Special Report: Bruce Joel Rubin Books

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Joel Rubin (Brainstorm, Ghost, Jacob's Ladder) and Joseph Maddrey join Mike to discuss two new books put out by Paul Cronin's Sticking Place Books: It's Only A Movie -- Bruce's revelatory autobiography -- and Three Visionary Screenplays -- a compilation of three unproduced Rubin scripts.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:26.9	Hey folks, welcome to a very special episode of The Protection Booth.
0:42.8	I'm your host, Mike White.
0:43.7	On this episode, I am talking with Bruce Joel Rubin and Joseph Madri, all about Bruce's latest works, including It's only a movie, BJR's Autobiography, which he did with some help from
0:57.8	Joseph, as well as Paul Cronin, who was back on our Novemberman episode. Find out more over at
1:06.4	Bruce's website, Bruce Joel Rubin.com. It's RUBINB-I-N. Thanks so much for listening, and I hope you
1:12.8	enjoy this interview. Remind me how you guys know each other. It was probably 2012. I was
1:20.3	toying with the idea of writing a book about metaphysical horror films, and Jacob's Ladder was going to be one of the big titles there.
1:30.3	So I think I started digging around.
1:32.3	I found Bruce's preferred version of the script, which was published by applause.
1:37.3	And then that had a kind of 20 or 30 page essay in the back of the book about how he wrote it. And I love that film. I loved it even more
1:47.0	after reading the script. And then after reading Bruce's essay, I just thought this guy is
1:51.6	fascinating. And I wonder if I can track him down and talk to him. So I got on the internet
1:57.8	and it turned out that he was teaching a meditation class, a weekly meditation class about 10 minutes away from where I was living at the time.
2:06.7	So I emailed Bruce and said, hey, can I come to this class?
2:10.8	And I did.
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