{"id":16184,"date":"2016-08-25T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T20:03:08","slug":"the-making-of-the-lords-of-flatbush-by-stephen-verona-2008-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16184","title":{"rendered":"The Making of The Lords of Flatbush by Stephen Verona (2008) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z082516zview_makingoflordsofflatbush_stephenverona.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0977913155?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=0977913155\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Making of The Lords of Flatbush<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>by<strong> Stephen Verona<\/strong> (2008)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paperback: 155 pages<br \/>\nPublisher: Creative Book Publishing International; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (June 15, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was single and dating I would regale girls with these stories of my childhood and the guys I hung with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen Verona, the writer and director of <em>Lords of Flatbush<\/em>, takes us on the amazing trip to get <em>Lords of Flatbush<\/em>, one of the first truly independent films made. &nbsp;Along the way, we&#8217;ll learn how Verona got started (becoming friends with John Lennon and working with Lennon to animate the Beatles song <em>I Feel Fine<\/em>) and the long process to get <em>Lords of Flatbush<\/em> made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Verona worked with many big names [Lee Strasberg, Janet Leigh, The Beatles, Chicago, Barbara Steisand, etc.] prior to writing and directing <em>Lords of Flatbush<\/em> and those stories are fun but the heart of the book is of course getting <em>LoF<\/em> made. &nbsp;Verona provides many anecdotes and behind the scenes photos and trivia. &nbsp;(Did you know that Richard Gere was originally to play Perry King&#8217;s role? Stallone and Gere had a falling out and one had to go!]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Verona writes in a conversation style that&#8217;s easy to read. &nbsp;Fans of <em>LoF<\/em> will love the behind-the-scenes peek and prospective film makers will learn from the mistakes Verona as a first time film-maker made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Making of The Lords of Flatbush by Stephen Verona (2008) Paperback: 155 pages Publisher: Creative Book Publishing International; First<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61,52,17,54,64,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24054,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions\/24054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}