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09 July 2026
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Ask Eddie June 26th 2025+ Jennifer Tilly
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00:04:23 a new latin film noir, cool 00:09:16 First time i heard a cat with wheels, but glad to know it isn't work. 00:16:50 great story from Mueller's late friend on restoring a negative reel of a sweet smell of success. His friend mike said it was a ten mont job, twenty three reels a second. I am glad someone said AI does not think. I keep saying that. Interesting point, AI allows you to see what is soulless from what is not. 00:25:14 great story on how a writer divulged the weakness of chatgpt and learning models 00:28:38 is paul muni's I am a fugitive from a slave gang the first film noir? Mueller responds, it was part of a movement, a studio specific warner bros. socially conscious movement. But an outlier, because a movement were not started. He calls a film the first film noir, because of the copies that come after it. Hammett + bogart made the maltese falcon noir, and it was the first. 00:32:23 Glenn ford in ransom and rage, are they noir? Mueller says "ransom" feels like a thriller more than noir. Neither have seen "Rage". Spike did a version of high and low with denzel Washington. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_Low_(1963_film) ] glenn ford was valuable to the studio for his versatility. fox had dana Andrew, Columbia had glenn ford. 00:45:$6 Was Bogart dubbed in the harder they fall? o cause bogart was available 00:48:15 what great voices in film noir or not well known? Barbara Stanwyck, Dan Duryea [ jon lovitz did a dan Duryea in Saturday night live ] The reason why so many had distinctive voices was nearly all actors back then came from radio so they were used to using their voice. Today he says today most actors don't have distinctive voices. A clip of tom cruise will not work out. Because of his one scene in glengarry glen ross , Mueller will know Alec Baldwin's voice 00:53:34 The legacy of constantin bakaleinkoff? The bakaleinkoff's were a musical family from Russia. constantin conducted the la symphony. Roy Webb wrote a lot of the scores but constantin conducted many. Out of the past is a roy webb score but constantin conducted it. In the 1950s musicians had a strike and that partly was the problem with the studio system, each studio had an orchestra. You will not see an rko movie from the 1940s without bakaleinkoff,but you sometime see his brothers. 00:58:40 why hasn't "to the ends of the earth " not on home video, 1948 with dick powell? It is a Columbia picture. warner bros owns the rko library. Columbia, now Sony, don't do much in putting out blue ray's. 01:01:00 Movie spoilers past and present viewing habits and audience attention? Mueller says why are movie goers today so different from movie goers in the mid 1900s. What distinguishes a genre film that plot. The only thing that makes something genre. Literary fiction doesn't have to have a plot. The difference of moviegoers is the why people went to the movies. PEople in the past went to the movie theaters for the theaters not the movie. In the late 1950 people saw enough films to get judgemental. And going to the movies became something people cared about and you wouldn't go in the middle. Alfred Hitchcock convinced theaters not to let anybody in when the movie started. A grindhouse is a theater where movies are running non stop. Intricacies exist, Audiences changed. and then when television came in, movies had to be special, and became grander. Now film movie goers have brought phones into theaters and scorcese said he will not go to theaters cause modern movie goers don't respect or pay attention. Some movies note audiences not to spoil. Great story on David fincher saying fuck em to those who haven't seen, the film being "Seven". Good point on how hard it is to trick audiences. Good point, how sinners will be revealed to most today. Mueller says the shining trailer is his favorite. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAE7dNurHR4] Blumhouse is terrible at trailers. Mueller says with breaking bad or twin peaks, or better call saul, where it is not designed to binge. To create following for people to talk about shows, what will happen next. 01:22:54 cocktail recipes the vesper martini mueller does it differently 01:25:45 Tony Curtis she remember seeing TOny Curtis in "three act tragedy"
Bound at Noir City with Jennifer Tilly
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3:36 Tilly wasn't allowed to Ad lib by the Washowski's. 4:59 Tilly is funny. 6:23 Roger Ebert loved Bound early and it is a cult classic now. All you need is a man a woman a locked room and a weapon... and a crazed psycopath who just yells his lines. 8:50 great story on equal opportunity, no one wants to see Joey character. Delaurentiis didn't want joey, joe pantoliano. 14:53 Great story from Tilly on how she first met Gershon in Bound. 17:41 Jennfier tilly admitted Joe pantoliano courted the Wachowskis and tilly said she should had did likewise so we could be in the matrix. 20:00 Tilly is raw, she is a great guest, Mueller doesn't have to do anything but let her talk. Tilly said her sister runs around in important movie memorabilia. 24:39 The guy got paid extra money by the screen actors guild. 25:41 gershon and tilly talked about the shoe sale at barney's 28:19 nice description by Tilly to how the washowski's made the love scene between her and gershon as one shot film, being directed all the way. 33:13 Gershon brought Tilly tequila + chocolates for the scene. 38:30 great point by Tilly and a sequel to Bound. 42:19 Mueller is right, he has never done less and the sign language man never worked harder, than with Jennifer Tilly
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09 July 2026
This event began 07/09/2025 and repeats every year forever
KWL Live Q&A - No Market for That Book with Ruthie Bowles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxfUfgs0S78
her websites
https://nomarketforthatbook.com/about-ruthie-and-no-market-for-that-book/
https://www.audible.com/author/Ruthie-Bowles/B0BVMWBX1J?msockid=365e31650f74658e0ff6276d0e6a6431
THOUGHTS time indexed
00:04:00 Ruthie tells a great story about entering the industry 00:06:00 question, through your time in the industry, do more or less writers want audiobook narrators who are famous actors? 00:07:00 Tara ask, how did you get involved? Ruthie answered, She saw a book , ten ways to get paid to read. Ruthie knew it was oversimplified. In 2019 she had her first audio narration gig while she still worked as a marketer. She outsourced her sound engineering and she still works with him. And she recorded in her office, at first. 00:11:00 Ruthie answered, through your time in the industry, do more or less writers want audiobook narrators who are famous actors? Not a huge consideration in the indie space, mostly in the traditional space. A famous actor will need to transition and may not be able. 00:13:00 Tara, How do you work with author? Ruthie asked, sometimes author don't know. But they can hear something and they feel it. 00:16:00 Tara, do you jump into a book series? Ruthie, she hasn't had an experience jumping into a long series. She has to notice where other people took characters. But she comprehends she is 00:19:00 Diversitymatters ask, How long would it take to do 200 page book and what is the cost? 9,300 words is industry standard for one book, so word count , and then you have to break up your book. She aims for an hour finished hour work a day. She has her fees on her website. $300 per finished hour. So you will not pay me to one to three hours. Usually when you work with an audio engineer you are paying for finished product. 00:23:00 Tara, what is a sensitivity reader? She tends to give feedback on work to see if their are problematic characterizations. But not to knock down but to work to improve the manuscript to see ways to increase the quality of the story. 00:27:00 Tara, how will it work out? Ruthie says, I will refer to things written, but sit with it. Writers have to breath when they get a sensitivity review. She doesn't have authors schedule the call until after they get the report. And remember the intention of the sensitivity reader. 00:30:00 Tara, can you tell us about your company, there is no market for that book? Ruthie, in her experience people in chat on line say, no market exist. Tara, in her experience, all genres have a market. Ruthie, Alot of her work wasn't equitably accessible. You choose what you want to do and do what you can. She wanted audio rights. The community talsk about the things they need and want, and she want to fill those needs and wants in the industry. 00:37:00 Tara, what are other challenges facing marginalized authors. Ruthie, publishing has a big realm. Marginalized authors are less likely to get marketing space. So she wants to know who out in the industry. Marginalized authors may not have variety for who may get to narrate their book. publishing houses find it hard to find marginalized narrators because they usually don't want it. 00:43:00 Tamara morgan, Can you speak to partnership with respect to royalties? Ruthie, she was a reduced PFH rate and we split the royalties 50/50. She was first but now she knows another who is doing it. 00:47:00 Tara, what about the future of collaboration in audiobooks? Ruthie, there is a growing desire to hear stories. Most of the authors she know likes to be artist of the written word. But, as a narrator, she is an artist, a voice artist. and she performs from that place. Do we have enough audio book narrators for all the books? no, but we have enough actors or others to be narrators. So now is a critical turning point. But her friends love her work. 00:52:00 Tara, do you have any advice for authors who want to build a brand and be aunthetic? Ruthie, if you don't anchor what is true to you, you will blow every which way. In terms of brand building, dont' start with what you present, but what is important to you. You have to show up for this on the good days and the bad days. If you only think of the facade on the bad days you will not show up. If you are being authentic to anyone, you have to be authentic to you. Radical authenticity, concentric circles of trust. The cool people will get the things that will ruin my brand. She tries to be the genuine thoughtful human being, it isn't about false positivity, but it is about showing up as the person in my soul. And that will be the standard her company is upheld to. When people trust is what you mean in what you say. controversies you don't have to speak to. If you are doing the work, it will be evident, and that turns into a brand in what you are saying is what you are presenting. 01:00:00 Tara, what more from you? Ruthie, she has a book on kobo plus. She has a story in an anthology, and a pink horror story. 01:03:00 Tara, what are you audiobooking now? Ruthie, the imaginary book festival. Calling In, how to make change with those you would rather cancel. She enjoys it. For anyone who agrees there can be a lot of good on the internet but don't want to engage in certain things, read this book. question, are sensitivity readers hired for making editions of old famous books?
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