“I’m filthy — period!” With an ideal cast — Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone — director Douglas Sirk tells a tale with everything the ’50s wouldn’t allow — lust, nymphomania, impotence, the works. It’s perhaps Sirk’s most accomplished, self-contained masterpiece — a glamorous soap with absorbing characters caught in a cycle of unfulfilled desires. An oil dynasty comes tumbling down because the heir is “tortured by a secret that made him lash out at all he loved!” I keep expecting bathos, but this great show makes its world come alive.
Written on the Wind
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 96
1956 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 1, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch, Joseph Granby, Roy Glenn, Maidie Norman, William Schallert, Kevin Corcoran, Cynthia Patrick.
Cinematography: Russell Metty
Art Directors: Robert Clatworthy,...
Written on the Wind
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 96
1956 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 1, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch, Joseph Granby, Roy Glenn, Maidie Norman, William Schallert, Kevin Corcoran, Cynthia Patrick.
Cinematography: Russell Metty
Art Directors: Robert Clatworthy,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
On Mrs. America, composer Kris Bowers was excited to immerse himself in a story of an icon he knew little about, crafting unique sounds for the opposing sides of a major historical battle.
Starring Cate Blanchett, the FX miniseries follows conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, as she leads a fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s, examining at the same time the group of feminists that opposed her.
Initially intending to complete his score for the series in the room, with a full-sized orchestra, Bowers was thrown into a whirlwind when the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., and self-quarantine became the new normal. In this surreal time, the composer managed to regroup with Mrs. America’s key creatives, recording sessions with individual musicians remotely, and finishing the score, which would land him his second consecutive Emmy nomination.
One of the most sought-after composers of today, Bowers has...
Starring Cate Blanchett, the FX miniseries follows conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, as she leads a fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s, examining at the same time the group of feminists that opposed her.
Initially intending to complete his score for the series in the room, with a full-sized orchestra, Bowers was thrown into a whirlwind when the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., and self-quarantine became the new normal. In this surreal time, the composer managed to regroup with Mrs. America’s key creatives, recording sessions with individual musicians remotely, and finishing the score, which would land him his second consecutive Emmy nomination.
One of the most sought-after composers of today, Bowers has...
- 8/25/2020
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Submarine movie evening: Underwater war waged in TCM's Memorial Day films In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies has gone all red, white, and blue this 2017 Memorial Day weekend, presenting a few dozen Hollywood movies set during some of the numerous wars in which the U.S. has been involved around the globe during the last century or so. On Memorial Day proper, TCM is offering a submarine movie evening. More on that further below. But first it's good to remember that although war has, to put it mildly, serious consequences for all involved, it can be particularly brutal on civilians – whether male or female; young or old; saintly or devilish; no matter the nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other label used in order to, figuratively or literally, split apart human beings. Just this past Sunday, the Pentagon chief announced that civilian deaths should be anticipated as “a...
- 5/30/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Welcome back, fellow Librarians fans, and welcome to Season 3! The season got off to a quick start with The Librarians Season 3 Episode 1, "And the Rise of Chaos," featuring a couple new villains. Well, one new villain and a whole group of strangely incompetent government nitwits.
Yes, indeedy-do! Apparently, no one informed the Men in Black anything about what the Library under the Metropolitan Library in New York was actually doing! (Communication, people. It's important stuff!)
So let's dive right in and take a look at the season's new villains. First up, let's look at the mooks known as the Department of Statistical Anomalies.
Their whole purpose in existence appears to be to get in the way of our heroes and to cause problems. Certainly, neither of the two featured representatives of the organization seems to exhibit any sort of genuine desire to, you know, do good and protect people.
Honestly,...
Yes, indeedy-do! Apparently, no one informed the Men in Black anything about what the Library under the Metropolitan Library in New York was actually doing! (Communication, people. It's important stuff!)
So let's dive right in and take a look at the season's new villains. First up, let's look at the mooks known as the Department of Statistical Anomalies.
Their whole purpose in existence appears to be to get in the way of our heroes and to cause problems. Certainly, neither of the two featured representatives of the organization seems to exhibit any sort of genuine desire to, you know, do good and protect people.
Honestly,...
- 11/21/2016
- by Kathleen Wiedel
- TVfanatic
In spite of the times he’d butted heads with American authority, Captain America remains a pretty patriotic dude. That is on full display in a promo video for Captain America: Civil War featuring a rousing rendition of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by the Marvel film’s cast. Chris Evans speaks about Cap’s heroism while Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Mackie, Chadwick Boseman, and Elizabeth Olsen hum and sing the tune, which of course is an American Civil War-era song. Oh, and Sebastian Stan is there too. See if you can keep from laughing at his presence in this video. Icymi when it hit the web yesterday, you can watch the video, released by Mashable, below:...
- 5/6/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Together, Nancy Reagan and her husband, ‘Ronnie’, wrote a White House love story worthy of Old Hollywood. Subscribe now for an inside look at their extraordinary journey and 52-year marriage, only in PEOPLEBefore she is laid to rest on Friday beside the love of her life, Nancy Reagan and her extraordinary life will be celebrated in a funeral ceremony that the former First Lady planned herself - "from the program participants to the flowers, peonies, her favorite," an official from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation tells People. "We did add one thing to the program that she hadn't specifically requested...
- 3/10/2016
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
Together, Nancy Reagan and her husband, ‘Ronnie’, wrote a White House love story worthy of Old Hollywood. Subscribe now for an inside look at their extraordinary journey and 52-year marriage, only in PEOPLEBefore she is laid to rest on Friday beside the love of her life, Nancy Reagan and her extraordinary life will be celebrated in a funeral ceremony that the former First Lady planned herself - "from the program participants to the flowers, peonies, her favorite," an official from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation tells People. "We did add one thing to the program that she hadn't specifically requested...
- 3/10/2016
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
It’s always fascinating to see Hollywood tippy-toeing around the subject of religion, particularly during the golden age, when the urge to avoid offense trumped any kind of dramatic sense. Alien beings—and Scotsmen such as I—would have to presume from the state of the nation’s movie product that the dominant religion in the country, and certainly among studio heads, was Catholicism, so celebrated is it in nearly every picture with a religious subject.Douglas Sirk’s The First Legion (1951), playing in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective on the director, chooses, via its title, a military metaphor for the Jesuits who are its main protagonists, anticipating the later Battle Hymn (1957) in its blend of the martial and the spiritual. A shame this promising idea wasn’t carried further, so that the various ranks of priest might have been presented in the manner of their equivalents in,...
- 12/17/2015
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Anna Kashfi, mother of Marlon Brando's first son, has died in Washington state. Kashfi married Brando in 1957, not too long after meeting at the commissary at Paramount Studios. She gave birth to Christian Brando in 1958. The next year she and Marlon divorced -- they fought for custody of Christian ... with Marlon eventually winning. Kashfi said she was born in India, and raised in Great Britain. In the early '50s, she starred in movies...
- 8/21/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Martha Hyer, who received an Oscar nomination for playing a prim small-town schoolteacher opposite Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine in the 1958 drama Some Came Running, has died. She was 89. The striking blonde, who also was memorable as William Holden’s society fiancee in Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart’s Sabrina (1954), died May 31 in her home in Santa Fe, N.M., The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported. Hyer was married to producer Hal B. Wallis (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, True Grit) from December 1966 until his death in October 1986. The glamour girl also starred in Battle Hymn
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- 6/10/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tina Bennett has joined talent agency Wme’s New York literary division. She specializes in narrative nonfiction, current affairs, cultural history and "idea books." Her non-fiction clients include such well-known authors as Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point), Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Laura Hillenbrand (Seasbiscuit). She represented the recent surprise hit Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Yale law professor Amy Chua. Her fiction clients include James Carroll (Mortal Friends) and Lev Grossman (The Magicians). Bennett comes to Wme from Janklow & Nesbitt Associates, which she joined in 1994. Prior to becoming a literary agent Bennett pursued a
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- 7/23/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two-thousand-double-one came in with the roar of Tiger Mommy and the tragic devastation of Japan’s tsunami. As it continued, the NBA waved farewell to Yao Ming, Gary Locke took a plane to Beijing — and Asians in the library made their cell phones ring. As 2012 begins, here are Tao Jones’s picks for the best, the worst and the most memorable events, individuals and phenomena of the year that was.
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
- 12/31/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Seventy years after The Grapes of Wrath was published, its themes – corporate greed, joblessness – are back with a vengeance. Melvyn Bragg on John Steinbeck's remarkable legacy
I read The Grapes of Wrath in that fierce span of adolescence when reading was a frenzy. I was all but drowned in the pity and anger John Steinbeck evoked for these people, fleeing Oklahoma to seek work but finding nothing save cruelty, violence, the enmity of immoral banks and businesses, and the neglect by the state of its own people in the Land of the Free. The novel was published in 1939 and delivered a shock to the English reading world.
But for years I did not read him. Earlier this year, when asked to make a film about Steinbeck for the BBC, I went back with apprehension. The peaks of one's adolescent reading can prove troughs in late middle age. Life moves on; not all books do.
I read The Grapes of Wrath in that fierce span of adolescence when reading was a frenzy. I was all but drowned in the pity and anger John Steinbeck evoked for these people, fleeing Oklahoma to seek work but finding nothing save cruelty, violence, the enmity of immoral banks and businesses, and the neglect by the state of its own people in the Land of the Free. The novel was published in 1939 and delivered a shock to the English reading world.
But for years I did not read him. Earlier this year, when asked to make a film about Steinbeck for the BBC, I went back with apprehension. The peaks of one's adolescent reading can prove troughs in late middle age. Life moves on; not all books do.
- 11/22/2011
- by Melvyn Bragg
- The Guardian - Film News
An intimate look at a group of elite Beijing high-school students reveals how China's schooling system is one of the resurgent nation's greatest strengths--and biggest weaknesses.
.caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {border-bottom:2px;} During recess, students at the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University--like their counterparts across the nation--gather in the courtyard to do calisthenics. This exercise is meant to aid their vision. | Photo by Shiho Fukada
Here is an existential question of high-school philosophy: If everyone is equally nerdy, does that mean no one is a nerd? In The People's Republic of China, you might add the following corollary: Is collective nerdiness the way forward?
As twilight descends in Beijing on a Saturday in March, an informal meeting of nerds commences outside the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University. Class has ended for the day, and the streetside air is noxious and smothering--Beijingers sometimes euphemistically call it "big fog,...
.caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {border-bottom:2px;} During recess, students at the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University--like their counterparts across the nation--gather in the courtyard to do calisthenics. This exercise is meant to aid their vision. | Photo by Shiho Fukada
Here is an existential question of high-school philosophy: If everyone is equally nerdy, does that mean no one is a nerd? In The People's Republic of China, you might add the following corollary: Is collective nerdiness the way forward?
As twilight descends in Beijing on a Saturday in March, an informal meeting of nerds commences outside the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University. Class has ended for the day, and the streetside air is noxious and smothering--Beijingers sometimes euphemistically call it "big fog,...
- 8/16/2011
- by April Rabkin
- Fast Company
Filed under: TV Replay
It's heartbreaking to see kids separated from their parents by military deployment. For 6-year-old Latavia and 8-year-old Lawrence, the experience was especially trying, since their dad, Sgt. Lawrence Lee, is a single parent. Monday on 'Surprise Homecoming' (Mondays, 10Pm on TLC), the Lee family had an emotional reunion at church.
Sgt. Lee had been in Iraq on a yearlong deployment, and his kids obviously missed him dearly. On Monday's show, Sgt. Lee waited with a microphone outside the church doors, made his grand entrance singing 'Glory Glory, Hallelujah' (or 'Battle Hymn of the Republic').
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It's heartbreaking to see kids separated from their parents by military deployment. For 6-year-old Latavia and 8-year-old Lawrence, the experience was especially trying, since their dad, Sgt. Lawrence Lee, is a single parent. Monday on 'Surprise Homecoming' (Mondays, 10Pm on TLC), the Lee family had an emotional reunion at church.
Sgt. Lee had been in Iraq on a yearlong deployment, and his kids obviously missed him dearly. On Monday's show, Sgt. Lee waited with a microphone outside the church doors, made his grand entrance singing 'Glory Glory, Hallelujah' (or 'Battle Hymn of the Republic').
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- 7/26/2011
- by Nick Zaino
- Aol TV.
Seven score and 10 years ago today, our forefathers began the Civil War when Confederate cannons fired upon the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston’s harbor. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, filmmakers have made certain that the glorious and horrible memories of that tragic clash will not perish from our national consciousness. D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) demonstrated the power of the infant medium, portraying the Ku Klux Klan as the noble protectors of the South. Gone With the Wind (1939) was such a cultural event and unprecedented success that Scarlett O’ Hara’s idealized...
- 4/12/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Erin Patrice O’Brien for The Wall Street Journal
Amy Chua, the bestselling author of the parenting book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” will be kicking off the Journal’s new Ideas Market speaker series. Chua will be joined by husband and bestselling novelist Jed Rubenfeld to talk about parenting and how to raise successful children. The event takes place on March 29 at the New York Public Library. You can read more at the Journal’s Ideas Market blog.
Amy Chua, the bestselling author of the parenting book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” will be kicking off the Journal’s new Ideas Market speaker series. Chua will be joined by husband and bestselling novelist Jed Rubenfeld to talk about parenting and how to raise successful children. The event takes place on March 29 at the New York Public Library. You can read more at the Journal’s Ideas Market blog.
- 3/21/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Amy Chua, known for her super-strict parenting and ban on sleepovers, comes out in favor of a new Sat question about reality TV-and not because she's a secret fan of Snooki. Plus, the college board chief defends the Sat question and why TV may not be so bad for kids after all.
I don't watch reality-television shows, and in fact I rail against them constantly. I'm pretty sure there's a video out there of purple-faced me, sputtering to some interviewer: "So we're perfectly fine in America having our kids sit in a front of a TV for hours every night watching random people hooking up and passing out drunk, but two hours of violin practice-that's abusive?"
Related story on The Daily Beast: Hollywood's Hottest Baby Name: Henry
And yet how do I come out on the latest controversy involving the Sat question about reality television? Completely on the side of the Sat people.
I don't watch reality-television shows, and in fact I rail against them constantly. I'm pretty sure there's a video out there of purple-faced me, sputtering to some interviewer: "So we're perfectly fine in America having our kids sit in a front of a TV for hours every night watching random people hooking up and passing out drunk, but two hours of violin practice-that's abusive?"
Related story on The Daily Beast: Hollywood's Hottest Baby Name: Henry
And yet how do I come out on the latest controversy involving the Sat question about reality television? Completely on the side of the Sat people.
- 3/21/2011
- by Amy Chua
- The Daily Beast
Welcome to No Fact Zone’s weekly roundup of cultural references on The Colbert Report. From Darcy to Danger Mouse, String Theory to Shakespeare, we’ve got the keys to this week’s obscure, oddball, and occasionally obscene cultural shout-outs (hey!).
Hello Zoners! I hope the State of Your Union (wherever it may be) is strong! If anything, I hope the state of our stomachs is strong enough for the beeftacular tacos some of us will inevitably buy (despite all warnings to the contrary) because Stephen made it look so tasty and harmless! From coked-up vacuums to the Nazi-ometer, this week really delivered on its promises (probably via a toaster with wheels). What were your favorite clips?
Monday:
Stephen Rejects Keith Olbermann’s Power
The storied notion that power corrupts, while absolute power corrupts absolutely seems to never have occurred to this Cosa Nostra we’re calling our Congress who...
Hello Zoners! I hope the State of Your Union (wherever it may be) is strong! If anything, I hope the state of our stomachs is strong enough for the beeftacular tacos some of us will inevitably buy (despite all warnings to the contrary) because Stephen made it look so tasty and harmless! From coked-up vacuums to the Nazi-ometer, this week really delivered on its promises (probably via a toaster with wheels). What were your favorite clips?
Monday:
Stephen Rejects Keith Olbermann’s Power
The storied notion that power corrupts, while absolute power corrupts absolutely seems to never have occurred to this Cosa Nostra we’re calling our Congress who...
- 1/30/2011
- by Toad
- No Fact Zone
Episode Number: 7014 (January 25, 2011)
Guests: Amy Chua
Segments: The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Controversy, ThreatDown – Radical Muslim Snacks, Flying Robot Drones & Coked Up Vacuums, Nazi-ometer
Videos: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I’m glad that Stephen explained the controversy behind Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. I’d seen some headlines but hadn’t actually read anything about the book before the show other than the snippets that Karenatasha blogged about earlier this week. The segment about halal food amused me, as I have known multiple people who won’t eat at one of the burger joints downtown because they have fake bacon on their bacon burgers and their female staff all wear the hijab. Too bad for them – they make the best fries in downtown. Oh well, more for me! I also laughed heartily at Stephen’s “clarification” of his feelings about Sarah Palin.
What did all...
Guests: Amy Chua
Segments: The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Controversy, ThreatDown – Radical Muslim Snacks, Flying Robot Drones & Coked Up Vacuums, Nazi-ometer
Videos: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I’m glad that Stephen explained the controversy behind Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. I’d seen some headlines but hadn’t actually read anything about the book before the show other than the snippets that Karenatasha blogged about earlier this week. The segment about halal food amused me, as I have known multiple people who won’t eat at one of the burger joints downtown because they have fake bacon on their bacon burgers and their female staff all wear the hijab. Too bad for them – they make the best fries in downtown. Oh well, more for me! I also laughed heartily at Stephen’s “clarification” of his feelings about Sarah Palin.
What did all...
- 1/26/2011
- by DB
- No Fact Zone
Happy Monday, Zoners!
I’m still smiling about last week’s scathingly hilarious, no-holds-barred takedowns of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. Ever since the end of December, Stephen’s shows have been more sizzling hot than ever. And this week has a fantastic group of guests with lots of potential for fun, satire, and exploration. I can’t wait!
Monday, 1/24: Charlie Rose
Turnabout is fair play! In 2006 Stephen appeared as a guest on Rose’s eponymous TV show, and now it’s time for Rose to sit at Stephen’s desk. Rose anchors a nightly hour-long show on PBS, where he usually has one-to-one, in-depth conversations with his guests, who have ranged from politicians (Tony Blair) and playwrights (Harold Pinter) to musicians (Paul Simon) and movie stars (George Clooney). Occasionally, he also hosts special episodes that focus on a specific topic, and—seemingly as much of a workaholic as...
I’m still smiling about last week’s scathingly hilarious, no-holds-barred takedowns of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. Ever since the end of December, Stephen’s shows have been more sizzling hot than ever. And this week has a fantastic group of guests with lots of potential for fun, satire, and exploration. I can’t wait!
Monday, 1/24: Charlie Rose
Turnabout is fair play! In 2006 Stephen appeared as a guest on Rose’s eponymous TV show, and now it’s time for Rose to sit at Stephen’s desk. Rose anchors a nightly hour-long show on PBS, where he usually has one-to-one, in-depth conversations with his guests, who have ranged from politicians (Tony Blair) and playwrights (Harold Pinter) to musicians (Paul Simon) and movie stars (George Clooney). Occasionally, he also hosts special episodes that focus on a specific topic, and—seemingly as much of a workaholic as...
- 1/24/2011
- by Karenatasha
- No Fact Zone
I'm going to start the column with this story because you lovelies are a fickle lot and bored easily and if you click on any link today, I want it to be this one. (Also, stow your Tl;Dr impulse just this once.) In the summer of 2009, Pajiban Madeleine Roux began a fiction blog about a young woman during the zombie apocalypse. When Madeleine asked the then Pajiba Love link wench to feature it in the column one day, not only did the blog hits skyrocket, but St. Martins/Macmillan published the blog as the novel Allison Hewitt is Trapped. It goes on sale today! Behold The Power Of You Clever Pajibans!!! Getting a book published is so damned difficult these days so all the congratulations in the world to the obviously talented Madeleine. I think you know what you need to do next, my little bookworms. Click on the link and buy that book.
- 1/18/2011
- by Joanna Robinson
In her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin), Amy Chua—Yale law professor and author of the best-selling World on Fire—applies her iron-willed discipline and razor-sharp wit to a tale of raising her two children “the Chinese way.” Chua juxtaposes the often loose-and-lenient approach of Western parents with the rigid rules (no sleepovers) and lofty expectations (no A-minuses) of their Chinese counter-parents. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 1/11/2011
- Vanity Fair
Amy Chua's parenting memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," is sure to be a topic of debate at the cocktail parties of the upwardly mobile. In the book, Chua, a Yale law professor, defends the strict parenting of her two daughters (no play dates, no TV) on the grounds that she's creating high-achieving children, while dissing what she views as the permissive style of Western parenting.
- 1/10/2011
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Article from The Trades
Written by Jeff Ritter
My readers know that I’m a big fan of the Pittsburgh Comicon. It’s a very fan-friendly show, meaning that instead of simply being ushered through cattle lines for a 3 second autograph there is time to chat with your favorite comic artists and writers. There are plenty of up-and-coming talents there eager to show their stuff and compliment your sketchbook with an inexpensive illustration. I’ve made a lot of friends at every level of that show. The only drawback to the Pittsburgh Comicon is that it’s in Pittsburgh, and I’m in St. Louis. It’s 10 hours by car. There are some sneaky speed traps in Indianapolis. And doggone it, there’s no reason my hometown can’t get a convention going. Chicago does two every year, and like the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry, anything Chicago can do St.
Written by Jeff Ritter
My readers know that I’m a big fan of the Pittsburgh Comicon. It’s a very fan-friendly show, meaning that instead of simply being ushered through cattle lines for a 3 second autograph there is time to chat with your favorite comic artists and writers. There are plenty of up-and-coming talents there eager to show their stuff and compliment your sketchbook with an inexpensive illustration. I’ve made a lot of friends at every level of that show. The only drawback to the Pittsburgh Comicon is that it’s in Pittsburgh, and I’m in St. Louis. It’s 10 hours by car. There are some sneaky speed traps in Indianapolis. And doggone it, there’s no reason my hometown can’t get a convention going. Chicago does two every year, and like the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry, anything Chicago can do St.
- 9/15/2010
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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