In Memoriam

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…

I haven't weighed in on the passing of Bernie Mac for two reasons, the first being a rather craven, solipsistic one—as a 49-year-old man who may or may not be…

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…

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…

Damn. UPDATE: The above was pretty much all I could muster last night on learning of the irreplaceable Charisse's passing. The news hit me a lot harder than I had…

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…