Thursday, September 8, 2016

Simone Gillianti: Author of "Rick Springfield"

Simone Gillianti was the author of biography of Rick Springfield which his career is up to 1984.

It is unknown where this author born or unknown jobs before leading into author career.

In 1984, Gillianti wrote about Rick Springfield which documented the career up to 1984 including as an actor and as a singer. According to Awful Library Books about the two books on famous two male 1980s teen idols (one for Springfield, other was Michael J. Fox from pop culture author Keith Elliot Greenberg), this book contains two pages of Facts & Figures.

It's unknown for other books aside from this either out of stock or in stock and nothing much heard from Simone up to now.

"TV's Hottest Teens" Books Series by Rosemary Wallner



In 1992, children's author Rosemary Wallner wrote appropriate book series on four TV shows that ran during the early 1990's titled "TV's Hottest Teens". It features four TV shows on primetime, "Beverly Hills 90210", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Family Matters" and "Blossom" (missing pictured cover yet).

According to Awful Library Books, for one of the book covers on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, it stated that during by the time in 1992, Will Smith was 24 and by 2009, he was 41 and it literally sucked. But other books didn't suck.

It was published by educational book publisher ABDO Publishing Company.


Carol Ann Pearce: Author of "Career Chic:What Every Woman Should Know About Getting Ahead in Style"

Carol Ann Pearce was the writer of  1990 fashionable look on career women and working women, "Career Chic:What Every Woman Should Know About Getting Ahead in Style".

It's unknown where she born and what she began before turned as a author.

In 1990, she wrote "Career Chic:What Every Woman Should Know About Getting Ahead in Style". According to Awful Library Books, there's a chapter features "office closet" and it's look like an instant success, but it is unknown either it became a success or just a moderate enough.

It's unknown if she has other books aside from this book.

For now, she's nothing much heard since faded into obscurity in publishing world.

Dale A. Marzano: Author of "Roller Disco" and "Disco Roller Skating"

Dale A. Marzano was wrote for his two 1979 disco how-to instructional books "Disco Roller Skating"  and "Roller Disco".

It was currently unknown where he born and where he lives.

In 1979, he wrote the two disco how-to books.

After that it's seemed as if Dale A. Marzano faded into obscurity. It's unknown up to now and nothing much heard of.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Manhattan Chase (2000): Godfrey Ho's Final Film

After Godfrey Ho's string of some of the films that went into either uncredited or changing Godfrey Ho into some alternate names, Godfrey went into the final film so far.

In 2000, "Manhattan Chase" was released. He is also known as Godfrey Hall for the third (and final) time after Honor and Glory and Undefeatable (both released in 1993).

According to his interview via nanarland.com, that when the time that it was released, he said that the video market were dropped, lost money and not released in Hong Kong which B-grade American films cannot released in his home country, he decided to stop making film anymore.

After that, in these days, he worked as a teacher in Multimedia Innovation Center for Polytechnic University for five years and joined Hong Kong Film Academy.

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Shyam Ramsey: Final Four Films (2003-2014)

Final shots of Shyam Ramsey's 2003 film "Dhund: The Fog"
After Shyam teamed up with Tulsi for the uncleared final time in 1996,  Shyam Ramsey returned to Bollywood after six and a half years in 2003.

His film was bombed according to Indian box office. It was called "Dhund: The Fog".

Dhund: The Fog (2003)
 Ghutan (2007)

Bachao... Inside Bhoot Hai (2010)
 Neighbours (2014)

Talaashi (1996): Tulsi Ramsey and Shyam Ramsey's Final Teamup?

After the 1993 Bollywood cult film that based on 1984 horror film "Mahakaal", the two of the infamous and unknown Ramsey brothers, Tulsi and Shyam Ramsey (when the Indian horror Zee TV show "Zee Horror Show" that both directorial job of numerous unknown episodes went underway until the next year of 1997)  returned with not only horror but the 1996 action film "Talaashi" (The Search). However, according to IMDB page in Trivia section, it says that this film delayed and it didn't got too much to have a proper release.
                        DVD front cover and back cover (contains some of scenes) of this film
The story is about Jackie who became known for SFX (special effects) that appeared on movies
and he liked his work, but the home minister has evil plans when he wanted to kill the commissioner and trap him. Rawal also named in the character.

It runs 161 minutes and it produced under Selveraj Films. It was produced by Pramod P. Shah and Ashok Sharma and it was composed the music by the duo Anand-Milind (who had also composed "Mahakaal" and other string of music compositions that heard on other Bollywood films from 1984 to 2016) .

 IMDb page of this film says that only Tulsi directed but some DVDs (one of them was pictured the front-and-back cover), says Tulsi and Shyam listed and credited as directors on the front cover (pictured). So, it is possible to unclear whether if two brothers had a final film and ended up with this so far.

After that, it is unknown if they faded into obscurity in the Bollywood movie studio world and maybe if the Ramsey brothers team era might be marked as declined its popularity since the 1970s golden era of Bollywood film.

As for Shyam, he spanned his four films afterwards.