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In January, 2020, James Hong was a Minnesota-born actor who’d started acting in the 1950s. He had hundreds of film and TV credits. But this new film he’d been offered, Everything Everywhere All at Once, felt like the multiverse adventure romp he’d been waiting for all his life. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
1941 – Jane Russell, a 19-year-old with roots in Bemidji, felt like the luckiest girl alive to be plucked out of obscurity to star the new RKO picture The Outlaw. If only she didn’t have to put up with director Howard Hughes and his annoying obsessions. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
In 1974, David Fantle and Tom Johnson were St. Paul middle school students when they fell in love with classic Hollywood films. And just four years later, they were flying to California to meet two of those stars—a journey that would lead to hundreds of interviews and a book. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
In 1958, Minnesota got a shock. Classic horror films were introduced to a new generation of TV viewers courtesy of Shock Theater and local creature feature hosts in Minneapolis and Duluth. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
