When I set out to interview all of the folks that were doing work that I respected back in the ‘90s, during the golden age of zines, there was one person I knew I wouldn’t be able to speak with. I’d been told by multiple people that Doug Holland, the man behind the legendary zine […]
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Fondly remembering Roger Ebert… nerdy kid in search of friends, childhood zine editor
I have very few regrets in life. One of the biggest is not pursuing an interview with writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert more aggressively. (He finds himself in the distinguished company on Don Knotts and Joey Ramone in that regard.) If you haven’t heard, Ebert passed away today at […]
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R.I.P. Tura Satana
Somewhere around this drafty old house of ours, I have an audio recording of director Russ Meyer talking with Linette and me about his career. It was probably recorded in 1994. We’d met him in Atlanta, as I recall, at a screening of his cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! If memory serves, he was […]
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged actress, another famous person has died, b-movies, bad girls, bad movies, breasts, cult films, Elvis, exploitation films, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, go-go dancers, Harold Lloyd, horror movies, King of The Nudies, Manzanar internment camp, pin ups, Reno, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, strippers, Ted V. Mikels, The Astro Zombies, tough broads, Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, Tura Satana, Varla, waif models, women who kick ass 10 Comments