After much deliberation among Miller, Maklouf and me, and a little bit of paperwork, I began my time as an intern on Jan. Fortunately, Salim Makhlouf, director at PennStudios, a video production company within PennLive, an online media outlet that covers Harrisburg and other parts of Pennsylvania, had an intern-shaped hole that I was willing to fill. Professor Paul Miller approached me with the idea of creating a class dedicated to learning media production, a field I am highly interested in as the start of my career. Through this experience, I learned some of the basics of documentary filmmaking, something I had never dipped my toes into, but enjoyed far more than I expected.Īs I’ve written about in past for The Knightly News Media Club, internships are a must, and luckily, I was given the opportunity to complete one early. I have worked on a minidocumentary as preparation for future endeavors, which highlighted the philanthropic efforts of a fishily clad man on roller skates in Harrisburg dubbed Mr.
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I am the primary video editor and story writer of The Knight Way, a Central Penn video series about campus events, and over the past two years, I have worked hard to improve the videos’ quality. There are thousands of jobs, hundreds of different job titles and dozens of obstacles to overcome, such as gaining the experience and skill required to comfortably enter the job market. So it would appear that while his producer prowess and power is indeed a nod to Hollywood legend Irving Thalberg, that is where the similarities end for this Ryan Murphy character.Knight News students often find it difficult to know what they might want to do as a job. But there does not seem to be any evidence or rumor that Thalberg himself was gay - and by now, especially after the 2012 release of Scotty Bowers’ memoir, the record of who was gay in the Golden Age is far more open. Which then does raise the question: Is Thalberg also believed to have been a closeted gay man?Īccording to EDGE Media Network, Thalberg “was comfortable around gay men” and used his influence to “get charges dropped and kept out of the press” when another director was arrested for soliciting sex from a policeman.
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He married one of those stars, Norma Shearer.ĭick Samuels, the character inspired in part by Thalberg, is notable in Murphy’s story for being closeted and ultimately motivated to produce and shepherd a more inclusive and boundary-breaking Hollywood. He is credited with “creating” a number of Golden Age stars and their screen images, including Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Greta Garbo. Irving Thalberg was a producer who came to prominence and power in the 1920s, helping to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and becoming head of production of MGM in 1925 when he was just 26 - earning the nickname “Boy Wonder.” Murphy told Entertainment Weekly that Dick has “parts of legendary MGM producer Irving Thalberg in him.” At the same time, the character has a real awareness of talent and evolves dramatically over seven episodes: ‘This man who has made a series of agreements with himself in order to keep his place in the business starts to follow his own instincts and heart and gradually becomes a more authentic version of himself and brings that to his work.’ ‘He has a bottom-line mentality because he exists within a system where that’s rewarded,’ says Mantello. Murphy had written him as a closeted studio executive. As a closeted gay man, he becomes determined to help break boundaries for the underrepresented in film. The long time executive at Ace Studios whose experience and taste is the secret behind much of the company’s success. In a press kit, Netflix describes Dick, who is played by Joe Mantello, as follows:
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Ryan Murphy’s revisionist vision of 1940s Hollywood is full of characters both real (Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, Henry Wilson) and fictional ( Jack Castello, Claire Wood) and those that fall somewhere in between, inspired by real legends but with names and backstories all their own ( Avis Amberg, Ernie West).ĭick Samuels falls into that last category. By Shea Corrigan 2 years ago Follow Tweetĭick Samuels is a closeted gay studio executive in Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, but is he based on a real person?