In an earlier Hollyblog post, I reported that motorcycle film maven Peter Starr, now in his early 70s, has been busy promoting motor-scooter and motorcycle road trips for healthy seniors in Taiwan, and now his first foray into all this last year will be leading to more trips being planned, both in Taiwan and in California next fall. And one his friends who has signed up is Dean Torrence of the old 1950s/1960s rock duo ''Jan and Dean.''' Jan Berry, as readers might recall, passed away in 2004. Dean will come to...
- 3/4/2013
- by Dan Bloom
- The Wrap
Peter Starr, called the "Spielberg of motorcycle moviemaking" by his friend Jay Leno, is building a unique sort of bridge to Taiwan. Starr made 40 motorcycle racing movies for the 1970s to the 1990s. Now 69, Starr visited the Pacific island nation last year with a plan to make a documentary about a group of elderly motor scooter riders, But Starr learned that a 31-year-old Taiwanese director, Hua Tian-lao, had already made his own documentary about the cross-country scooter brigade of octogenarians hitting the road in Taiwan, so he decided to cancel...
- 10/18/2012
- by Dan Bloom
- The Wrap
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