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Presenting an episode from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily.

On History Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. This episode is about our favorite kind of history, film history.

The day is May 1, 1941. Orson Welles’ revolutionary debut “Citizen Kane” premieres in New York after a bitter battle to suppress the film. 

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Something different from the creator of The Industry is coming soon. Here's a short preview of Stories My Brother Used To Tell.

My older brother Eric would often tell stories of his misspent youth at family gatherings. Seemingly always about a car or girl or both, these ridiculous stories seemed almost impossible to believe. Now, after years of pestering, I've gotten him to share a few of those stories in a new podcast.

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In 1982 British filmmakerJames Scott had made an Academy Award winning adaptation of a Graham Greene novella. Adapting another Greene novella, this time as a feature length film, seemed like a natural progression of things. He had Greene's blessing to take his novella Loser Takes All and turn into a film that would feature stage star Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald. He had every element in place. Almost. The only thing left was getting American distribution. And that was found when a deal was struck with Miramax. All that James Scott had to do in order to get his modest British comedy made was deal with a producer named Harvey Weinstein, who had a lot of ideas on how this film should be made.

Links

James Scott's Website

Sources

Rizov, Vadim. The Legend of Harvey Scissorhands. MTV.com, August 9, 2013.

https://www.mtv.com/news/zs4qqu/harvey-weinstein-snowpiercer-cuts

Ringwald, Molly. All The Other Harvey Weinsteins. The New Yorker, October 17, 2017.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-the-other-harveys

Robert Lindsay: 'Monster' Weinstein blacklisted me. BBC.com, November 9, 2017.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-41927167

Connelly, Christopher. The Heartbreak Kid. Premiere Magazine, July 1990.

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Elaine May will always be best known for her comedy with Mike Nichols and her screenwriting skills. However, as a director May is an uncompromising force who seemingly would do whatever it takes to get her vision on the screen. This episode looks at the great lengths May went to in order to get Mikey and Nicky, a lifelong passion project made, and what that lack of compromise cost her.

Author Patrick Cooper, director of photography/cameraman Jack Cooperman, and an unnamed crewmember help tell this story of a seemingly simple production that was anything but.

Links

Check out Patrick Cooper's book Aren't You Gonna Die Someday?

Courtney Kocak's podcasts are Podcast Bestie and The Bleeders

Articles

Before the Snyder Cut: Look back at other Hollywood director's cuts (ew.com)

Cock, Jay. Cinema: Hit Men. Time Magazine. January 31st, 1977.

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,918649,00.html

MIKEY AND NICKY - HOLLOW SQUARE PRESS

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The death of actor Peter Sellers in 1980 also seemed like the death of the Pink Panther film series. Instead, director Blake Edwards decided it was a new beginning. A beginning of numerous lawsuits, several flops, and one unseen television pilot. Author John LeMay and actor Charlie Schlatter help tell the story of what happened when Blake Edwards kept trying to keep the Panther on the hunt.

Sources

Books

LeMay, John. Trailing the Pink Panther Films: An Unauthorized Guide to the Pink Panther Series. Bicep Books, January, 2022.

Oldham, Gabriella. Blake Edwards: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, December, 2017.

Wasson, Sam. A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards. Wesleyan University Press, July, 2011.

Articles

"Seller’s Widow Wins $1 Million Damages Over Panther Film" AP News. AP Services, May 24, 1985. https://apnews.com/article/39ab5abec851ab132d99965780aa6a7e

"Film maker Blake Edwards filed a $180 million lawsuit..." UPI Archives. September 28, 1983. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/28/Film-maker-Blake-Edwards-filed-a-180-million-lawsuit/1090433569600/

"BLAKE EDWARDS SUED BY MGM/UA" New York Times. Aljean Harmetz. April 17, 1984. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/17/movies/blake-edwards-sued-by-mgm-ua.html

Links

Closing Night: Victor Victoria episode

Transcription Available at The Industry Podcast website.

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Alan Dean Foster is an accomplished author in his own right, but in this episode of The Industry, he shares his process of writing movie novelizations and some of the more interesting novelizations he's done. From Star Wars, Alien, The Thing, The Black Hole, and even a very special episode of Maude, Alan shares many of his experiences in this unique writing world.

Links

Dan Delgado on Twitter and Bluesky

Visit Alan Dean Foster's website

Alan Dean Foster's Memoir of his novelization work

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Back in the 1970s and 80s if you walked into a bookstore you would undoubtedly had seen whatever the newest movie was in theaters sitting on a display in book form. The movie novelization is a world unto itself. We take a look at what it takes to adapt a movie to a novel, why the differences can be interesting, and get into why they exist in the first place. With insight from novelization experts Alan Dean Foster and Tim Waggoner, podcast host Paxton Holley, and filmmaker Whit Stillman, the rare filmmaker who has novelized his own films.

Links

Dan Delgado on Twitter and Bluesky

Listen to Paxton Holley's I Read Movies Podcast

Visit Tim Waggoner's website

Visit Alan Dean Foster's website

Buy Whit Stillman's books

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By the 1960's director Alfred Hitchcock was at the absolute height of his powers. He had reached the point where he could make any movie he wanted. Yet as the decade rolled on. Hitchcock seemingly had project after project he had developed not blossom into a feature film. What was keeping Hitchcock from making the movies he really wanted to make? We attempt to answer this question with help from HitchCon's Joel Gunz and author Shawn Levy.

Links:

Listen to Lew Wasserman's story on Glitter and Might: Glitter and Might (pod.link)

Check out HitchCon '23: HitchCon International Alfred Hitchcock Conference

Kaleidescope Test Footage: Alfred Hitchcock's Kaleidoscope Footage - YouTube

Hitchcock documentary: Hitchcock - Reputations - YouTube

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Presenting two episodes from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily.

On History Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history.

First up it’s. The First Flight of the Wright Brothers:

December 17, 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight in history.

Then it's The Spruce Goose Takes Flight:

November 2, 1947. American aviator Howard Hughes risks his life and reputation by taking to the skies in the largest aircraft ever built: the Spruce Goose.

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Peter Bogdanovich's final film, She's Funny That Way, came and went and barely anyone seemed to notice. However, it wasn't the movie he really made. What Peter actually filmed was a black and white screwball comedy called Squirrels to the Nuts. What happened is a typical story. The movie didn't test well and the studio changed the film completely, and no surprise the studio version bombed anyway. The original version? That was believed lost to history.

Or so we thought. 

A few years later, James Kenney (possibly the world's biggest Bogdanovich fan) found the original version in tact. On eBay. 

This episode features James Kenney, documentarian Bill Teck, and Louise Stratten (Peter's ex-wife and Squirrels co-screenwriter) all helping to tell this story which seems to have an actual Hollywood Ending.

Sources:

Peter Bogdanovich Had a Vision for This Film. Now It’s Finally Being Seen. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

“You Saved One of My Best Pictures”: My Adventures with Peter Bogdanovich and his Lost, Last Picture Show – Tremble…Sigh…Wonder… (tremblesighwonder.com)

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