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Filmmakers Katt Shea and Andy Ruben.
Film Director Katt Shea (Cat Shay). She's an alumna of the Roger Corman film factory. And has a new film out "Poison Ivy," about a sexy manipulative teenager who insinuates herself into the lives of a rich, dysfunctional L.A. family and wreaks havoc. Shea co-wrote the screenplay along with the film's producer, Andy Ruben who Terry also interviews. Reviews of the film have varied from "laughingly bad," to "brilliant and powerfully disturbing."
Two Soul Artists Attempt Comebacks.
Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews two new come-back albums by 70s singers Ann Peebles and Otis Clay, ("Full Time Love," and "I'll Treat You Right," both on the Bullseye Blues Label - a subsidiary of Boston's Rounder Records)
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