Heilman & Haver - Episode 60 (Guest Sloan De Forest)

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EPISODE 60 SYNOPSIS

We're pleased to be joined by Sloan De Forest, writer, film historian, and all-around movie know-it-all about her new book from TCM, The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers available now from Running Press.

 

ARTS AROUND THE SOUND ANNOUNCEMENTS

There's "Something Rotten" at BCT

Playing now through May 1st, it's "Something Rotten" at BCT!  This show follows the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, who struggle to find success in the theatrical world as they compete with the wild popularity of their contemporary - the bard himself - Bill Shakespeare.  Find tickets and more info at BCTSHOWS.COM.

Youth Summer Camps Return to WWCA

WWCA's newly appointed Acting Artistic Director Rebecca Ewen will be holding two youth musical theater camps this summer.  For campers ages 5-13, it’s “Winnie the Pooh Kids”, and for campers ages 13-18, “‘Legally Blonde Jr.”  For dates and more info keep visit the Classes and Workshops page at WWCA.US and their Facebook page.

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Sloan De Forest

Sloan De Forest is a writer, film historian, and all-around movie know-it-all. As a relative of talking-pictures inventor Lee de Forest, she has film history in her blood. She has authored three books in the Turner Classic Movies library: The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers (2021), Dynamic Dames (2019), and Must-See Sci-Fi (2018).

She is also a contributing author of Natalie Wood: Reflections on a Legendary Life by Manoah Bowman and Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl by Jay Jorgensen, and editor of the upcoming Psycho 60. She has written about film for Sony, Time Warner Cable, Bright Lights Film Journal, The Film Magazine, and other publications.

Her talking head has appeared on CNN’s 2019 series The Movies, as well as the 2022 series Hollywood Icons. Sloan has also made guest appearances on Turner Classic Movies and several podcasts, and served as a consultant on the 2020 HBO/Amblin documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.

She sometimes writes under a nom de plume, occasionally acts, and has been known to lecture film students on the wily ways of film noir dames. A native Texan, she now lives in Hollywood.