There’s always a special place in my black little heart for disastrous celebrity records. There was a time when producers wanted to capitalize on the popularity of their clients (movie stars, TV personalities) by having them cut a record. And…
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I’ve read, and heard from friends, that people are doing low doses of LSD to improve mood and cognitive function. I’m all for anything that gets one through the week, but I’m not ready to pull out my headband, dashiki…
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The great reason to have a home media movie library is, when, at the end of the day the news, or life in general, fills you with a sense of hopelessness and despair, you can just reach up to the…
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God, I love Italian exploitation movies. This point was made markedly clear once again when I got my greedy hands on the new Severin Blu-ray release of Adam and Eve, a truly bonkers 1983 Bible-sploitation flick which had the inspired…
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When actress Lizabeth Scott died on Jan. 31, 2015 at 92, the NY Times obituary (beautifully written by Robert D. McFadden) described her as “a sultry blonde with a come-hither voice cut out for the seething romantic and homicidal passions…
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When you live in a Manhattan apartment you just have so much room for everything. Young people move today with very little, which I admit is a wiser way to travel- especially if moving often is your option. But I’ve…
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Are there chestnuts roasting on an open fire at your house this Christmas season? Probably not, unless you live in California and your home is ablaze. Is Jack Frost nipping at your nose? Well, call the police. Yuletide carols being…
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I can’t tell you how hard it was to hear about the death of underrated director Paul Morrissey at 86. His films had such a profound effect on my life. Morrissey transformed Andy Warhol’s filmed “art” films into somewhat plotted…
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I’m not what you call a dog person. I don’t own a dog, nor do I feel much warmth in my heart when I see one scampering down the streets at the end of a leash. I’ve always harbored the…
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As I inch closer and closer to an open grave, I find myself compiling lists of movies I’ve always wanted to see, and then trying to track them down. On the other hand, I keep stumbling across titles that make…
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