For my friend Bill Ryan's blog, The Kind of Face You Hate, I made a foray into the literary critical essay with a look at problem child H.P. Lovecraft and…
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"Ooops." Bond loses one of his more charming conquests. Tends to happen. Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton (or her double) in Goldfinger, 1964. "He's not very good at his job,…
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Veronica Lake, the ultimate special effect, in I Married A Witch, René Clair, 1944. The insouciant cheekiness of this comedy/fantasy's central conceit allowed the movie to get away with the…
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Chewitel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in 12 Years A Slave. The dialogue they exchange in the scene pictured is taken very nearly verbatim from the source material. Steve McQueen's 12…
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The Al Stewart reference (I don't care who knows it now: as a surly teen I rather liked that "Year of the Cat" song, not enough to ever do something…
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My friend Gary Lucas, besides being one of our greatest living guitarists, is a well-lived man with a wide range of interests, and when he resided in Taipei in the…
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