Stanley Dyrector: Hollywood scribe's career and masterpiece '“The Welsh Matchstick - Johnny Owen “

This latest installment of the Schmooze Button is a blast of a conversation with the inimitable Stanley Dyrector about his colorful life, from Brooklyn to Hollywood, and his latest swaggering creation, “The Welsh Matchstick - Johnny Owen."
For decades, Stanley wrote for radio and television with his wife Joyce, including a stage play A Pelican of the Wilderness in 1973, which venerable critic John Mahoney of the Los Angeles Times called "Outstanding."
In his book Shedding Light on the Hollywood Blacklist: Conversations With Participants, Dyrector lays bare one of America's most damaging periods for entertainment industry professionals, when screenwriters, playwrights, actors, directors, musicians, and other artists were denied employment because of their suspected "un-American" political beliefs or associations.
Shedding Light consists of several compelling first-person accounts Dyrector recorded with one-time blacklisted screenwriters and actors/director, Jeff Corey, Abraham Polonsky, Norma Barzman, John Randolph, Joan Scott, Jean Rouverol (Butler) and Marsha Hunt, to name a few. The book's foreword was written by actor and longtime activist Ed Asner.
Stanley is a member of SAG-AFTRA and WGAW

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Fascinating! Stanley is a gem! What a life. What memories, so vivid and telling about the man and the times.