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Q)  “Cast Aside” is your third novel dealing with early film and filmmakers. What made you want to tell these stories?A)  I grew up watching Hollywood movies exploit our history for fun and profit. I thought it was time to even the score.Q)  But seriously, the question for me wasn’t why write stories about old Hollywood; it was why did it take so long for me to get here?A)  I was born in Los Angeles, under the Hollywood sign, and grew up around actors and the children of filmmakers. The first crush I had in grade school was on Terry...

Q) What led you to want to write Ayn Rand at the Movies? A)  Ayn Rand is significantly linked to the motion picture industry. She contributed to it in many ways. She wrote about movies. She wrote the screen plays for three different films: You Came Along, Love Letters, and The Fountainhead. Her works have inspired several movies. There have been movies made about her life. In fact, a film was pivotal to the most important relationship she ever had. She was very young, had just gotten to this country, and was working as an extra on the 1927 Cecil...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEIrish Screenwriter/Director and U.S. Celebrity Biographer team up to bring the story of Actress Barbara Payton to the big screen. It's a project more than 25 years in the making. Now the story of actress Barbara Payton is getting ready to head to the big screen, where it essentially started – explosive as a firecracker – and burned out just as quickly. Author and celebrity biographer John O'Dowd has teamed with award-winning Irish screenwriter and director Ciaran Creagh to write the quintessential movie script about this beautiful and talented young actress, who garnered a salary of $10,000 a...

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