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AUTHOR
ABOUT CASEEN
Caseen Gaines writes about the cultural touchstones that shaped modern entertainment. He is the author of several acclaimed books on film, theater, and music, including When Broadway Was Black, We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy, and Funked Around, Found Out, cowritten with funk legend and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bootsy Collins.
His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine, and been featured on NPR, Entertainment Tonight, and Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us.
A public high school English teacher of twenty years, he lives in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he has served as the mayor since 2025.
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