PRODUCER FRED WEINTRAUP Fred Weintraup was promoting a documentary that VARIETY labeled the THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT of the animal world. In one clip it actually had a group of dogs singing, singing in the rain. Definitely an off-beat project but, if you know Weintraup it didn’t seem all that unusual considering the man […]

    This is the second interview from the 1970s.   At his peak, Richard Donner, director of Superman The Movie and the Lethal Weapon series, was one of Hollywood’s most commercially successful directors.   His breakthrough film was The Omen and it was at the time of that film’s release that I interviewed him.  I had seen The Omen […]

        For the next few weeks I’m going to post some interviews I did in the 1970s. Today, the 70s are considered a revolutionary time for American Cinema during which time Hollywood films began to incorporate the style and substance of European films made the previous decade.  It was also the time of the […]

THE MOON WAS VERY BLUE PART TWO   In 1947 Preminger had taken over the direction of Forever Amber after Daryl Zanuck fired its director.  As a book Amber was con­sidered the most salacious novel of the period and Zanuck believ­ed any film with that title would make a for­tune.  Even through the book had […]