This Writing Life (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
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...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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."...
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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...
Newscoma (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
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 [...]
LAist (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
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...
Dlisted (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Mickey Rourke is one brave bitch for hitting the streets of Hollywood covered in white powder. If one of the Lohans spotted him, they would've thrown him on a spoon, cooked him up and then poured him into a pipe. Here's Loki's soulmate stumbling out of some club last night in costume as a stale powdered funnel cake channeling Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights . Or maybe he decided to go as a sober Mickey...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The showman who asked MAE WEST to come up and see him in The Buckeye State has died. • • According to Associated Press, John Kenley began acting in New York City in the 1920s — — and once served as an aide to famed producer Lee Shubert. He became a summer theater producer in 1940 in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, and worked in other eastern cities, including Washington D.C. Kenley...
Christina Martin - occasional writer and comedian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
My original blog on this subject is a few weeks old now, so I thought I would repost it. Just a quick blog to ask you all a favour. A little girl called Isla is in the running to be the face of Kinder. Isla has Down’s Syndrome. Please vote for her and help to change people’s perceptions of disability. Sadly attitudes remain broadly negative, ranging from casual distaste to full blown hate...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Time for your daily AOL /SlashControl fix of deliciously free movies! After Henry Fool and frightening Frogs , I'm going with my second choice for pick numero uno: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas . Is it weird that this was one of my favorite flicks as a kid? My youthful bad taste not withstanding, I have no idea why or how I saw this flick a number of times as a youngin'. It was rated R after...
Day for Night (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
White Lightning is actually quite subversive, challenging the southern heritage that would appeal to fans of its star Burt Reynolds. It is also quite fun, lots of redneck kind of stuff like fast cars, and moonshine selling. Why did Tarantino use its music for Inglorious Basterds ? I think it has to do with the semi-vigilante role of its main character, someone seeking revenge, and how often this appears...
What's Alan Watching? (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I'm a little busy today, so no time for a full-on review of tonight's "30 for 30" documentary on the rise and fall of the USFL. Instead, a few quick points: 1)I'm with Fienberg in that this one probably tried to tell too many parts of the story, rather than focusing on one small part of a larger story (the trade with Gretzky's career, the marching band with the Colts move); 2)Even so, it's...
Champions League Tickets (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
They say behind every great moustache is an even greater man and Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck are certainly no exception to the rule. Both men were outstanding athletes in their youth and both are well known for their profession as actors. So which mustached leading man could portray a better MLS star? Smokey & the [...]
Dubspeed Driven (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Remember the movie Cannonball Run? You know, back when Burt Reynolds had a full head of hair. Well, when I was a wee lad and I saw that movie in the theatre, the image of those two ladies with the huge racks piloting their Lamborghini Countach down the freeway and tagging the 55 MPH speed [...]
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
There's a certain point where our collective understanding of manliness coincides with our hard-earned stripes as true car enthusiasts. We may not all wear unbuttoned shirts to proudly expose our medallion-adorned chest wigs, loafers without socks, mirrored aviators, string back gloves and trucker caps, but our subconscious selfs do. That's why, when someone manages to violate the unwritten laws of...
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