Jeff Bond

Jeff Bond is Executive Editor of CFQ (Cinefantastique) magazine and covers film music for The Hollywood Reporter and Film Score Monthly magazine. He is the author of The Music of Star Trek and is coauthoring an upcoming book on makeup artist Rick Baker. He briefly glimpsed a few minutes of Star Trek during its original third season in 1968 and began watching the first syndication package of the show around 1970 in his hometown of Defiance, Ohio, where he eventually drove his family crazy by watching and rewatching every episode of the series dozens of times. He studied creative writing at Bowling Green State University and held down exciting jobs at the Holiday Inn and Kinko’s before moving to Hollywood. There the knowledge and experience he had gained by ignoring his mother’s advice to go outside and get some exercise instead of watching TV could finally bear fruit, and he has been able to interview many of his childhood heroes, like Charlton Heston, William Shatner, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Sigourney Weaver, Richard Matheson, and others. His beautiful and understanding wife, Brooke, continues to put up with his hobbies, which include filling his garage full of spaceship models and action figures, listening to loud movie soundtracks, and becoming speechless with excitement at meeting old character actors like William Windom and Morgan Woodward. Jeff and Brooke currently reside in Burbank, California, with their cat, Burbank.