RICHARD MATHESON (1926-2013)
There is no writer who meant more to me. As a child, he was the first screenwriter whose name I recognized, on the credits of movies
The Emmy Award winning TV writer/producer and the author that critics are hailing as "Elmore Leonard on crack"
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RICHARD MATHESON (1926-2013)
There is no writer who meant more to me. As a child, he was the first screenwriter whose name I recognized, on the credits of movies
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER:
CORNELL WOOLRICH (1903-1968)
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER:
CORNELL WOOLRICH (1903-1968)
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER: ROBERT BLOCH
W.R. BURNETT — The ultimate scribe of the gangster and the gunman.
Living Masters. Bob Newhart, Richard Thompson, Rick Baker, Vin Scully, Ralph Stanley, Ennio Morricone.
My film freak Friday entry is FANTOMAS (1913). The first costumed villain/hero?
When the AFI scheduled a screening of DOUBLE INDEMNITY and said that Cain would be there in person, I had to go. I’d seen INDEMNITY before, of course, but never in a theater. And certainly never in the presence of the Master himself.
We start each night with some cartoons. It’s the law. We’ve been exploring the Hanna-Barbera TV shows lately. Some of them are very weak. THE SPACE KIDETTES was one. The other was YOUNG SAMSON AND GOLIATH, about a teen-ager and his dog who, with the help of magic bracelets turn into, well Young Samson (a muscle bound Sword and Sandal type) and his pet Lion. Who can also shoot laser out of his cat eyes.
I watch a lot of old movies. If you check my DVR, you’ll find it full of Turner Classic Movies and not much else. But I have an even stranger quirk. I pay attention to the screenwriters of these films. That’s right, I actually pay attention to who wrote the movie.
Turner Classic Movies is showing a new CARRY ON movie every Saturday. As there are over thirty of them, the festival could go on for many, many months. I know these films are an acquired taste, but I love them dearly. Full of low-brow, music-hall-style humor, they’re sort of the British equivalent to Abbott and Costello movies. The stories are loosely structured to allow a variety of English comedians a chance to do their bits.
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