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Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of the projection booth

I'm your host Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking to Jeffrey Combs,

who is doing a one-man show called Nevermore, all about the life and times of Edgar

Alan Poe, and that is going to be playing at the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival,

which runs October 10th through 13th in Terrytown, New York.

His performance is going to be happening on Saturday, October 12th.

If you want to learn more, please go to Sleepy Hollow Film Fest and enjoy this interview. What brought you to Edgar

and Poe or brought him to you? Well, first of all, we were all introduced to Powell when we

were in grade school and he made it and put on it. It's not grade school, but like, for me it was ninth grade.

You know, and so he's in our curriculum, and so we get that, right?

And so that was always back in the back of my mind, and I guess about 15 years ago,

I was reading history biographies.

I wanted to do something, period, and try to find a historical figure that maybe

I could portray, and it really was not very well-formed. It's just that was the idea. How I would do

it, what, a movie I was thinking? I don't know. Pipe Dream, quite frankly, because how many movies of historical art do they make

anymore?

More like capes and tights now.

So it was kind of like, well, it's a quixotic quest.

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