Laura Wagner is resident film critic for Classic Images, the celebrated and iconic tome that is everything classic films. An avid movie watcher from her youngest years, Laura would take notes on movies—titles, actors, dates, other details. She had a notebook, she says, and each time she re-watched a movie, and she did that a lot, she’d review what she’d written, and mark off that she’d seen a movie again. During school lunch, every day, she’d read movie books. At home, once she’d done her homework, she’d read more movie books … and at quite a young age, she started to CORRECT some of the mis-information in some of these movie books.
So begins the story of someone who’s lived and breathed movies most of her life. There’s virtually nothing Laura Wagner can’t recall about a movie. So it was that when she began reviewing movies for Classic Images years ago, she became quite the sensation in classic movie fandom. She also reviews books on the market about industry people—actors, producers, directors, collections and collectors … you name it—the wildly famous all the way down to the barely-known.
Laura knows them all, and she knows their works. Say her name, and anyone who knows anything about the industry knows who it is you are talking about. If you’re an author who’s written a book on classic entertainment—depending on whether Laura liked your book or didn’t—you either shake in your boots or bow at her feet. Her recently-released 2nd book, Let Me Tell You How I Really Feel: The Uncensored Book Reviews of Classic Images’ Laura Wagner takes what she did for her Classic Images “Book Talk” column and removes all the buffers. This is no-holds-barred Laura—and that’s always entertaining. Her first book was Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames.
The Three Wise Girls chat with Laura on Thursday, June 7, 2010 from noon - 1 PM EST about her reviews, as well as her more outlandish “outtakes.” In her own words, “Because of space limitations, language or editorial changes, some of my columns have been altered for publication. After all, Classic Images is a family paper....”
Laura doesn’t save herself from her detractors, either. When she hasn’t liked something, she has said so, and often she has heard back from those on the other side of her page. Her book takes this into account by including some hate mail she’s received over the years.
Join us for a conversation you’re not soon to forget. Classic films, producers, directors, authors, actors—the well-known in addition to the obscure … and maybe YOU … no one is safe. Listen in to hear what Laura Wagner REALLY thinks. Call in and share your thoughts: 347-994-3835. Visit the Three Wise Girls Chat Room ... or just listen in.
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