About the Author

Gary Marmorstein is the author of Hollywood Rhapsody, which was nominated for a prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Award. He writes mostly about film, theater, and popular music for publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Stagebill, Performing Arts, Theatre Week, Film Score Monthly, and American Theatre. He contributed more than eight hundred reviews to The Blockbuster Film Guide, now in its ninth edition. In October 2003 he won the Wheat Award from the Historical Society of Southern California for the best essay published on Los Angeles history.