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For the first few months, weekly I’ll be referring to two international film festival INTERVIEWS, the Red Fox International Film Festival of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (thirty-five years ago with USSR) as to Dancing with Spies @ Goddess. And then later referring to the Arrow International Film Festival of Paris concerning ACTOR MASTER SHOWMAN another award-winning screenplay found on my author website.
So. Let’s begin!
Dancing with Spies – Inspiration and Creation
QUESTION FROM: Red Fox International Film Festival journalist in Tbilisi of Republic of Georgia (once within USSR). So, how did ‘Dancing with Spies’ come about?
MY ANSWER: …in retrospect, for many years I had this burning interest in the final years of the Cold War, besides of course being inspired by my singular ballroom champion instructor and Russian beauty Aleksandra, so elegant, and yet almost funny at times. But it was after returning home from a trip to Havana, Cuba during President Obama’s Administration, that the sparks of inspiration started to fly… as my imagination and experiences came together for the original much lighter stage play version with dancing, titled Goddess Studio.
SCREENWRITER CONTINUES with an aside comment as to author’s Cold War research.
It was interesting that while reading a book mostly concerned with the Late Cold War period, the author, a KGB upper-level officer, explained that the USSR government was organized… having the KGB at a much higher level of emphasis and decision-making, then the Central Intelligence Agency of the US in which the CIA is not included in the President’s Cabinet. By the time I finished the book, it seemed clear that the KGB were the true masters of spy craft, whereas the US was mostly noted for its technological advances and overwhelming financial resources.
Then later, I was shocked as I found out more about Hanson of the FBI and Ames of the CIA evolving into super spies for Russia.
Interestingly, I also came across an excellent ‘COLD WAR’ Turner/BBC documentary series being 47 minutes for each program. I found this to be a very good source when starting out the novel research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KIQ1QNnhE
