RichE
04-13-2013, 02:12 PM
:loco: Well...I guess I'm now some sorta writer. A published author!..A HACK of distinction!!!.. And of course, LOL, it did get me, at one point, a reward: a cup of coffee at WaWa! Now being the type of film buff who drove my poor suffering wife to an almost chew-wasp frenzy of drooling rakashi murderous glee, by my obsessed research with an article I wrote, some years ago, on the television film, "Fear No Evil", for FILMS IN REVIEW; I risked further glares that would have made Gia proud. I decided to put my money where my mouth was, after getting a comment from a dvd collector, and EXPAND what I wrote into a full book on "Fear No Evil"!! What? Never heard of the film??
Ok! In a nutshell. There was a critically acclaimed film that was made by Univeral Pictures and NBC TV and released to the tube on March 3, 1969. It was the very first horror tv movie, penned by Guy ("Werewolf of Paris") Endore and vet tv producer, Richard Alan Simmons. Directed by Paul ("The Mephisto Waltz") Wendkos with a cast headed by Louis Jourdan, Lynda Day, Bradford Dillman and Carroll O'Connor (before Bunker), the movie was everything a great supernatural tale should be: intelligent, well acted, erotic (without being tasteless) and should have been headed for dvd immortality. Well, guess what? Universal not only lost or junked the negatives, but also has virtually NO RECORD of making it in the first place!!!. I did a investigation on this, contacting them, as did film historian, Philip J. Riley (who worked with me on this), who also did a doubletake that made the eartquake in "One Million Years B.C." look like a sneeze!
Well, working with collectors and shady obsessed fanboys (one, who happily told me how I should look into the symbolism of what a phaser explosion really meant in Trek's "Balance Of Terror"), I gradually was able to put the bits and pieces of information on this film togeather (and we are also talking about working to 2 A.M. after getting off work! at Midnight).
Now came the fun part!
My dear wife, who does my proof reading, had to now relive the joy of entering the world of the demon Rakashi, cursing me under (and rightfully too-LOL) her breath! The months went by and finally the publisher, BearManor Media, announced the publication (with the poster art I created) and I thought I would have a seller. Well..I just found out at this late date that the "Yugo" and "Le Car" sold more than my book. Thankfully, being a homeowner, I've had the common sense to retire in this venture(at least until I get another 'Great' idea of literary inspiration) So the moral of the story is that hard work, risking sanity in being creative, and getting bleary eyed from watching an equally blurry tv movie dub, will, at the very least, get you the rich reward of a fresh large cup of hot joe with irish cream!
This post was last modified: 04-13-2013, 06:04 PM by RichE.