{"id":15,"date":"2009-05-05T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T14:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2009-05-05T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T14:38:53","slug":"interview-with-scott-holleran-on-movies-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Scott Holleran on Movies &#038; Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"scott_holleran\" src=\"http:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/scott_holleran.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Holleran\" width=\"191\" height=\"299\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Holleran: Freelance writer, Journalists, Ayn Rand fan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Martin Lindeskog<\/strong> (Gothenburg, Sweden) interviews freelance writer, journalist, and Ayn Rand fan, <strong>Scott Holleran<\/strong> (California). Focusing mainly on movies and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To listen, download, or podcast this <\/strong><strong>interview now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidvox.com\/ml_scott_holleran_01.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/scottholleran.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ScottHolleran.com<\/a><br \/>\n(Includes lots of Scott Holleran&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">interviews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/news-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\">articles<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> and book reviews.)<\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed or touched on during this interview\u00a0 include &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being production assistant for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Peikoff\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard Peikoff<\/a> radio show<\/li>\n<li>Has been a journalist for 18 years (including with Los Angeles Times, and Philadelphia Enquirer)<\/li>\n<li>Reluctantly set up his website and <a href=\"http:\/\/scottholleran.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> about a year ago &#8211; persuaded by friends.<\/li>\n<li>About the <a href=\"http:\/\/scottholleran.com\/blog\/2009\/02\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars<\/a> (a &#8220;painful experience&#8221;) &#8211; Are they indicative of today&#8217;s culture? Partially. &#8220;Depraved pictures [are] being celebrated, given Awards&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1010048\/plotsummary\" target=\"_blank\">Slum Dog Millionaire<\/a> &#8211; Academy Awards, Best Picture 2009 (didn&#8217;t like it personally, but &#8220;people see movies very differently&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gran Torino<\/strong> (&#8220;got shafted by the Oscars this year&#8221;) &#8211; directed by and starring Clint Eastwood &#8211; very compelling, worth seeing. Read Scott&#8217;s review <a href=\"http:\/\/scottholleran.com\/blog\/20090114-pop-tv-and-screen-shots\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (halfway down the page).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1205489\/\" target=\"_blank\">imdb link<\/a>.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_38\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"Gran Torino, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood\" src=\"http:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gran-torino-clint-eastwood-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"Gran Torino, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gran-torino-clint-eastwood-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gran-torino-clint-eastwood.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Worth seeing&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Documentary, <strong>Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life<\/strong> &#8211; includes interesting details about Ayn Rand&#8217;s years in Hollywood. Read Scott Holleran&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/interviews\/michael-paxton.htm\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with Michael Paxton who wrote and directed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118662\/awards\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar nominated<\/a> documentary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0002Q9VQ6?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=iloveprodosco-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0002Q9VQ6\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase @ Amazon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Atlas Shrugged movie. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0480239\/news\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here<\/a> for news updates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/features\/?id=2487&amp;p=.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read Scott Holleran&#8217;s 2008 interview with practicing Catholic, Michael Burns of Lionsgate, who bought the movie rights. Michael Burns says of the novel&#8217;s railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, she is &#8220;&#8230; probably one of the greatest heroines of literature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from that interview:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Holleran<\/strong>: Is it true you attended Ayn Rand&#8217;s memorial service when she died in 1982?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Burns<\/strong>: It was the winter of 1982 and I had just started work for Merrill Lynch, beginning my Wall Street career and I went to her wake, which was incredibly well attended. I just went because I had read about her [death] in the New York Times and it was sort of open and, you know, you want your funeral or your wake to take place on a really dreary day and it was\u2014it was almost like a movie set. There were people from all walks of life and I would guess the majority didn&#8217;t agree with many of the things that she stood for &#8211; yet they were there paying homage to her mind and her strong belief in something. I went by myself. I was 22 years old.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_42\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42\" title=\"angelina_jolie_in_sky_captain\" src=\"http:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/angelina_jolie_in_sky_captain.jpg\" alt=\"Angelina Jolie wants to play &quot;the greatest heroine of literature&quot; - Dagny Taggart, in Atlas Shrugged (by Ayn Rand)\" width=\"390\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/angelina_jolie_in_sky_captain.jpg 390w, https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/angelina_jolie_in_sky_captain-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 85vw, 390px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelina Jolie wants to play &quot;the greatest heroine of literature&quot; - Dagny Taggart, in Atlas Shrugged (by Ayn Rand)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Thumbs up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0870111\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frost\/Nixon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1013753\/\" target=\"_blank\">Milk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Favorite picture for 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0421715\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/a> (&#8220;&#8230; a splendid, larger-than-life, piece of grand entertainment&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0241303\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chocolat<\/a>, by Swedish Director Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m<br \/>\nInterviewed several times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/movies\/casanova.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Casanova<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/interviews\/lasse-hallstrom-an-unfinished-life.htm\" target=\"_blank\">An Unfinished Life.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/features\/?id=2288\" target=\"_blank\">The Hoax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_44\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44\" title=\"lasse_hallstrom_swedish_director_chocolat\" src=\"http:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lasse_hallstrom_swedish_director_chocolat.jpg\" alt=\"Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m, Swedish Director: Chocolat, The Hoax, Casanova, etc.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lasse_hallstrom_swedish_director_chocolat.jpg 300w, https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lasse_hallstrom_swedish_director_chocolat-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m, Swedish Director: &quot;My favorite living motion picture director&quot; ... Chocolat, The Hoax, Casanova, and much more.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Admiration for<strong> Earl Hamner Jr<\/strong>, creator of The Waltons TV show (210 episodes), creator of Falcon Crest (134 episodes), writer of 8 episodes of The Twilight Zone, etc. Check his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0358839\/\" target=\"_blank\">iMDb listing<\/a>. Read Scott&#8217;s interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottholleran.com\/interviews\/earl-hamner.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How most of Scott&#8217;s favorite movies are the old &#8220;Classics&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Currently enrolled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aynrand.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=education_academic_index\" target=\"_blank\">Objectivist Academic Center<\/a>, first year writing class<\/li>\n<li>And lots more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sponsors for this show:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ThinkerToThinker.com\" target=\"_blank\">THINKER TO THINKER<\/a>\u2122 blogs: Get your very own free, beautiful, easy-to-use blog! For those who love capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securepaynet.net\/default.aspx?isc=wwbb566&amp;prog_id=prodosworldwide\" target=\"_blank\">iLOVEprodos.COM<\/a>: Cheap domain names &#8211; scarier than robots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveprodos.com\/eshop.php?region=bbe1df72e27667b38a1a360e152a4ad2&amp;eshop=0ae6204baa230ae87c2fe9af1a0b3fa0\" target=\"_blank\">iLOVEprodos.COM<\/a>: A buck for a book? A book for a buck?<\/p>\n<p><strong>To listen, download, or podcast this <\/strong><strong>interview now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidvox.com\/ml_scott_holleran_01.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/solidvox.com\" target=\"_blank\">SOLID VOX<\/a>\u2122 <\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;Discover the power of ideas!&#8221; (A PRODOS project)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lindeskog (Gothenburg, Sweden) interviews freelance writer, journalist, and Ayn Rand fan, Scott Holleran (California). Focusing mainly on movies and culture. To listen, download, or podcast this interview now: CLICK HERE Scott&#8217;s blog: ScottHolleran.com (Includes lots of Scott Holleran&#8217;s interviews, articles, film and book reviews.) Topics discussed or touched on during this interview\u00a0 include &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview with Scott Holleran on Movies &#038; Culture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egoist.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}