Bradbury knew...

Ray Bradbury knew that hipsters were a damn nuisance, even fifty years ago when they went by other names. At Disneyland, he wrote, there are "No Cool people with Cool faces pretending not to care, thus swindling themselves out of life or any chance for life." Thank you for the millionth time, Ray!

If there IS a hell...

If there IS a hell, rest assured that a Phish cover band is playing there.

My eulogy for Robert Fuest

http://www.videowatchdog.com/home/home.html

My eulogy of my dear friend, director Bob Fuest, appears in the May issue of Video Watchdog (#168). After interviewing Bob many times and reading extensively about him and his work, I filled the article with as much fresh, new information about him as I possibly could.

I'm in L'ecran Fantastique

http://www.ecranfantastique.net/home/

Check out the May issue of L'ecran Fantastique (#331) for my interview with William Goldstein, the creator of THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES.

Memorable Movie-going Moments

An old writer told me about seeing EASY RIDER in 1968 or '69 at the Grandin Theater in Roanoke, Virginia. As the movie ended, with Hopper's and Fonda's characters lying dead, a hippie stood up in the front of the theater and said, "YOU SEE THAT! YOU killed those boys!" A redneck in the back of the theater hollered back: "You shut the hell up, boy, or we gonna kill you next!"

Whatever happened to that kind of audience participation? The kind that didn't involve cellphones?

Reason #10,450 that I love Virgil Finlay

Pulp artist Virgil Finlay toiled in near-obscurity for decades, producing masterpieces like this for around $10 a throw: 

http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/virgil_finlay_conquest_moon.jpg

Meanwhile, Damian Hurst gets $80 billion for some trashy-looking skull adorned with diamonds. That's injustice on a cosmic scale. 

7 Faces of Dr. Lao coloring contest

http://mostlypaperdolls.blogspot.com/2011/02/7-faces-of-dr-lao.html