Stephen King: ‘I sleep with the lights on’
I find it reassuring to know that Stephen King has sold over 350 million books–not because it’s a sales target young hopeful writers might choose…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 12/2014
MILF invites Pope
From the Manila Bulletin comes the headline of the holidays: “MILF invites Pope.” To do what you may ask? But this MILF is the Moro…
‘Pulp Fiction’ underwater
The Kloons have recreated an iconic scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction shot-for-shot but with one major difference–they did the whole thing underwater. It’s the…
Stanley Kubrick directing ‘Dr. Strangelove’
It wasn’t just the nuclear fallout in the milk that concerned most people during the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was a genuine fear…
Muhammad Ali recites his poem on the Attica Prison riot: ‘Better to die fighting to be free’
In July 1972, Muhammad Ali traveled to his ancestral homeland of Ireland at the invitation of Michael “Butty” Sugrue, who had put up the purse…
Picasso’s poetry: Painting with words
Pablo Picasso’s first attempt at poetry was a brief thank you note to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire written in French sometime around 1906. Picasso did…
The bloody horror of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol
Long before audiences paid to be thrilled by the horror of slasher movies, splatterpunk and “video nasties,” there was a theater in Paris that provided…
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film
As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982.…