“The Illusion and Reality” episode: Dan Myrick visits musician/filmmaker Billy Yeager in a Purple Haze in Hollywood, FL; movie VHS bootleggers in NYC; building a grizzly bear proof suit—Doug Stone and PH O’Brien visit Canadian director Peter Lynch; War of the Words—an infamous Orson Welles commercial recording. Original airdate 04/20/1998
Up Next in SPLIT SCREEN: Season Three
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Split Screen: S3-E4 Carl Franklin Bre...
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Split Screen: S3-E5 THE TIN DRUM: Ban...
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Split Screen: S3-E6 Projections: Davi...
Woody, Leone, Bertolucci, Schlesinger, Lester and 007. David Picker enabled them all, and many more, as production head in United Artists’ golden era. In this installment of PROJECTIONS a series of interviews about filmmaking in New York, John speaks one on one with his top choice for All Star au...
