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Lance and Veil Video to Appear on Philippines TV

July 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I received a request via email:

Good evening.

hqdefaultKAPUSO MO, JESSICA SOHO (One at Heart, Jessica Soho) is GMA Network Inc.’s top-rating primetime News and Public Affairs program in the Philippines. It features socio-cultural stories, current issues, and special events worldwide. Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho is also hosted by multi-awarded broadcast journalist, Jessica Soho, and airs locally every Sunday at 7:45 p.m. on Channel 7 and abroad through GMA Pinoy TV Channels. For our July 19, episode, we are doing segment about Moriones, a festival in the Philippines based on Roman soldiers and St. Longinus. In line with this, we would like to borrow the video from your channel entitled: St Longinus: Executioner, Convert and Martyr. Please be assured that will air the video with ‘courtesy of The Lance and the Veil (Youtube channel)’. Thank you very much and we hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Arvin Fajardo

Program Researcher

Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho

 

How fun! Of, course, you don’t have to go to the Philippines to see the video. We’ve got it right here:

Oh, the wonders of modern technology!

Book Signing for St. Veronica’s Feast Day, July 12

June 30, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Meet Kevin Rush, author of The Lance and the Veil

Sunday, July 12, at St. Theresa’s Church in Kentfield, NJ, Kevin Rush will read from his novel, The Lance and the Veil, an adventure in the time of Christ. The event will take place after the 10:30 am Mass in the Parish Bingo Hall. Coffee and donuts provided. Mr. Rush will donate a portion of sales of his book to St. Theresa’s School.

St. Theresa’s Church

541 Washington Avenue

Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033

Coming soon? La Lanza y El Velo

June 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

From the inception of this project, I’d envisioned The Lance and the Veil as a worldwide entertainment vehicle. Today, I contacted an actor/producer originally from South America who agrees that this book could find a great audience in Latin America. He has translated books from English to Spansih and has connections in publishing south of the border. We’ll be talking soon about the best path forward for The Lance and the Veil to enter the Spanish language market. Might our “aventura en el tiempo de Cristo” surpass Adulterio or El alquimista? Stay tuned. These are exciting times.

A Kiss on Highland Avenue

June 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I wrote this story 12 years ago while I was teaching high school and was reflecting on the stark contrast between the opulence of the idyllic Marin County environs in which my students were living and the urban decay of the 1970s in which I had grown up. This story is an unsparing look at young people who were not granted the luxury of innocence. It portrays the crude, violent and tribal relationships of young teens in an urban setting.

Readers should be advised there is coarse, foul language and brutal violence. But I believe it accurately reflects the times and the people I grew up with some 40 years ago, if not the actual geography of the old neighborhood. Enjoy.

Los Lobos del Malpaís

May 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

The Wolves of the Badlands

A tale of horror in the Old West

by Kevin Rush

I’ve always loved westerns, ever since I was a small boy playing cowboys and Indians. The Long Ranger was one of my earliest TV heroes. I still love the saga of the frontier, of brave men battling an untamed country, savage enemies and themselves to carve out a life of freedom. The saga of the Old West is a metaphor for our national journey as well as each individual’s inner struggle for integrity in the face of temptation.

The Western is a beautiful entertainment form because it lays bare the human soul and forces us to accept that moral choices must be made. Perhaps because it is so elemental, it is also a flexible form that can be married to others. Witness Westerns as action-adventures, melodramas, histories, revisionist histories, tragedies, comedies and musicals. There are tales of epic quests, desolate isolation, damned perdition and sweet redemption. There are heroes archetypal, reluctant, ethereal and illusory, villains irredeemable and roguish.

This tale, Los Lobos del Malpaís, is a horror story. It features what is probably the favorite monster of my youth. I wrote it originally as a film treatment, because I thought it would make a fun popcorn-muncher. Unfortunately, Roger Corman is no longer with us, and B-movies are now made with A-List stars and $100 million budgets, meaning there are fewer a fewer all the time. Like the Old West itself, Hollywood is vanishing before our eyes. The price of progress I suppose. Fortunately, we’ll always have John Wayne on celluloid. A good thing, too, since there will never be another.

Doubtful Provenance of Haverford College antiquities

May 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Where did I get my inspiration to write Doubtful Provenance? Not on the bucolic campus of Haverford College.

But, as it turns out, my alma mater has several antiquities of doubtful provenance due to its close connection to one of the world’s most notorious traffickers in looted artifacts. Here’s an interesting article on fellow HC alum Robert Hecht who had quite a career as a black marketeer. I didn’t know about Mr. Hecht when I wrote Doubtful Provenance, though I was working on it before he passed away in 2012. He could have been quite a resource, but alas, we never met, nor did I know of his reputation. I’ll have to remind myself more often to exploit my alumni network.

News for Doubtful Provenance

May 12, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Monday night (5/11/15) I had the pleasure of talking to a dramaturg who is well-regarded in the Manhattan theatre community. She’d read my play, Doubtful Provenance, not once, but twice, and was trying to get a very busy director to read it. While I can’t go into all the details of our discussion, I will say I was encouraged that she embraced the intelligence of the script, the depth of the characters and the substance of the ideas. About my lead female, she said, “A lot of people try to write that character, but they get her wrong. You got her right.” The character is complex, but as the dramaturg said, “She’s someone who exists in the world,” meaning she’s real and she resonates. When we left off our discussion, we shook hands enthusiastically, and I felt that, finally, the play has the strong advocate it deserves.

I’ll keep reporting on any progress we make bringing Doubtful Provenance to the New York stage.

Producer’s Endorsement of The Lance and the Veil

May 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Ready for prime time?

I have the privilege of being on the email list for a producer in Hollywood working to establish a Christian entertainment studio. In his weekly email blast this Saturday, he mentioned The Lance and the Veil in a roundabout way, writing:

Whenever I can free a few moments, I continue to enjoy reading a book written by a friend…. It would make a tremendous multi-episode television special and subsequent streaming and DVD release. With study guides, it could also be of interest to church and Bible study groups, too.

I pray often for his success, because he is a good Christian gentleman with the utmost dedication to serving the Lord through quality, faith-based entertainment. Our work seems to have several possible points of intersection, and it would be my pleasure to work with him sometime in the future. But, if not with him, I’m confident someone in Hollywood will see the merits of Lance and Veil when it’s brought to their attention. That starts with building an audience for the novel, which I work at daily. Your help in that regard is greatly appreciated.

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Front Stoops in Brooklyn

Stoop Talk Radio

May 9, 2015 / / 0 Comments

a slacker romance

by Kevin Rush

This story is a love letter to a small borough on the Hudson. I first wrote Stoop Talk Radio as a pilot for a sitcom. The pitch (“It’s WKRP in Mom’s basement!”) never made it to the networks. I even wrote lyrics for a theme song. Whatever happened to the TV Theme Song, anyway? (“Flintstones, meet the Flintstones….”)

Enjoy.

 

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