by Margo Donohue | Jul 31, 2023 | Podcast
What a Creep Season 21, Episode 3 Beatrice Sparks (Go Ask Alice & Jay’s Journal) (Image from Esquire magazine) In the 1970s & 1980s–entertainment designed to reach teenagers (and cure them of society’s ills) fell to YA writers, TV Movies, and...
by Margo Donohue | Jul 31, 2023 | Podcast
Book Vs. Movie: The Swimmer The 1964 John Cheever story vs. the 1968 Burt Lancaster Film Burt Lancaster always claimed that his 1968 film The Swimmer was his best work, and we are here to show you exactly why! The John Cheever short story that appeared in the July 18,...
by Margo Donohue | Jul 24, 2023 | Podcast
What a Creep Season 21, Episode 2 The AMPTP and the Hollywood Strike The writers’ and actors’ guilds are on strike. While movie and television studios have earned record profits, the workers who make those profits possible are not getting their fair share. ...
by Margo Donohue | Jul 24, 2023 | Podcast
Book Vs. Movie: Ode to Billy Joe The 1967 Song Vs. the 1976 Movie It was a hot and steamy summer day when we recorded this episode, so we decided to go as far south as we could get here in the USA with the tale of Billie Joe Macallister (named Billy Joe for the...
by Margo Donohue | Jul 15, 2023 | Podcast
Book Vs. Movie: Valley Girls The 1927 Ernest Hemingway Short Story Vs. the 1946 Classic Film The Margos are discussing Ernest Hemingway for the first time on the podcast after nine years of producing, which is shocking! His 1927 short story, The Killers, was first...