When it came to movies, my parents had the most bizarre habit of walking into a theater whenever we got there, even if it was in the middle or towards the end of the film, and sitting there as the next showing unspooled — until the point we walked in on, which is when we […]
Superman’s incredible 84-year journey in comics and various mediums will be explored for the first time in oral history format within the pages of Voices from Krypton: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the Unofficial Oral History of Superman, written by veteran entertainment journalist Edward Gross and to be published by the Nacelle Company (The […]
Deemed “Star Trek Day,” September 8, 2022 was an odd one for me, the basis of that feeling probably stemming back to 2016. It was that year which saw the publication of the two-volume oral history of Trek that Mark A. Altman and I had written, The Fifty-Year Mission, which had been a culmination (at […]
I can remember like it was yesterday going to the movies with friends to see The Odd Couple, starring Walter Matthau as sportswriter and slob extraordinaire Oscar Madison, and Jack Lemmon as neatnik photographer Felix Unger. This was a film, based on the stage play by Neil Simon, about a couple of divorced guys who move […]
Definitely some relief on this side of the world as I was able to hand in the text for Chevrons Locked: The Unofficial Oral History of Stargate SG-1, The First 25 Years, which is a behind-the-scenes look at the first TV show based on the 1994 film Stargate. It’s written in the same oral history […]
I’d spent 15 years as executive editor of Life Story and Movie Magic magazines at Bauer Publishing, when those magazines were abruptly canceled and what should have been a ticket to the unemployment line, instead became — after a weekend of actually being unemployed — a shift over to the company’s digital division. For a […]
Back in the 1980s I was in my twenties, embarking on my career on a career as an entertainment journalist and nurturing the dream of breaking into Hollywood writing for film or television. It was a dream shared by Tom Sanders, who I’d met at Hofstra University (selling movie posters out of my dorm room, […]
Pop culture has always played such an important role in my life, the real problem being I’ve never been able to let things go. For the most part, once a passion, always a passion, and I tend to just add more topics and characters into the mix. After all this time, it’s a wonder that […]
A few years ago there was an announcement that Tom Hanks would be producing a film based on the old Major Matt Mason toy line from the 1960s — which immediately brought me back to my childhood and the realization that during my formative geek years, my obsessions were pulling me in different directions. In […]