Eamonn Griffin

Dad was a big Ken Colyer fan, so I'd go see him at the 100 Club. Then the Fairport Convention gig, but I'd skip out because I'd only be interested in seeing The Humblebums.

A gentleman never tells.

Big stick energy.

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in a living room . Alt: James Finlayson, doing his double-take thing.

Crafting a fine reply to a post to find the original's been deleted in the interim.

Biscuits.

Off the top of my head:

a) embedded bias from flawed human inputs / outdated work
b) replication and magnification of human cognitive biases / outdated work
c) opacity of AI processes
d) creeping private ownership of public information
e) tacit support for copyright violations

a man in a black hat is standing in front of a helicopter with an american flag on it . Alt: Lloyd Bridges as Tug Benson off of the Hot Shots! movies.

Best President since Tug Benson

Private Benjamin.

Post someone who looks good in a dress.

Two Froot Shoots, left on a car roof. Alone and together in the night.

Saw two Froot Shoots left on a car roof last night, and have been wondering about their story on and off all day.

Plus Rosemary's Baby works as a shaggy dog story - a novel's worth of set-up for a single dialogue punchline.

Sounds like DREYER'S FICTION be cooking.

And that's a pleasure of a re-read. Seeing it all come together. Part of the fun of genre - its limitations are opportunities.

Someone once described it as layers of a magic trick: a) seeing it done and b) knowing the trick and seeing it done well.

Also, Danse Macabre is a ton of fun for then-contemporary late-70s perspectives on the then-current state of horror in books, films, and TV. Nice things to say about James Herbert, Tobe Hooper, and so on and so forth.

(SK, wonderful tho he is and his writing be, ain't the go-to guy for Swiss watch plotting, the discursive so-and-so.)

The push I needed to bite the bullet and get me a copy of @mangiotto.bsky.social's book on Walter Hill sent to the UK. Good luck to you and yours.

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And to cap your observation about exquisite plotting, King then says:

"Levin has written two horror novels - Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives - and while both shine with the exquisite plotting that is Levin's trademark, probably neither is quite as effective as ... A Kiss Before Dying"

From Stephen King's Danse Macabre: Ira Levin discusses the movie adaptation of Rosemary's Baby. Text reads: About the film Levin himself says, "I've always felt that the film of Rosemary's Baby is the single most faithful adaptation of a novel ever to come out of Hollywood. Not only does it incorporate whole chunks of the book's dialogue, it even follows the colors of clothing (where I mentioned them) and the layout of the apartment. And perhaps more importantly, Polanski's directorial style of not aiming the camera squarely at the horror but rather letting the audience spot it for themselves off at the side of the screen coincides happily, I think, with my own writing style. "There was a reason for his fidelity to the book, incidentally . . . . His screenplay was the first adaptation he had written of someone else's material; his earlier films had all been originals. I think he didn't know it was permitted—nay, almost mandatory—to make changes. I remember him calling me from Hollywood to ask in which issue of the New Yorker Guy had seen the shirt advertised. To my chagrin I had to admit I'd faked it; I had assumed any issue of the New Yorker would have a handsome shirt advertised in it. But the correct issue for the time of the scene didn't."

Found it. King reports Levin saying this in Danse Macabre:

Unless it's a Stephen King story from Danse Macabre...

Think it's mentioned in Adventures in the Screen Trade, but I don't have a copy to hand to check ...

There's a William Goldman anecdote about Polanski asking Levin about a specific magazine cover so he could put that issue onscreen, to find - a little disappointed - that Levin made the details up, thinking they sounded plausible.

In which that Babish cooking fella off of the YouTubes does fish & chips for the lads from Fallow www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81J...

YouTube video by BREAK OUT PICTURES THE THREE URNS TRAILER | IN CINEMAS APRIL 17

A solid rule: watch anything with Ciaran Hinds in it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lVf...

Dick Wolf has entered the chat.

part of being nice is being mean to fascists.

Yes

Some journo should ask him "about the secret thing" to see what he blurts out.

YouTube video by Sahil V. Prakash Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) HD - Plane Landing scene

Fuckers. Lest we forget: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M092...