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Bill Paxton: It’s Hard To Forget The Guy You Saw In Everything
So, we’ve lost Bill Paxton too. Foo. Rather than run clips or comments of and about the well-known sci-fi/fantasy flicks he was a part of, I’ll just leave two viewing suggestions you may not have...
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Goodbye, Mr. Warmth
(Thanks, paratrip!) I don’t remember the first time I saw the late, great Don Rickles on TV, but if it was a comedic appearance, I laughed my ass off. I think it was one of his appearances on an …...
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The ‘Invisible Director’: Jonathan Demme
(Thanks, IIIkidAIII!) Many will mention the frightening, eternally brilliant The Silence of the Lambs today as the late Jonathan Demme‘s best film and yes, you’ll hear about Melvin and Howard,...
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Romero & Landau: Two For The Road
We have to stop meeting this way, but so it goes: George A. Romero created one of the most influential, essential horror movies back in 1968 with Night Of The Living Dead, a film that still packs a...
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Jerry Gets His Curtain Call…
Ugh. I was in bed the entire day thanks to not feeling so hot, but now that I’m up and find out Jerry Lewis has left the building, I’m wanting to go crawl back under the covers for a bit. … Continue...
View ArticleTCM Remembers 2017: Sunset Blvd. Or: Land of the Lost
At some point, I actually stopped keeping track of all the entertainment industry deaths this year because it was getting too depressing. I just watched this clip earlier this afternoon and my brain...
View ArticleA Little Respect For Aretha
(Thanks, cizia69!) I’d overslept and woke up late (again), oddly enough, dreaming about The Blues Brothers probably for a few too timely reasons not at all related to the news of Aretha Franklin’s...
View ArticleBurt Reynolds: Last Train Out For The 1970’s Man’s Man
I’d (way too) old enough to still remember seeing Burt Reynolds appear on Dan August way back in 1970-71 and liking the show just for the rather dynamic opening of Burt doing all those stunts (and that...
View ArticleThe Secondhand Stan Lee Story
It’s been that sort of a mean and insane day (well, one of too many to count), but let’s skim to the memory bank, happier times wing for a spell. I actually have three Stan Lee stories, but two of …...
View ArticleWhatever Will Be, Will Be
(Thanks, ukwebwonders!) My first memory of Doris Day was her long-running TV series that ran on CBS from 1968 to 1975, which I understand she initially wanted no part of. Although I can’t recall a...
View ArticleLong Tall Sally, the He-Men and Way Outer Space
(Thanks, Reflex Gaming!) In terms of retrospective career highlights, I’ll let the music historians do their thing far better than I. I just wanted to do a very quick post to note two films that...
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