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Beverly Gray

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Los Angeles, California, The United States

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Roger Corman, of course. Also great Hollywood biographers like Jim Cur ...more

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After completing my doctorate in Contemporary American Fiction at UCLA, I surprised everyone (including myself) by taking a job with B-movie maven Roger Corman. At the legendary New World Pictures, I edited scripts, wrote publicity material, cast voice actors, and tried my hand at production. One highlight was coming up with the twist ending to a cult classic, Death Race 2000. Later, as story editor at Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons Pictures, I oversaw the development of 170 low-budget features. I’ve written six produced screenplays, and played several cameo roles (in all of which I kept my clothes on).

Since leaving Corman’s employ, I have been active as a journalist, while also teaching screenwriting workshops through UCLA Extension. My f ...more

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	Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers 3.71 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Boy, do I need a trip to the car wash! My trusty sedan badlyneeds a good cleaning. A recent overseas plane flight allowed me to re-watch a1976 comedy that’s essentially an ode to the joys and sorrows of working at anurban locale designed for the cleansing of automobiles. This was the era whenyoung Black filmmakers seemed to take special pride in singling out theidiosyncratic venues that anchor

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“Don’t show the monster too much at the beginning.” —Roger Corman, 1997”
― Beverly Gray, Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers

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“Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures”
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