Hollywood:
A member of Writers Guild, East, Grady has written feature scripts for
producer Mace Neufeld, director John Woo, and several major studios.
His script served as the basis for the David Hasselhoff—Rod Steiger
movie LEGACY. Grady adapted his award winning short story “Kiss The
Sky” for FX network and wrote an espionage thriller for HBO. Grady was
a staff writer/Story Editor for a Stephen Cannell series in the 1980’s,
and created a police drama for CBS TV.
Journalism:
In the heady post-Watergate era, Grady spent four years as a national
investigative reporter for columnist Jack Anderson (who’d been a murder
target of Nixon’s Plumbers). Grady’s freelance journalism has appeared
in Slate.com, THE WASHINGTON POST, WASHINGTONIAN MAGAZINE,
AMERICAN FILM THE NEW REPUBLIC, SPORT MAGAZINE, and the scholarly
JOURNAL OF ASIAN MARTIAL ARTS. Most recently, I've published in PARADE MAGAZINE.
The Ghost in the American Machine:
Movies
shaped my life. Bill Clinton was the first of my generation to run for
President, a race that was haunted by rumors of sexual escapades. Those
questions created a powerful nexus: politics, Hollywood, movies, fame,
sex, love, personal responsibility and fulfillment. So many of those
questions and so many answers swirled in the spirit of Marilyn Monroe.
Nathaniel Blumberg, my former professor and a journalism legend, published
this essay in his Treasure State Review, an independent publication
dedicated to cultural, political, and press issues. Years later, when
a sex scandal redefined Presidential politics, I could only read my
words—and weep.
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