With the release of Amazon Prime's One Night in Miami: Meetings with remarkable men & women in the movies (preview)
Stephen Arnell
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Stephen Arnell
Broadcast/VoD Consultant for TV & Film, Writer/Producer (Bob Fosse, Alex Cox, Prince, Sinatra etc), Media/Culture Commentator (BBC Radio, magazines, newspapers) & author (novel The Great One published November 2022)
More Elvis
Thomas Paine, Casanova and a notorious foot fetishist:
H.G. Wells and Jack The Ripper
On TV we've had animations (Elvis and Jack Nicklaus Mysteries, Celebrity Death Match etc) and live action (Houdini & Doyle, Dickensian, Horrible and Drunk Histories etc).
And this abandoned Urban Myths story (Sky Arts):
In Gore Vidal's historical novel Creation, Zoroaster's nephew meets Socrates, Anaxagoras, the Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tsu, Confucius and others.
One Night in Miami (2021):
EXTRA
Not forgetting Bill & Ted...