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Josh Karp
Josh Karp (born October 22, 1966) is a journalist and author. He lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their four sons. A journalist, writer and film producer. His first book, ''A Futile and Stupid Gesture,'' won best biography at both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Midwest Book Awards in 2006. It was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Will Forte, for Netflix in 2018. He is also the author of ''Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing'' and ''Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind''. Karp served as moderator of a panel discussion on ''The Other Side of the Wind'' at the 21st annual Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, in February 2015. He was a producer on the Morgan Neville documentary, ''They'll Love Me When I'm Dead'', which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2018. Karp's writing has appeared in ''Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Futile And Stupid Gesture
''A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever'' is an American book by Josh Karp that was published in 2006. It is a history of ''National Lampoon'' magazine and one of its three founders, Doug Kenney, during the 1970s. The book was based on numerous interviews with people who contributed to the magazine, and people who performed in ''The National Lampoon Radio Hour'', and the stage show ''Lemmings''. As the book recounts, at that time the National Lampoon's performers included John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner, all of whom subsequently went on to appear on ''Saturday Night Live'' and have careers in other media, including film. Writers and artists included John Hughes, Sean Kelly, Chris Miller, P. J. O'Rourke, Tony Hendra, and Bruce McCall. The book also includes stories about the making of the movies ''Animal House'' and ''Caddyshack''. The main title of the book is a quote from ''Animal House'', part of a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Futile And Stupid Gesture (film)
''A Futile and Stupid Gesture'' is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film based on Josh Karp's book of the same title, directed by David Wain, and written by Michael Colton and John Aboud. The film stars Will Forte as comedy writer Douglas Kenney, during the rise and fall of '' National Lampoon''. ''A Futile and Stupid Gesture'' had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2018, and was released on January 26, 2018, by Netflix. Plot The film's timeline stretches from 1964 to 1980. The film opens with Douglas Kenney and his classmate Henry Beard celebrating the release of their book, ''Bored of the Rings'', with the ''Harvard Lampoon'' staff. They graduate from Harvard and Kenney convinces Beard not to go to law school but instead publish a monthly magazine: the ''National Lampoon''. Though Kenney is the magazine's main creative voice, there would be no magazine without the guidance of Beard. Kenney becomes the comedy writer and Beard the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of The Wind
''The Other Side of the Wind'' is a 2018 satirical drama film, directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Orson Welles, and posthumously released in 2018 after forty-eight years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, and Oja Kodar. Intended by Welles to be his Hollywood comeback, the film began shooting in 1970 and resumed on and off until 1976. Welles continued to intermittently work on the project into the 1980s, but it became embroiled in legal, financial and political complications which prevented it from being completed. Despite Welles' death in 1985, filming was completed and several attempts were made at reconstructing the unfinished film. In 2014, the rights were acquired by Royal Road and the project was overseen by Bogdanovich and producer Frank Marshall. The story utilizes a film-within-a-film narrative which follows the last day in the life of an aging Hollywood film director (Huston) as he hosts a scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
''They'll Love Me When I'm Dead'' is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Morgan Neville. It documents the ill-fated production of ''The Other Side of the Wind'', directed by Orson Welles. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2018. It was released on November 2, 2018, by Netflix. Cast *Alan Cumming (narrator) *Peter Bogdanovich *Steve Ecclesine *Howard Grossman *Danny Huston *Oja Kodar *Rich Little * Frank Marshall *Cybill Shepherd *Beatrice Welles *Orson Welles Production In May 2017, it was announced Morgan Neville would direct a documentary film on the making of the Orson Welles' film ''The Other Side of the Wind''. It was produced by Neville, Josh Karp, Korelan Matteson and Filip Jan Rymsza. Netflix distributed the film and it debuted on the streaming service on November 2, 2018. Release The documentary had its premieres at the Venice Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2018. It was later screened at New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century American Writers
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
