Even the people we think we know the best can have skeletons in their closet. Sometimes, though, it’s better to expose those skeletons to the bright light of day than to ignore them — even if they are connected to… The Brady Bunch! More specifically, The Brady Bunch Hour. Airing as a series of nine […]
Anyone who has spent any time around Fleischer knows two things: he loves telling his origin story, and there’s an excellent chance it won’t be the same story he told you last time. In Media Geek & the Glass Onion, Fleischer proudly explains that he’s the sole survivor of a doomed planet, was exposed to gamma […]
The theme song for Media Geek & The Glass Onion is “Waiting For a Sign,” a very real track from Liverpool singer-songwriter Chris O’Neill, who, beyond, his own music, portrayed George Harrison in the movie Backbeat and takes on Paul’s part in the tribute band Backbeat Beatles. As to the song itself, which was part […]
PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: ED GROSS: My name is Ed Gross and I’m senior entertainment editor at WomansWorld.com and author of the books Superman: The Definitive History and the two volume Star Trek oral history, The Fifty-Year Mission: Our Strange Duet. It’s a phrase that perfectly encapsulates the relationship between Christine Daaé and The Phantom of the […]
Throughout the creative process of Media Geek & The Glass Onion, we’ve been generating a variety of script pages, imagery and film clips in an effort to try and bring this story to life. While scouring the collection of material that has been accumulated, it felt like a good idea to give people a look […]
Read Journal Entry #1 HERE; Read Journal Entry #2 HERE I wish I could tell you that after the dream everything suddenly made sense. It didn’t. If anything, things became even more confusing. For days, I couldn’t stop thinking about what I had seen: a world where The Beatles never broke up, music that somehow […]
To check out the first installment of Media Geek and the Glass Onion, click HERE Recording a memoir was never anything I imagined myself doing. Well, at least not before Timmy Tribble decided that the universe needed one whether I liked it or not. Which explains how I’ve ended up sitting in my apartment, talking to […]
Greetings! My name is Michael Greco, also called MG or Media Geek by my friends, for reasons that you’ll pretty quickly discover reading these journal entries. Speaking of which, while recognizing how corny and clichéd this sounds, the truth is that this entire adventure began with a dream. And I’m not talking about some profound […]
Every once in a while, a fan creation comes along that feels less like parody and more like a transmission from another timeline. That’s exactly the feeling created by Movie Maniacs Films on YouTube and their video imagining what it might have sounded like if The Beatles had recorded the theme song to Gerry Anderson’s […]