Jeremy Smith
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Expertise
New Hollywood Cinema, Westerns, Soundtracks
- In 2005, Jeremy created the website Collider with Steve Weintraub and "American Pie" producer Warren Zide.
- His first book, "George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor", was published by Phaidon Press and is available wherever fine books are sold. His second book, "When It Was Cool", a memoir about his experiences as a pioneering online journalist, is due later this year.
- He was the co-host of the popular "Twin Peaks" podcast "Fire Talk with Me" with Allie Goertz.
Experience
Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Beaks." Jeremy has previously written for film and pop culture websites like Collider, Yardbarker and Ain't It Cool News, and legacy media publications like Variety, New York and Cahiers du Cinéma. Additional credits include Vice, Fangoria, Thrillist, Polygon, Backstory Magazine, Birth.Movies.Death, CHUD, Creative Screenwriting, Endcrawl and DVD Journal.
Education
Jeremy earned a BFA in Theatre Arts & Drama from Ohio University. His scholastic achievements earned him an internship at the legendary Circle Repertory Theatre, where he continued his theatrical education under the supervision of Austin Pendleton and Milan Stitt.
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Stories By Jeremy Smith
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All in the Family had audiences deep sighing over the good ol' days, but here's what the actors who are still alive are up to these days.
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Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice features a reference to Dune, but Christopher Walken, who starred in the music video and Dune 2, didn't know that. Until now.
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John Williams wrote two potential main themes for Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List but was surprised by which one the director preferred.
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Nicholas Braun, aka Cousin Greg, aka Greg Egg, will play Muppet creator Jim Henson in the Saturday Night Live movie SNL 1975.
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Kate Winslet always studies and prepares for her projects, even researching trauma for her role as a paranoid authoritarian ruler in HBO's The Regime.
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Decades after directing Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg has admitted he could never quite find Schindler's 'Rosebud moment.'
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Before Inception became the cerebral action-heist flick we know it as today, Christopher Nolan thought of it as a horror movie.
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Lynda Carter pulled a stunt on the set of Wonder Woman that would make Tom Cruise proud.
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The Beverly Hillbillies was one of the top-rated shows on TV during the 1960s, but now Eric Baer Jr. is the only member of the core cast still with us.
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Facing down Anakin Skywalker is scary enough, but for the youngling in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Hayden Christensen was just as scary.
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When Catherine Hicks was cast in Star Trek IV, she didn't know the first thing about the sci-fi series. Luckily, Leonard Nimoy was there to help.
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Liam Neeson and Natalie Portman couldn't return for Star Wars reshoots, so the rest of the team had to act against sticks.
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Visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull saw what Star Trek: The Motion Picture director Robert Wise did with the spacewalk scene, but stepped in to redo it.
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Before Beru reappeared in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, actress Bonnie Piesse had heard rumors of a return for Luke Skywalker's adoptive parents for years.
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Richard Lewis, the legendary stand-up comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm star, has died.
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Did you know that Phil in the cast of Cheers was played by one of the series star's father?
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Printer's Devil is one of Burgess Meredith's most underrated episodes of The Twilight Zone, and also the most dangerous to film.
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The Great Escape is a gripping showcase of some of the finest actors to ever do it. Here are the cast members that are still alive and what they've been up to.
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The Sound of Music is a stone-cold classic but for a long time, Christopher Plummer loved to talk trash about the film and his role in it.
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Sam Mendes recently announced four biopics about The Beatles, but one of the best Beatles flicks was a box office flop about a Beatle that never was.
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For years it's been reported that Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg swapped making Cape Fear and Schindler's List. But what if that wasn't true?
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge played a prank on Harrison Ford during Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny that sounds horrifying.
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At the height of his '90s fame, Quentin Tarantino hosted Saturday Night Live. So how did it go?
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The fascinating story of how Jeopardy legend Alex Trebek ended up on Cheers is a true Hollywood tale.
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The first R-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture was a Fox-produced thriller from 1971. Can you guess the title?
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Bones kept its loyal viewers happy by keeping them guessing, but even cast members like Michaela Conlin didn't always know what to expect.
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Here are the only actors still alive from the classic sitcom I Dream Of Jeannie.