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Fan Films, Media Assassins, Sex Toys & Me—on the Radio!

April 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Indiana Jones, Iron Man, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Writing, , marvel comics, science fiction

Recently, I was a guest on NonFiction, a weekly news magazine on New York’s WBAI-FM. Host Harry Allen, the Media Assassin, knows a lot about fan films (he once wrote about them for the late, great Premiere magazine), so we had a blast talking about the Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation guys; various [...]

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Fan Cinema Today live TODAY on WBAI

March 20th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Writing, , science fiction

Hey, I’ll be appearing this afternoon at 2PM on New York’s WBAI-NY / 99.5 FM. The show is “NonFiction,” hosted by Harry Allen, The Media Assassin. If you don’t live in range of WBAI, you can listen through their web site at www.wbai.org, and they also archive shows for 90 days at http://archive.wbai.org/allshows.php. function change_color(input, [...]

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Fan Film Festival On Long Island This Week!

July 27th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, News, Public Screening, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman

So maybe you live on Long Island (it’s near New York City, for all of you reading this on the other side of the planet), or perhaps you have a summer share out in the Hamptons, or maybe you’re in, I dunno, Wyoming but you like to drive really long distances. If any of these [...]

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