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Kay Thompson’s larger-than-life story is an effervescent toast to show business with a shot of Auntie Mame and a twist of The Devil Wears Prada. A multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and...

It is my personal memoir of everything I learned while assisting my mentor, Brian De Palma, which prepared me for my own successful career as a director on over 50 movies, including Elvira’s Haunted Hills and the De Palma-esque thriller Acting on Impulse starring Nancy Allen (Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out). It is also a coming out story of my transition from a 19-year-old closeted teenager raised in the conservative South, to marrying a woman, and then finally becoming an openly-gay adult in New York City.

Hollywood filmmaker Sam Irvin (director of Elvira's Haunted Hills, executive producer of Gods and Monsters) looks back at his outrageously charmed and hilarious life as a closeted gay monster kid who, as a teenager, created his own fanzine as a conduit to meet his horror film idols. This unabridged audiobook is narrated by author Sam Irvin, with guest star voices of Cassandra Peterson, Jane Seymour, Stephanie Beacham, Olivia d’Abo, Juliet Mills, Maxwell Caulfield, Linda Hayden, Madeline Smith, Chloe Franks, Alex Hyde-White and Julie Brown!

Investigative journalist Sam Irvin's tell-all behind the making of FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY (Universal / NBC-TV, 2-part miniseries, 1973) has many facets. It is an eye-opening exposé on the movie industry of the early 1970s with an emphasis on Universal Pictures and the horror genre. But the chronicle also reveals a hidden agenda – fueled by the astonishing courage of a revolutionary group of LGBTQ+ artists spearheaded by producer Hunt Stromberg Jr. and his screenwriters Christopher Isherwood (THE BERLIN STORIES – the basis for CABARET) and his lover, artist Don Bachardy.

An hour of chattin’ and and hour of jammin’ with Asheville musicians. Guests and host Sam Irvin share notes about gear, grooves and genres before performing live (usually improvised) tunes just for fun! This is an opportunity to explore the studio, get to know the community better and to get creative for creativity’s sake. Learn more about Irvin Music Studio’s private lessons, event entertainment and sound production projects (like this!) on our website: www.irvinmusicstudio.com

A Harry Potter podcast that dives deeply into the seven books and the wider Wizarding World to find new insight and discuss the tiniest of details.

An orb from outer space lands in the yard of Evelyn (a James Bond movie bombshell). The effects of the sphere are both miraculous and hedonistic. With this forbidden fruit in her possession, she teams up with her hunky gay best friend Christopher (mash-up author of FRANKENSTEIN AND THE THREE MUSKETEERS) and they hit the road Thelma-and-Louise-style to keep the Deep State from confiscating it.

In the midst of a pandemic toilet paper panic, Sam embarks on a quest to procure his own stash of the coveted white gold in this parody of a children's book adventure, written by Hollywood filmmaker and showbiz biographer Sam Irvin (director of ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS, co-executive producer of GODS AND MONSTERS, author of KAY THOMPSON: FROM FUNNY FACE TO ELOISE).

In this spooktacular bedtime storybook, Captain Samouflage comes face-to-face with Max Million, a diabolical supervillain / horror movie producer who is a dead ringer for Peter Lorre. Max wants to convert his latest film WHAM! BAM! FRANKENSAM! into a tax write-off. How dare he?! Will he get away with it? No spoilers here. You’ll have to listen to this audiobook to find out! This fractured fairy tale is stuffed with a bazillion horror movie references to roll your eyes and challenge your trivia skills. Capiche?!