Category Archives: CINEMA

A FRIEND IN THE MOVIES

April 7, 2024 – 1:01 am

My hillbilly girlfriend and I moved to the East Village in 1978. The twenty-two year-old blonde actress came from West Virginia and I hailed from New England. Alice was in the theater like Bill, our upstairs neighbor. I wrote poetry. One day Bill announced that he had been cast in a western called HEAVEN’S GATE. […]

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Old School Godzilla

August 6, 2022 – 3:50 pm

Godzilla first emerged from the Pacific in 1954. Gojira was a portmanteau for ‘ape’ and ‘whale’. The nuclear devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were blamed for the evolution a creature dedicated to the destruction of Japan i.e. a manifestation of the USA. Godzilla was relatively thin for an all-consuming atomic fire monster sheeronking during his […]

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Honor Blackman RIP

April 6, 2020 – 8:28 pm

After a successful TV career on THE AVENGERS Honor Blackman was cast in the James Bond film GOLDFINGER. Pussy Galore was twice the woman most men were then and now. Even 007 was tested by the leader of an all-woman gang. Thanks to her acting skills Honor Blackman rivaled Sean Connery every time they were […]

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Doris Day RIP

May 13, 2019 – 4:23 pm

Everyone’s life is finally seized by the twilight and yesterday the movie actress Doris Day was promoted to the stars. The Cincinnati native sought to be a dancer. A car accident curtailed that dream, however during the recovery the fifteen year-old discovered an unknown talent. “I used to while away a lot of time listening […]

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La Marseillaise CASABLANCA

July 14, 2016 – 2:14 am
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