Writer’s Note: Coming up is a history of one of the most popular and controversial movies of the 1950s. First I will give you the history of The Wages of Fear (French 1953). Then you will find my review of the uncut version, not seen in America until 1992. That […]
The following piece on a major bit of Star Trek movie history first appeared in the Sunday Datebook of the San Francisco Chronicle on Dec. 1, 1991. For some inexplicable reason I failed to include it with the rest of my Star Trek interviews in my 2007 autobiography, I Was […]
My most recent meeting with Stan Lee occurred on Wednesday, August 7, 2013, when Lee came to AT&T Park in San Francisco for Superheroes and Comics Night. My son Russ Stanley, who is Senior Vice-President of Ticket Sales for The San Francisco Giants, called me in advance and invited my […]
Okay, so Stan Lee’s dream of producing the first Spider-Man film in 1974 never came to pass. But then came the breakthrough in September of 1977. It was then that Spider-Man escaped the web of Hollywood uncertainty and managed to claw his way onto the little screen. You know, TV. […]