Rodger Jacobs
“I love Christopher Walken & the Tuna Fish Sandwich. What a lovely eye (Jacobs) has for the common people.” – -Lucianne Goldberg
Award-winning screenwriter and journalist Rodger Jacobs was born in San Francisco in 1959. In addition to crafting several cover stories for Eye Magazine, Jacobs’ articles can be found in Hustler, Wireless Week, E Commerce Business News, Razor, High Society, Adult Video News (AVN), Adam Film World and Juxtapoz. His op-ed pieces have featured in Reason, High Beam Research, The Progressive Review, Enterprise Economy, All American Gold, and Progressive News Digest. He served as Editor-In-Chief at New Rave magazine from 1999 to 2000.
Jacobs co-produced Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes, with Cass Paley, winner of the Best Feature Documentary prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival (1999). In 2004, Lion’s Gate Films released Wadd as a DVD companion piece to the Val Kilmer vehicle, Wonderland.
Other Jacobs’ documentary productions include Women: First and Foremost, starring Rita Moreno and Dee Wallace-Stone; and World War II: Breadlines to Boom Times, with James B. Sikking. He has written two original plays, Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, co-written with playwright and songwriter Tom Flannery, and “Last Summer at the Marmont”.
In 2005, Rodger’s original essay, Running with the Wolves: Jack London and the Cult of Masculinity, was added to the permanent collection of Jack London Research at the U.C. Berkeley Digital Archives, the largest repository of Jack London research in the world and sanctioned by the late author’s estate.
He is the author of two books: the short story collection Christopher Walken and the Tuna Fish Sandwich and Other L.A. Stories and the true crime book Long Time Money and Lots of Cocaine.
Currently he is a features writer for XBiz World magazine and is co-producing a feature documentary on legendary singers Johnny Bragg and Johnnie Ray as well as serving as creative consultant on a documentary about the heyday of former radical L.A. radio station KPPC.
Jacobs began his career as research assistant to actor-producer Stacy Keach on Walter Hill’s The Longriders in 1979.
Email: carversdog@excite.com
Web Site: 8763wonderland.com
