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	Roger Corman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American producer and director of low-budget films.
		Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan and received an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University.
		Corman did return to the director's chair once after 1971 with Frankenstein Unbound (1990), although this was poorly received.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Corman (286 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Roger Corman interview, 1974
		Corman founded New World in 1970; it was his second attempt to control production and distribution (after the ill-fated Film Group, which lasted a couple of years in the early ‘60s).
		It was also highly successful, adding to Corman’s millions and firmly establishing his place as the godfather of the "New Hollywood" of the ‘70s with its alumni including Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Jonathan Kaplan, Monte Hellman, Stephanie Rothman, et al.
		Corman sold the company in 1983, but New World continues to hold a place in the hearts of trashmeisters and anyone interested in the byways of independent cinema.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /27/cormaninterview1.html (2365 words)

	Roger Corman: Legendary AIP Director Monsterizes AMC
		Corman's A Bucket of Blood (1959) and Little Shop of Horrors (1960), both written by Charles Griffith, not only gave audiences their first taste of the comedic psychotic, with a satirical look at the beatnik generation, but they also redefined the genre of dark comedy.
		CORMAN: I think this is because, from a fiscal or production standpoint, I definitely treat these areas in a conservative manner, while as far as the concepts and the treatments of the films, I tend to follow a more outrageous strategy.
		CORMAN: As a matter of fact I was slightly disappointed with what happened, because it was such an outrageous thing to do; to shoot a picture in two and a half days for less than $30,000; specifically one with such a wild subject matter.
	www.filmfax.com /archives/amc_monsterized/roger_corman.html (4079 words)

	Corman, Roger William - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Corman, Roger William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Corman also fostered some of the leading names in cinema, such as Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Jack Nicholson, who benefited from Corman's independent company New World Pictures and later Concorde/New Horizons.
		Although Corman officially retired in 1971, he went on to produce dozens of films into the late 1990s.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Corman,+Roger+William (205 words)

	Roger Corman (1926 - ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Corman in these essays are predictably laudatory, we are also allowed to read the occasional critical or negative observation, which permits the reader to get a nicely balanced view of the subject.
		Corman’s other Poe films are The House of Usher/The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963), the Poe-titled but H.P. Lovecraft adapted The Haunted Palace (1963) and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964).
		Directed by Roger Corman and starring Shelley Winters as Ma, the movie depicts Barker as a corrupt mother who encourages and organises her children's criminality and is notable for an early appearance by a young Robert De Niro playing the part of Lloyd Barker.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker [May 2005]
	www.jahsonic.com /RogerCorman.html (3868 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #42 \| What They Learned From Roger Corman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Roger Corman is perhaps chiefly famous for having opened the door to so many moviemaking talents.
		Beverly Garland, who on Corman's orders was pumped full of painkillers after badly spraining her ankle during an action sequence, learned that the show must go on.
		Hellman quickly learned that Corman's penny-pinching ways could backfire:"[Corman] told everyone in town that we were UCLA film students doing a student film, so we got hotel rooms for, I think, a dollar a night, but we had two people in a room so it was fifty cents a night per person.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/42/corman-learned.html (2139 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Roger Corman
		Adapted for the screen by his brother Gene Corman from Charles Beaumont's novel, it was the only one of his movies to lose money -- because few theaters would book it -- although it was one of the finest B-movies ever made.
		Corman also began working in color, most notably on a series of adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories starring Vincent Price that won the respect of younger critics and aspiring filmmakers alike.
		Corman also employed many young film students and writers during this period, including Francis Ford Coppola, Curtis Harrington, and author Robert Towne.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?ctr=587428 (366 words)

	Salon.com people \| Roger Corman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Corman filmed on location in the Deep South, using locals as extras -- he didn't show them the complete script, which blasted contemporary ignorance, amorality and racism just when the civil rights movement was meeting bloody opposition.
		Corman just wanted to get his money's worth out of the castle sets from "The Raven" before they were pulled down, so he commissioned the merest snippet of screenplay, retained Karloff for two more days of work at the end of the "Raven" shoot and let the cameras roll.
		But Corman thought many of these movies were hobbled by studio interference in the editing process, and he decided never again to be gainsaid by a releasing company.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/13/corman/index2.html (707 words)

	Roger Corman - Interesting Motherfuckers
		Roger Corman made a ton of the things nearly half a century ago but he's the very last guy you'll ever see sitting on a panel with Spike Lee or Kevin Smith in some hoity toity ski lodge.
		Roger Corman became an independent producer and director in the early fifties grinding out three or four movies a year on five day shooting schedules and the kind of budget other Hollywood big shots set aside for weekend sneakaways to Palm Springs with their bimbo starlets.
		Corman is the rare Hollywood personality who has kept his mouth shut about any part of his private life.
	www.acidlogic.com /im_rogercorman.htm (1324 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| It came from Roger Corman!
		Corman seemed to have a special understanding of the hormonal needs of his largely youthful demographic in the bomb-fixated 1950s.
		Roger Corman was otherwise engaged that year, firming up projects such as Candy Stripe Nurses and Big Bad Mama, featuring a topless Angie Dickinson in the sweaty embrace of one William Shatner.
		Corman says that if he was given the budget for, say, Minority Report, he could make the same movie for two-thirds the cost, and then make five Roger Corman quickies with the change.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1298678,00.html (1415 words)

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		No, it's Roger Corman, the boundless producer and director of innumerable films, being attached as co-financier and distributor on the forthcoming project that makes it most remarkable.
		Challenging the typical production process was nothing new to Corman and his steadfast crew of regulars, be it shooting a feature over a weekend or letting five directors take the reins of a particular film, as was the case with THE TERROR (the directors included Coppola and Jack Nicholson).
		At a young age Roger Corman studied engineering, a subject he said was ideally suited to making low-budget films on a tight schedule.
	www.imaginenews.com /Archive/2001/APR_2001/Text/FEAT07.htm (1387 words)

	A Live Tribute to Roger Corman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Roger Corman has directed more than 50 low-budget drive-in classics, produced and/or distributed 250 more, and helped the careers of hundreds of young people breaking into the industry.
		We are proud to have Roger Corman live, and to show one of his most delicious pictures.
		Corman had some expensive castle sets left over from the filming of Becket, and maestro cinematography from Nicolas Roeg.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/99jun/corman.html (220 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - DVD Releases Make Roger Corman Reflect
		Corman emphasizes that Disney's bid for the Concorde-New Horizons catalog wasn't the highest, but that the company made the best pitch for handling the material.
		Corman admits that given the length of his resume, he can occasionally look at a film title and forget that it's one of his ("Once or twice -- I remember 99 percent of them"), but he doesn't forget the anecdotes and experiences.
		Corman's recollections are likely made easier by the level of celebrity attained by some of his old employees.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---27432,00.html (703 words)

	New Roger Corman DVDs, and a Lesson in Great Titles
		I get the sense that Corman didn’t keep take good care of his masters as he jumped from company to company (if he kept them at all), so this is probably the best transfer we can expect.
		Corman manages the neat trick of being unapologetic yet faintly embarrassed by the frequent gratuitous nudity in the film.
		BVHE’s special edition DVD includes almost all the extras from the previous “Roger Corman Classics” release, including the audio commentary with the crew, audio out-takes of the Ramones big number, radio ads, and adds a new commentary with Roger Corman and Dey Young (in place of the previous disc’s interview with Corman) and a retrospective.
	www.stomptokyo.com /scott/blog/C351654541/E1882641587 (883 words)

	Salon.com people \| Roger Corman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although Corman's box-office hits have usually been modest ones -- the lower your budget, the fewer tickets you need to sell to turn a profit -- his all-expenses-spared, all-profits-retained rules of moviemaking made him one of the most respected businessmen in an industry that commonly revolves around spectacular successes and monstrous failures.
		Corman was born in 1926 and raised in Beverly Hills, Calif., with his brother, Gene, who also became a film producer.
		For example, there's the splendidly goofy "Sorority Girl" (1957), starring Susan Cabot, one of Corman's ready-for-anything stock company, as an unaccountably bitchy and vicious coed who victimizes her sorority sisters (caught beating a pledge, she's indignant: "All I did was spank her a little").
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/13/corman/print.html (2719 words)

	Roger Corman
		Roger's tired after his flight so instead of visiting the set this morning, we're going to pick him up and drive out to the Tully studio with him.
		There was an article in 'Variety' about the independents and they said "Roger Corman's company is at the top of the food chain" (laughs), which I thought was a funny way to phrase it, but it could be considered to be true.
		Roger strolls about for fifteen minutes or so, chatting to the various crew members and sizing up the dimensions of the studio, then it's time to get back into the car and drive into Galway to visit the set.
	www.iol.ie /~galfilm/filmwest/23corman.htm (5103 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Corman's been known for several decades as "the King of the B's," as in B-movies -- the cinematic world of papier-mch aliens, mad sorcerers, car chases, exploding heads and topless outdoor catfights.
		What they had in common was that they'd all worked for Roger Corman as wet-eared novices in the '50s and '60s.
		Corman, like Mickey Rourke and Jerry Lewis, is esteemed in France, but you don't need to share the Gallic sense of whimsy to appreciate at least some aspect of his career in movies.
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/13/corman (742 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Roger Corman shares his thoughts on the making of Black Scorpion, the TV series.
		Corman: Many years ago, I made The Wild Angels, the first of the Hell's Angels motorcycle films in the '60s with Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern.
		Corman: We brought a number of people who were leads in their own TV series and are well-known actors.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue198/interview.html (1499 words)

	Kinoeye\| Producer profile: Roger Corman in Europe
		Last December's Bratislava International Film Festival paid tribute to the most successful B-movie producer and director of all time, Roger Corman, with a retrospective of highlights from the 550 odd films he has produced and some 50 others he has directed.
		Corman is little-known in Slovakia—and, indeed, generally on the other side of the former Iron Curtain.
		The producer has been doing business there since the 1960s and was one of the first to recognise the potential for the former Communist countries for providing cheap actors, crew and services for "runaway" productions—an industry now worth millions, if not billions, of dollars to the region every year.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/01/yates01.php (2021 words)

	Amazon.ca: Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography of the Godfather of Indie Filmmaking: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Author Beverly Gray, Roger Corman's story editor and development executive for nearly a decade, takes you behind the cameras and into the heart of Cormanville for a first-hand, insider's look at the man and the mogul.
		The insightful prevailing theme of the book is Corman's internal struggle between his artistry and his bottom-line business concern, resulting in settling for small but memorable low-budget achievement rather than for potential professional greatness as a filmmaker.
		Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography Of The Godfather Of Indie Filmmaking is the thorough, informative, illuminating, at times inspiring life of a unique, one-of-a-kind film directors who has fifty low-budget movies to his credit, and who has producers almost five hundred more!
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1580631460 (909 words)

	Roger Corman -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dick Miller in a scene from Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood (1959).
		His third film, Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954), was made in six days on a budget of $12,000; it was the first of his movies to follow what was to become his standard method of operation: inexpensive productions shot in the minimum amount of time.
		In 1960 Corman produced and directed a cult classic, The Little Shop of Horrors, which was shot in two days and one night on a leftover set.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9002812 (1021 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| John Sayles in Corman’s Hollywood
		Corman introduced beatniks, hippies, and druggies as suitable cases for cinematic treatment, and consciously challenged Hollywood’s reigning myth of a classless society.
		When he started New World Pictures in 1971, Corman turned from his growing stature as a director (notably of stylish and profitable Edgar Allen Poe adaptations) to concentrate on producing a “wild bunch” of rowdy films full of vulgar energy and generous helpings of nudity and pulp controversy.
		On the principle that time is money, Corman rooted his shoestring productions in fine-tuned scheduling of resources, hiring a good actor for only a day or two but wringing every drop of his or her talents efficiently.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/sayles.htm (3191 words)

	Roger Corman -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Celebrated as the King of the Cowboys, American actor and singer Roy Rogers starred in some 90 motion pictures and, with his wife Dale Evans, in a highly successful television show in the 1950s.
		In his films and shows, Rogers, the classic example of the Western hero, followed a strict code of honor, handled trouble with humor and grace, and subdued his...
		The English religious Reformer John Rogers was the first Protestant martyr of Queen Mary I's reign.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002812 (653 words)

	Welcome to BeverlyGray.com
		Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers is now available at bookstores from coast to coast.
		"Speaking as one who has both worked with Roger Corman and observed Beverly Gray in action during her years at Roger's right hand, I was particularly pleased and impressed by this thorough, independent-minded biography.
		Gray's sensitive combination of scholarly detachment and firsthand observation have made Roger come alive in all his wily brilliance.
	www.beverlygray.com (343 words)

	The Terror Trap: Directors: Roger Corman
		But it was his color Poe adaptations in the '60s that seemed to utilize Corman's strengths most efficiently.
		The '90s saw Corman continuing to produce, with offerings heavy in the TV arena.
		While he continues to work, Corman's strongest and most undiluted gift lies perhaps in the output he directed in the '60s.
	www.terrortrap.com /directors/corman.htm (234 words)

	Roger Corman News
		Roger Corman didn't plan to make the now-legendary Little Shop of Horrors in two or three days - according to star Jackie Joseph he rushed the show so filming could finish before December 31, 1959.
		When the time comes, in 30 years or so, for the American director Jonathan Demme to receive his Lifetime Achievement Oscar, the show-reel of clips from his movies will be hard to match for sheer eclecticism.
		AFTER DIRECTING Death Race 2000 for Roger Corman in 1975, Paul Bartel found himself in the uncomfortable position of being typecast as a director of car-chase movies.
	www.topix.net /who/roger-corman (276 words)

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