Category Archives: Movies / TV

THUNDER ROAD / Robert Mitchum

March 26, 2011 – 2:53 pm
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PIERRE HENRY – Psyché Rock

February 26, 2011 – 12:15 pm

Super groovy Frenchie psychedelia and let’s not forget the best 27 minutes of music to ever come out of France Serge Gainsbourg’s THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSEN Serge is accompanied on this lush lyric album by his British muse of youth, Jane Birken, as backing vocals along with Alan Parker on guitar, Brian Odgers on […]

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No Second Acts in Hollywood

February 25, 2011 – 11:18 pm

Hollywood held its breath for several minutes listening to the surprise cancellation of NBC’s huge hit TWO AND A HALF MEN. The show’s creator had been verbally assaulted by the star of the sit-com, Charlie Sheen. His comments were interpreted by the flaks of the movie media to be anti-Semitic ie Arab or Jew, then […]

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TV Limbo

February 15, 2011 – 7:46 am

And suddenly it was 4am. No one of the modern age remembers waking to this signal and even fewer can recall its black/white ancestor and only a handful the sight of electric snow blanketing the screen of their Zenith Television. Only 4 channels and all of them were good.

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Maria Schneider RIP

February 3, 2011 – 4:03 pm

LAST TANGO IN PARIS was the hottest film of 1972 this side of the XXX hits DEEP THROAT and BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR. Audiences were enthralled by the full-frontal nude scenes between the cinema icon Marlon Brando and the lithe ingenue Maria Schneider. The young actress was a protege of Brigitte Bardot. Nothing in the […]

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