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Cat People
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film_ronin
, October 17, 2007
Immediately Giorgio Moroder's score captures you in the darkness with its sensual rhythms, then Schrader entices us into a labyrinthine journey of sex and death seen through the eyes of the dark & beautiful Irena (Kinski). Her brother Paul, played by a Malcom McDowell welcomes Irena to New Orleans ( a perfect location for this erotic & fetishistic tale ) dressed as a priest, this is their first 'reunion' since infancy & orphanage. Paul takes her home and introduces her to his housekeeper Female (played by the great Ruby Dee). Their joy is short lived, as Paul's incestuous overtures are rebuffed by an innocent Irena and his disappearance coincides with a visit by the police to investigate Paul's possible involvement in a 'ritualistic' murder involving a panther. Female is arrested as a possible accomplice to Paul's crimes. In jail, she advices Irena to 'not love' and 'pretend the world is what men believe it to be'. Irena is quickly taken in by Oliver ( John Heard ), curator of the New Orleans Zoo, after he startles her sketching a recently captured black panther. Irena settles into a life working at the zoo and begins a relationship with Oliver, much to the dismay of Alice ( Annette O'Toole ), ostensibly Oliver's love interest until Irena's arrival. Paul resurfaces after a tragic attack by the panther on a zoo keeper (played by Ed Begley, Jr.) in front of Irena, Alice & Oliver. Paul's presence is now menacing and his previous advances are now violent and threatening. He tells Irena that 'only she can save him': by being with him as they are like their parents- brother & sister and of an ancient and incestuous race, unable to mate with only their own kind, lest they transform-returning to human form only after killing. Schrader captures the dark, sensual and moody atmosphere of the New Orleans night with this tale of occult, sex, blood & lycanthropy.
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Kid Stays In The Picture
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Robert Evans
film_ronin
, May 08, 2007
I met Bob Evans a couple of years ago at Book Soup on Sunset Blvd., for no less a 'literary' L.A. event than a 'book' signing for the release of 'Kid' on cd. Never the less, Evans' story as meteoric rise to head of production at Paramount and white-hot, sub-orbital fall due to substance abuse is an amazing tale. Evans was personally involved in producing some the classics from a artistic Golden Age: The Godfather, Chinatown, Harold & Maude.
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American Tabloid
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James Ellroy
film_ronin
, May 01, 2007
I purchased this book at Powell's in Portland, after a recommendation by a close friend. Elroy's spartan prose runs contrary to the polished and impersonal history of text books and screenplays. His 'history-as-tabloid headlines' is a visceral view of America rife with corruption at every level, struggling with itself at a time of chaos and change. 'Tabloid' drives you through a violent landscape with characters like: JFK, RFK, Howard Hughes and J. Edger Hoover as signposts headed toward an uncertain future.
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Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories
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Pedro Juan Gutierrez
film_ronin
, May 01, 2007
The novel lives up to every promise of the title. Every page is a rum soaked lustful portrait of a society full of life, its struggle for survival told by (and symbolized by) 'Pedro Juan', a hustler always looking for his next meal, drink or lay. The Cuba that many only know through Hemingway is long past, yet the warm character of its people and the beauty of the Malecon comes through like a sweet sea salt breeze.
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Graceland an Interactive Pop Up Tour Elvis Presley
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Chuck Murphy
film_ronin
, April 26, 2007
I'm from Memphis. They should make this book available to everyone that visits Graceland! How else will you understand the King, unless you've gazed through hs gold glasses? No less a person than John Updike recently visited Graceland-he should've had this book! He was both impressed and saddened by the experience-as I'm sure a lot of fans are. With a foreward by Priscilla, you come to understand Elvis' home as a creation out of a child's longing for comfort and security. Long live The King!
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Terrorist
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John Updike
film_ronin
, April 24, 2007
For years, I have looked at Mr. Updike's picture on dust jackets and in articles and wondered at the character of the man. Was he as affable as he appeared? Was the boyish grin and relaxed manner portrayed in shades of gray, a literary affectation? A marketing device, a public persona for the sale racks or something more sublime? Was the authors character, as poured out on countless pages in numerous volumes, really coming through. I had been planning on attending the conference at the University of Memphis (Freedom of Information Congress or some such monicker) for over a week, after having seen an ad in the Memphis Flyer announcing that Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike would be there to give a reading of his latest work and a sampling of his poetry. Despite Hemingway's admonitions that an author should write his words and not speak them, I like to go hear authors speak whenever I get the chance. As Papa Hemingway once put it "Writing is a lonely business...", so more the thought to share a moment with those that seek to capture those moments through talented prose. Mr.Updike spoke with great warmth and charm, almost like an like a long lost uncle-having made an unannounced drop in for a holiday meal. Charming as any n'er do well, but not without his own currency and not needing to curry favor with this eager audience, his sprightly manner held us rapt for the evening. His first reading was from the first chapter of the last novel of the 'Rabbit' series. It was a real treat to hear the words spoken aloud by the author that wrote them; given life and breath by the man that first conceived them. Next, a reading from "Terrorist", Updike's new novel about the youth and life of a American boy, Ahmad of Arabic-Irish American descent. The only son of a single mother whose father left when he was three, Ahmad faces the struggle for independence and identity in the often awful world of adolescence and high school. For Ahmad, high school is a confusing mixture of temptations and turbulent emotions. Ahmad finds solace in Islam and the father figure of Shaik Rashid, a 'storefront mullah'. Rashid instructs Ahmad in the ways of Islam and later grooms & manipulates Ahmad into a terrorist plot. Jack Levy, Ahmad's guidance counselor later vies for Ahmad's faith and seeks to save him from a fatalistic and fanatic world view. In the hours before his scheduled appearance at the conference, Updike made the pilgrimage to Graceland. From his demeanor his visit to Graceland was one of rememberance and remorse. 'A triumph of the tacky', so he said,but also unexpectedly moving and a bit sad in the way that we view an old friend to whom time has not been kind. For the love of music and greatness of what was to him in youth the stepping stones to a new age and new art, became the stumbling blocks of age and indiscretion. When John Updike was a youth entering the hallowed halls of Harvard, Elvis was also young (Elvis was three years his junior) and entering the offices of Sun Records-leaving the secure job of truck driver for Crown Electric, for a less certain career as a singer. Updike remembers music being changed forever by Elvis, by the time he left college. I was pleased to hear that Mr.Updike's son had worked in Corinth, MS after college. So he had occasion to visit there and the civil war battlefield ,which inspired thought & a poem of that conflict long past.
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Cash The Autobiography
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Johnny Cash
film_ronin
, April 24, 2007
I HIGHLY reccomend Cash by Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr. I grew up in the south and because of my parents and grandparents, I grew up with a knowledge of the Carter family and Johnny Cash. After reading Cash, I felt like I really understood the journey that Johnny had been through. If you're really interested in what forces drove the man with the venerable voice, read this book!
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