Great movie, and one which holds a place in my heart for a very special reason: my future wife tricked me into our first date (although not really a date from my unsuspecting p.o.v.) by not seeing it with her friends, but "accidentally" seeing Lady Chatterly's Lover with me in the screen next door.
As we say in the UK, a 'national treasure'.
Considering the character's obvious appeal, I've always found it odd 2000AD delayed the debut of Judge Dredd until its second issue.
#comics @2000ad.bsky.social
Apparently, "major life announcement" is what we used to call 'happy news': Portman is expecting her third child. #Hollywood
Whilst delving into Bela Lugosi's hit tour with the theatrical adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which eventually led to the 1931 #horror #movie, I uncovered these rather nice newspaper ads.
A rather sad and pointless death, particularly given his talent.
Advertisement for The Wild Party (1929), starring Clara Bow.
Photograph of Clara Bow, promoting The Wild Party (1929).
Currently researching a magazine article on Clara Bow, famously known as 'the It girl'. The reference to "B.O. records" in this ad for her first talkie, The Wild Party (1929), becomes less offensive when you realise the initials stand for box office rather than body odour.
#journalism #movies
Polygon website ad: "The 2D Soulslike is the Bloodborne spiritual successor you're looking for".
The only part of that headline I understand are the final three words -- and no, I'm not. #gaming
To me, it's not a question of whether she could, more whether she should be asked. Unless gender-switching the role is more than a headline-grabbing gimmick, why do it?
Nice piece on the amazing Marli Renfro, Psycho shower scene body double—still making the pages!
#MarliRenfro #RobertGraysmith
Clipping from BBC website mentioning Tilda Swinton and Cillian Murphy as possible castings for Lord Voldemort in HBO's new Harry Potter series.
Tilda Swinton? Surely the clue is in the name which must not be spoken: LORD Voldemort. #HarryPotter #television
Source: BBC.
#ReubenAwards #cartoonist #cartoons #artwork
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Artemis II logo.
Artemis II toilet.
BREAKING NEWS: The future of the Artemis spaceflight programme has been thrown into doubt after NASA received astronaut Christina Koch's bill for fixing the Artemis II toilet. "Her basic call-out charge and hourly rate were reasonable," a spokesman stated, "but then she added mileage."
Magazine cover featuring Hammer Films portrait of actress Madeline Smith.
Early photo of actress Madeline Smith, possibly during her days as a model.
A rather lovely portrait of #horror 'scream queen' Madeline Smith, fronting the February 1973 issue of Film Review. I really like the biographical data next to her photo. Incidentally, Maddy is every iota as sweet and charming in person as she has always been on screen. #movies #actors
Many thanks to yourselves for publishing Robert Graysmith's excellent The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower. It was of invaluable assistance when researching my article on Marli, covering the background in far greater detail than I could ever hope to.
Cover of the April edition of Yours Retro.
Clipping from my article on Marli Renfro, who doubled for Janet Leigh in the film Psycho. "It was a twist straight out of a Hitchcock movie: the secret star of a make-believe murder became embroiled in a real-life killing. Steve Green pulls back the curtain."
Out today: Yours Retro #99, with my article on Psycho body double Marli Renfro tagged top right of the cover.
#freelance #magazine #journalism
cc @monkeyspawpub.bsky.social
Husband to wife, whilst reading newspaper with 'Cost of living' headline: "All the things we gave up for Lent we now can't afford to do anyway"
Matt Pritchett's take on life during wartime.
#cartoons #humour
Yeah, she was.
In the midst of feeding dogs, but have your info now and will attend to that soonest.
I was with my late wife Ann on that occasion, and -- bless her -- she made sure I got the seat next to Ray.
Forry was rather problematical in certain areas (something he had in common with Isaac Asimov), but his impact upon the genre was almost entirely positive. I met him several times, and he was always great company.
May I recommend my friend John Navroth's website monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com ?
If you care to let me have your e-mail address (I've followed you, so you can DM in private), I'd be happy to send over the full PDFs of those articles.
Ah, wasn't sure how old your clientele was.
I once held a cinema seat for Ray whilst he and Forry Ackerman (former Famous Monsters editor) introduced a restored print of King Kong, at a 1930s cinema in Salford. Fun guys, both. He was carrying a Jason & the Argonauts skeleton in his luggage, in a tiny coffin (customs x-ray proved interesting).
To be fair, few do.
Clipping from Yours Retro article on Will Hay.
Clipping from Yours Retro article on Tod Slaughter.
I can think of many performers who would have welcomed a phantom cackle from the back row.
Served on a (Tom) Disch?
You never need an excuse to celebrate Peter Cushing. One of my great regrets is never getting to meet him.
Rare on-screen appearance by Sam Peckinpah.
You make it sound like Romeo and Juliet, with added dinosaurs. Actually, think I'll hop in my time machine and pitch that to Roger Corman.