Peter Stults’ “A Dame to Kill For” Starring Kirk Douglas & Lauren Bacall

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In Peter Stults‘ Movies from an Alternate Universe, Stults takes movie posters and re-imagines how they would look and who would star in them had they been made in a different era.

Since that post Peter Stults has created six volumes of re-imagined posters.  Today, I’ve posted my favorite from the fourth set.

I’ll bet that once you check out the posters in the fourth volume, you’ll be surprised I didn’t pick one of the two Stallone-related posters.  I am too, but Stults’ A Dame to Kill For is just so dead-on, it had to be the choice.

Wouldn’t you love to see a book of Stults’ Movies from an Alternative Universe?  I would, too.

You can check out all the posters in the first volume here!

The posters in the second set are here.

Volume three is here and four is here.

Twilight Zone: “Masks” [Season 5, Episode 25] / Z-View

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Twilight Zone: “Masks” [Season 5, Episode 25]
Original Air Date: March 20, 1964

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Virginia Gregg and Alan Sues.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Jason Foster, a rich old man on his death-bed, summons his family to him.  He cares nothing for them and they only care about their coming inheritance.  Foster tells them they must wear masks until midnight or he will cut them out of his will.

Sure, it’s a crazy request, but what harm could come from wearing a mask?

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Peter Stults’ “Man of Steel” Starring Charlton Heston

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For those just arriving… a little over four years ago I posted Peter Stults‘ Movies from an Alternate Universe.  Stults takes movie posters and re-imagines how they would look and who would star in them had they been made in a different era.

Since that post Peter Stults has created six volumes of re-imagined posters.  Today, I’ve posted my favorite from the third set.  I love the casting of this one.  Dead on.

You can check out all the posters in the first volume here!

The posters in the second set are here.

Volume three is here.

Twilight Zone: “What’s in the Box” [Season 5, Episode 23] / Z-View

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Twilight Zone: “What’s in the Box” [Season 5, Episode 24]
Original Air Date: March 13, 1964

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Martin Goldsmith

Starring: Joan Blondell, William Demarest and Sterling Holloway.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

A cranky old man [Demarest] comes home to argue with his bitter wife [Blondell] and complain that to the tv repairman [Holloway] that he’s taking to long to fix the set because he wants to amp up the bill.  Later when the old man is watching tv he sees himself cheating with his girlfriend… and killing his wife.

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Peter Stults’ “28 Days Later” Starring Richard Burton

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A little over four years ago I posted Peter Stults‘ Movies from an Alternate Universe.  Stults takes movie posters and re-imagines how they would look and who would star in them had they been made in a different era.

Since that post Peter Stults has created six volumes of re-imagined posters.  Yesterday we took a look at one of my favorites from the first set.  Today, I’ve posted my favorite from the second set.  I love this poster [which says a lot since I’m not a big Richard Burton fan].

You can check out all the posters in the first volume here!

The posters in the second set are here.

Twilight Zone: “Queen of the Nile” [Season 5, Episode 22] / Z-View

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Twilight Zone: “Queen of the Nile” [Season 5, Episode 22]
Original Air Date: March 6, 1964

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: Ann Blyth, Lee Philips and Celia Lovsky.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

A reporter gets an interview with a Hollywood star who may be lying about her age by A LOT.  If she is lying, then how does she stay so young?

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13 behind-the-Scenes Facts About Shark Tank

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Jake Rossen and Mental_Floss present 13 behind-the-Scenes Facts About Shark Tank.  Here are three of my favorites…

2. CONTESTANTS CAN SPEND OVER AN HOUR IN FRONT OF THE SHARKS.
While product pitches are typically aired in 10-minute segments, business owners are often hashing out details with the Sharks for an hour or more. “The first time, I was in there 45 minutes,” says Aaron Marino, who appeared in a season four episode with his Alpha M image consultation business and will appear a second time in this season’s finale on May 20. “The second time was an hour, hour-and-a-half. When you get into the minutiae of business numbers, they cut a lot of that stuff out.”

8. EVERYONE HAS TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST.
Once entrepreneurs are done filming, they’re immediately whisked off-set and into a meeting with a show-appointed psychiatrist for an off-air evaluation. “They just want to work through how you’re feeling,” says Bandholz. “I’ve heard from other contestants that they can be devastated by their performance, or by what the appearance might mean for their business. It’s a very intense emotional roller coaster.”

9. MOST OF THE ON-AIR DEALS DON’T GO THROUGH.
While contestants who accept an offer from one or more of the Sharks seem to have it made, it’s little more than a handshake deal. Owing to the due diligence process, Hale estimates that more than two-thirds of deals that are agreed upon in the show fall through. “It’s more like a first date,” he says. “You go back and find things you don’t like. Sometimes the deal terms change.”

Peter Stults “Reservoir Dogs” Starring Charlton Heston & Henry Belafonte

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A little over four years ago I posted Peter Stults‘ Movies from an Alternate Universe.  Stults takes movie posters and re-imagines how they would look and who would star in them had they been made in a different era.

Since that post Peter Stults has created six volumes of re-imagined posters.  Above is one of my favorites from the first set. You can check out all the posters in the first volume here!

Twilight Zone: “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” [Season 5, Episode 21] / Z-View

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Twilight Zone: “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” [Season 5, Episode 21]
Original Air Date: February 28, 1964

Director: Robert Enrico

Writer: Robert Enrico based on the story by Ambrose Pierce

Starring: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly and Anker Larsen.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

A French adaptation of the classic Ambrose Pierce tale of a Civil War soldier sentenced to hang at Owl Creek Bridge.

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The “Walking Dead” Attraction at Universal Studios

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As a fan who has been touting The Walking Dead comic since issue one, it still surprises me how well the comic series translated into a tv series which caught on with the general population.

Not only has The Walking Dead  tv series lasted six plus years, but has spun off the Fear the Walking Dead tv series and is now becoming a major attraction at Universal Studios.

Twilight Zone: “Spur of the Moment” [Season 5, Episode 21] / Z-View

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Twilight Zone: “Spur of the Moment” [Season 5, Episode 21]
Original Air Date: February 21, 1964

Director: Elliott Silverstein

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Diana Hyland, Marsha Hunt and Philip Ober.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

It has been a strange day for Anne Henderson [Hyland].  While horseback riding on the family estate she was chased by a middle-aged screaming woman dressed in black.  When she arrived home, her boyfriend was there to ask for her hand in marriage, but before she could answer, an ex-boyfriend [who her father despised] shows up asking her to leave with him… Anne’s decision will impact everyone including the screaming woman.

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10 Surprising Facts About George Carlin

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Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 10 Surprising Facts About George Carlin.  Here are three of my favorites…

5. HE HAD A LIFELONG INTEREST IN CURSE WORDS.
He wrote down the “most colorful” profanities he heard in his neighborhood and put them in his pocket. When he was 13, his mother found them in the wallet. Carlin claimed he overheard her saying to his uncle that she believed George needed a psychiatrist.

7. HE WAS THE FIRST-EVER HOST OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, BUT DIDN’T REMEMBER THE EXPERIENCE.
He was “loaded on cocaine all week long” leading up to October 11, 1975, when he performed stand-up and introduced the inaugural episode’s musical guests, Billy Preston and Janis Ian. Carlin and the longtime SNL director Dave Wilson had gone to summer camp together as kids. For the Saturday night talent shows, a young George would do monologues. After years of Wilson winning the contests, Carlin finally beat him. (George eventually got kicked out of camp for stealing film from the owner’s camera to take his own photographs.) When Lorne Michaels interviewed Carlin about performing the hosting duties, he said, “Well, I know the director.”

Carlin was also the first-ever host of Fridays (1980-1982), ABC’s attempted version of SNL.

10. THE IRS HELPED HIM BECOME A BETTER COMIC.

About the Internal Revenue Service taking a large percentage of his money after years of owing taxes, Carlin saw the bright side of it all:

“It made me a way better comedian, because I had to stay out on the road, and I couldn’t pursue a movie career—which would have gone nowhere—and I became a really good comic and writer eventually, saving all my files and thoughts and things. I had to be prepared for that, because HBO was coming along, and about every two years—at my choice—I had to have another hour ready. So my having to stay on the road turned me into a g**damn good comedian. So there’s a bright part of everything.”