I-m James Taylor and this is Theater Talk on KCRW. In April of 2001, times were good. The country was at peace, the economy was strong, and America seemed on top of the world. Into this twilight of ...

Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to the New York Metro Area. The ...

When writer and actor Jim Brochu picks up the phone at his home in Los Angeles, he is eager to share some good news. He has just learned that "Zero Hour," his one-man play about the late, ...

A home movie by Mel Brooks—not only the first picture he directed, but evidently the first he’d ever seen (1967). Everything that can go wrong in an amateur film does go wrong, from the timing to the ...