This evening, for a project unrelated to this blog (that is, a paying gig), I was obliged to watch both The Wild Bunch and the picture from which the above…
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Isaac Hayes in John Carpenter's Escape From New York, 1981 I was very glad to begin with to have seen Isaac Hayes perform at the inaugural "Celebrate Brooklyn!' concert in…
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The penultimate shot of The Jolson Story, 1946, Alfred E. Green/Joseph L. Lewis I'm gonna sound like a heel for saying this, but I always thought Evelyn Keyes made a…
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The effects maestro was a spectacular craftsman as well as a deft self-promoter—the acceptable face of gore effects, some might say. Genre fans like myself admired him because (among other…
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