Terry Keefe

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That Night COLORS Screened at USC Film School
In 1988, a young USC screenwriting student named John Singleton, who was already scripting his 1991 feature BOYZ N THE HOOD, had a few things to say at…
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The Some Kind of Wonderful Lo-Fi Life Revealed by My 1992 Answering Machine Tape
A chance digitization of an unlabeled micro cassette sent me down a rabbit hole into an era long past.
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THE CAMEO
In 1994, I confronted my fears of cold-calling by attempting to book one of the great wild men in the history of Hollywood, actor Lawrence Tierney, to…
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The Double
I learned of a doppelgänger on my college campus, but trying to find him was like catching your own shadow.
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Life on Dorothy Street During the O.J. Simpson Trial
Remembering a very strange time in life when I moved into the Brentwood, California neighborhood of the most famous murder case of the 1990s.
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Pinball Empire
I thought I was the Bally Table King. The world had other plans.
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The Hall & Oates Shirt
If you were a fan of certain artists in the early 80s, sometimes you had to create your own merchandise.
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Terry Keefe
Terry Keefe
Filmmaker, writer, comic book creator. I'm writing a number of short stories about my life in Los Angeles during the 80s and 90s, as well as my childhood growing up in Greenport, Long Island. Thanks for reading!
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