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#10 Cocktail Hour Chat with David Avallone (Part 2)

May 24, 2023 Stephen Robinson Episode 10
The Play Typer Guy
#10 Cocktail Hour Chat with David Avallone (Part 2)
Show Notes

Did you hear my awesome chat with writer/director David Avallone? If not, go listen to episode 9 and then come back. It was so great that we kept talking and today are sharing the rest of this interview. We dive deep into some of the issues we are facing today.

You will hear:

  • Could Blazing Saddles and similar films be made today?
  • The power/danger of likability in politics
  • Is the Republican party separating themselves into good people and monsters?
  • And more!


More about David: 

David Avallone is a freelancer from a long line of freelancers, born to a pulp fiction writer (Michael Avallone) and women’s rights activist (Frances Avallone).

Since graduating from Bard College in 1987, David has been involved mostly in independent film production (as a writer, editor, director, producer, actor, etc.), but in 2014 he branched out into comic book writing, mostly with Dynamite Comics. With them, he’s written LEGENDERRY: VAMPIRELLA, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE SHADOW, DOC SAVAGE: RING OF FIRE, BETTIE PAGE and ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK.  For American Mythology, he’s written ZORRO: SWORDS OF BLOOD, and for Kevin Eastman Studios he’s writing DRAWING BLOOD and THE RADICALLY REARRANGED RONIN RAGDOLLS.

He lives in Hollywood, California with his delightful wife Augusta aka filmmaker, costumer and burlesque icon Penny Starr, Jr. and three cats who may or may not be secretly radically rearranged. 


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