Fifty years ago–in the perfect pop culture year of 1966–Woody Allen did his first film project for American International Pictures, home to Roger Corman, monsters,…
Tregoweth Edmond “Treg” Brown was the genius sound-effects wizard responsible for sound editing the Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons starting in 1936.…
William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece, The Exorcist, was a landmark in horror cinema, a cultural phenomenon, and (if adjusting for inflation) the ninth highest-grossing film of…
The world premiere of Enter the Dragon, the kung fu crossover hit, happened in Hong Kong on July 26, 1973, six days after Bruce Lee’s…
Maybe it’s because I’ve become so used to seeing images of Bruce Lee from his movies–ripped, sweating and flashing his martial arts skills at some…
“Mr. Wineberger, Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right out in CLAESS!” Divine’s official social media guru directed my attention, yesterday, to the work…
In February 1957, Orson Welles walked onto to Stage 19 at Universal Studios to begin directing his first Hollywood movie in almost a decade–Touch of…