Arthur Rankin, R.I.P.: The Man who brought us The Bumble
Sean MurphyMy childhood would like to thank Arthur Rankin for living a long and purposeful life. How empty would my life be without Yukon Cornelius and The Bumble? (A lot more…
Maximilian Schell, R.I.P.
Another exceptional artist of the old school has departed the premises. Yet another individual of whom we can accurately say: his kind won't (can't) grace our presence in the future.…
Peter O’Toole, R.I.P.
They're all gone. Burton, then Harris, then Reed, then Taylor. And now, O'Toole. Yes, it all begins and ends with his once-in-a-millennium turn as T.E. Lawrence, and attention must…
Serpico and Turning Black Friday into Good Friday
Look at that dude. Pacino, clean-shaven and short-haired as the movie begins, sports the best 'stache of the decade, then goes goatee, then gets full facial (hair and head), all…
You Want To See Something Really Scary?* 10 Horrific Scenes for Halloween
First off, a confession of sorts: scary movies don't scare me. Or, to put it less bluntly, as a one-time horror movie aficionado, I quickly outgrew the ways gore supplanted…
R.I.P. Kumar Pallana
Anyone with a passing familiarity with, much less love of, Wes Anderson's films (more on him HERE), will join me in mourning the loss of Kumar Pallana. Nice tribute HERE.…
Remembering (and Celebrating) The Kids In The Hall
(10/16: After yesterday's post, it seems appropriate (and always overdue) to remember how amazing KITH were (are)!) (From PopMatters, 10/07) The Kids in the Hall existed in a sort of…
End of Summer (Camp) with a Bat, a Cat and a Clown
It is an inexorable, if lamentable rite of passage to revisit cultural mementos from one's childhood and discover that, to an adult's eyes, they are lacking. But then, "putting away…
Remembering the USS Indianapolis, Robert Shaw and The Scene
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.…
Dennis Farina: Bad Man, Good Actor
And by bad I mean, of course, badass. Nevermind that he actually was a Chicago cop for many years before he "broke in" to acting (See what I did there?).…