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Stephen has had articles, interviews and reviews published by Pasadena Magazine, Boxoffice Magazine, TheRaider.Net and Uptown. Here are examples from 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Alan Ladd Jr. and the Seventy Years Legacy

If a movie has a foreign destination as title, I see it. I don't need to know anything else. Perhaps it was growing up in Midwest America, where far away exotic lands, mixed with Hollywood effects, cast an addictive spell. Star Wars ... read more »

The Man Who Would Be King

On September 26, 2008, Paul Newman passed away - but he'll always be with us. One of my favorite stories about Newman's bigheartedness has nothing to do with his legendary generosity to charity; it has to do with movies. In the early 1970's John ... read more »

The Drew Struzan Interview

"There's a generation who grew up with images, which have become very meaningful to them. I actually get letters every day from people who say one of my illustrations inspired them toward a certain career path or something." Drew Struzan speaks ... read more »

The Simon Wincer Chronicles

Simon Wincer, the Australian director responsible for decades worth of adventures and westerns such as Lonesome Dove, The Lighthorsemen, The Phantom and some of the best of the Young Indiana Jones series, seems slightly out of ... read more »

The Adventures of Louis L'Amour and The Diamond of Jeru

As a huge fan of great adventure stories and old Hollywood, I had been enamored for some time with a movie Louis L'Amour's son made called, The Diamond of Jeru. I didn't know a great deal about Louis L'Amour. I knew he was one of several ... read more »

Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Saturday Serials

A beautiful woman tied to train tracks. A speeding locomotive snakes through the mountains. The woman screams. A hero races to her. But will he reach her in time?Thanks to the cutting together of images like these, mixed with the melodramatic banging of a piano's keys, stage writers and novelists suddenly had a hard time competing with movies. Broadway could boast about gifted choreographers and the ... read more »