Saturday, February 01, 2014

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Dog poo fairies descend on Houston: And they're on a pick up crusade 

I Miss the Old Days

Today In 1964, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” Hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100. Here Are 15 Fun Facts About The Song

10 Most Impressive Photos of Lightning Striking Famous Places

10 Most Impressive Photos of Lightning Striking Famous Places

Song of the Day (Happy Birthday, Bob Shane!)

Scotch and Soda - The Kingston Trio - YouTube:

Who Said It?

The Covers of This Book Are Too Far Apart 

Maximilian Schell, R. I. P.

ABC News: Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died. He was 83.

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One of Sheriff Rhodes's Canine Companions Leads the Way

Which Dog Breeds Make the Smartest Dogs? 

14 Paperbacks That Are Reenacting Their Own Plots

14 Paperbacks That Are Reenacting Their Own Plots

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Hamilton Basso, The View from Pompey's Head, Cardinal, 1956

Arthur Rankin Jr., R. I. P.

Animation Legend Arthur Rankin Jr. Dies at 89: Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator, producer and director behind the whimsical holiday stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, has died. He was 89.  

Hat tip to Doc Quatermass.

22 Astonishing Places That Are Hard to Believe Really Exist

22 Astonishing Places That Are Hard to Believe Really Exist

I Want to Believe!

'Ghost Adventures' Star -- I Bought $35,000 Demon House ... Possible 'Portal to Hell'

Top 10 Alleged Real-Life Werewolves and Wolf-men

Top 10 Alleged Real-Life Werewolves and Wolf-men 

Don't Forget to Enter this Contest

Lesa's Book Critiques: Winners and A Texas Lawman Giveaway

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee

'What? No Becks?' Men set fire to shop 

This Ruins about a Million SF Plots

Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Don't Really Exist 

Gary Arlington, R. I. P.

Gary Arlington, a Force in Underground Comic Books, Is Dead at 75 - NYTimes.com: Gary Arlington, who died this month at 75, did not open the San Francisco Comic Book Company because he wanted to create a place where the city’s underground comic artists could meet to mine one another’s unusual minds. He really just needed money, and he hoped to make some by selling thousands of comic books he had been hoarding in his parents’ basement since he was a little boy.  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Brute Force

▶ 1956 BRUTE FORCE RE-ISSUE TRAILER BURT LANCASTER - YouTube:

Friday, January 31, 2014

It's not a movie. It's a novel.

Amazon.com: Sharcano (Sharkpocalypse #1) eBook: Jose Prendes: Kindle Store: A burnt and half-eaten megalodon shark corpse is found beached. A priest commits suicide. A previously unknown volcano rises from the China Sea and brings about a tsunami that destroys Shanghai. Yellowstone erupts after 640,000 years of silence. A pit in Nicaragua known as the "mouth of hell" begins violently spewing lava. 

When reporter Mick Cathcart and marine biologist Agnes Brach set out looking for answers, they never expected to stumble upon the biblical end times. Yet when sharks made of molten magma start erupting from the volcanoes to devour everything and everyone in their way, how could they deny it? 

With the help of a beleaguered priest and a billionaire industrialist, Mick and Agnes scramble to extinguish the volcanoes and blow away the lava sharks before the whole world burns to a cinder.

Hat tip to Mel Odom.

He Must Have Thought She was a Liar

Man faces charges for allegedly setting girlfriend's pants on fire   

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Here's the Plot for Your Next Grisly Dismemberment Thriller

thetimesherald.com: Police are looking for a woman in connection with the grisly discovery Thursday afternoon of multiple bags containing human body parts scattered along snowy roads in St. Clair Township.

Free for Kindle for a Limited Time

Amazon.com: Wind River eBook: L.J. Washburn, James Reasoner: Kindle Store: First book in the Wind River series. After buffalo hunter and former army scout Cole Tyler arrives in Wind River, a primitive outpost in the wild Wyoming Territory, he is unwittingly drawn into taking the unwelcome and dangerous job of town marshal. Marshal Cole Tyler finds himself facing a ruthless killer as Wind River becomes a town with its own brand of justice.

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Duels

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Duels

Song of the Day

SUGAREE - HANK BALLARD - YouTube:

8 Ways To Get A Fictional High

8 Ways To Get A Fictional High

Norman Mailer, Born on This Day in 1923, on the Rat Race of Success

Norman Mailer, Born on This Day in 1923, on the Rat Race of Success and What True Growth Means

Today's Vintage Ad


Watch All The 2014 Super Bowl Commercials Now

Watch All The 2014 Super Bowl Commercials 

Writers Who Make More Money than I Do, That's Who

Who writes ridiculous movies like Mega Shark Vs. Mecha Shark?

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William Irish (Cornell Woolrich), Phantom Lady (#10 of the Dell Great Mystery Library), Dell, 1957

14 Beautiful Train Stations From Around the World

14 Beautiful Train Stations From Around the World 

Win a Copy of Compound Murder, the Latest Sheriff Rhodes Novel

Lesa's Book Critiques: Winners and A Texas Lawman Giveaway

What makes a book a classic?

What makes a book a classic?

Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal

Some of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal 

Archaeology Update

Archaeologists unearth what may be oldest Roman temple 

Not a Forgotten Book

Philip K. Dick Never Saw Blade Runner and Ridley Scott Never Finished Reading the Novel it was Based on 

Yet Another Forgotten Book

Like Pop Rocks for the Brain: Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand  

Link via SF Signal.

A Forgotten Writer?

The Fantastic Foresight of Katherine MacLean

FFB: Son of Fletch -- Gregory Mcdonald

A while back I mentioned running across three books by Gregory Mcdonald in a thrift shop. Two of them were about a young man named Skylar, and I commented on them here and here.  The third book was Son of Fletch. I read it when it came out, about 20 years ago, and as is sometimes the case, the more I reread, the more I remembered.  

I always hoped that the later books about Fletch would recapture some of the snap and excitement of the earliest ones, but they never quite did.  I can't explain why, since they still have some of the same qualities , the snappy dialogue, the interesting characters, the clever plots.  But for me something is missing.  It's like hearing the cover version of a favorite song.  Same words, same melody, but it's not the same.  Maybe it's just me.

In this one, a young man shows up at Fletch's house and claims he's Fletch's son, whose name is Jack Faoni.  He also claims that he's just escaped from a  nearby prison, along with three other men, all of them very bad.  His own crime was trying to shoot a cop.  Or so he says.  After all, if he's Fletch's son, he might have his father's disregard for the truth.

Fletch goes along for the ride (literally and figuratively) and finds himself mixed up with a bunch of neo-nazi racists, and as so often happens in Mcdonald's books, things turn very dark.  There's always an interesting contrast between the light and breezy style of the books and some of the content, and that adds to their interest.

If you've never read Fletch and Confess, Fletch, you're missing some of mysterydom's great pleasures.  Son of Fletch is okay, and I enjoyed reading it again, but I wish I'd read one of the earlier ones instead.  What some enterprising filmmaker should do is get Chevy Chase to play Fletch again and some whippersnapper to play Jack.

His Brother's Wife

▶ 1936 HIS BROTHER'S WIFE TRAILER BARBARA STANWYCK ROBERT TAYLOR - YouTube:

Thursday, January 30, 2014

You Know You'll Watch It

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Sharknado’ stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid reuniting for New York-based sequel  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Latest Getting Away with Murder Now Online

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER #87 FEBRUARY 2014

Gator Update (Golfing Edition)

Golf ball lands on alligator 

John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose

John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with His Charming Drawings

Song of the Day

Bobby Blue Bland Turn On Your Love Light - YouTube:

Good News For Geezers

Scientific proof that mid-day naps are beneficial (and the perfect length of snooze) 

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50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014

50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014

Read Extraordinary Essays By Children Describing World War I Zeppelin Attacks

Read Extraordinary Essays By Children Describing World War I Zeppelin Attacks

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Horst Fanger, A Life for a Life, Ballantine, 1954

The 26 Craziest Crimes That Involve Taco Bell

The 26 Craziest Crimes That Involve Taco Bell

4 Real News Stories Ripped Straight from 'The X-Files'

4 Real News Stories Ripped Straight from 'The X-Files'

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Aquarium creates 'peanut butter and jellyfish'

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Texas deputy busted in undercover prostitution sting set up by his own agency

We're All "The Alley Man"*

You're Part Neanderthal

*Obscure reference for us Philip Jose Farmer Fans.

11th Annual BookFinder.com Report Out-of-print and in demand

11th Annual BookFinder.com Report: 11th Annual BookFinder.com Report Out-of-print and in demand

Forgotten Music: John B. Sebastian

Great but Forgotten: John B. Sebastian (music/album)

The Ghost and the Guest

▶ 1943 THE GHOST AND THE GUEST TRAILER JAMES DUNN - YouTube:

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Agatha Nominations

AGATHA NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Pimpage: An Occasional Feature in Which I call Attention to Books of Interest

Amazon.com: A Night for Screaming eBook: Harry Whittington: Kindle Store: The noir classic by the author whom Joe R. Lansdale calls "the king of plot and pace." With a new introduction by Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series.

I Want to Believe!

Man who claims he killed Bigfoot releases more pictures of the mythical creature  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Free for Kindle for a Limited Time

Amazon.com: Bullets and Fire eBook: Joe R. Lansdale: Kindle Store: "Dad told me once, that if people don't care about where they live, the way they act, people they associate with, they get lost in the dark, can't find their way back cause there's no light left.  I had taken a pretty good step into the shadows tonight." It's payback time, in this short story by Joe R. Lansdale.

Unlocking Secrets of the Grand Canyon's Age

Unlocking Secrets of the Grand Canyon's Age

Song of the Day

▶ Paperback Writer - The Beatles - YouTube:

10 Legendary Apollo Theater Performances You Can Watch Online

10 Legendary Apollo Theater Performances You Can Watch Online

9 Times The Beatles Proved They Were Cheeky

9 Times The Beatles Proved They Were Cheeky

Today's Vintage Ad


I Miss the Old Days

This 1970s News Report On The Dangers Of Platform Shoes Is Hilarious

I Miss the Old Days

A Revolution, With Guitars: How The Beatles Changed Everything

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Paul Kupperberg, The Amazing Spiderman: Crime Campaign (Marvel Novel Series #8), Pocket Books, 1979

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee

Massachusetts man kicks wife, tries to stab cat in rage over $1 freezer bags 

No Surprise to Readers of this Blog, However

Alligator in grow house, poses danger: A big surprise discovery over the weekend during a grow house bust.

It was green and it was alive, and we're not talking about marijuana plants. This weekend, along with the weed, law enforcement found a live alligator inside the house

Batman Travels Through Texas

Batman Travels Through Texas

Will We Use Commas in the Future?

Comma usage rules are unclear. Could the punctuation mark die out completely?

Did Custer Die in This Coat?

Did Custer Die in This Coat?

Luis Avalos, R. I. P.

'Electric Company' Actor Luis Avalos Dies at 67: Luis Avalos, the Cuban-born character actor best known for his work on the PBS kids show The Electric Company, died Wednesday after suffering a recent heart attack. He was 67.

I Miss the Old Days

15 Vintage Photos Of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, And Other Folk Legends From The '60s & '70s

You're Not So Tough

▶ 1940 YOU'RE NOT SO TOUGH TRAILER DEAD END KIDS - YouTube:

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Pimpage: An Occasional Feature in Which I call Attention to Books of Interest

Amazon.com: Nursing Home Sketches: My First Year As a Nurse eBook: Terry Proffer: Kindle Store: If you have ever wondered what really goes on in a nursing home, this book will tell you. It will surprise you. It will break your heart. And it will make your heart sing.

'Wearable' book

'Wearable' book allows reader to feel emotions of characters - Telegraph: Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a "wearable" book which allows the reader to experience the protagonist’s emotions. 

Using a combination of sensors, the book senses which page the reader is on and triggers vibration patterns through a special vest.

In Memory of Folk Legend Pete Seeger, 10 Iconic Performances

In Memory of Folk Legend Pete Seeger, 10 Iconic Performances

Song of the Day

▶ Pete Seeger - "Forever Young" - YouTube:

25 YA Novels Everyone — Even Adults — Should Read

25 YA Novels Everyone — Even Adults — Should Read 

Today's Vintage Ad


Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Texas Becomes Second Most Populous State, Adds More Than 387,000 Residents: Texas now moves into the No. 2 spot and has achieved the greatest growth of any state in the U.S. over the last 10 years.

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Herbert Brean, The Darker the Night, Pocket Books, 1950

I Want to Believe!

Google Images Reveal Triangular Moon Mystery: Could It Be An ET Colony?

Why Carole King Is The Greatest Artist Of All Time

Why Carole King Is The Greatest Artist Of All Time

Born to Run: 7 Incredible Escape Stories

Born to Run: 7 Incredible Escape Stories 

Pete Seeger, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died Monday. He was 94 and lived in Beacon, N.Y.  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

12 Abandoned Movies by Famous Screenwriters

12 Abandoned Movies by Famous Screenwriters 

How Many Have You Seen?

17 Hilariously Terrible Movies Everyone Should See

Overlooked Movies: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Can you make a Mel Brooks movie without Brooks' involvement?  That seems to be the question Gen Wilder wanted to answer with The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.  Wilder had worked with Brooks in several earlier movies (The Twelve Chairs, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein), so maybe he thought he had things figured out.

He didn't, not really, but he came close enough to make this worth watching if you're into off-the-wall humor and slapstick.  Which I am.  Scroll down to the trailer and watch it.  If you get a laugh from that, you'll get even more from the movie.

The smartest thing Wilder did was hire some of the cast members from other Brooks movies: Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, and Dom DeLouise.  They're all very funny in this one.  Wilder wrote the script himself, and that's a problem. It's goofy, all right, but it doesn't work as well as Brooks' best scripts do.  It has some very funny moments, but it doesn't hang together (not that all of Brooks' do, either).  

I remember that Judy and I took the kids to see this one in the theater a long time ago.  They loved one particular scene and giggled about it all the way home.  It's in the trailer, but you don't get to see what they found so funny.  Too bad.

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

▶ The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother - Trailer - YouTube:

Monday, January 27, 2014

I have nothing to say, so here's a picture of a blue stone frog


A Kickstarter Project of Interest

Slingers: A Fantasy Western by R. Bryant Francis — Kickstarter: A short film about two Bounty Hunters in the Fantasy Old West getting in over their heads on a rescue mission gone way south.

Hat tip to John DeNardo at SF Signal.

Kasey Lansdale Update

Spot On: Kasey Lansdale - Spotlight Country

Atlantis Found! Sort of!

Swedish divers unearth a 'Stone Age Atlantis': 11,000-year-old ancient settlement discovered under the Baltic Sea | Mail Online

  • Swedish divers unearth a 'Stone Age Atlantis': 11,000-year-old ancient settlement discovered under the Baltic Sea
  • Divers found a harpoon, tools, horns and the bones of ancient cattle
  • The bones belonged to the animal auroch last seen in the early 1600s
  • Archaeologists believe these relics date back to the Stone Age 
  • It is said to be the oldest settlement in the area - dubbed Sweden’s 'Atlantis'

Free for Kindle for a Limited Time

Amazon.com: Guns Of Brixton (Best of British) eBook: Paul D Brazill: Kindle Store: When the simple task of collecting a briefcase from a Northern courier in his London lock-up results in a dead Geordie gangster there's only one thing that Kenny Rogan can do...dress up in drag and rob a jewellers with Big Jim and hope everything turns out okay!

The Ape Man's Brother -- Joe R. Lansdale

Take a bit of Burroughs, toss in a dash of Philip Jose Farmer and a smidge of P. K. Dick, then add a whole lot of Lansdale.  Stir well. The result is The Ape Man's Brother.  

In an alternative world, an Ape Man and his "brother" (Bill, a superior form of australopithecus or something along those lines) are taken from their lost world by way of a zeppelin.  The Ape Man is quite willing to go, thanks to the fact that he's met The Woman, who's a passenger on the zeppelin.  Well, "met" isn't adequate to describe their first encounter, but this is, after all, a family blog.   

The adventures of Bill, the Ape Man, and The Woman when the reach New York are chronicled by Bill (nice name), the brother, and they're sometimes ribald (and even vulgar), often hilarious, occasionally touching, and always entertaining.  The story is also a meditation on civilization and what it means to be civilized.  You get an idea of what the novella's leading up to from the cover.

This novella was written in response to Joe's challenge at an Armadillocon a few years back.  Some panelists and the audience were challenged to write a story based on this pulp cover.  I wrote two stories.  One story is in the current issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.  The other is available here, and you can't go wrong at the price.  You can't go wrong with Lansdale's novella, either.

Because They're on Fire?

Why Do We Blow Out Candles on Birthday Cakes? 

Song of the Day (Released on this date in 1956)

▶ Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel - YouTube:

Hard Case Crime Update

Hard Case Crime Announces Two New Editions 
of Stephen King's #1 Best-Seller, JOYLAND

Edgar Award-nominated novel to be published in 
mass-market paperback and e-book


New York, NY; London, UK (January 27, 2014) – Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will release two new editions of Stephen King's JOYLAND, the acclaimed coming-of-age story set in 1973 in a small-town amusement park that is the scene of an unsolved murder. First published last June, and recently named a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award (the mystery genre's most prestigious honor), JOYLAND has appeared on the New York Times Best-Seller list for more than 24 weeks. On May 27, Hard Case Crime will publish the book for the first time in the classic rack-sized "mass-market" paperback format typical of pulp crime novels in the 1940s and 50s. The company will also release the novel for the first time in an e-book edition, in April 2014.

"Joyland is a look back at a long-gone time, and I wanted people's initial experience of the book to be like my experiences reading crime stories when I was growing up, back when a book was always something made of paper and ink and glue," said Stephen King, one of the most beloved storytellers of all time, with more than 300 million books in print. "I'm thrilled that Hard Case Crime is going back to its roots with a paperback edition that'll fit in your jacket or the back pocket of your jeans. And now that Joyland is coming up on its second year, I'm also happy to bring it out as an ebook for people who prefer reading that way."

Since its publication, JOYLAND has won raves worldwide. The Washington Post called it "a moving, immensely appealing coming-of-age tale" while Canada's National Post called it "a small marvel of a book, a novel of loss and heartbreak, of growth and discovery…one of the writer's finest works." Entertainment Weekly called it "some of King's most graceful writing"; the New York Times wrote, "The book delivers chills [and] a mournful sense of life's fragility"; and the Guardian in the U.K. called it "a far gentler, deeper, more thoughtful book…and all the more intriguing for it." 

Described as "the best new American publisher to appear in the last decade" by Neal Pollack in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime revives the storytelling and visual style of classic pulp fiction. The line features an exciting mix of lost pulp masterpieces from some of the most acclaimed crime writers of all time and gripping new novels from the next generation of great hardboiled authors, all with new painted covers in the grand pulp style. Authors have included James M. Cain, Mickey Spillane, Pete Hamill, Madison Smartt Bell, Lawrence Block, Ed McBain, and Donald E. Westlake, to whom JOYLAND is dedicated. Stephen King's first Hard Case Crime novel, The Colorado Kid, also became a national bestseller and inspired the television series "Haven" on SyFy.

10 Bizarre Exploits Of Hunter S. Thompson

10 Bizarre Exploits Of Hunter S. Thompson

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TV’s new business model gives life to Harry Bosch

TV’s new business model gives life to Harry Bosch

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Roderic Hastings, Naked Tide, Avon, 1958

10 Happy Accidents in Cinema

10 Happy Accidents in Cinema 

House of Mystery Covers

The Golden Age: HOUSE OF MYSTERY COVERS ~ 1968-78

6 Insane Easter Eggs Buried in Famous TV Shows

6 Insane Easter Eggs Buried in Famous TV Shows 

New Poem at The 5-2

The 5-2 | Crime Poetry Weekly, Annual Ebooks - Gerald So, Editor: H.B. Ussach LITERATI

Blackbeard: The history of the pirate’s last days

Blackbeard: The history of the pirate’s last days: An exclusive account of the final raid and political maneuvers of history’s most notorious pirate  

Link via Neatorama.

Mesolithic Man Update

DNA test of 7,000-year-old tooth overturns popular image of light-skinned European hunter-gatherers: DNA taken from the wisdom tooth of a European hunter-gatherer has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of modern humans before the rise of farming. The Mesolithic man, who lived in Spain around 7,000 years ago, had an unusual mix of blue eyes, black or brown hair, and dark skin, according to analyses of his genetic make-up.

Morrie Turner, R. I. P.

www.ktvu.com: Morris "Morrie" Turner, the creator of the Wee Pals comic strip and the first African American artist to have a column syndicated nationally, has died. He was 90.

She Had to Say Yes

▶ 1933 SHE HAD TO SAY YES TRAILER LORETTA YOUNG - YouTube:

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Working on the Chain Gang

Life in chains: Intimate photos reveal what life is like for women on America's only female inmate chain gang  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

10 Scientifically Proven Ways To Become A Happier Person

10 Scientifically Proven Ways To Become A Happier Person 

Song of the Day

▶ Roy Drusky "Red, Red Wine" - YouTube:

6 Surprising Things That Can Influence Your Dreams

6 Surprising Things That Can Influence Your Dreams

Today's Vintage Ad


10 Incredibly Haunting Tales of Real-Life Ghost Ships

10 Incredibly Haunting Tales of Real-Life Ghost Ships

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Maurice Zolotow, Oh Careless Love, Avon, 1959

Riz Ortolani, R. I. P.

Variety: Italian soundtrack composer Riz Ortolani, who won a Grammy for his “Mondo Cane” theme “More,” and whose wide range of music for movies was featured in three Quentin Tarantino films and on the Dino Risi-directed classic “The Easy Life” (Il Sorpasso), among dozens of other titles, died in Rome on January 23.

Q & A with Mark Troy

SONS OF SPADE: Q & A with Mark Troy

A Great Story

The Guardian: Fifty years ago, the governor of Indiana banned the Kingsmen's Louie Louie for being obscene. The FBI then spent two years investigating its lyrics, cementing the song's reputation as rock's ultimate rebel anthem, recorded by everyone from the Stooges to the Clash

Or Maybe You Did

10 Things You Didn't Think Still Existed 

Flash! He's a Miracle!

The Golden Age: FLASH GORDON  

Be sure to scroll down for the great spread on the serial in an old LOOK magazine.

The Farmer's Daughter

▶ 1954 FARMER'S DAUGHTER RE-ISSUE TRAILER LORETTA YOUNG - YouTube: