On the Pod with Staton Rabin
In our first “non-tech / non-geek” interview at G’day World be talk to US author, Staton Rabin.
Staton came to Cam’s attention because of a book she wrote called “Betsy and the Emperor”, a young adults book about a friendship between Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe, a fourteen year old who lived on the island of St. Helène where Napoleon was kept on after his capture by the British. For those that don’t know… Cam is a Napoleon buff. The cool thing about Staton’s book is that it has been picked up as a movie that will commence filming shortly and was going to star Anthony Hopkins at one stage and now has Al Pacino slated to play the lead role and Patrice Chereau
locked in as the Director.
Apart from writing, Staton works as a story analyst / screenwriter in New York and has worked on a number of successful film adaptations.
An interesting interview on an interesting topic…
August 17th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
[...] If I’m not mistaken, this film is based on the novel written by Staton Rabin. Mick and I did an interview with her waaaay back in February where we discussed the upcoming film. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
[...] Unfortunately the article doesn’t mention our friend Staton Rabin, who wrote a book on the friendship which is being used as the source material for the other film mentioned in the article, in which I believe Al Pacino will be playing Napoleon. If you’re looking for an additional Napoleon-related podcast while you’re waiting for David & I to record episode #4, then check out the interview I did with Staton about 12 months ago. [...]
June 7th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
[...] G’DAY WORLD #245 - Staton Rabin, The Curse Of The Romanovs Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download podPressPlayerToLoad(’podPressPlayerSpace_832_0′, ‘mp3Player_832_0′, ‘300:30′, ‘http%3A%2F%2Fgdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com%2Faudio%2Ftpn_gdayworld_20070606_245.mp3′); I’m very pleased to have author Staton Rabin back on the show. She first joined us in February 2005 on episode #18! [...]
May 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
[...] interviewed New York-based author Staton Rabin about her book “Betsy and the Emperor” (listen to the interview). When I finally was toying with the idea of the Napoleon show, I thought I’d try to get an [...]