Category Archives: Filmmaking

HOLLYWOOD LORE: “Gimme A Bullet Hit Here…Like This!”

When you’re directing television, the most fun and creative challenge is adapting to the rapid transition of style/genre and meeting diverse personnel you encounter from series to series which can result in some of the most bizarre and hilarious adventures … Continue reading

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HBO’s “GAME CHANGE”: McCain’s National Shame of Palin

On March 10th, HBO will premiere “Game Change” which will dramatize the 2008 election focusing on Republican nominee John McCain and his fateful choice of then-unknown Sarah Palin as his running mate. The stellar film cast includes Ed Harris as … Continue reading

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SPIELBERG & WILLIAMS: The Divine Union of Film & Music

Forty years. Twenty-five films. Thirteen Oscar nominations for original score. In honor of my alma mater, The American Film Institute, and its “Master Class” celebrating the glorious collaboration between Steven Spielberg and John Williams, I salute them as the greatest … Continue reading

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Book Lovers: A Memoir for the Holidays

Happy Holidays! During the holiday month of December, KISS ME QUICK BEFORE I SHOOT is donating 100% of its sales proceeds to the cancer healing mecca of the City of Hope. Do you love the movies? Are you a romantic … Continue reading

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James Cameron’s SHRIEK before AVATAR!

(Excerpt from Guy Magar’s film memoir KISS ME QUICK BEFORE I SHOOT: A Filmmaker’s Journey into the Lights of Hollywood and True Love) Finally, I had found the financing for my first feature, SHRIEK. We started hiring a crew, casting … Continue reading

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GREEN ZONE: Top Ten of the Decade

Regardless of what Oscars and Golden Globes tell us, it’s difficult in any one year to get full agreement on the best movie of the year, or even the best movies of all time as per the American Film Institute’s … Continue reading

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The Good, the Bad, and the Hollywood!

Back in 1997, a headline news story made all film wannabes’ jaws drop to the floor. I remember the story became the stuff of legend and even managed to catch my attention though I was deep in production at the … Continue reading

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WANTED: An American Hero – FOUND: Dancing’s J.R. Martinez

America loves its heroes. The ‘84 TV series Cover Up which I had directed had Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For a Hero” as the show’s theme song which was a huge hit tune in its time and still one of … Continue reading

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Spielberg’s AMBLIN’ to Cameron’s XENOGENESIS: The Promise of Short Films

Everyone knows there is almost no commercial market for short films…so why make them? Every film regardless of its running length is a big investment in time, hassle, people, money, and dreams. The first film I made as a student … Continue reading

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Cinematic Magic: IRIS

Magic! Movies have always been a magical world for me since I was a kid growing up in Egypt watching Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies and The Ten Commandments which blew my mind. The magic continued when on my … Continue reading

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