S. Craig Zahler (Writer & Director of “Bone Tomahawk”) Interview!
If you’re a fan you’ll probably want to check out this interview with S. Craig Zahler the writer and director of Bone Tomahawk.
Twilight Zone: “Execution” [Season 1, Episode 26] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “Execution” [Season 1, Episode 26]
Original Air Date: April 1, 1960
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: Rod Serling from a story by George Clayton Johnson
Starring: Albert Salmi and Russell Johnson.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Professor Manion [Russell] accidentally transports an outlaw [Salmi] from the old west who is about to be hanged to modern times. The outlaw believes he has escaped justice, but this is the Twilight Zone!
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Ron Salas: “Believe in the Devil”
Ron Salas posted his poster for Daredevil and it was just way to cool not to share!
Ron is a great guy as well as a fantastic freelance artist. If you collect sketches you deserve to have a piece by Ron in your collection!
Z-View Twilight Zone: “People Are Alike All Over” [Season 1, Episode 25]
Twilight Zone: “People Are Alike All Over” [Season 1, Episode 25]
Original Air Date: March 25, 1960
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Writer: Rod Serling from a story by Paul Fairman
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Susan Oliver and Paul Comi.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
The first manned mission to Mars consists of a two man crew, Sam Conrad [McDowall] and Mark Marcusson [Comi]. Conrad is concerned that whatever life they find there will be dangerous. Marcusson is convinced that all life is made in God’s image and will therefore be like humans.
Marcusson is killed when the ship crash lands on Mars. Conrad is terrified at first, but then sees that Martians look like humans and are friendly. They promise to provide him a home and take care of him… sadly, Conrad comes to discover that people are indeed alike all over.
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“Dumb & Dumber” Trailer as an Oscar-Worthy Drama!
Music and editing impact a movie so much. Don’t believe it? Check out Dumb & Dumber as an Oscar-Worthy Drama!
Z-View Twilight Zone: “Long Live Walter Jameson” [Season 1, Episode 24]
Twilight Zone: “Long Live Walter Jameson” [Season 1, Episode 24]
Original Air Date: March 18, 1960
Director: Tony [Anton] Leader
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Kevin McCarthy and Edgar Stehli.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Professor Walter Jameson [McCarthy] plans to marry his friend’s much younger daughter. When his friend discovers that Jameson has been hiding a secret for years and someone from Jameson’s past shows up, well, you know you’ve entered the Twilight Zone.
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10 Witty Facts About The Marx Brothers
Mark Mancini and Mental_Floss present 10 Witty Facts About The Marx Brothers. Here are three of my favorites…
2. THEY RECEIVED THEIR STAGE NAMES DURING A POKER GAME.
In May of 1914, the five Marxes were playing cards with standup comedian Art Fisher. Inspired by a popular comic strip character known as “Sherlocko the Monk,” he decided that the boys could use some new nicknames. Leonard’s was a no-brainer. Given his girl-crazy, “chick-chasing” lifestyle, Fisher dubbed him “Chicko” (later, this was shortened to “Chico”). Arthur loved playing the harp and thus became “Harpo.” An affinity for soft gumshoes earned Milton the alias “Gummo.” Finally, Julius was both cynical and often seen wearing a “grouch bag”—wherein he’d store small objects like marbles and candy—around his neck. Thus, “Groucho” was born. For the record, nobody knows how Herbert Marx came to be known as “Zeppo.”
3. GROUCHO WORE HIS TRADEMARK GREASEPAINT MUSTACHE BECAUSE HE HATED MORE REALISTIC MODELS.
Phony, glue-on facial hair can be a pain to remove and reapply, so Groucho would simplypaint a ‘stache and some exaggerated eyebrows onto his face. However, the mustache he later rocked as the host of his famous quiz show You Bet Your Life was 100 percent real.
9. GROUCHO TEMPORARILY HOSTED THE TONIGHT SHOW.
Jack Paar bid the job farewell on March 29, 1962. Months before their star’s departure, NBCoffered Paar’s Tonight Show seat to Groucho, who had established himself as a razor-sharp, well-liked host during You Bet Your Life’s 14-year run. Though Marx turned the network down, he later served as a guest host for two weeks while Johnny Carson prepared to take over the gig. When Carson finally made his Tonight Show debut on October 1, it was Groucho whointroduced him.
Z-View Twilight Zone: “A World of Difference” [Season 1, Episode 23]
Twilight Zone: “A World of Difference” [Season 1, Episode 23]
Original Air Date: March 11, 1960
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Richard Matheson
Starring: Howard Duff and David White.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Arthur Curtis [Duff] is working in his office when suddenly someone yells, “Cut” and he finds himself on a movie set. He is led to believe he is Gerry Reagan, an actor with a drinking problem… yet he knows he is Arthur Curtis… or is he?
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18 Catchy Facts About “Footloose”
Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 18 Catchy Facts About Footloose. Here are three of my favorites…
1. IT WAS BASED ON ELMORE CITY, OKLAHOMA.
Elmore City had forbidden public dancing by law since its founding. In January of 1979, the local high schoolers asked that the rules be changed so that they could have a prom, to the anger of the reverend from the United Pentecostal Church. The kids won and got to dance on prom night. Dean Pitchford (lyricist for Fame songs “Red Light”, “Fame”, and “I Sing The Body Electric”) read about all of it and visited the town. Pitchford had his screenplay after 22 drafts.
2. TOM CRUISE ALMOST PLAYED REN.
The producers wanted Tom Cruise, but he had a scheduling conflict with All the Right Moves(1983). Rob Lowe auditioned and blew out his ACL. “I have post-traumatic stress with anything having to do with Footloose,” Lowe said later, while recalling a party where Kenny Loggins asked him to do a karaoke duet of the theme song. “I was like, ‘I won’t do anything with that damn movie, but I’ll do Danger Zone from Top Gun.’”
4. MADONNA AUDITIONED FOR ARIEL.
Had she gotten the part, it would have been her first feature film role. That didn’t come until 1985, in A Certain Sacrifice. Lori Singer got to play Ariel Moore instead.
Twilight Zone: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” [Season 1, Episode 22] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” [Season 1, Episode 22]
Original Air Date: March 4, 1960
Director: Ronald Winston
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Claude Akins, Barry Atwater and Jack Weston.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
It’s a beautiful summer afternoon until a strange sound and vibration brings neighbors outside. Paranoia soon takes over as the thought of an alien invasion takes hold. Who among them isn’t human?
Final Thoughts: One of the best Twilight Zone episodes. A true classic.
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10 Things You May Not Know About Richard Nixon
Cristopher Klein and History.com present 10 Things You May Not Know About Richard Nixon. Here are three of my favorites…
1. Lee Harvey Oswald may have plotted to assassinate Nixon.
In the early morning of November 22, 1963, Richard Nixon rode through Dallas to the airport to fly home after attending a Pepsi-Cola board meeting. Nixon saw the preparations for the motorcade that hours later would carry John F. Kennedy, the man who defeated him for the presidency three years prior, on the streets of the city’s downtown. After Nixon landed in New York, he learned that Kennedy had been gunned down in that motorcade. In a further coincidence, the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald testified to the Warren Commission that in April 1963 the alleged assassin read a local newspaper report, tucked a pistol in his belt, and told her, “Nixon is coming. I want to go and have a look.” After locking him in a bathroom, Oswald’s wife convinced him to turn over his gun. The account was puzzling, since Nixon was not in Dallas in April 1963 and no newspaper mentioned any visit.
3. Community theater brought Richard and Pat Nixon together.
Nixon first encountered his future first lady as a leading lady in 1938 when both auditioned for the Whittier Community Players production of “The Dark Tower.” The amateur theater production led to a romance between Nixon and Thelma Catherine Ryan, nicknamed “Pat” by her father because she was born on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day. Foreshadowing their later lives, the couple wed in the presidential suite of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, on June 21, 1940. [Richard Nixon as an actor? Or interested in acting? I would have never guessed. – Craig]
6. Nixon was an avid bowler.
One of Nixon’s favorite pastimes in the White House was bowling. He’d even bowl a few frames dressed in his suit. In addition to using the alley in the adjacent Old Executive Office Building, Nixon had another one-lane alley built in the basement beneath the North Portico entrance to the White House.
The “Term Life” Trailer and Poster Are Here!
The Term Life Trailer and Poster is Here!
I would have thought that Term Life would look better based on the cast: Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinield, Terrance Howard, Bill Paxton, and Jonathon Banks.
The “Forsaken” Trailer and Poster is Here!
The Forsaken Trailer and Poster is Here!
Twilight Zone: “Mirror Image” [Season 1, Episode 21] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “Mirror Image” [Season 1, Episode 21]
Original Air Date: February 26, 1960
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Vera Miles and Martin Milner.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Late on a stormy night Millicent Barnes [Miles] is stuck in a station waiting for an overdue bus when strange things begin to happen. Her suitcase keeps moving, the old man taking tickets claims she keeps asking him when the next bus is due [only she just spoke to him once] and when she see herself in the mirror it is her doing things she isn’t doing!
Final Thoughts: Milner is excellent as the nice guy who tries to put her mind at ease. The final shot / special effect is haunting.
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