In your face, Jasper Johns Nutty!
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Oct 09, 2007 7:52:27 pm PDT #4173 of 28222
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Frankenbuddha - Oct 10, 2007 2:47:24 am PDT #4174 of 28222
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In the same way that Italian thrillers became known as Giallo - which means yellow, and refers to the yellow covers of the source novels.
That bring to mind that I was just reading (in VIDEO WATCHDOG) about a German variation called Krimis, which was a series of crime films in the 60s based on Edgar Wallace novels (often extremely loosely). They're almost unknown outside of Germany, and share several characteristics with the Giallos (decadent characters, violent murders by elaborately masked people, etc.), and are mostly set (ostensibly if not recognizably) in England. Klaus Kinski got his start in those, usually playing a depraved red herring/victim.
Though I guess that is more of a discussion for film, not literary.
Nutty - Oct 10, 2007 3:59:36 am PDT #4175 of 28222
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
"MWOMP WOMP WOMP, See?"
Ha! This is the tiniest Venn diagram of humor in the world.
(It always makes me sad how little Edward G. Robinson is remembered by the filmgoing public. It's possibly helped along by the fact that the first film I ever saw him in was Double Indemnity, where he's the conscience of the piece.)
Frankenbuddha - Oct 10, 2007 4:09:44 am PDT #4176 of 28222
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's possibly helped along by the fact that the first film I ever saw him in was Double Indemnity, where he's the conscience of the piece
True that. I'd seen plenty of parodies of him (most notably in Warner Brothers cartoons), but DI was the first actual film I saw him in. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen one of his gangster roles (the only other ones I can recall are THE STRANGER, where he's a nazi-hunter, and SOYLENT GREEN).
This is in contrast to Cagney (who got to play good guys more frequently then Edward G.), where WHITE HEAT was the first film I saw him in. That'll make a lasting impression.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2007 5:57:29 am PDT #4177 of 28222
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That bring to mind that I was just reading (in VIDEO WATCHDOG) about a German variation called Krimis, which was a series of crime films in the 60s based on Edgar Wallace novels (often extremely loosely). They're almost unknown outside of Germany, and share several characteristics with the Giallos (decadent characters, violent murders by elaborately masked people, etc.), and are mostly set (ostensibly if not recognizably) in England. Klaus Kinski got his start in those, usually playing a depraved red herring/victim.
I've seen Krimi! They're pretty cool actually, and Lux Interiors listed his five favorite in the second Catalog of Cool.
Kathy A - Oct 10, 2007 6:57:36 am PDT #4178 of 28222
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
It always makes me sad how little Edward G. Robinson is remembered by the filmgoing public.
But he'll always be known by those of us who watch The Ten Commandments at Eastertime: "Where's your Moses nooooowww?"
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2007 7:31:40 am PDT #4179 of 28222
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I don't know what the first Edward G. Robinson movie I saw was, but the one that always sticks out in my mind was Tales of Manhattan.
The movie's kind of uneven and tends to be a little maudlin and manipulative, but man, he's great in it.
Maysa - Oct 10, 2007 11:27:05 pm PDT #4180 of 28222
He's really good in The Sea Wolf - and so, so evil.
Hayden - Oct 11, 2007 12:38:38 pm PDT #4181 of 28222
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Emily - Oct 12, 2007 4:26:43 am PDT #4182 of 28222
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Curses! Blocked again!