JONNYLAND LIVE: POPcast #15: STEALING HOME w/ VERY special guest writer/director STEVEN KAMPMANN!!

Описание: This very special episode of my JonnyLand: LIVE! POPcast has been over 30 years in the making! My co-host and longtime college pal, Gerry Touchette and I first discovered STEALING HOME back in around 1991 when we were still at Roger Williams College in Bristol, RI. I was so taken by the emotional roller coaster this movie put me on, that I sent a message to one of the film's writer/director, Steven Kampmann, who brought the movie to life with his filmmaking partner the late, great Will Aldis. One night, Steven actually called me in my college dorm room and spoke with me for about 20 minutes about the production. I was blown away to say the least!
Since then, it has remained a hugely meaningful film, and it has a strong fan following as well. Sometime during the covid pandemic, I had the idea to try and reach out to Steven again to perhaps do a bit of a Stealing Home retrospective chat over Zoom, and see if I could wrangle some of the other people involved in the film to participate...we had some very close calls, but it never materialized - until last September when I finally got to meet with Steven my self over zoom for a wonderful chat. We have remained in touch, and have also now met in person a couple of times for some really meaningful lunch chats, and after 30+ years of muttering Alan Appleby's mantra of "BE...MY...FRIEND!" to myself, I'm so honored to say Steven now IS. Last weekend, Gerry and I were back up in Bristol to hang out in our old college stomping grounds, and we have finally dedicated an episode of our silly little POPcast to one of our most favorite films. What makes THIS episode so great - perhaps our best yet - is that when we recorded it last Friday May 31st, it was also Steven Kampmann's birthday...and we got to spend some time with him over Zoom for our episode! Gerry and I edited in an intro and an outro to bookend the Zoom chat, and what you see here is the end result. It was such a thrill and a great pleasure for Gerry and I to be able to spend some time with Steven at all, but even more so as it was his birthday...and trust us, we feel like HE gave US the gift...first back in 1988 and again the other day. To all my other Stealing Home fans and friends...this episode is for all of you. Our most sincere thanks to Steven Kampmann for giving us some time together.