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James Kahn
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Wrote STAR TREK, MELROSE PLACE. RETURN OF THE JEDI, TEMPLE OF DOOM, POLTERGEIST, GOONIES. Hear his album of sea shanties about climate change THE RISIN' OF THE SEA. https://thatjameskahn.com/
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Excerpt: "The memoir explicitly tailors its behind-the-scenes vignettes to Star Wars fans, pulling back the curtain on the production of Jedi and blending Luke’s heroic journey with Kahn’s own life as he came into his own as both a writer and a physician."

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MY JEDI MEMOIR | Kirkus Reviews
A medical doctor, bestselling novelist, and Hollywood insider shares details from his eclectic life.
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The August episode of Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet is a somber one, commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945, ending World War II and unleashing the atomic age. years later.
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#HiroshimaDay #NagasakiDay #WWIIHistory #AtomicAge
Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet Episode 21
YouTube video by CoolTuneCrew
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Interview with Star Wars Clube Portugal
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(If you read the article via google, you will be offered the option of reading the article in English. If not, scroll halfway down the page and see the translated version included).
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Episode 19 of Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet, released July 1, is all about the power of music to help bend the arc of the moral universe.

Full Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dITr...

#PowerofMusic #SocialInjustice #PeacefulResistance #CivilRightsMovement #WeShallOvercome #Anthem
My Jedi Memoir: A Double Life is a Booklife Editors Pick ⚡️.
"Jedi fans will feast, but Kahn’s life, work, and hard-won insights are fascinating enough that readers will likely hope for a followup that spends more time in a galaxy closer to home."
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Episode 19 of Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet is all about the power of music to help bend the arc of the moral universe.

Full Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dITr...

#CoolTunesCrew #PowerofMusic #SocialInjustice #PeacefulResistance #CivilRightsMovement #WeShallOvercome #Anthem
Elsewhere I mention that Mikey and Robbie were cousins, though I don't dive any deeper than that.
You can read all about it - along with lots of other well-cached details and easter eggs - in My Jedi Memoir, A Double Life, available now at tinyurl.com/JediMemoirAm...
These Two Classic '80s Movies Take Place in the Same Universe - And No One Noticed
Steven Spielberg isn't the only connection.
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It's true! I created a same-universe connection between Mikey Walsh/The Goonies & Robbie Freeling/Poltergeist. In The Goonies, Mikey mentions that he once broke his arm falling into an excavation at the Cuesta Verde housing development-the same development where the Freelings lived in Poltergeist.
These Two Classic '80s Movies Take Place in the Same Universe - And No One Noticed
Steven Spielberg isn't the only connection.
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Tripwire Magazine on June 20th, 2025:
"Film News: Hollywood Novelisation Writer James Kahn Talks To Tripwire About A Hidden Career"
"With the writer’s new memoir in mind, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal reached out to find out a little more.…"
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My Jedi Memoir: A Double Life - Now Available at tinyurl.com/JediMemoirAm...

For all of you who loved reading the Return of the Jedi novelization; for all the secrets & insights that weren't in the movie; this is the book that will reveal all the secrets & insights that weren't in the novelization!
My Jedi Memoir - A Double Life
Amazon.com: My Jedi Memoir - A Double Life: 9798887717319: Kahn, James: Books
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Heritage Auctions just went live with the hand-annotated 'Return of the Jedi' script & my handwritten novelization.
Bidding is online and private for 35 days, then goes to live streaming on the last day, July 17.
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#StarWarsSky #BookSky #WriterSky
Emergency Room Stories, Part 3.
I spent the 1980’s & '90’s writing for Hollywood and working as an emergency room doctor - a double life! My memories of those times provide the fodder for these crazy, funny, poignant, outrageous, surreal, and revealing tales.
My Jedi Memoir: A Double Life is Now Available at tinyurl.com/JediMemoirAm...
The opening line of the book, "So my name is Mikey Walsh," is meant to draw the reader into this boy's personal story.

#TheGoonies #TheGooniesMovie #Spielberg #ThatJamesKahn #HuckleberryFinn #WarnerBrothers #TreasureIsland
As if it were being told to me by the hero like a true story that happened to him. Jim Hawkins in the case of Treasure Island, Mikey Walsh in the case of The Goonies.

#TheGoonies #TheGooniesMovie #Spielberg #ThatJamesKahn #HuckleberryFinn #WarnerBrothers #TreasureIsland
Part IV - I wrote the Goonies novelization in the manner of Treasure Island, one of my favorite books of all time.

#TheGoonies #TheGooniesMovie #Spielberg #ThatJamesKahn #HuckleberryFinn #WarnerBrothers #TreasureIsland