Coming soon ...

We’re making a movie, actually two movies about the life and times of boxing middleweight champion, hall of fame inductee, Joey Giardello and his son Carman born with Down syndrome based on an authorized biography, "Down But Never Out." Funding is being arranged for a major Hollywood film and we are also working on a documentary or docudrama for television. Stay tuned.

Hummingbird In Hollywood

Now available at Amazon Books, see author, Charles Redner for this and other books.
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Hummingbird Review Call for Submissions

Call for submissions. The Hummingbird Review is looking for: 1) Essays that demonstrate the relationship between the literary arts and Hollywood, either through movies that refer to literature (Dead Poets Society, Love Song for Bobby Long, Shakespeare In Love, etc.) or treatments of classic novels into movies (please query me briefly beforehand, max 2,000 words); and 2) New unpublished, well-rendered poetry (max 3 poems). My email address for all submissions and queries: credner@thehummingbirdreview.com   Close is February 15.2013

The Deadly Buddha

... new cover for Tom Ong's next thriller. What do you think?

Will Miss You, Senator McGovern

... a true story:

 

Alone with me in the basement of a New Jersey motor lodge,

a presidential candidate who vigorously campaigned against the

Vietnam War took off his suit coat. Two secret service agents remained

stationed at the top of the stairs. He unbuttoned and removed his

shirt, unbuckled his belt, stripped to his shorts and handed me each

article of clothing as he dressed in more “conservative” attire. He

explained that he was heading to New York City and didn’t want

the folks back in South Dakota, via national television coverage, to

see how he appeared during the luncheon stump-speech delivered

minutes earlier.

Now I possessed the answer to the burning question of the ’72

campaign, asked by at least one reporter at each stop. The candidate

glared at me and said, “Charlie, swear—swear you’ll never give the

answer to the boxers or briefs question.”

“Yes, Senator, I promise.” But I wondered if travelling campaign

reporter, Hunter S. (Gonzo) Thompson, if he knew, would keep Senator

George McGovern’s deepest personal secret. I imagined not.

World Peace Interrupted

For Taylor Mali in the land of Gandhi

World Peace Interrupted

 

Imagine a poem that pursues world peace.

Thanksgiving dinner sans arguments.

A school playground without a scuffle.

Civility returns to the U.S. Congress.

 

Imagine a poem that elevates world peace.

          RING. RING.

Rappers remove F-bombs from their lyrics.

Folsom Prison skinheads play music on the bars.

Mississippi clansmen burn hand-me-down sheets.

 

Imagine a poem that promotes world peace.

Machetes melted for dinner plates in Ethiopia. 

Fights in Thailand are over Pad Thai or Woonsen.

Tanks backup in North Korea.

 

Imagine a poem that advances world peace.

          RING. RING.

Cartel guns in Mexico go silent.

Harmony settles over Palestine.

War no more in Afghanistan.

 

Imagine a poem that encourages world peace.

The spirit of Gandhi spreads throughout Pakistan.

Bomb-makers in Karachi bake honey cakes instead.

Al Qaeda begs forgiveness before disbanding.

 

I’m writing a poem to establish world peace.

          RING. RING.

“Hello.”

          “Lennon would have turned seventy today. Imagine.”

“I already have.”

 

October 10, 2010