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HSHost says "Welcome to the twenty third night of
our special Thirty-one Days of Terror Series. It's October 23rd and you are
chatting live (or undead) at Real Horrorwood! My name is April and I'll be
your macabre host for the evening. Joining me in the studio tonight are my
spooky producers Mike and Peter, and our gothic typist, Michelle. For the
entire month of Shocktober, we'll be presenting the strangest, the weirdest,
the scariest of guests, leading up to the most sacred of horrordays,
HALLOWEEN! Stars of big and small scream, uh, screen, will be joining us as
the sun sets and the night holds reign. If you would like to ask our guest a
question this evening, it's very simple. Just type in /ask a space and then
your question. If you're using "Excite's VP chat" you need only click the
"something to say" icon at the bottom right corner of your screen."
HSHost says "We are all very excited about our special guests this
evening, producer of the new movie, "Bride of Chucky," David Kirschner.
Welcome to Hollywood Spotlight, David!"
DavidKirschner says "Thanks for having me!"
Joanee asks "congrats on chucky's bride beind #1 last week! you
all rock!"
DavidKirschner says "Thank you Joanee :)"
HSHost says "How long did you work on the film?"
DavidKirschner says "About 14 months. That was solid. We presented
a version of Chucky and Tiffany under a wedding canopy to the execs and laid
out the entire story for them. That's how it happened."
Sid asks "How did the idea for Chucky come about?"
DavidKirschner says "Chucky was a screen play that Don Mancini who
created the franchise wrote in his second year of UCLA. I had said to my
development people that I was interested in some type of doll story cause I
was scared of my sister's dolls as a kid. They freaked me out. It was
originally called "Blood Buddy" and wasn't sold, but I read it, loved it,
bought it and we tinkered with it, changed the title and some of the story and
put it out and there was a bidding war with 4 studios."
Joanee asks "Have you worked on all of the Chucky fims?"
DavidKirschner says "Yes, I have. It's so much fun. My career
started with Jim Henson and I've played with puppets since I was 8. When I
designed Chucky this was a different kind, cause most of the ones I worked on
were cute and sweet, he started that way but by the fourth one his face was
pretty messed up. Great to create Tiffany, too."
Sid asks "How have effects changed since you first started the
Chucky films and the present one?"
DavidKirschner says "For the most part, we're using traditional
puppetry, but the things in the face that give you expression have become so
much more refined. But, for the most part the puppetry remained the same, some
CGI images."
Sid asks "Is there another Chucky film coming out?"
DavidKirschner says "The box office was so strong that the studio
has asked to see us on Monday to present the fifth installment of this which
.."
DavidKirschner {action} chuckles"
DavidKirschner says "We've already had a story for a while and
this weekend we're working on how we're going to go about presenting it."
Sid asks "Would you call Chucky an anti-hero ?"
DavidKirschner {action} laughs!"
DavidKirschner says "Absolutely. He's probably the most anti of
anti heroes. I think people relate to Chucky cause this little **** gets away
witha lot of stuff .. I don't mean murder, but saying stuff that all of us
would love to say but don't. I think people put themselves in the position of
rooting for this little monster."
LadyLilac asks "LOVED IT! :-)"
DavidKirschner says "LadyLilac, thank you so much!"
DavidKirschner {action} chuckles"
Sid asks "How has the budget changed for Chucky films ?"
DavidKirschner says "It's interesting cause even though 10 years
have gone by, we've tried to keep the budgets below 20. The first was almost
10 mil and the second was about 14 and the third was 16 and this was 17 and we
had two puppets instead of one who were in it 90% of the film. So, we've done
a good job of staying with the budget and at the end of this weekend the film
will be $4 mil beyond what they paid for it. We're pretty proud of that
especially working with our director. It was interesting to create a look that
was different than the other films and still stay within the budget. The DP
and his assistant have brought an amazing success to the color and look of the
film."
HSHost says "Were you surprised by the success?'"
DavidKirschner says "Well, one always hopes, but they were saying
we lost $1-2 mil in business of kids that were under 16 across America. The
numbers didn't add up when they did a rough estimate of ages in the theatres
.. they had bought tix to Beloved but snuck into see Chucky."
HSHost {action} laughs"
LadyLilac asks "Who decided to introduce comedy with this one?
LOVED IT"
DavidKirschner says "I called Don Mancini, the writer one night
and said that I'd been in a video store and saw the Bride of Frankenstein and
I thought what would you think of The Bride of Chucky and introducing a woman.
Don loved the idea and felt strongly that we couldn't take ourselves seriously
and had to do something fun and take the audience through this relationship
from this woman's obsession, to being with her man, to it blossoming and then
the relationship going on the skids. And, out of that was born all this great
comedy from Don."
LadyLilac asks "who casted Tilly for Tiff? She really did it
justice! Very good choice."
DavidKirschner says "Oh, it was exciting cause Don and I and Cory
Cienega the other producer all thought this was the person to do it. Almost
like animation l.... you need to have a great voice AND a great actress, you
can have a great actress with a flat voice and get nothing from it. Jennifer
was way beyond our budget and the studio said, Look this is our budget, so Don
and I reached into our pockets from our fees and paid for Jennifer. We
believed so strongly in her and the studio said fine, and now they're just
besides themselves. The reviews have been strong and Jennifer brought the film
up another notch by doing it. We've been on Howard Stern and Letterman opened
up his show the other night witha joke referring to Linda Tripp with Chucky
and SNL made it part of weekend update. So, we've opened it up for him to be
embraced as a horror icon."
HSHost says "Really? That's huge!"
guest9062 asks "I heard chucky has sex in this movie is that
true? and if it is, was he nervous before doing the scene?"
DavidKirschner says "Yes, he does have sex, you only see it in
shadow. But, the theatre goes crazy and Jennifer Tilly wrote a really
wonderful line, as you see the dolls in shadow doing it, you see her hand come
up and stop him and she says, Chucky don't we need a rubber? And, he says,
Babe, I'm all rubber ... and she says I thought you were plastic? And, he
says, just kiss me! It's 45 seconds of laughter and insanity when the audience
sees this."
LadyLilac asks "What was your favorite part of the movie that
you had a part in...that you are most proud of?"
DavidKirschner says "I guess just overall scenes of interaction
with the dolls. I'm proud of the designs of the dolls, Don's dialogue and
Kevin Yeager's puppetry. Overall the reviews said it was very witty and clever
and I'm proud to be a part of the process that contributed to that."
Apollonius asks "Do you think that the Child's Play title may
attract children to the genre for the wrong reasons?"
DavidKirschner says "Well, on this last installment we haven't
referred to it as Child's Play, it's the Bride of Chucky and the other films
are under the previous title but that's why the R rating and warning. But, I
have to say it seems like every ten year old in the world knows who he is
having been on cable and network TV."
LadyLilac asks "Oh man...the "rubber" line was soo funny.
lol"
DavidKirschner says "Oh great!"
DavidKirschner {action} laughs"
DavidKirschner says "Thank you."
guest9062 asks "Where was Chucky made?"
DavidKirschner says "The film was shot up in Toronto for 5 months
and itw as supposed to give the feel of the east coast of NJ and upstate NY.
And, Chucky himself was made in LA at Kevin Yeager's studio and he also did
Freddy Krueger and for Tim Burton he's doing the legend of Sleepy Hollow."
guest9062 asks "I meant Chucky the doll"
DavidKirschner says "Okay, he got that."
Apollonius asks "Obviously you heard about the outcry over
horror films in the UK after the murder of James Bulger. I watched Child's
Play 3 myself and could not see anything in it that would lead to copy cat
violence... How do you feel about the knee jerk reaction that followed the
incident?"
DavidKirschner says "Well, first of all the murder itself was just
devastating and so frightening that children could do such a thing. And, I
think that many people could not believe that kids could do something so they
looked for a scapegoat. What james was wearing that day was blue overalls and
he had red hair. What happened was that the tabloids got wind of this and
thought it could sell papers and they created the story that the kids had been
influenced by the film. But in the course of the trial it came out that they
never saw the film. And, the London Times did an article that this kind of
rumor for the sake of selling papers could be dangerous."
DavidKirschner says "I had gotten a response from Stanley Kubrick
of A clockwork Orange cause his film was banned in England. This film will not
be seen in England, it'll go straight to video. At the end of the day I think
people are responsible for their own actions And, if that's the case maybe we
should outlaw William Shakespeare because of stabbings and murders within the
course of a family. It's ridiculous."
Apollonius asks "As Jennifer Tilly is such an ultra babe, what
did she make of being cast as a toy doll?"
DavidKirschner says "She loved it! She was really into the
character and everyday she'd come in during the voice work and write out all
kinds of dialogue that she thought would be great. So some of the funny lines
she created or worked with Don to make funnier. When we showed her the doll
she said she'd do the film if she got her own Tiffany doll. So, that was
written into her contract! She was excited."
DavidKirschner says "You have to understand that this is an
Academy Award nominated actress, I shoulud be more cool, but I was so shocked
that she said yes to us! She's been a trooper cause she's been on Stern, Leno,
and Kathy and Regis and it's been so exciting to see her support the film like
this. She and Chucky are hosting Comedy Central all this month and Fox FX she
and Chucky are hosting a week of horror films. She's a fun person anyway and
loves Halloween so the essence of this time of year and a charactyer that she
thinks will become a horror icon, she's excited about."
HSHost says "Did you plan for it to be released this time of
year?"
DavidKirschner says "Absolutely. And, the composer who did Dead
Calm, (our compser) he's done so many films, "The Craft," "The Crow" and he
has a film coming up called "The Siege" and he just did "The Negotiator." We
wanted him so badly and he had such a small window but he was such a huge
Chucky fan with two kids that live for Chucky, so he wanted to do it."
LadyLilac asks "Clever isn't the word for this flick. It
brought a for sure "CLASSIC" to the whole Chucky series now. Do you know what
you have done for the "horror" flicks? Amazing."
DavidKirschner {action} chuckles pleased."
DavidKirschner says "Thank you. That's very kind. We hope we can
pull it off again and you'll feel enthusiastic. I saw it in Times Square and
the audience was on their feet at the end screaming Chucky!"
Sid asks "Do you plan to do other horror puppet oriented
films?"
DavidKirschner says "And, the audience laughs and jumps and the
idea was to create a rollercoaster for Halloween that gives you chills and
thrills. I think Chucky was the only film that we'll do. We have another
puppet film with Henson that's a PG film and much more of a fun clever family
film. More like toy Story with puppets. But, Chucky's the man. That's the only
puppet film we'll ever do."
Sid asks "Did you go to film schoiol?"
DavidKirschner says "I went to USC film for 1 1/2 years and left
to work for Henson so never finished. I'm invited back all the time to speak
now as if I did finish."
DavidKirschner {action} laughs"
HSHost {action} laughs"
Joanee asks "What was it like to work with Bette Midler in
Hocus Pocus?"
DavidKirschner says "At first a bit intimidating cause I grew up
listening to her music and crying in The Rose, so the first time I met her I
was scared. She stuck out her hand and she said so you're the man that's going
to make me sit for 6 hours every morning in makeup. She said I'm so excited
cause my daughter loves this story and I want to create something for her and
her friends to see. The three of them were so funny and they had a good time
flying around the set on cables on a broom, mop, and vacuum cleaner. No
primadonnas. Just so much fun and generous with the crew. So into the
film."
Joanee asks "how did you start working with
Hanna-Bar-Bara?"
DavidKirschner says "I was um .. approached by Mike Ovitz who ran
CAA who still represents me. He said that an industrialist who owns Hannah
Barbera and other things was interested in me running his company. I said you
got the wrong guy! I'm terrible and math and I sit in a room thinking up
killer dolls, Jewish mice and talking books! They said they'd surround me with
people good at math, so we won 5 Emmys over the 4 years we were there, still
crummy at math, but I learned a lot there. Ted Turner then came in and bought
the company."
Joanee asks "Did you come up with the idea for an American Tale
or was it Spielberg?"
DavidKirschner says "It was an idea I brought to Steven and like
so many Americans his grandparents came over. It was the story of my
grandparents coming over on the ship and they thought her little brother went
overboard during a storm but he was just playing with herrings at the bottom
of the boat. And, I loved that story as a kid, and she died before my children
were born and I wanted her to live on for them. So, I wrote this book and
presented it to my kids in rough form. All of our friends loved it and
encouraged me to show it to someone. been in partnership with Hallmark on 16
children's books and I showed it to them and that Fyvel was Jewish they didn't
get."
DavidKirschner says "Disney passed on it and Steven heard about it
and asked to see me and itw as truly one of the great moments of my life. He
sat on a round rug with a Looney Tunes logo on it and he said what excites me
more than what I see is what you still have up there in your head .. and as
you mature, watching it come out. My eyes filled with tears .. and he and Jim
Henson are great men."
Apollonius asks "Did you work on "Greek myths" with Henson....
If not do you wish you had?"
DavidKirschner says "Anything that Henson did. I wish I'd been old
enough to have worked on Dark Crystal, one of my fav things Henson did. Didn't
do great at the box office but I loved it. Anything he touched I'd have loved
to done, he was a magical and special person."
Sid asks "Are there any bride of chucky or chucky
websites?"
DavidKirschner says "Oh my God an amazing website that Universal
put together, the week before the film opened we had 750,000 hits on it. It's
cool. You can go in and see snippets of the filmand the rock video by the
Screaming Cheetah Wheelies and interviews with the filmmakers and the whole
graphics of it are like nothing that I've never been lucky enough to be a part
of. Universal has had a good response to this, the only thing that's been
bigger was the second Jurrasic Park. The Lost World .. so it was the biggest
next to that that Universal's had. Such a great outpouring."
HSHost says "Can your friends send email there?"
DavidKirschner says "No, I don't think so."
Apollonius asks "Have you ever considered a live action version
of Scooby Doo?"
DavidKirschner says "Oh God .. when I was head of HB .. Kevin
Bacon came to my house and grew a four day stubble, he really wants to play
the role of Shaggy. There was a knock on the door and he stayed in character
for fifteen minutes straight! We had dinner and he was totally in character
and it was the most perfect imitation. The company was sold and it was put on
hold and now it's a Warner's project and they're developing it but not with
Kevin unfortunately."
LadyLilac asks "I'm a older person here...but I think I love a
Tiff Doll."
DavidKirschner says "They've told me there'll be Tiff dolls by
Christmas .. most of the Chucky dolls were sold out on the west coast and the
masks were sold out through Spencers. I haven't seen the Tiff stuff yet.
You're never too old to play with a doll."
DavidKirschner {action} chuckles"
Sid asks "Do you have children and do you let them see your
movies?"
DavidKirschner says "My children are 18 and 17 so they've grown up
with Chucky and this was an issue ten years ago .. my wife didn't want them to
see the film. They were on theset constantly and couldn't understand why they
couldn't see it. For any other kid I'd think it was inappropriate and so Liz
said if they get up during the night, you deal with this! So, we put them to
bed and I was waiting for them to get up screaming and they slept through the
night! So, I was convinced it wasn't scary but normally .. it depends .. I
don't think you need to be 17 to wait to see this film, but it depends on the
maturity of the young adult is what I'll say. I don't think a 10-11 year old
should see it but 13+ it's up to the parents."
HSHost says "Right."
LadyLilac asks "Wow ...your sisters doll
collection...unbeknownst to you at the time...made you rich..Cool! :-)"
DavidKirschner {action} laughs"
DavidKirschner says "Yeah, my sister teases me about that. She had
a nightlight below the dolls so all the dolls looked like they had a
flashlight under their faces, so she still does that witha flashlight under
her face and tries to scare me!"
LadyLilac asks "Do you feel any "pressure" now to make a Chucky
5?"
DavidKirschner says "Completely. Cause so many people are writing
.. at the end of Chucky .. I don't mean to spoil this, but a baby is born in a
bizarre, terrible and shocking way. Everyone's dying to see what happens with
that. All of these fans and friends and the horror mags are really saying when
are ya gonna do it? The studio called after the first weekend after they saw
the numbers and asked us to come up with the concept for Son of Chucky .. I
don't know what to call it .. Junior for the moment. Here we go again."
HSHost says "Wow. That's neat."
Apollonius asks "Do you think that electronic FX have
eliminated the need for special effects geniuses such as Rick Baker etc.?"
DavidKirschner says "Absolutely not. I think puppetry still holds
an important part of moviemaking. I also believe, having produced many
animated films and the whole concept of CGI I love. I think it depends on the
project, there are times CGI won't work .. look at Jurrasic Park, there are
some great visual shots of what was created by ILM but amazing work done with
robotics and puppetry that at that point you could never do with CGI which is
how they won an Academy Award for it. The puppetry was brilliant and that won
an AA."
Sid asks "Do you love scary Films have you always?"
DavidKirschner says "My mom asked me to sign a Bride of Chucky
poster to her. I wrote "thank you for being the only mother that let me watch
monster movies and leave every light in the house on. I've always loved them.
I'm a total scaredy cat .. I'd crawl into bed and say there's something in the
house. This is 21 years of her living with me, she'll say there's nothing in
the house! I don't know how she does it .. we live in this old house, 27 rooms
I'm forever frightened that there's something in the music room that's going
to creep up the stairs and murder me as my wife sleeps soundly."
Sid asks "what are you doing for Halloween?"
DavidKirschner says "Every year we'd have a huge party and rent 9
hearses and electric chairs and guillotines and actors and actresses and
create a haunted house here and have dinner .. but now that the girls were
hitting mid teens the boys were beginning to thrash and throw pizzas on the
roof. So, now we go out with friends but every year we dress up. We'll be 90
and still dress up .. we're going as Chucky and Tiffany. ;)"
HSHost says "Of course!"
Apollonius asks "What about a Chuckie TV series? Or do you
think that would kill the character in the same way that Freddy'd nightmares
were the beginning of the end for him?"
DavidKirschner says "We were approached with doing a series,
"Chucky's dead time Stories."I passed on it cause I thought we'd over exploit
the character and people would get sick of him. That's why we gave him a
hiatus for a few years .. I thought I liked him too much and maybe in the
future we'd bring him back. The time seemed right .. with something about Mary
and Scream. It's funny and gross and scary sort of a cross between those two
films."
LadyLilac asks "Who came up with the idea of the scene at the
mirrored bed? Great..laugh..but spooked..good touch!"
DavidKirschner says "That was really a combo of Don's script and
Ronny visual sense. They worked on it together .. if there's a V Don will
direct and I'm excited about that .. I've known him since 22 and this will be
his directorial debut .. he's talented on every level and I'm excited to see
what he can do. I think this is the beginning of an amazing career cause he's
just so talented."
Apollonius asks "Would you agree that "The Exorcist" was the
turning point in the horror film genre which allowed the kind of horror films
we have today?"
DavidKirschner says "I think there are certain periods .. The
Exorcist was the beginning of a new form of horror film. The 70's .. The
Exorcist, the Omen, Rosemary's Baby ... late 60's-70's really began to change
how horror films had been thought of. When we moved into the 80's we moved
into monsters again with the likes of .. humanesque monsters .. Freddy, Jason,
Michael Myers, Chucky .. so and then in the 90's with Scream in my mind a very
fun, sophisticated approach to the horror film and then there've been a host
of rip offs with Urban Legend and uh ...."
DavidKirschner says "I Saw What You Did Last Summer .. there are
good aspects to those films but Scream is an A filmand the others follow it.
With Chucky we were only trying to be what time had brought us to .. what
people love about him, a big mouth and a foul temper and we brought that out
more. We make light of ourselves .. the character looks at the doll when the
doll is playing innocent and says Chucky's so 80's, isn't even scary! And,
someone says how did you get to this? And, Chucky says, well it's a long
story, if it was a movie, it'd take 3 or 4 sequels to do it justice!"
HSHost {action} laughs!"
ChuckyBuky asks "how do you see the film biz changing in the
next ten years?"
DavidKirschner says "I think technology is changing film .. it
comes back to the basics though .. good storytelling that can bring out an
emotion ... laughter, fear, or intellectual response and conversation after
the film ends. If you look at films like Private Ryan to ... Lolita ... you
have intelligent films .. just different kinds. I think technology is really
the thing that helps the filmmaker tell a little bit of a different kind of
story. If you look at what Spielberg was able to capture in Ryan through
computer in the beginning the scene that makes you almost dizzy, it was
enhanced on a computer and you feel like you were there. It was so brutal, you
sit there riveted yet it was so frightening."
DavidKirschner says "There's an example of a great filmmaker who
took the ancient art of storytelling and weaved amazing technology through it
and what he pulled through that was an Academy Award worthy film."
Dan_K asks "Why the name chucky?"
DavidKirschner says "This is fascinating .. no one knows this ..
when I was little, there were three men that haunted my childhood, Charles
Manson who was responsible for murders in the mid 60's in LA and Lee Harvey
Oswald who assassinated Kennedy and the other was James Earl Ray who shot
Martin Luther King. And, these three men, it frightened me so badly that these
men, even though ... two went to jail immediately and one was assasinated ...
it still haunted my childhood.
DavidKirschner says "So, I took those three names Charles Lee Ray
and that's who Chucky is. His friends called him Chucky in the first film but
he was the Lakeside Strangler, Charles Lee Ray and in his grave in this film
you see that name and Chucky is short for Charles. That's where it came from.
No one has ever asked me that and so it feels good to say that. I was so
excited when I first came up with that."
HSHost says "That's so cool!"
guest9051 asks "Did you get the idea from Chucky from that
twilight zone episode talking tina ?"
DavidKirschner says "No. It really came .. Don Mancini created the
franchise and his father was a very successful ad exec so Don grew up in the
ad world and one of the things that fascinated him was the Cabbage Patch craze
and these dolls were advertised to be your child's best friend. Don didn't
feel that it was healthy to advertise that a doll could know your secrets and
be your best friend as opposed to a real person. One of my fav Twilight Zone
episodes .. a great piece with Telly Savalas was an influence in the idea of
looking for a script that dealt with talking dolls, my fear of clowns, Talking
Tina fit into that. And, four months before I read a book called The Victorian
Dollhouse Murders .. dolls that came alive from the Victorian period. In the
beginning man has been obsessed with bringing human form to life. If you go
back in cultures there are stories of dolls coming to life and being
mortal."
DavidKirschner says "And, there was this story called "Trilogy of
Terror" and Karen Black was stuck in this apartment with this doll and you see
the camera moving around the apartment, very scary .. the doll comes to life.
After Jaws, Steve loved the idea but no one could ever look at the beach the
same way after that. Including my wife, we went to Hawaii and spent all kinds
of money and she's not going in the water! My hope is that after Child's Play
when poeople walked into their children's rooms that they'd think Oh God, this
is a little creepy for me ... It's amazing .. I think we're all frightened by
dolls or clowns. Again, in Poltergeist .. a Toby Hooper directed film, the
clown coming to life and attacking the boy and dragging him under that dreaded
bed which we all feared."
HSHost says "I don't get it, what drew you to this then?"
DavidKirschner says "Well, people were surprised with that cause
of the Muppets and Sesame Street I did, but chilidren have the most glorious
imaginations during the day and the darkest ones at night .. there's a monster
in my closet, an eye looking out at me from that crack. And, my dad would get
mad, how can you let him watch that monster stuff? This is what happens! In
the 1880's Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island and was the host of
London. And, then he wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and they said he was a
degenerate and should be banned then he wrote Children's Verses and so I think
we have people like Ray Bradbury creating amazing literature and then The
LIttle Assassin or The Halloween Tree that deal with death and darkness yet
always an intelligent message."
DavidKirschner says "Those that hold onto the gift of childhood
that we are all given and that society tries to rob from us also hold onto
those fears. Again, I go to Steven, fwith films that move our hears like ET
and then moments of Poltergeiste which are so frightening. To me, it's
something to be celebrated, the dark and the light, the yin and the yang, from
that hopefully comes entertaiment that will make people smile or pull the
covers up a bit tighter."
HSHost {action} laughs"
Joanee asks "did you work on the addams family? if yes, that
was amazing!"
DavidKirschner says "Lady Collyton was married to Charles Adams
and I acquired the animation rights and became a very dear friend of hers ..
it was nice cuase my family and I would spend summers in Switzerland with her
.. a whole other world. We did the animated Adamms family which won two Emmys
and worked very closely with Paramount. I loved that ... it's all stuff that I
love."
HSHost says "Oh cool."
Apollonius asks "Looking at the Chucky Doll.... Did Japanese
Anime influence his design?"
DavidKirschner says "No. I'd love to know more about that other
than the fact that probably somewhere on his rear end there's a stamp that
says Made in Japan .. but no Japanese design had little to do with it. The
Cabbage Patch and My Buddy dolls .. we took the elements of that and
redesigned the character from there."
GreenBugEyedMan asks "What's been your favorite project so far
in your career?"
DavidKirschner {action} sighs"
DavidKirschner says "This sounds like the political answer, but
I'm proud of an awful lot of them .. Ray Bradbury and I brought one of his
books to TV and I was proud that he won the Emmy for that. The only TV movie
that I've ever done, on the life of L.Frank Baum who created the Wizard of Oz
and it won an Emmy and itw as just on this man's struggle and no one could see
the world he was creating. When Dorothy died, he moved it to a whole other
level .. Dorothy was his niece and on her tombstone it said, "Dorothy Gale, in
our hearts she will live forever." And, he loved her and wrote this for her so
that she would. Our daughter was very sick once so I related to that .. and in
the end when he says goodbye to his wife who graduated from college in the
1880's and was accepted to law school and gave that all up to support this man
and his dreams and I related to all of that .. with my wife being a wonderful
woman who I've been fortunate enough to share my life with. The response to
that was incredible and that was personal cause I related to it on so many
levels."
HSHost says "Well, congrats!"
DavidKirschner says "Thank you ...Thank you for taking so much
time on a Friday night to chat. I'm so happy you enjoyed the film and hope
that I can live up to that in the future."
HSHost says "David, thank you so much for joining us tonight. It
was a pleasure to have you on the show!"
DavidKirschner says "Okay. Thank you so much."
HSHost says "And, thanks to all you viewers out there for chatting
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Show," George Romero, and the Hollywood horror screen legend who's appeared in
over 280 films including "The Mummy" and "Dracula," the legendary Christopher
Lee. Good Night, everyone see you next week!"
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