Category Archives: Hollywood books

Film Production Its Colloquial Language (RCH)


The highly specialized world of film production, like many other esoteric professions, has its own inscrutable lexicon. As in the […]

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Not Exactly Another Celebrity Story – Benny Vargas


This post, while not really a celebrity story, does mention three of the greats I worked with in my first […]

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Writing an Autobiography – Try it. You’ll Like it.


Writing an autobiography (a memoir) is the height of self-involvement, one might even say egotism yet there’s much more to […]

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A Musical Theatre story from Author Ben Bryant


A Musical Theatre story? Okay, I admit that may be a bit misleading but the setting for the tale is, […]

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Video Editing at NCSA, a Vlog


Here’s a video editing tale from my third book, Waiting for Elizabeth. In 2002 my oldest friend Bob Collins was […]

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Celebrity Story on the Road with Norman Luboff (part 2)


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Here’s a celebrity story excerpted from Three Stages, Chapter Six, “Sin City and the Road”. The Norman Luboff Choir’s first […]

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Broadway Show League West


The Broadway Show League is a summer showbiz tradition in New York City. In the early 1950’s the casts and […]

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Celebrity Story Shtupping Betty Grable


A celebrity story is nothing strange in Las Vegas. I was there for nine months beginning in November of 1962 […]

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Celebrity Story John Raitt


Here’s a celebrity story about John Raitt excerpted from Three Stages. The summer of 1964 I was doing the L […]

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Post Production Sound Vlog


Post production sound is an unappreciated aspect of film production. In a recent blog post I wrote about my friend […]

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