Jeremy Smith
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Expertise
New Hollywood Cinema, Westerns, Soundtracks
- In 2005, Jeremy created the website Collider with Steve Weintraub and "American Pie" producer Warren Zide.
- His first book, "George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor", was published by Phaidon Press and is available wherever fine books are sold. His second book, "When It Was Cool", a memoir about his experiences as a pioneering online journalist, is due later this year.
- He was the co-host of the popular "Twin Peaks" podcast "Fire Talk with Me" with Allie Goertz.
Experience
Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Beaks." Jeremy has previously written for film and pop culture websites like Collider, Yardbarker and Ain't It Cool News, and legacy media publications like Variety, New York and Cahiers du Cinéma. Additional credits include Vice, Fangoria, Thrillist, Polygon, Backstory Magazine, Birth.Movies.Death, CHUD, Creative Screenwriting, Endcrawl and DVD Journal.
Education
Jeremy earned a BFA in Theatre Arts & Drama from Ohio University. His scholastic achievements earned him an internship at the legendary Circle Repertory Theatre, where he continued his theatrical education under the supervision of Austin Pendleton and Milan Stitt.
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Stories By Jeremy Smith
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Before George Wendt became Norm on Cheers, he joined the 4007th on M*A*S*H and shoved an entire pool ball in his mouth ... or did he?
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The great Star Wars costume shortage of 1977 had surprisingly massive ripple effects on Halloween customs that are even felt today, beyond Star Wars costumes.
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Did you know The Twilight Zone episode called A Stop at Willoughby was remade as a feature length film called For All Time starring Mark Harmon?
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Betsy Palmer finally revealed what Jason Voorhees iconic whisper really means, and now that we know, the movies are even scarier.
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With Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. coming to Netflix in 2024, we're looking at the only two main actors who appear in every film in the franchise.
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Norman Lear tried to recapture his old sitcom magic by revisiting All in the Family with the 1990s spinoff 704 Hauser, but it didn't work out.
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David Ogden Stiers added something invaluable to the M*A*S*H cast dynamic, something that his predecessor, Larry Linville, couldn't quite capture.
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The Spaceman starring Adam Sandler and Paul Dano is set to hit Netflix early next year. Here's everything we know so far about the sci-fi film.
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When it came time to play legendary filmmaker John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, David Lynch smoked a lot of cigars.
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Everybody Loves Raymond was loved by many when it aired almost 20 years ago. Star of the show, Ray Romano, however, doesn't love the idea of a revival.
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With several horror franchises under his belt, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom director James Wan knows a thing or two about successful cinematic universes.
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Scarlett Johansson was quite worried about fitting into Black Widow's wardrobe, especially based on her appearance in comics, but she just did the work.
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire will reclaim what all of the sequels lost, according to star Kumail Nanjiani, and that is legitimate scares.
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Joel Edgerton was inspired by one of the great coaches in film history for his The Boys in the Boat character, one played by Gene Hackman.
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When Disney picked up Marvel Studios, it was a big deal, but without the help of the late Apple boss Steve Jobs, it might not have ever happened.
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Melrose Place was the covert playground for the GALA Committee, an upstart artist collective that hid protest art throughout the soap opera's sets.
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Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, and George Wendt all threw up together while filming Cheers, because that's what friends do, folks.
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M*A*S*H creator Larry Gelbart learned how to strike the show's tonal balance in an episode featuring Andy Griffith's television son himself, Ron Howard.
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The Mask of Zorro writer Terry Rossio told /Film that a pivotal scene between Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones was Hopkins' idea.
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The M*A*S*H writers had to adapt to a sudden fire that swept across their set, but if you've seen the finale, you'll know nothing feels forced.
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A prank gone wrong on the set of Tony Scott's 1996 sports thriller The Fan led to Sony implementing an edict for all of its future film productions.
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Lawrence Montaigne, the actor hired to replace Leonard Nimoy on an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, ended up staying affiliated with Trek for years.
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Sam Rockwell is one of the best parts of Iron Man 2, and voicing a guinea pig in a silly children's movie helped get him the job.
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True Detective: Night Country director Issa Lopez sees Jodie Foster's character in direct relationship to her iconic Silence of the Lambs character Clarice.
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There was a Nick Fury movie in the works at DreamWorks, but due to the splintered nature of rights in the early Marvel era, we never saw it.
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She may have only been a teenager at the time, but Natalie Portman channeled an ancient form of performance for her role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
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Love Story was the top box office grosser of 1970 and one of the jewels in the late Ryan O'Neal's crown. Here's what the ending means.