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  Dan Redfeld “Titanic An Epic Musical Voyage”

  May 10, 2012 / Composers, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Dan Redfeld. He will be discussing his latest project TITANIC: AN EPIC MUSICAL VOYAGE. In the 100 years since the famed RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and plunged into the ocean, it has been celebrated on stage, television and in film. This collection of new recordings features music from James Cameron’s TITANIC, by James Horner, S.O.S. TITANIC [...]

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  Daniel Pyne “A Hole In The Ground Owned by a Liar”

  May 7, 2012 / Featured, Writers

  Tune in Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest writer Daniel Pyne. Daniel Pyne has been at home in the world of film, TV, and books for over 30 years. His writing credits include classics like The Manchurian Candidate, Fracture, Any Given Sunday, and Miami Vice. Currently, he just finished his engagement as a head writer and showrunner on JJ Abrams’ new TV show Alcatraz on [...]

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  Step Into Excellence!

  April 24, 2012 / Featured

  “Step into Excellence!” is designed by Mark Gordon to help you gain insight and clarity into how you create, process and achieve success and happiness.  The class will meet once a week for four consecutive weeks.  Each week will build upon the previous so that at the end of the four weeks you will have a strategy and a set of tools to help you propel your life to the next level. “Step into Excellence!” we will cover the following [...]

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  Simon Wincer “The Cup”

  April 21, 2012 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest filmmaker Simon Wincer. His latest film THE CUP is a gripping and inspiring true story about brotherly love and the triumph of the human spirit. Born into a legendary racing family, jockeys Damien Oliver (STEPHEN CURRY) and his brother, Jason (DANIEL MACPHERSON), were destined for greatness. However, tragedy strikes when Jason is in a deathly riding accident [...]

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  Chris Hajian “First Position”

  April 21, 2012 / Composers, Dance, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest composer Chris Hajian.  He will be talking about his recent project “First Position.” Follow in the inspirational footsteps of six talented ballet dancers (ages nine to nineteen) as they struggle to maintain form in the face of injury and personal sacrifice on their way to one of the most prestigious youth ballet competitions in the world. First [...]

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  Bess Kargman “First Position”

  April 21, 2012 / Dance, Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest filmmaker Bess Kargman, director of “First Position.” Follow in the inspirational footsteps of six talented ballet dancers (ages nine to nineteen) as they struggle to maintain form in the face of injury and personal sacrifice on their way to one of the most prestigious youth ballet competitions in the world. First Position is a feature length documentary [...]

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  Rex Pickett “Sideways”

  April 21, 2012 / Featured, Writers

  Tune in Tuesday, April  24th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest author Rex Pickett.  He will be talking about his recent project the stage adaptation to his award-winning “Sideways.” Sideways became the basis for the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful Alexander Payne/Fox Searchlight release of 2004.  The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.  It also won the prestigious Writers Guild Award [...]

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  P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel”

  April 14, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured, Music, Musicians, Punk

  Tune in Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel. They will be talking about the new film HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel.”  The film is a behind-the scenes portrait of what has been dubbed the unlucky 13th Generation, told through one woman’s amazing journey. In HIT SO HARD we follow the rise and [...]

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  Michael Tucker “Fightville”

  April 9, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Michael Tucker. He will be talking about making the film “Fightville.” Over the last decade, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has grown from a controversial no-holds-barred gladiatorial sideshow into a billion dollar phenomenon. MMA has eclipsed boxing as the dominant combat sport in the world, and is so popular that MMA fights regularly appear on U.S. network television [...]

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  Marc H. Simon “Unraveled”

  April 7, 2012 / Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, April 10, 2012 as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Marc H. Simon. He will be talking about making the film “Unraveled.” Unraveled tells a modern day tragedy of ambition gone astray — it is the compelling uction left behind. Just days before Bernard Madoff captured the nation’s attention as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud [...]

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  Leon Gast “When We Were Kings”

  April 7, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring an interview with Leon Gast. He will be talking about making the film WHEN WE WERE KINGS. The interview was originally recorded in 1996 just weeks prior to Gast receiving the Oscar for “Best Documentary.” The film has been called one of the best boxing documentaries of all time. Its main focus is “Rumble in The Jungle.” A fight [...]

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  Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan “Raising Renee”

  February 21, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, February 21, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan the creative people behind the documentary RAISING RENEE. A promise is a promise.  But what if your career takes off right when your life takes over? Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career as a painter when a casual yet life-changing promise made to her mother Ethel years before – to take [...]

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  Terje Carlsson ISRAEL VS. ISRAEL

  February 20, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured, Political

  Tune in Tuesday, February 21, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Terje Carlsson the director of ISRAEL VS ISRAEL, A Film About Israeli Peace Activists. Terje Carlsson is a freelance journalist.  He has spent almost a decade covering the Middle East for the news media including Swedish Television and Radio.  He had thought about making a movie about Israel peace activists.  Carlsson felt their work was very important, and [...]

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  2012 Oscar Nominated Shorts

  February 11, 2012 / Documentary, Featured, Foreign Film, Oscar Nominated Shorts

  Tune in Tuesday, February 14, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring a special look at this year’s Oscar nominated shorts. Join Mark Gordon as he talks with Hallvar Witzø, director of TUBA ATLANTIC,  Enrico Casarosa will be discussing his animated film LA LUNA and producer Kira Carstensen and editor Aki Mizutani with share insight in making the powerful documentary TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM. Everybody is going to die one day. [...]

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  David Pomes “Cook County”

  December 12, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest David Pomes.  He will be talking about making COOK COUNTY.  The film follows three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Xander Berkeley, Anson Mount, and Ryan Donowho explode on the screen in this visceral tale about three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Living in a [...]

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  Alex Stapleton “Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel”

  December 12, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Alex Stapleton the director of CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL.  The film is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director producer, and seminal influencing force in modern movie making over the last 60 years. CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s [...]

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  Andrea Nevins “The Other F Word”

  October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured, Musicians

  Tune in Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Andrea Nevins the director of “The Other F Word.” This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads. With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men – Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD [...]

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  Constance Marks “Being Elmo”

  October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, October 25th at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Constance Marks the director of “Being Elmo” Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi [...]

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