Ted Okuda is a film historian and writer. He is the author of The Columbia Comedy Shorts , The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television , and The Monogram Checklist and the coauthor of Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay , The Jerry Lewis Films , and The Soundies Distributing Corporation of America . He has written for The Big Reel , Classic Film Collector , Cult Movies , Filmfax , and Movie Collector's World and has appeared on Chicago Tonight , NBCChannel 5 News, Nude Hippo: Your Chicago Show , The Today Show , and Three Stooges Stooge-A-Palooza . He lives in Chicago. Mark Yurkiw is a journalist for the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark newspaper, and his articles have appeared in Forest Park Review , Wednesday Journal , and Suburban Life . He served as a research consultant for The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television . He lives in the Riverside-Brookfield area. Ted Okuda is a Chicago-based film historian whose previous books include The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television (coauthored with Jack Mulqueen), The Columbia Comedy Shorts, The Monogram Checklist, The Jerry Lewis Films (coauthored with James L.
Neibaur), and The Soundies Distributing Corporation of America (coauthored with Scott MacGillivray). His most recent book credits include coauthoring Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp David Maska , contributing chapters for Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film and Science Fiction America , and writing the foreword for Castle Films: A Hobbyist's Guide . Okuda's articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in such media-themed publications as Filmfax, Classic Images, Cult Movies, Outre, Classic Film Collector, The Big Reel, and Movie Collector's World . He has discussed film, television, and pop culture topics on The Today Show, Chicago Tonight, Three Stooges Stooge-A-Palooza, Nude Hippo: Your Chicago Show , and NBC Channel 5 News. Ted was also a research consultant for the cable access anthology series The Kings of Comedy . Mark Yurkiw is a journalist for the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark newspaper; his articles have also appeared in Suburban Life, The Wednesday Journal , and The Forest Park Review . He holds a BA in television production from Columbia College and an Associates Degree in journalism and mass communication from Triton College. Mark is a member of the Network 6 Commission for Riverside, Illinois.
He has been a member of the improvisational comedy troupe the Happy Clams, and a writer-performer for the cable access program The Funny Show . He has served as a research consultant for books dealing with movie/TV history and pop culture, including The Golden Age of Chicago Children s Television , and is currently the Grand Sheik of The Bacon Grabbers, the Chicago tent of The Sons of the Desert, the International Laurel & Hardy Society. He resides in the Riverside-Brookfield area.