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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW DOUBLE FEATURE! TWO MISSIONARIES (1974) and WATCH OUT, WE'RE MAD! (1975) starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer!Ferget Hope and Crosby...when it comes to buddy-buddy action on the...
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Maybe I should say a few words about the recent passing of film critic Roger Ebert considering how both he and I were pretty much in the same line of business, even though his forte was film and mine...
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BOOK REVIEW! THE GUMPS (the saga of Mary Gold) by Sidney Smith (IDW/The Library of American Comics, 2013)You may not realize it now, but back when the Tom Carr/Mary Gold storyline was running in an...
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Although it is bound to offend more than a few of you regular BLOG TO COMM readers, I must mention the previous week's passing of a lady of great historical importance, a woman of controversy who has...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW! THE YIN AND YANG OF MR. GO (1970), directed by Burgess Meredith?!?!?Kinda strange to see none other'n respected actor Burgess Meredith not only directing, but acting in as well as...
View Article"BLOBS LIKE US, BABY WE WERE BORN TO EAT!"
Doc said I should go on a diet, and diet I did. In fact I've lost about thirty pounds already even if for me losing thirty pounds is akin to Coraopolis PA losing thirty Italians, but trudge on I do on...
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MOOM PITCHER DOUBLE HEADER!!! THOR, KING OF THE JUNGLE (1913) and TARZAN OF THE APES (1918)!!!!!Here's a silent moom double feature for all of you jungle bums out there presented to us courtesy of...
View ArticleROCK 'N ROLL IS DEAD---LONG LIVE REISSUES!
Well yeah, rock is dead and long rotted as I've been telling you for the past umpteen years or as you can tell by reading any of the competing "rock music" blogs that are still up and running. However,...
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BOOK REVIEW! A HISTORY OF FILMS by John L. Fell (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979)Naw it ain't exactly like I'm whatcha'd call an avid reader of film histories (especially those posing as college...
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Seems as if there's a whole lotta interesting underground films (or ah-vaht ghad if you will) popping up on youtube as of late. If first it wasn't the first few minutes (where's the rest?) of...
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BOOK REVIEW...HARVEY KURTZMAN'S JUNGLE BOOK (Ballantine, 1959)While rifling through a box of paperbacks I've long thought lost to time I discovered this particular gem, none other'n the original...
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Gotta admit that Mother's Day never was one of my fave holidays, and it ain't because I'm not a mother unless you're talkin' in a common seventies sitcom usage of the term. It was just too fruity 'n...
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BOOK REVIEW! GOODMAN BEAVER by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder (Kitchen Sink, 1984)Last week I blabbed on about Harvey Kurtzman's 1959 paperback-only JUNGLE BOOK, so this go 'round why not upchuck this...
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MX-80 (Sound) always were a hard to wrap yer finger around group. If you wanted to call 'em punk rock you could only if you were using your CREEM 1971 modus opporandi firmly in place especially when...
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Boy was I sick this week! I'm talking sicker'n shit sick too, and not just a mere case of the sniffles that plenty of hot lemonade would cure either! REALLY LOW!!! sick. And after the way I've been...
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Just gettin' off the bladder infection (urine's now a nice and bold gold color and smells its old unwashed school lavvy self) but managed to crank out a few reviews anyway here in the oddly cold last...
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BOOK REVIEW! PINK FLOYD, LEARNING TO FLY by Chris Welch (Castle Communications, 1994)I dunno if you're in the market for a good history of Pink Floyd, but if you are this book just might fill the bill....
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It may seem strange to you (and it certainly does to me), but I have becomr a little bit too obsessive in my free-time thoughts regarding the recent suicide of French intellectual (now, don't jump to...
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It's always a gas watching television programs that were produced before the Great Emasculation of the seventies, and BOURBON STREET BEAT's no exception. Part of the ABC prime time lineup from back...
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Sorry, no Michael Douglas jokes are on tap this post, though I will admit that I tried to get a few good licks in. I guess maybe I should just dive into the post and dig deep into the main thrust of...
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