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November 2005 - In January of 1978 film director Robert Florey inscribed the following dedication in the front piece of “Hollywood Annees Zero’, his book of...
October 2005 - In the fifties and sixties one writer in particular represented the Iconoclast in American fiction and satire. He was the man immortalized on the cover of the...
August 2005 - If life can in fact imitate art then the notorious relationship
between director Luchino Visconti and his protégé/actor
Helmut Berger continues a...
June 2005 -- Recently I had
the pleasure of finally meeting one of the true authorities of
film noir author, historian and host {The Czar of Noir} Eddie
Muller. Mr. Muller has presented...
- March 2005 -- As the year
begins to unwind, we witness the departure of Kenneth Anger for
Paris as he begins a new chapter in this surreal saga...
February 2004 -- 2004 began with a bang and no whimper with
the arrival in Hollywood of Kim Novak and a special screening
of Hitchcock’s restored masterpiece VERTIGO
- November 2003 -- One of the
pleasures of living in Hollywood is having access to the gorgeous
Egyptian Theater and the many great programs made available through
the American Cinemateque...
- July 2003 -- A few days ago
my old friend Curtis Harrington summoned me to his "Haunted
Palace" nestled high above the traffic of Sunset Blvd and
Tinseltown itself.
- March 2003--The only good
thing about the tasteless, witless Austin Powers franchise has
been the renewed interest in Sixties pop culture...I can only
hope that such events give the younger generation the curiosity
to look beyond the “Yeah, babies”
- October 2002--In the wake
of anything-goes sexuality and no-holds-barred guerilla filmmaking
comes a talented young director who loves to tease his audiences
with male erotica and never gives the money shot to the spectator
or allows his actors to ever go all the way.
- Winter 2001/2002--STEPHEN
KING RETIRES!!! After the disastrous debut in prime time of ROSE
RED, one of the worst TV presentations in recent memory, the news
is not surprising. There was a time when even I was a fan of writer
Stephen King...
- November 2001--The Silverlake
Film Festival was a welcome event coming when it did and it reunited
me with an old colleague, filmmaker Kenneth Anger.
- September 2001--Having moved
back into the Hills of Beverly (after a two year stint in Palm
Springs doing my radio program version of this column), I was
more than ready for whatever came my way to give the column that
"LA" touch!!! I didn't have to wait too long.
- CAMP DAVID 3--If you are anything
like me when it comes to the yearly ritual of viewing the Academy
Awards, you watch, you laugh, and sometimes you fell like throwing
up all over the voting membership...
- CAMP DAVID 2--Talk about bad timing
. . . it seems like Kenneth Anger picked the wrong time to abandon
living in Palm Springs...
- CAMP DAVID 1--There is a great
possibility I can now take credit for creating a name for the
new gay comedy from the U.K. which premiered at the Palm Springs
Film Festival earlier this year...
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