Th e Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds found head writer Brian Wilson at his creative zenith. One listen to the album bears this out. Wilson was not only making good, toe tapping tunes, he was also crafting surprisingly complex pieces that plagued Wilson’s band mates as to how they would play them live. It…
Jamie Lee Curtis’s 5 Sexiest Scenes
Cinema is the most visual of the arts. While images power it, as they do with static photograpy, more goes into and can wrong with the 3D world than 1D. In the 1D world, the artist is the god. Throughout is evolution from concept to realization, they remain in total control over the image and…
The 100 Greatest Funny People in Entertainment History #100-91
Comedy, as an art form, has never reached the appreciation it deserves. The difficulty of writing it has been well documented by an assundry of learned people throughout the annals of time. The great Punic, between Carthage and Rome couldn’t come together on whether Plato was a better philosopher or insult comic. Of course, that…
This Month in Film History – March 29, 1976: Beloved Comedian George Burns Wins Oscar At Age of 80
It’s not often that comedies win awards, especially Academy Awards. For whatever reason, comedy has never garnered much respect from neither critic nor peers of the entertainment community. Usually, it is a small, cult of fans that rise up and preserve the comedian from a legacy of ignominy. Such was not the case for George…
This Month in Music History – February 18, 1933: Yoko Ono Born in Tokyo, Japan
Yoko Ono has always seemed to be a very divisive figure among Beatle fans. For far longer than she was married to rock icon John Lennon, the court of popular opinion has, for very few legitimate reasons, pointed an accusatory finger at the Japanese artist. Yoko Ono, for her part, has taken the criticism with…
The ’70s Films of Pam Grier – ‘The Big Doll House’ (1971) & ‘Women in Cages’ (1971)
Pam Grier’s next two films, The Big House/Women in Cages would acquaint her with a favorite of 1970s exploitation films, WIP (Women in Prison). They would serve as the first productions for Roger Corman’s new production company New World Pictures. As well, both films would see Ms. Grier’s roles expanding, as well as her clothing progressively disappearing. Both…
The 70s Films of Pam Grier – ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ (1970)
It is ironic that Pam Grier’s first film appearance would come in a Russ Meyer film. Meyer carved out a film car in the 1950s & 1960s making rather tame by today’s standards “Nudie-Cuties; softcore films from the 1940s, 50s & 60s that focused more on the actresses in various states of undress. This was…
