WAMG (890 AM) is a radio station in the Boston market licensed to Dedham, Massachusetts. It is owned by Gois Broadcasting. It broadcasts in Spanish, & plays Bachata, Merengue, Salsa and Pop music.

WAMG also simulcasts its programming on WLLH (1400 AM) in Lowell and Lawrence to reach the area north of Boston and the southern part of New Hampshire.

History[link]

WAMG first came on the air in 1994 as WBMA, initially airing a Spanish-language religious format that gradually migrated from WBIV (now WQOM). In 1995, the station adopted a sports format, affiliated with the Prime Sports network. The station also adopted the call letters of WBPS at this time, which remained with the station for many years, even after the station dropped sports for brokered ethnic programs in 1996.

In 1998, WBPS was acquired by Mega Communications, and adopted a Spanish adult contemporary format, initially as "Estrella 890" before becoming "Amor 890".

After the failure of a Spanish-language all-news format on WNNY (now WKDM) in New York City, Mega began to broker many of the company's stations. Consequently, on December 1, 2001, Mega began leasing WBPS to CNET, at which time the station adopted the technology news/talk format of "CNET Radio," as a simulcast of KNEW.

After CNET's programming left WBPS in 2002, Mega began leasing the station to Chicago-based Air Time Media. This group launched a conservative news/talk format on WBPS, which was known as the "Boston Talk Party".

In 2003, Mega sold the company's other Boston station, WAMG ("Mega 1150"), to Salem Communications. In order to retain the successful Spanish-language tropical format of WAMG, Mega moved the format and call letters to the 890 frequency, canceling Air Time's lease on the station. Some of the hosts which were dropped from WBPS landed on 1150, which Salem re-launched as conservative talk station WTTT (that station is now WWDJ).

Additionally, when WAMG relocated to 890 as "Mega 890", the frequency inherited the format's simulcast on WLLH, which was not included in 1150's sale to Salem.

In 2005, Mega Communications announced the sale of WAMG and WLLH to WallerSutton 2000, an investment firm, in cooperation with locally-owned "J Sports". Upon closure of the sale, WAMG dropped the Spanish tropical format and reverted to a sports format, this time affiliated with ESPN Radio. The station also added a local afternoon show featuring Michael Felger, and used the branding of "ESPN Boston". (The last broadcast of The Mike Felger Show was on July 10, 2008.) Other local programs heard on the station included Salk & Halloran, Lew & Mike, Celtic Pride and The New England Hockey Journal. The station was also the home of Northeastern University football and men's hockey. Through its ESPN Radio affiliation, WAMG also served as the Boston outlet for Mike and Mike in the Morning, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, The Scott Van Pelt Show, The Doug Gottlieb Show, and All Night with Jason Smith, as well as ESPN Radio's play-by-play broadcasts, such as Bowl Championship Series, the World Series, and the National Invitation Tournament.

On August 3, 2006, WAMG was the first to report that veteran major league catcher Javy Lopez was being traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the Boston Red Sox. The trade was designed to fill a hole caused by the recent injury to Jason Varitek. The next day, the trade was announced as official; the Orioles received cash and a player to be named later (Adam Stern) in return.

WAMG discontinued ESPN Radio programming on September 14, 2009; the transmitter was shut off at 5:00 p.m.^[1] Gois returned the station to the air on December 3, 2009, reverting it again to Spanish-language programming with the current format, branded "La Nueva Mega"; simulcast partner WLLH had returned to the air with this format in late October. Initially operating the station under a local marketing agreement, Gois purchased WAMG outright in January 2010.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WAMG
• Radio-Locator Information on WAMG
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WAMG

Lloyd Kaufman
Kaufman at left, promoting Getting Lucky at the 2009 San Diego Comic Convention
Born	Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr. (1945-12-30) December 30, 1945 (age 66) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	director, producer, screenwriter, actor
Years active	1969–present
Spouse	Pat Swinney Kaufman (3 daughters)

Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Kaufman also serves on the board of the Independent Film & Television Alliance of which he is the former President.

Early life[link]

Kaufman was born Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr. in New York City, New York, the son of Ruth (née Fried) and Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Sr. a lawyer.^[1]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Kaufman graduated from Yale University with the class of 1968, where he majored in Chinese studies. His Yale classmates included Oliver Stone and George W. Bush. Originally intending to become a social worker, he became fast friends with student filmmaker Robert Edelstein and Eric Sherman (son of filmmaker Vincent Sherman), who introduced him to his future lifelong obsession, cinema. Some of Lloyd's favorite filmmakers include John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, Stan Brakhage and Franklin Schaffner.^[2] Like the members of Monty Python troupe, who were a big influence on him, Kaufman read Punch magazine and enjoyed the theatrical performances of Beyond the Fringe, Flanders & Swann, etc.

In 1966, Lloyd went on a hiatus from his studies and spent a year in Chad for USAID as a pathfinder for the Peace Corps.

Returning to Yale, he produced Robert Edelstein's low-budget film Rappaccini and directed his own first feature film, an experimental black and white film titled The Girl Who Returned. The film was presented at film societies at Yale, Harvard, and other east coast institutions. Following his graduation, Kaufman went on to work for Cannon Films, where he met John G. Avildsen (future Academy Award-winning director of Rocky and The Karate Kid). The two collaborated for several years, making low-budget films including Joe and Cry Uncle! During this period, Kaufman also directed and starred in his second feature film, The Battle of Love's Return, which garnered positive reviews in publications such as The New York Times, wrote and produced the lesbian thriller Sugar Cookies (with Oliver Stone), and wrote and directed another film, the Israeli comedy flop Big Gus, What's the Fuss?. Kaufman also served as executive in charge of locations for Saturday Night Fever, and was influential in choosing 2001 Odyssey as the nightclub in the film.^[3]

From 1973-1979, Kaufman produced and directed a handful of adult films in New York under the pseudonym "Louis Su." He directed at least three movies: The Divine Obsession, The Newcomers, and Sweet & Sour,^[4] and has been credited for producing at least three more.

Troma Studios[link]

In 1974, Kaufman and his business partner Michael Herz founded Troma Entertainment and began producing and distributing independent action and comedy films. In order to pay the bills, Kaufman did some freelance work for major Hollywood productions, including Rocky (edited on Troma's flatbed machines), Saturday Night Fever, and The Final Countdown, which he also produced (Kaufman has said that it was his experience on this film that made him never want to deal with a major studio again^[5]). From 1979 to 1981, the two wrote, produced and directed a series of profitable "sexy comedies" including Squeeze Play!, Waitress!, Stuck on You! and The First Turn-On!. On most of these early films, Kaufman is credited as "Samuel Weil." Kaufman also made a small appearance in Rocky and served as the production manager on Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre.^[6][7][8]

In 1985, Troma experienced mainstream success with the violent, darkly comic superhero film The Toxic Avenger. Toxic went on to become Troma's most popular movie, inspiring three sequels, a Saturday morning children's television show, comic books and tons of merchandise. The Toxic Avenger, or "Toxie," is now Troma's official mascot.

Kaufman's follow-up to The Toxic Avenger was Class of Nuke 'Em High, which he co-directed with Richard W. Haines. Riding on the success of the Toxic Avenger, Nuke 'em inspired two sequels and a healthy run on late night cable shows such as USA Up All Night. At one time, Class of Nuke 'Em High was the highest-selling VHS for Troma.^{[citation needed]}

Troma's popularity waned after the box office failure of Troma's War; Kaufman attributed the film's lack of success to cuts made to the movie after the MPAA refused to release it with an R-rating in its intended form.[1] Troma's attempt to reboot its popularity with the super hero satire Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. was unsuccessful, failing to make an impression at the box office. From 1995 to 2000, Kaufman retrofitted the studio into an independent film company, finding success amongst cult movie fans and critics with the independent film Tromeo and Juliet (1996), a loose parody of Shakespeare's play. Other independent films that followed were the less successful Terror Firmer (1999), a slasher film set on the set of a Troma movie (with Kaufman playing a caricature of himself), and the fourth installment in the Toxic Avenger franchise Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

It would not be long, however, before Troma would once again experience financial hardship, this time after the botched funding of a low-budget video feature titled Tales from the Crapper, which cost $250,000 despite most of the footage being unusable. Lloyd supervised a reshoot in an attempt to salvage the film, dividing the footage into two parts and recasting the film as a double-feature. Tales from the Crapper was released on DVD in September 2004.

Troma still produces and acquires independent films.^[9] Troma Films has distributed many films from third parties including Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical. Lloyd himself encourages independent filmmaking, making cameo appearances in low-budget horror films, often for free. Recent appearances include screen time in former collaborator James Gunn's directing debut, Slither, as well as Gunn's Super and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Crank and Gamer.

Kaufman's latest film, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, made its official New York premiere on May 9, 2008 (although the film had previewed numerous times on single screens for over a year). On its opening weekend, it had the second highest per-screen average ticket sales, beating out the big-budget Speed Racer, and opened to positive reviews from Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times,^[10] and was made a critics pick by New York Magazine and Salon.com.

In September 2008, a staged musical version of The Toxic Avenger opened at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Directed by Tony Award winner John Rando, The Toxic Avenger Musical features music from Bon Jovi founding member, David Bryan. On 17 September 2009, Kaufman announced he would have a cameo in the remake of the Charles Kaufman/Troma movie Mother´s Day alongside his brother Charles.^[11]

Kaufman is the subject of the forthcoming book Toxic Schlock: Conversations with Lloyd Kaufman by Andrew J. Rausch and Chris Watson. An author himself, Kaufman has most recently been working on adding to his Your Own Damn Movie! series. Having completed Make Your Own Damn Movie!, Direct Your Own Damn Movie! and Produce Your Own Damn Movie!, he is now working on Sell Your Own Damn Movie!.

As of July 2010, Kaufman is set to direct the upcoming The Toxic Avenger 5: The Toxic Twins. Troma is also preparing for both the remake of The Toxic Avenger by Akiva Goldsman, Richard Saperstein and Charlie Corwin, and the upcoming Father's Day, a shocking film from Canadian powerhouse Astron-6 which Troma is producing. Kaufman appeared on the Discovery Channel series, Oddities, on season 3 episode ten.

Select filmography[link]

As director[link]

All films from Waitress to Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. were co-directed with college friend and Troma Vice President Michael Herz

• The Girl Who Returned (1969)
• The Battle of Love's Return (1971)
• Big Gus, What's the Fuss? (1973) (co-directed by Ami Artzi)
• Squeeze Play! (1979) (as Samuel Weil)
• Waitress! (1981) (as Samuel Weil)
• Stuck on You! (1982) (as Samuel Weil)
• The First Turn-On! (1983) (as Samuel Weil)
• The Toxic Avenger (1984) (as Samuel Weil)
• Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) (as Samuel Weil; co-directed by Richard W. Haines)
• Troma's War (1988) (as Samuel Weil)
• The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)
• Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)
• Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
• Terror Firmer (1998) (based on his book All I Need To Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger)
• Troma's Edge TV (1999–2001) (26 half-hour episodes)
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)
• All The Love You Cannes (2002)
• Parts of the Family (2003) (as Gabriel Lloyd) (co-directed by Léon Paul De Bruyn)
• Tales from the Crapper (2004)
• Make Your Own Damn Movie! (2005)
• Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
• Splendor & Wisdom (2008)
• Direct Your Own Damn Movie (2009)
• Produce Your Own Damn Movie! (2010)
• Lenge: Ledgends of Troma (2011)
• Toxic Twins: The Toxic Avenger V (2011)

As producer only[link]

• Rappacini (1968)
• Sugar Cookies (1973)
• Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)
• Mother's Day (1980)
• The Final Countdown (1980)
• The Dark Side of Midnight (1984)
• Screamplay (1985)
• Igor and the Lunatics (1985)
• Girls School Screamers (1986)
• Combat Shock (1986)
• Fortress of Amerikkka (1988)
• Dialing for Dingbats (1989)
• Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)
• Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994)
• Blondes Have More Guns (1995)
• DeCampitated (1998)
• Sucker: The Vampire (1998)
• The Rowdy Girls (2000)
• Parts of the Family (2003)
• Slaughter Party (2005)
• Mother's Day (2010)
• Teenape Vs. the Nazi Monster Apocalypse (2011)
• Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical (2011)
• Father's Day (2011)
• Hack Job (2011)

As actor[link]

• The Battle of Love's Return (1971) - Abacrombie
• Cry Uncle! (1971) - Hippie #2
• The Love Thrill Murders (1971) - Squeegee
• Rocky (1976) - Drunk
• Slow Dancing in the Big City (1979) - Usher
• The Final Countdown (1980) - Commander Kaufman
• Rocky V (1990) - Drunk (Scenes Deleted)
• Cannes Man (1996) - Troma Chief
• Tromeo and Juliet (1996) - Bar Patron (Uncredited)
• Orgazmo (1997) - Doctor
• Terror Firmer (1998) - Larry Benjamin
• Tales from the Crapper (2003) - The Crap Keeper
• LolliLove (2003) - Father Lloyd
• Slither (2006) - Sad Drunk
• Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) - Old Arbie
• Crank: High Voltage (2009) - Maintenance Guy#2
• Gamer (2009) - Genericon
• Incest Death Squad (2009) - Mr. Reamburg
• Hanger (2009) - Melvina The Tranny
• Super (2010) - 911 Man
• Killer Hoo Ha (2010) - Man in road
• Hatchet II (2010) - Hunter
• Tetherball: The Movie (2010) - Larry Lewinski
• Caesar and Otto meet Dracula's Lawyer (2010) - Judge Stoker Browning
• Caesar and Otto's Deadly XMas (2011) - Grandpa Denovio
• Hack Job (2011) - Rabbi Lloyd
• Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2012) - Lloyd Kaufman
• Spidarlings (2012) - Mr Banner

Books[link]

• All I Needed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger (with James Gunn)
• Make Your Own Damn Movie (with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga)
• The Toxic Avenger: The Novel (with Adam Jahnke)
• Direct Your Own Damn Movie (with Sara Antill and Kurly Tlapoyawa)
• Produce Your Own Damn Movie (with Ashley Wren Collins)
• Sell Your Own Damn Movie (with Sara Antill)

See also[link]

• Michael Herz
• Joe Fleishaker
• James Gunn

Bibliography[link]

• All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger with James Gunn (1998)
• Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga (2003)
• The Toxic Avenger: The Novel with Adam Jahnke (2006)
• Interview with AgonyBooth.com

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lloyd Kaufman

• Lloyd Kaufman at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Lloyd Kaufman Daughters' Memoir
• Spencer Fornaciari and Greg Upton for The MacGuffin Film Podcast Episode 4 - In Bed With Lloyd Kaufman, June 2009

Roger Corman
Roger Corman in 2006.
Born	Roger William Corman (1926-04-05) April 5, 1926 (age 86) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
Years active	1954–present
Spouse	Julie Corman (1970–present; 4 children)

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926)^[1] is an Academy Award winning American film producer, director and actor.^[2] He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe,^[3] and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13 and Philadelphia. A documentary about Roger Corman's life and career entitled Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel premiered at Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011, directed by Alex Stapleton. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.^[4]

Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Curtis Hanson, John Sayles, and many others. He has also helped launch the careers of actors including Jack Nicholson, William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.

Early life[link]

Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne (née High) and William Corman, an engineer.^[5][6] His brother, Eugene Harold Corman, has also produced numerous films, sometimes in collaboration with Roger.^[6] Corman went to Beverly Hills High School and then to Stanford University to study industrial engineering. While at Stanford, Corman enlisted in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. After the end of World War II, Corman returned to Stanford and received a degree in industrial engineering. In 1948, he worked briefly at U.S. Electrical Motors on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles, but his career in engineering lasted only four days; he began work on Monday and quit on Thursday, telling his boss "I've made a terrible mistake."^[7]

More interested in film, Corman found work at 20th Century Fox initially in the mail room. He worked his way up to a story reader. The one property that he liked the most and provided ideas for was filmed as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck. When Corman received no credit at all he left Fox and decided he would work in film by himself. Under the GI Bill, Corman studied English Literature at Oxford University. He then returned to Los Angeles, beginning his film career in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, then started directing films in 1955.

Career[link]

Corman began to direct films in the mid-1950s, including Swamp Women (1955). In his early period, he produced up to nine movies a year. His fastest film was perhaps The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), which was reputedly shot in two days and one night.^[8] Supposedly, he had made a bet that he could shoot an entire feature film in less than three days. Another version of the story claims that he had a set rented for a month, and finished using it with three days to spare, thus pushing him to use the set to make a new film. (This is a variation of the story behind 1963's The Terror, much of which was filmed in two leftover days with Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, after The Raven, which featured them both, wrapped with two days to spare.)

In addition to producing and directing films for American International Pictures (AIP), Corman also partially funded other low budget films released by other film companies. In 1959 Corman founded Filmgroup with his brother Gene, a company producing or releasing low budget black and white films as double features for driven-ins and action houses. Finding that black and white double features were not as successful as colour films, Corman returned to AIP^[9], and Filmgroup ceased operation in 1962.

[edit] The Edgar Allan Poe adaptations

Corman's greatest acclaim as a director came with his Edgar Allan Poe Series of the 1960s. Based on the works of Poe, initially made through American International Pictures, and mostly in collaboration with writer/scenarist Richard Matheson, the series of eight films comprises House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). All but The Premature Burial starred Vincent Price.

Corman also worked with set designer Daniel Haller and cinematographer Floyd Crosby on each film. Others who joined him include cameraman and later director Nicholas Roeg, writers Robert Towne and Charles Beaumont, and actors Ray Milland, Basil Rathbone, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson, and Barbara Steele, Debra Paget, and Peter Lorre. After The Raven was completed, Corman reportedly realized that he still had some shooting days left before the sets were torn down and so made another film, The Terror (1963), on the spot with the remaining cast, crew and sets.

Other work[link]

He also directed one of William Shatner's earliest appearances in a lead role with The Intruder (1962). Based on a novel by Charles Beaumont, the film, made for approximately USD$80,000,^[10] has become famous for its treatment of segregation and civil rights.^[11]

The late 1960s saw Corman and his films give a voice to the counter-culture of the time. In 1966, Corman made the first biker movie with The Wild Angels. It starred Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra and opened the 1966 Venice Film Festival. In 1967, The Trip, written by and starring Jack Nicholson, began the psychedelic film craze of the late 1960s and was the American entry at Cannes that year. Joan Didion said she went to see The Wild Angels because "there on the screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times. I began to think I was seeing ideograms of the future."^[12]

In 1970, Corman founded New World Pictures which became a small independently owned production/distribution studio,^[13] making many cult films such as Women in Cages (1971), Death Race 2000 (1975), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Children of the Corn (1983), and the Joe Dante film Piranha (1978).^[14] Corman's distribution side of New World brought many foreign films to mass audiences in the United States for the first time, including the works of Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, and Akira Kurosawa. In a ten-year period, New World Pictures won more Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film than all other studios combined. Corman eventually sold New World to an investment group in 1983 and later formed Concorde Pictures and New Horizons.^[15]

Corman's penultimate film as director was 1971's Von Richthofen and Brown (he had always wanted to make an aviation movie, being a pilot himself).

Aircraft from Lynn Garrison’s collection during 1970 filming of Corman’s Von Richthofen and Brown.

He then returned to directing once more with 1990's Frankenstein Unbound. In total, Roger Corman has produced over 300 movies and directed more than 50.

In 2009, Corman produced and directed alongside director Joe Dante the web series "Splatter" for Netflix.^[16] The protagonist of the film is portrayed by Corey Feldman,^[17] and the story talks of the haunting tale of rock-and-roll legend Johnny Splatter.^[18] He also started contributing trailer commentaries to Dante's web series Trailers From Hell.^[19]

Corman most recently produced the 2010 films Dinoshark and Dinocroc vs. Supergator for the Syfy cable television channel.^[20] Dinoshark premiered on March 13, 2010.^[21] Sharktopus, his latest Syfy production, premiered in September 2010.^[22]

Personal life[link]

Corman lives and works in Southern California and has four children.

Remembrances and awards[link]

His autobiography, titled How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime (ISBN 0-306-80874-9), documents his experiences in the film industry.

In 1964, Corman was the youngest producer/director to be given a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as retrospectives at the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art.

In 1998, he won the first Producer’s Award ever given by the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2006, Corman received the David O. Selznick Award from the Producers Guild of America. Also in 2006, his film Fall of the House of Usher was among the twenty-five movies selected for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress.

In 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Corman with an Academy Honorary Award at the inaugural Governors Awards,^[23] on November 14, 2009.^[24]

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Corman for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror, of which the second half of the second episode focuses on Corman.^[25]

In 2010, Corman was inducted into the Beverly Hills High School Hall of Fame.

"The Corman Film School"[link]

A number of noted film directors worked with Corman, usually early in their careers, including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Armondo Linus Acosta, Jonathan Demme, Donald G. Jackson, Gale Anne Hurd, Carl Colpaert, Joe Dante, James Cameron, John Sayles, Monte Hellman, Paul Bartel, George Armitage, Jonathan Kaplan, George Hickenlooper, Curtis Hanson, Jack Hill, Robert Towne, Michael Venzor and Timur Bekmambetov. Many have said that Corman's influence taught them some of the ins-and-outs of filmmaking.^[26] In the extras for the DVD of The Terminator, director James Cameron asserts, "I trained at the Roger Corman Film School." The British director Nicolas Roeg served as the cinematographer on The Masque of the Red Death.^[27] Cameron, Coppola, Demme, Hanson, Howard and Scorsese have all gone on to win Academy Awards. Howard was reportedly told by Corman, "If you do a good job on this film, you'll never have to work for me again."

Actors who obtained their career breaks working for Corman include Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Michael McDonald, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire, Sandra Bullock, and Robert De Niro. David Carradine, who received one of his first starring film roles in the Corman-produced Boxcar Bertha (1972) and went on to star in Death Race 2000, later noted: "It’s almost as though you can’t have a career in this business without having passed through Roger’s hands for at least a moment."

Many of Corman's protegés have rewarded him with cameos in their films, including The Godfather Part II,^[28] The Silence of the Lambs,^[29] Apollo 13,^[26] and as recently as Demme's 2008 film Rachel Getting Married.^[30]

Partial filmography[link]

Director

• Five Guns West (1955)
• Swamp Women (1955)
• It Conquered the World (1956)
• Not of This Earth (1957)
• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
• The Undead (1957)
• The Wasp Woman (1959)
• A Bucket of Blood (1959)
• House of Usher (1960)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
• Last Woman on Earth (1960)
• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
• The Premature Burial (1962)
• The Intruder (1962)
• Tales of Terror (1962)
• X (1963)
• The Haunted Palace (1963)
• The Raven (1963)
• The Terror (1963)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
• The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
• The Secret Invasion (1964)
• The Wild Angels (1966)
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
• The Trip (1967)
• Bloody Mama (1970)
• Gas-s-s-s (1971)
• Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

Roger Corman's Cult Classics[link]

In 2010 Roger Corman teamed up with Shout! Factory to release new DVD and Blu-ray editions of Corman productions under the name Roger Corman's Cult Classics. The releases have concentrated on 1970s-1980s films he produced through New World rather than directed. These titles include Rock N Roll High School, Death Race 2000, Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, and Piranha, with additional titles continuing to be released.^[31]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website biography at New Horizons Pictures
• Roger Corman interview at DBCult Film Institute
• Roger Corman bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
• Roger Corman at the Internet Movie Database
• Roger Corman biography on (re)Search my Trash
• Roger Corman at Senses of Cinema
• Roger Corman 1974 Interview
• 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show
• New Horizons company website

Joe Alves
Born	Joseph M. Alves (1936-05-21) 21 May 1936 (age 76) San Leandro, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film director and production designer

Joe Alves (born 21 May 1936, San Leandro, California) is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on three of the Jaws films. He directed Jaws 3-D.

Alves has designed three features for Steven Spielberg, firstly for The Sugarland Express. He designed the three mechanical sharks for the movie Jaws (1975) with mechanical effects man Bob Mattey supervising their physical construction in Sun Valley CA. After the sharks were completed, they were trucked to the shooting location, but unfortunately they had not been tested in water causing a series of delays that have become quite legendary over time.^[1]

He was nominated for the Academy Award and won the BAFTA for Best Art Direction for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.^[2]

Alves worked on Jaws 2 (1978) in the capacity of both production designer and as second unit director. After John D. Hancock, the initial director of Jaws 2, was sacked, it was suggested that Alves co-direct it with Verna Fields (who edited the original Jaws). Jeannot Szwarc was hired, however, to complete the film.^[3]

The model of New York he created for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) has been described as "memorably derelict",^[4] and he was visual consultant on Carpenter's Starman (1984).

He directed Jaws 3-D (1983), which took advantage of the revival in popularity of 3-D at the time. The film received generally weak critical reception, with Variety criticising Alves for failing "to linger long enough on the Great White."^[5] He was nominated as 'worst director' in the 1983 Golden Raspberry Awards.^[6] Jaws 3-D was his first and final film as director.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joe Alves at the Internet Movie Database

Carl Gottlieb
Carl Gottlieb in 2009
Born	(1938-03-18) March 18, 1938 (age 74) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, comedian, screenwriter
Nationality	American
Period	1966–present
Genres	Comedy/Thriller
Notable work(s)	Jaws

Carl Gottlieb (born March 18, 1938) is an American screenwriter, actor, comedian and executive. He is probably best known for co-writing the screenplay for Jaws, as well as directing the 1981 low-budget cult film Caveman.

Early life[link]

Gottlieb was born in New York City, to Jewish parents: the son of Elizabeth, a medical administrative assistant, and Sergius M. Gottlieb, an engineer.^[1] After studying drama at Syracuse University, he became a member, in the 1960s, of the San Francisco improvisational comedy troupe "The Committee". They made one feature film: A Session with the Committee.

Career[link]

He began writing comedy for TV, contributing to The Bob Newhart Show, All in the Family, and The Odd Couple. Minor acting roles have included Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and the film Clueless.

Gottlieb also cowrote David Crosby's two autobiographies, 1989's "Long time Gone" and 2006's "Since Then".

[edit] Jaws

Gottlieb was hired as an actor to appear as Meadows, the editor of the local newspaper, in Jaws. He was hired by his friend, Steven Spielberg, to redraft the script, adding more dimensions to the characters, particularly humour. Ironically, his redrafts reduced the role of Meadows (who still appears in the Town Hall corridor and the Tiger Shark scene).

He wrote a book, The Jaws Log, about the notoriously difficult production of the film. Bryan Singer has referred to it as being "like a little movie director bible".^[2]

He was also enlisted under similar circumstances to work on the Jaws 2 screenplay. He also co-wrote the screenplays for The Jerk and Jaws 3-D. Gottlieb contributes to Jaws related activities, such as interviews (including the documentary The Shark Is Still Working) and attended JawsFest on Martha's Vineyard in June 2005.

Writers' politics[link]

He joined the Writers Guild of America in 1968 after becoming interested in Guild politics and with a desire to serve fellow writers following writers' strikes in the 1970s and 1981. He ran for the Board of Directors in 1983, and was re-elected for numerous terms thereafter, including two stints as vice-president (1991–1994). He was again appointed VP of the Writers Guild of America, west in 2004^[3] and served until the following year.^[4] In September 2011, he was elected as WGA-West Secretary-Treasurer^[5].

References[link]

External links[link]

• Carl Gottlieb at the Internet Movie Database