Chuck Hogan

Last Heston post: 4/2/68 Apes setting records. Four days later, CH is getting the Oscars postponed out of respect for Dr. MLK's assassination/funeral. Later that day(!) he reads source novel for Soylent Green.

Bang.

Heston finished shooting Apes in early August, 1967, then embarked on a troop tour in Vietnam. This was the "Summer of Love." What a life.

Shoutout to all the other club kids reading Heston's actor's journals on a bangin' Saturday night.

"They did it! They finally really did it! You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Goddammit you all to hell!"

Maybe this is well known but not by me! Director Franklin Schaffner came up with the iconic ending of the original film? (Detailed in CH's journal a mere 5 days before the start of principal photography.)

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Wow, thank you!

Damon Lindelof takes a stand.

“Ship… out of danger?”

Amazing! Thank you!

Thanks for reporting! And ordering!

@chuckhogan.bsky.social Carpool Detectives is unputdownable. What an unbelievable story!! Well done, Mr. Hogan! #booksky📚

Thank you so much!!

The Crime Lady: A Few Questions for Chuck Hogan Dear TCL Readers: Chuck Hogan has been a mainstay of crime and thriller fiction for three decades, debuting with The Standoff (1995) and making a more...

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RIP Bob McGinniss, the absolute GOAT of book covers, pulpy and otherwise.

Watching a James Coburn movie. There's no one close to him now.

Heeeere's Satan!

Thanks for doing this!

Night Flight is a trip.

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

People who follow coverage of movies and celebrities should read every word of this. People responsible for that coverage should read every word of this twice. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown but we all know it won't end well.

Watching football.

Robert Ryan (sans his Chinaman impression 🙄) is a dark force.

One of the greatest scriptwriting Act 2's ever in terms of pure structure and rising suspense.

😎

Netflix has added 5 pre-1980 films for Sept.

Considering they only had about 5 before this, it roughly doubles their collection.

They have no American films released before 1975. #FilmSky

(with my original title) after the movie was released. How much $$ has the book made? The answer is ... more crickets. But that's how it goes sometimes. My editor was passionate about it, Scribners believed in the book, and it simply didn't hit. And I kept writing.

Hey, Sam. So. When the novel didn't make any splash upon publication, I knew I had to figure out my career path - because it was the best book I had written, or could write, and ... crickets. Except for movie people. 6 yrs later, the novel hit the NYT bestseller list in paperback...

(h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social)