Bogies Bike Life in the Background

Bob Palmer first ran copy to newspapers for Lippert Theaters, then joined Fox West Coast Theaters as an assistant manager at its legendary Market Street Theatre. Working with studios, he helped create campaigns for the Bay Area premieres of Sunset Boulevard, Shane, The Greatest Show on Earth and Detective Story, plus stage shows with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Patti Page and others. Shortly after being ordered into Korean War active duty, he married co-worker Nancy Sidenberg. After a two-year tour of duty, he returned with his family to Los Angeles, joining ABC as West Coast Publicity Director for ABC Radio. He moved over to ABC Television as a senior publicist assigned to Warner Brothers' for Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco, The Alaskans and Bourbon Street Beat. In 1960 he left ABC to produce a syndicated series, Sweet Success, for Jack Douglas Productions, then joined Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters as publicity director for its flagship station KMPC Los Angeles. He worked as publicity director on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Monkees, Medical Center, Along Came Bronson, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Marcus Welby, MD, The Sixth Sense, The Bold Ones, The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Family, The Love Boat, and QBVII. In 1979 he formed Bob Palmer Public Relations, representing Anthony Hopkins, Dick Van Dyke, Sada Thompson, Faye Dunaway, Michele Lee, David Soul, Peter Strauss, Lawrence Schiller Productions and FMS Productions for whom he produced and directed Too Good to Waste, an award-winning documentary about adolescent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. Candace Kearns Read worked at the talent and literary agencies ICM and WME in Los Angeles as an executive script consultant, and was a script consultant to Anthony Hopkins, Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, John Wells Productions, Castle Rock Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, and many others. She has written many original screenplays, several of which have been optioned by producers and developed with Fox, Disney, HBO and Lifetime. She is the author of Shaping True Story into Screenplay, and has taught creative writing and screenwriting for Antioch University, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Lighthouse Young Writers Program. Her novel The Rope Swing is forthcoming from Laughing Cactus Press in 2016.