James Renner
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James Renner is a director and investigative reporter from Cleveland, Ohio. He currently writes for the Free Times. He was also a founding member of Last Call Cleveland.
Renner found 15 minutes of fame in 2001, when he and Last Call Cleveland member Mike Polk made-out in front of the Today Show. The clip was later played on Access Hollywood. The stunt was the first time two straight men kissed on broadcast TV.
His 2003 investigation of Bill Watterson was controversial among fans of Calvin and Hobbes.
In the December 2004 issue of Cleveland Magazine, he was named one of the city's 30 most interesting people.
In 2004, Renner directed an adaptation of Stephen King's short story, All That You Love Will Be Carried Away. King granted Renner the rights to adapt this story as part of his Dollar Baby program for aspiring filmmakers. It was an official selection at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival.
In October, 2006, Gray & Co. released a book by Renner about his two-year-long investigation into the 1989 unsolved abduction/murder of 10 year-old Amy Mihaljevic. The title of the book is Amy: My Search for Her Killer.
