Mark Jordan Legan

Mark Jordan Legan is an American television producer, writer and radio personality.

Biography

He has written for the television programs A.N.T. Farm, Gary Unmarried, Dave's World, That '70s Show, Grace Under Fire and The Fighting Fitzgeralds.^[1][2]

He created the critically acclaimed satire Thanks and recently co-wrote the controversial terrorism comedy The Cell, which landed him on the cover of the New York Times Arts & Leisure section ("Funniest script in Hollywood that no one will ever make.").^[3]

He appears regularly on NPR's Day to Day^[4] where he writes and hosts the "Bad Movie"^[5] podcasts that spotlight strange, weird and offbeat cinema from around the world. He also writes and hosts the video series, "NPR & Slate's Summary Judgment" as well as "Summary Judgment" and "The Worst Cinematic Crap That's Ever Been Made" for SlateV.com.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Mark Legan". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/949545/Mark-Legan. Retrieved 2008-06-30. 
2. ^ "Mark Jordan Legan". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/mark-legan/person/29815/summary.html. Retrieved 2008-06-30. 
3. ^ Halbfinger, David M. (September 1, 2005). "The Pitch: A Series About Wacky Terrorists". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/arts/television/01cell.html. Retrieved 2008-06-21. "'The Cell,' as this exercise in envelope-pushing is titled, has been making its way through Hollywood for more than a year, cracking up development executives and their assistants, being passed from friend to friend like an underground newspaper behind the Iron Curtain, and winning its creators, Mark Jordan Legan and Mark F. Wilding, scores of meetings and three other writing assignments." 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Movies So Bad, They're Good". Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/id/2131592/. Retrieved 2008-06-30. "Our guide is Mark Jordan Legan, Hollywood writer, bad-film buff, and the man behind the weekly "Summary Judgment" segment for Slate and NPR's Day to Day." 
5. ^ "Slate Magazine Launches “Slate V”". Washington Post. June 25, 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/mediacenter/html/slatev_launch_062507.html. Retrieved 2008-06-30. "... visitors to the site will get their first taste of a Slate V original, “Bad Movies,” in which host Mark Jordan Legan looks at some of the worst films ever made." 

External links

• Mark Jordan Legan at the Internet Movie Database
• Mark Jordan Legan on National Public Radio

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