Category Archives: Movies / TV

A River To My People

October 10, 2013 – 9:57 pm

After taking Aqaba in the epic film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA TE Lawrence confronts Anthony Quinn’s character Auda abu Tayi about payments from their Turkish enemy. Auda Abu Tayi tells Peter O’Toole the truth in front of hundreds of tribesmen extras. Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve? Howeitat tribesmen: NO! Auda […]

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The Beauty of Zatoichi

August 31, 2013 – 7:12 pm

Bored with Netflix and HBO I hunted the web for another source of entertainment and luckily stumbled onto ZATOICHI, the Blind Swordsman. This Japanese TV show portrayed the traveling trials of a blind masseur and swordmaster living in the Edo period circa 1840s. The actor Shintaro Katsu masterfully breathed life into novelist Kan Shimozawa’s creation […]

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The Mean Of Money from Tony Montana In SCARFACE

August 11, 2013 – 1:34 pm

“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” Tony Montana – cocaine dealer in Brian dePalma’s SCARFACE 1983 for more quotes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHndOfbSaE

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CBGBs The Movie

August 8, 2013 – 7:53 pm

I walked by CBGBs in the Autumn of 1976. I heard a band playing a cover of CALIFORNIA SUN by the Rivieras. It was the Ramones and I went to CBGBs every night for the next two years. Yes, I was a lucky man, because this movie can’t ever come close to the truth of […]

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Nobody’s Cock HARRY REEMS

March 23, 2013 – 6:51 am

The actor Jack Nicholson helped BATMAN hit $411,348,924 in 1989. Warren Beatty scored his greatest hit with DICK TRACY’s box office earnings of $162,738,726 worldwide. Neither came close to Harry Reems, who acted in DEEPTHROAT. That film grossed over $600,000,000. Reems was paid $250 to play opposite Linda Lovelace in the XXX blockbuster hit. She […]

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