Trailer to “I am Ali” Looks Awesome!
The trailer to I am Ali looks really good!
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Mike Torrance Finds “Daylight”
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Kit Latura with him!
Mike is a great guy and his commissions are always a blast!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Remembering Kotter and His Sweathogs
Welcome Back, Kotter burst onto the scene in September 1975 and was an instant hit. The initial idea was to focus on a young newly married teacher [Gabe Kaplan] returning to teach remedial students [called Sweathogs] at his former high school where he had been a remedial student. The show’s breakout stars turned out to be the Sweathogs.
So the focus changed.
Soon the spotlight was on the students with their teacher in a co-star or even supporting role. The teacher’s wife usually had a scene in the shows opening and again in the closing where she got to laugh at an old joke told by teacher. There were stories of an unhappy set.
Things became more complicated when Kaplan butted heads with the show’s producer and John Travolta [one of the remedial students] made it big in the movies. Both Kaplan and Travolta didn’t even appear in many of the last season episodes.
The show ran four seasons and for the first two and maybe the third it was “must-see” tv. Sadly during the the fourth and final season the audience graduated even if the Sweathogs didn’t.
The AV Club posted a piece by Noel Murray titled 10 Episodes That Show How Welcome Back, Kotter Was Like a Class in Comedy History. While that may be a bit of an overstatement, the article did bring back some fun memories of Kotter and his Sweathogs.
12 Things You Might Not Know About Houdini
Neatorama recently posted 12 Things You Might Not Know About Houdini by Eddie Deezen.
My guess is you’ll know most of the Houdini facts, but there may be a few surprises if you read the piece.
Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview
On October 31, 2014, [What an appropriate date!] Rolling Stone posted an interview with Stephen King conducted by Andy Greene. It is well worth a look.
King and Greene cover a lot of ground and not just about King’s books and movies made from them. The interview is well worth a read by any Stephen King fan.
Mike Torrance Goes Out on a Cliff
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Gabe Walker with him!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Q & A with John Carpenter!
I’ve been a John Carpenter fan since his classic Halloween. Then when VHS came out I was able to go back and see Assault on Precinct 13 [which I prefer to the two].
Carpenter went on to do Escape from New York, The Thing and so many other cool films. Somewhere along the way the lighting escaped the bottle.
Carpenter has the best attitude about his career, his life and his legacy. I’d love to see him return to Snake Plissken with Kurt Russell one more time.
That’s not likely and Carpenter doesn’t talk about it in this interview, but he does talk about a lot and the interview is more than worth a read.
Source: Deadline.
Mike Torrance and Snaps
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Angelo “Snaps” Provolone with him!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Drew Struzan’s “Billy Jack”
Drew Struzan was the go-to guy for painted movie posters. Sadly painted posters are all too rare these days. This Billy Jack piece gives a hint of Mr. Struzan’s talents.
Mike Torrance Locks Up Sly!
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Frank Leone with him!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Rare Bruce Lee Sparring Video
Below is a short but extremely rare video of Bruce Lee sparring.
Keanu Reeves’ “John Wick” Interview
Click on the video below to see JoBlo’s interview with Keanu Reeves John Wick interview!
Vin Diesel’s “Multi-Facial”
Even if you’re a huge Vin Diesel fan there’s a good chance that you’ve never seen Multi-Facial the short film that Diesel wrote, directed and starred in back in 1995.
Fear now more.
You can now see Multi-Facial through the embed below. Be advised that it contains some inappropriate language.
Mike Torrance Takes Us “Over the Top”
Today Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd takes us Over the Top!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Lost 3 Stooges Short “Hello Pop!” Now Available
Three Stooges completists are excited to finally be able to get a copy of their short Hello Pop!
It was believed that all copies of the film were lost in a fire on the MGM lot in 1967, but a collector turned up a nicely preserved copy in Australia last year.
You can get full details at the NY Post article by Lou Lumenick.
