendrix about his new book How to Sell a Haunted House.
From Wikipedia:
Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel Horrorstör. Hendrix lives in Manhattan and was one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival.
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Another interview from the This Is Some Scene archives. In this interview from 2009, James Ippoliti and Chris Blake Sasser interview the legendary director, Jack Hill
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Chris Blake Sasser interviews Ted Raimi an American character actor, director, comedian, and writer. He is known for his roles in the works of his brother Sam Raimi, including a fake Shemp in The Evil Dead, possessed Henrietta in Evil Dead II, and Ted Hoffman in the Spider-Man trilogy.[2] He later reprised his role as Henrietta in the television series Ash vs. Evil Dead, in which he also played the character Chet Kaminski. He is also known for his roles as Lieutenant JG Tim O'Neill in seaQuest DSVand Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
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My 2021 interview with Terry R. Wickham. Terry R. Wickham is a five-time award-winning Writer/Producer/Director, known for Out of Touch (1995), Evil Streets (1998), the Award-Winning Washington Road (2001), Hair of the Dog (2003), Devil's Five (2017) which Won Best Horror Film @ Hell's Kitchen Film Festival 9/9/18 in New York City, Gruesome Threesome (2019) and his latest psychological suspense-thriller Terry R. Wickham's Double Vision (2020), which won Best Thriller Film @ Hell's Kitchen NYC Festival in NYC on 1/19/2020 and took home the Top Audience Award @ International Film Festival of Manhattan 2020 (IFFM2020) on 11/23/2020.
Terry is aiming to create a landmark classic with his next movie Terry R. Wickham's Anomaly, which will be a relentlessly terrifying supernatural horror film.
Terry is the president of Mantaray Pictures LLC, a company that represents all his work. He grew up in Everett & Snohomish, Washington. Terry's been watching scary movies since he was four years old. The local late night horror show "Chiller Theater" was the source that enabled Terry to see all the old Universal classic monster movies, as well as the Japanese monster movies like Godzilla.
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My 2021 interview with Andy Weir.
My guest — known for his bestselling debut novel, The Martian, which became a blockbuster film. That film now holds a place in Hollywood’s Saving Matt Damon Collection. His second book Artemis took the reader on a futuristic space caper set in a city on the moon—also a bestseller and my favorite out of the two. Now Author Andy Weir takes us on an interstellar tale of discovery, speculation, and survival in his new novel Project Hail Mary.
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From Wikipedia: Andrew Weir is an American novelist and former computer programmer. His 2011 novel The Martian was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016 and his 2021 novel Project Hail Mary was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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2010 interview with Geoffrey Fletcher. From Wikipedia: Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher is an American screenwriter and film director. Fletcher is best known for being the screenwriter of Precious, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the first African American to receive an Academy Award for writing. In September 2010, Fletcher began shooting Violet & Daisy in New York City based on his original script as his directorial debut. It was released in a limited theatrical run in June 2013.
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2009 interview with actor Reggie Bannister. From Wikipedia: Reginald Horace "Reggie" Bannisteris an American musician, actor, producer, writer, and activist. He is known for his role as Reggie in the Phantasm film series.
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2008 interview with Joe Dante. From Wikipedia: Joseph James Dante Jr. is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch(1990)—often mix 1950s-style B movies with cartoon comedy.
Dante's films also include Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). His work for television and cable includes immigration satire The Second Civil War (1997) and episodes of anthology series Masters of Horror ("Homecoming" and "The Screwfly Solution") and Amazing Stories, as well as Police Squad! and Hawaii Five-0.
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2009 interview with author Christopher Moore. From Wikipedia: Christopher Moore is an American writer of comic fantasy.
An only child, Moore learned to amuse himself with his imagination. He loved reading and his father brought him plenty of books from the library every week. He started writing around the age of twelve and realized that this was his talent by the time he was 16, and he began to consider making it his career.
Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. With the possible exceptions of Fool, The Serpent of Venice, Sacré Bleu, and Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel, all his books take place in the same universe and some characters recur from novel to novel.
According to his interview in the June 2007 issue of Writer's Digest, the film rights to Moore's first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), were purchased by Disney even before the book had a publisher. In answer to repeated questions from fans over the years, Moore stated that all of his books have been optioned or sold for films, but that as yet "none of them are in any danger of being made into a movie."
Moore has named Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, John Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Ian Fleming as key influences on his writing.
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2010 interview with author Nick Hornby. Nicholas Hornby is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. He has received two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for An Education (2009), and Brooklyn (2015).
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2008 interview with Crispin Glover. James Ippoliti and Doug Lipski interview Crispin Hellion Glover, an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for portraying eccentric characters on screen, such as George McFly in Back to the Future (1985), Layne in River's Edge (1986), Andy Warhol in The Doors (1991), Bobby McBurney in What's Eating Gilbert Grape(1993), the Thin Man in Charlie's Angels (2000) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Willard Stiles in Willard (2003), Grendel in Beowulf (2007), The Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (2010), Phil in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), and Mr. World in the Starz television series American Gods (2017–2021).
In the late 1980s, Glover started his company, Volcanic Eruptions, which publishes his books such as Rat Catching (1988) and also serves as the production company for the films he has directed, What Is It?(2005) and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007).
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February 16, 2009 interview with Amber Benson, American actress, singer, writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999–2002), and has also directed, produced and starred in her own films Chance (2002) and Lovers, Liars & Lunatics (2006). She also starred in the movie Kiss the Bride (2007). She co-directed the film Drones(2010) with fellow Buffy cast member Adam Busch. Benson also starred as a waitress in the horror movie The Killing Jar (2010).
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February 9, 2009 interview with Tommy Wiseau, an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for writing, producing, directing, and starring in the 2003 film The Room, which has been described by many critics as one of the worst films ever made and has gained cult status. He also co-directed the 2004 documentary Homeless in America and created the 2015 sitcom The Neighbors.
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James Ippoliti interviews Zoe Bell in 2009.
From Wikipedia: Zoë E. Bell, a New Zealand stuntwoman and actress. Some of her most notable stunt-work includes doubling for Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess and for Uma Thurmanin Kill Bill.
As an actress, Bell has appeared on television and in feature-films; she has starred in the web seriesAngel of Death. She is probably most recognized for playing herself in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof. In 2015, she appeared in an acting role in Tarantino's film The Hateful Eight, and during 2019 appeared in an acting role in Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in addition to her role as stunt coordinator and stuntwoman.
She was Cate Blanchett's stunt double in the 2017 release Thor: Ragnarok.[1]
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In this 2009, the TISS crew interview Greg Nicotero, an American special make-up effects creator, television producer, and director. His first major job in special effects makeup was on the George A. Romero film Day of the Dead (1985), under the tutelage of Romero and make-up effects veteran Tom Savini.
