![]() “Finding Steve McQueen,” directed by Mark Steven Johnson, stars Travis Fimmel, William Fichtner, Rachael Taylor, and Forest Whitaker. Then there’s the narrative about Sharon and how he wrote the OCR bank heist series in the Register 17 years ago, and the long journey that series took to the big screen as an independent movie with a $7-million budget. There’s the tale of the heist itself, which was carried out by a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio, after they learned that President Richard Nixon may have stashed $30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail money at a bank at Crown Valley Parkway and Coast Highway (the bank no longer exists). It will recount the 1994 slaying of Cal State Fullerton student Cathy Torres, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in Placentia. Keith Sharon’s next “Crime Beat” podcast will be grittier. There actually are three different narratives going on in “Stealing Nixon’s Millions.” “The heist itself is cool, but what happened afterward with the characters is even more cool,” Sharon says. The bank heist podcast is a layered and often-humorous tale that is rare for a genre known for corpses, gore, and gloom and doom. In the “Crime Beat” podcasts, Sharon has discovered a new way to tell his engaging narratives. Now, he hobnobs at times with Hollywood-types as a screenwriter with two movie credits. He began his journalism career in 1981 covering high school football for the Cerritos Community Advocate. Sharon always has been a “let’s do lunch” guy when discussing his craft or conducting interviews for the Orange County Register, where he’s worked at since 1985 (although he left the newspaper four times).Īs an OCR journalist, he’s tackled everything from sports, education, cities, investigations, and general assignment stories. “Remind me to tell you about the time I saw (a preview of “Finding Steve McQueen”),” Sharon said over lunch on Friday, Feb. Sharon wrote the original screenplay for “Finding Steve McQueen,” whose release date, coincidentally, comes 17 years to the day after the movie based on Sharon’s first screenplay, the Robert DeNiro-Eddie Murphy cop buddy movie spoof “Showtime,” came out.įor Sharon, almost any question about the “Crime Beat” podcast – or pretty much anything – unspools into a story behind the story. It also is the subject of a movie, “Finding Steve McQueen,” which hits the big screen and streaming services March 15. The podcast is based on a 10-part series Sharon wrote for the Register in 2002. history, in 1972 in Laguna Niguel, is approaching 5,000 downloads with listeners in 20 countries.Įpisode three of the 30-minute podcast, “Stealing Nixon’s Millions,” is available tomorrow, Valentine’s Day, with the remaining three coming out on the following consecutive Thursdays. The podcast, which recounts the biggest bank heist in U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The veteran Orange County Register reporter’s “Crime Beat” podcast, produced by Sharon’s employer, Southern California News Group, debuted Feb. And if you’re feeling generous, you enjoy what you hear, and you want to hear more, please help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month, and you’ll receive some exclusive podcast content from us.That’s no surprise, since he’s been telling stories for nearly four decades as a journalist, screenwriter, and, now, podcaster. Please take a moment to review us on Apple Podcasts here. You can subscribe to us on YouTube, SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Tunein, Player FM & Castbox, or you can listen/watch in the embedded players below. The Next Best Picture Podcast is proud to be a part of the Evergreen Podcasts Network. Co-screenwriter Jeff Pope was nice enough to spend some time talking with us about his work on the film, working with co-screenwriter Steve Coogan, how director Stephen Frears brought the story to life, and more! Please check out the interview below and enjoy! Thank you! Part of the film’s charm comes from its irresistible cast, but another part comes from the delightful screenplay, which is based on an incredible true story. “ The Lost King ” had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews, and it is now being released in theaters in the U.S. ![]()
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