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Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Description: After the Cavity Rock, California Times Leader newspaper is chosen as America s typical small town newspaper, reporter Homer Smith gets to abroad and report on the war in a series of articles to be shared with other small-town newspapers. He has a number of adventures including having his ship sink while en route to Cairo. He meets another survivor, Philo Cobson, who gives him a message to deliver to a woman in Cairo - should he survive. He delivers the message but convinces himself that an American singer-actress, Marcia Warren, is a spy. She in turn believes he s the spy. Mistaken identities abound but it all works out in the end.
Jan 5, 2021
One of our culture s best selling authors Eric Jerome Dickey has passed away. The famed author was known for his novels about contemporary black culture.
A graduate of the University of Memphis, Dickey also wrote crime novels, comedy scripts and short stories. Some of his work includes: Sleeping With Strangers, Before We Were Wicked, and Sister Sister. He has won several awards for his literary work and was scheduled to release another novel this spring.
According to his publicist Dickey died after a long illness, he was 59. Rest in peace literary genius.
Heathers (1989).
It’s doubtful that the dark comedy
Heathers, with its shocking violence and politically incorrect teen-speak, would likely ever be made today at least not by a major studio. But the biting 1989 satire was widely embraced by film critics and its (initially tiny) audience.
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Heathers was written by a video store clerk.
Daniel Waters moved to Los Angeles during the 1980s and was working at what he described as “the least cool video store in Silver Lake when he wrote
Heathers. In 2008, Waters insisted to The Hollywood Interview blog that he was working on the whole video store clerk-to-screenwriter metamorphosis before I knew it was a cliché.
The comedy duo have a fizzing chemistry in a new one-off Radio 4 drama
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When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion – or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse.
French and Saunders have had fizzing comedy chemistry together on TV and stage since the Eighties, but radio drama is a less-ploughed furrow for them. Together they star in
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? (Radio 4, Thursday), a one-off special written by David Quantick (The Thick of It, Veep) that should, if the Radio 4 commissioning mavens are reading, be made into a full series soonest poss, please.