Ever have a sh*tty job that you wanted to complain about in a weekly submission-based column named after Blink-182 lyrics? Send your submissions to worksuxiknow[at]gmail.com! I worked at a store in high school as a stocker and cashier. One day, a lady with about ten items came up to the register and I proceeded to ring her up. While I was doing this, she felt the need to tell me her life story and...
Ed and Frankie welcome actor Richard Anderson as they discuss his role as Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman and the impact and appeal of both series, as well as his work with such legends as David Janssen, Burt Reynolds, John Frankenheimer and Stanley Kubrick. The interview begins 30 minutes into the first hour and continues into the second hour . Monday-Sunday 10pm-Mid...
In 1979 my parents took me to see the film, Starting Over , starring Burt Reynolds as a recently divorced man torn between his new girlfriend (Jill Clayburgh) and his ex-wife (Candice Bergen). I still adore this movie today, but I'm especially fond of it for introducing me to the wonderful Frances Sternhagen, who plays Burt's sister-in-law. She and her onscreen husband, Charles Durning, make a delightful...
I just learned, via Peter Nellhaus , of the passing of one of America's most obscure-but-talented directors, Paul Wendkos. Wendkos would be far better known today if his first film, the great low-budget noir, The Burglar (1956), were more readily available. The Burglar , an unabashedly arty film based on the David Goodis novel of the same name, starred Dan Duryea in the title role, and Jayne Mansfield...
1981 saw the release of Sharky’s Machine, a Burt Reynolds helmed taut crime thriller. The film is both a love letter to the city of Atlanta and an astute critique of the systemic corruption that held the city hostage for much of the seventies and eighties. Critic Roger Ebert had this to say: SHARKY’S MACHINE [...]
Levi Johnston 's Playgirl shoot involved props. Johnston's manager Tank Jones tells Usmagazine.com the 19-year-old posed with a hockey stuck during part-one of his saucy shoot Thursday. Adds Jones, "The shoot was fantastic! ... People are going to see more of Levi than they thought." See the week's hottest celeb photos He says Johnston -- who fathered baby Tripp with Sarah Palin's daughter,...
There was no goalie of any kind involved when Levi Johnston knocked up Bristol Palin. But he does wield a hockey stick in his much-anticipated Playgirl photo spread. "The shoot was fantastic!" Johnston's manager, Tank Jones, said of Johnston's New York photo session, adding that the nude model wasn't nervous in the slightest. "We're having a lot of fun with it," Jones teases. How...
BURT REYNOLDS' close friends fear the actor will suffer a relapse in his sobriety battle after his longtime love refused to take him back.The Hollywood icon, 73, underwent...
November 9, 2009 Spyscribbler pointed me to a post about the royalty statements by a New York Times bestselling paperback original author. It's totally depressing, but a significant shot of reality. One of the things that's probably most interesting to me that's sort of new, is it's the first time I've ever heard anybody make a stab at comparing how much an author makes on a book compared to how much...
Sing your favorite stars a happy birthday in the privacy of your own home. Maybe not out loud. Happy birthday to Ethan, Rebecca and Mike 11/06 Today's filmic / famous birthdays. If it's your own birthday shout it out. It's your day, after all. 1882 Thomas H Ince actor who became a lifeguard then an actor again until he was a pioneering film director who became a studio mogul until he morphed into Cary...
He was "renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds."...
Add the Los Angeles Times to the mainstream media outlets that leave the most colorful part of a great person’s life out of the story. The LA Times is a couple of days behind the New York Times in reporting the death at 103 of John Kenley, the Ohio summer stock theatre impresario knowon for casting television and movie stars including Burt Reynolds, Mae West, William Shatner and Joe Namath in...
I have spent the better part of the morning here reading about Ingmar Bergman. When I was a kid, you were more likely here in Hoots to see a variety of exploitation films, Burt Reynolds was huge or the occasional bad horror movie at one of the local drive-ins. (Yes, I hate that those have [...]
Robert Englund is Dr. Andover in "Fear Clinic" on FEARnet.com Robert Englund has been involved in film and television for 35 years, other than his most famous creation, Freddy Krueger, he's been in television staples such as "Soap", "CHiPs", and "V" as well as movies like The Phantom of the Opera , Strangeland , and 2001 Maniacs . He's also been a director and...