My guest today, British author and pop culture historian Jon Kremer is appearing on StoryBeat for the second time. He’s best known for his memoirs and books detailing the 1960s pop and rock music scene. A long-standing friendship with “Year of the Cat”...
“To the aspiring writer who has always wanted to give it a try. I would just strongly encourage you to try it. Right. It’s going to be difficult writing that first chapter. That first paragraph is incredibly difficult. But I think you will find that if you...
“I was the least powerful man in Hollywood. I was about to walk in unprepared to pitch my idea for a comedy channel, and that’s what we did. But I sat down, did the pitch as best as I could. And Michael liked it because he was a big comedy guy. He loved...
“Yeah, like I said, we like to say with scripted, you write the script and then shoot the show. With reality, you shoot the show and then write the script. And that’s kind of how it works. So you just, you have to just hone it down and hone it down and...
“I walk through as the audience is starting to come into the theater. And every night I see kids. These people are so excited to be there and see this show. It means so much to so many people. People are going to a Broadway show. I mean, it’s there....