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Diane                                              Edited  by  Bruce  Bennett  of  the  Westerner™
                                                                  Magazine

               Franklin                                           Bruce: We haven’t spoken for a while and I
                                                                  know  you  have  a  lot  going  on.  What  are
                                                                  your current projects?
               on The                                             Diane: Well… the last time we spoke I was


                                                                  finishing  my  second  book.  After  the  book
               Amityville                                         came  out,  I  did  a  lot  of  autograph

                                                                  conventions. I don’t know, when we spoke
               Murders                                            last,  if  I  had  worked  on  the  film  The  Final
                                                                  Interview, but I know that I was starting to
                                                                  work again with the film Waking Nightmare.
               and                                                Waking  Nightmare  is  a  film  that  still  hasn’t

                                                                  come out. But I can’t wait for people to see
               Maturing                                           it because my character is so different from
                                                                  what my audience has seen from me in the
                                                                  past.  I  play  a  suburban  housewife  in  the
               as an                                              mold  of  a  Stepford  Wife,  whose  daughter

                                                                  commits  murders  while  sleepwalking.   I’m
                                                                  an integral part of the plot, which makes it a
               Actress                                            very juicy role.


                                                                  I worked with actor David Naughton from
                                                                  American  Werewolf,  Jamison  Newlander
                                                                  from Lost Boys, who plays my husband, and
                                                                  Shelley  Regner,  Ashley  from  Pitch  Perfect,
                                                                  who  plays  my  daughter.  We  had  great
                                                                  chemistry on set, and I think audiences are
                                                                  going  to  have  a  lot  of  fun  seeing the story
                                                                  unravel. It has not been released yet.


                                                                  In  the  meantime  I  did  a  thriller-art  film
                                                                  called  The  Final  Interview,  which  is  written
                                                                  and  directed  by  Fred  Vogel.  It  takes  place
                                                                  during  the  80s  and  is  about  a  washed-up
                                                                  newscaster  (Grainger  Hines)  who  is  given
                                                                  one  last  chance  to  bring  back  his  career,
                                                                  through my character, his ex-wife and news
                                                                  director   (Diane   Franklin).   He    then
                                                                  broadcasts live the final interview of the most
                                                                  notorious  serial  killer  inmate  (Damien
                                                                  Maruscak)  before  he  goes  to  the  electric
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