My buddy Denro received his copy of the Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood novelization on Saturday, but I won’t get mine until tomorrow. Both copies were in the same order, so what’s up with that, Amazon??
Tarantino continues to trash-talk Bruce Lee, but not in this senior-friendly interview for CBS Sunday Morning.
The book is here, a day earlier than expected. Amazon must have seen this blog post. 😉
The novelization of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is out, and as befits the material, there’s no hardcover edition.
I continued my Alfred Hitchcock viewing on TCM. Saboteur — not to be confused with Hitchcock’s earlier Sabotage — has a brief scene that’s straight out of a Western. Then there’s an encounter with a blind man, just like in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. And how about a nod to Tod Browning’s Freaks for good measure?
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings’ co-star in Saboteur, passed away in 1995. When she died I learned that whenever I visited my younger sister’s family I was driving past the retirement home where Lane lived out her final years.
This is Turner Classic Movies’ Alfred Hitchcock binge weekend. I’m a Hitch guy, and I never tire of watching many of his films.
Foreign Correspondent is a favorite that I hadn’t seen in a long time.
Watching Shadow of a Doubt, an otherwise much greater film, I was reminded how much the ending just doesn’t work for me.
I was in high school when Hitchcock appeared on The Dick Cavett Show.
P.S. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Psycho, but my favorite was at a sold-out TCM Event showing in Phoenix, where the movie is ostensibly set. It’s playing on TCM right now, and until this moment I’d never before noticed the shower behind Janet Leigh in her apartment, before she runs away with the money.
Betty Page was a one-of-a-kind pinup girl. Appearing mostly in low-brow magazines, Bettie’s appeal was more kitschy than sleazy. Bettie (her preferred spelling) was happy to pose nude, but Irving Klaw never had her do that in his famous fetish photos. Personally, I don’t get the attraction of fetish material, and Bettie thought of it as a funny performance.
Bettie Page Reveals All, an affectionate yet unflinching portrait, is on Amazon Prime. The documentary is a bit amateurish, like the magazines Bettie appeared in, but I recommend it for both the cheesecake photos (there’s an old-fashioned term) and for Bettie’s life story.
For years, Bettie’s fans wondered where she was. The documentary really does reveal everything, including how she went from this…
… to this.
Bettie’s resurrection was thanks to comic book artist Dave Stevens. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Dave saved Bettie’s life, as the documentary explains. Bettie died less than a year after Dave’s untimely passing. Tim Estiloz, a comic book fan and friend, who I met through Joe Sinnott, once interviewed Bettie.
The hilarious, original, legendary, notorious, infamous, short-lived, unforgettable, 6-episode TV series from 1982. POLICE SQUAD! IN COLOR.
