BELA TARR: […] In Sátántangó, we had a set. The doctor’s flat, it was built ( Read more... )

"...most of the graphic novels I've heard of and seen reviewed are usually about somebody's terrible pain, homosexuality or the Holocaust or something like that. But they're all dark. Are there any funny ones?"
- Mort Walker interviewed in THE COMICS JOURNAL #297 (Apr 2009)

"We were born dead. Life means nothing. We live with death every single day. Death walks with us. Death rides and sleeps with us. We carry its smell under our skin."
- Trash (Mark Gregory) in 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (1982 Dir: Enzo G. Castellari)

San Diego - Exhibitor Jerry Rucker thought that X movies were seasonal. During the summer vacation, he switched from showing such films as ALL ABOUT SEX to family fare such as ROBIN AND MARIAN to give parents a place to take their children. Rucker says he lost $11,000 during that period. Now he's back to showing DEEP THROAT and BEHIND THE GREEN ( Read more... )

Many learned churchmen argued that illness was God's punishment for sin, and the more unpleasant the disease the worse the sin. Since the fifth century leprosy had often been interpreted as the reward for sexual excess. One of the early Norman bishops of London, Hugh d'Orival, chose to be castrated in the hope of obtaining a cure but, according to ( Read more... )

Here, plainly, was a man who, whether as writer, editorial eminence or anxious husband, found it impossible to relax, switch off or otherwise unbend, and who isn't above using even his fan-mail as an excuse to read pedagogic lectures. "I am very glad to send you my autograph" runs a note to a hapless American petitioner named Glen Walter Blodgett ( Read more... )

While Motty's commentating on the tennis at Wimbledon, Jack Nicholson wanders into the commentary box unannounced ("his receding hairline reminded me of so many nights in the cinema"). Then there are Johnny and Patrick Cobbold, one-time owners of Ipswich Town, who Motty visits at their country estate with Alan Parry in tow. Surveying the grounds, ( Read more... )

I liked the photographers, there is one who came in and said he was sent to do a layout of me. A layout, I said yes he said what is that I said oh he said it is four or five pictures of you doing anything. All right I said what do you want me to do. Why he said there is your airplane bag suppose you unpack it oh I said Miss Toklas always does that ( Read more... )

'Face behind the voice' Gary Crowley

Secret skills: "I've designed a 60s-style desert boot - the Crowley Boot."

Sir Roger Moore ("Eyebrow-raiser who saw the funny side of 007") selects his three favourite comedy films:

1. NINOTCHKA Billy Wilder was one of the writers.
2. THE PRODUCERS Brilliant. Just brilliant.
3. SOME LIKE IT HOT A classic Billy Wilder. Undoubtedly one of his best. Billy was a friend, incidentally.