RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
Coming Soon got a chance to speak with George Lucas as he hit the town to present the American Cinematheque’s 23rd annual award to Samuel L. Jackson and they obviously squeezed in a couple of Indiana Jones and Star Wars related questions. Earlier this week I prepped an article talking about how the latest Indy [...]
Clear Lake Reflections (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
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TMZ (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Filed under: Movies , Beauty , 'Memba Them?! In the '60s and '70s, Karen Black became famous playing women on the edge in films like "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "The Day of the Locust" -- and for landing the plane in the 1974 disaster pic "Airport 1975." Guess what she looks like now!... Permalink
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
It's really not that hard to film a scary movie. Just make up a story about a crazy guy with an ax, shoot most of the scenes at night and hire Karen Black in a supporting role. You're bound to provide at least two or three good scares. read more
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
( University of Rochester Medical Center ) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Eastman Dental Center's Hyun (Michel) Koo, D.D.S, Ph.D., $1.6 million to continue his work on preventing dental caries, the single most prevalent and costly oral infectious disease in the US.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
It's really not that hard to film a scary movie. Just make up a story about a crazy guy with an ax, shoot most of the scenes at night and hire Karen Black in a supporting role. You're bound to provide at least two or three good scares. Against all odds, at...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Does anybody really think it takes a lot of qualifications to be president... or even vice president, for that matter, of anything? Let's be honest....
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A reader responds to my tongue-in-cheek video of Airport 1975: Hilarious, if untrue. The only problem with this is that I haven't seen any evidence Palin doubts her abilities to run the country well. In this scenario, she'd shout a...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Returning after a three year hiatus, Author Services Inc, located one block west of Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd, is once again hosting live music and story-readings of L. Ron Hubbard's "Stories from the Golden Age," with some of the world's most talented musicians and Hollywood's most recognized actors, including Chick Corea, Edgar Winter, Karen...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
By David Lambert - This past May saw the landing of the long-awaited DVD release, The Invaders - The 1st Season. Now CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that they'll finish off the... (more)
Cinema de Merde (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Smaller aircraft hits larger one, panic ensues. The stewardess is flying the plane.
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Philip Roth isn’t mincing words about adaptations of his works to film. In a recent interview, Roth was asked what he thought of some of those adaptations, starting with “Elegy,” a reworking of his novel “The Dying Animal” that came out this year and attracted little attention, even though it starred Penelope Cruz. “I think Penelope Cruz [...]
Lady Bunny Blog (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black featuring Kembra Pfahler, that is. They'll be performing at Santos' Party House at an early show this evening at 7:30. Armen is the androgynous Armenian theremin (that haunting, rarified instrument mostly used in vintage horror films) player formerly of New York, now of LA. As you can see from the pix below, this will be a very eclectic night of eclectic music....
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Reviewed by Tom Becker Quote: "Arguably the last great, R-rated schlock horror film of the '80s."
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The Deitch Projects annual Art Parade , that carnival of nudity, floats, funny hats, balloons, street-artistry, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, and more, has been cancelled , due to rain. Early word is a tentative reschedule for Spring '09.
