by David Krell | Nov 17, 2016 | David Krell
Baseball is a never-ending source for popular culture storytellers whose tales tap a range of emotional veins in fans of the National Pastime. We cry when Gary Cooper reenacts Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech in The Pride of the Yankees. We cheer...
by David Krell | Jan 6, 2014 | David Krell
Welcome Back, Kotter meets the fish-out-of-water theme. That’s The White Shadow. An NBA journeyman player has a career-ending knee injury, then takes a job as a basketball coach at an inner-city Los Angeles high school where he unwillingly, sometimes...
by David Krell | Nov 6, 2013 | David Krell
Ib Melchior’s special effects expert, David Hewitt, wrote a script entitled The Wizard of Mars. At the suggestion of his financial backers, he met with Felix Feist, a television director. Feist worked with Irwin Allen on the television series Voyage to the...
