Here's a ghastly little tale from the first of Amicus' anthology films, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). As usual, Chris Lee chews the scenery with aplomb.
6/25/12
Flash Gordon Tribute Two-Year Anniversary Edition
To celebrate the passing of two years since I recorded the Flash Gordon Symphony, I've done remixes of four themes. I cut the sound effects and dialogue, isolated musical movements as individual tracks, and punched up the production overall, since I'm a better engineer than I was a couple years ago.
6/14/12
The Book of Marjoe
Marjoe Gortner was ordained a revivalist minister at the age of four. Always gregarious, he had no problem engaging crowds of strangers in unfamiliar spaces, making him a natural for proselytizing. His parents put him on the road, and kept him there, during all of his formative years.
Like so many other child stars, he was ripped off by his own family. At sixteen, dad abandoned the family with the money (estimated at three million), and Marjoe subsequently moved to San Francisco on his own and became a hippie. After a few years living off the good graces of others, he went back to the evangelist circuit. He spent half the time preaching at tent revivals throughout the country, and the other half living from his earnings and hanging with his burnout friends.
A documentary crew followed him on one of his last tours before his conscience got the better of him and he quit preaching permanently. The film, Marjoe, won the Academy award for best documentary in 1972. You can see the whole thing, uninterrupted, on youtube here, and it's excellent.
Now an honest man, Marjoe went off to pursue his dreams. He scored big as the hero in Food of the Gods, where he gets to fight a giant chicken:
Then a co-starring role in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, with Lynda Carter in her first big role, and the only one in which she gets naked. She became a religious freak shortly after, and kept her body covered from the eyes of all men, with the exception of probably just a couple of husbands, since then. You think I'm getting off topic, but I'm not. My larger point here is that Marjoe Gortner is one of just a handful of people to have seen Lynda Carter nude in real life, making all the other information contained in this post even more trivial by comparison.
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was never released on DVD. I dragged my wife to a rep theater in Hollywood to see it a couple years ago. But now, incredibly, you can enjoy it on Netflix streaming here.
And let us not forget his finest hour: the role of Akton, the android who's kind-of an asshole, in Starcrash, which I'm reasonably sure is the best movie ever made.
Marjoe makes the movie. And look, he's a polyglot:
Gortner hasn't appeared in film or television since the mid-90's, but occasionally shows up at fundraisers. A theatrical production based on his life has been playing in major U.S. cities for the last couple years.
Like so many other child stars, he was ripped off by his own family. At sixteen, dad abandoned the family with the money (estimated at three million), and Marjoe subsequently moved to San Francisco on his own and became a hippie. After a few years living off the good graces of others, he went back to the evangelist circuit. He spent half the time preaching at tent revivals throughout the country, and the other half living from his earnings and hanging with his burnout friends.
A documentary crew followed him on one of his last tours before his conscience got the better of him and he quit preaching permanently. The film, Marjoe, won the Academy award for best documentary in 1972. You can see the whole thing, uninterrupted, on youtube here, and it's excellent.
Now an honest man, Marjoe went off to pursue his dreams. He scored big as the hero in Food of the Gods, where he gets to fight a giant chicken:
Then a co-starring role in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, with Lynda Carter in her first big role, and the only one in which she gets naked. She became a religious freak shortly after, and kept her body covered from the eyes of all men, with the exception of probably just a couple of husbands, since then. You think I'm getting off topic, but I'm not. My larger point here is that Marjoe Gortner is one of just a handful of people to have seen Lynda Carter nude in real life, making all the other information contained in this post even more trivial by comparison.
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was never released on DVD. I dragged my wife to a rep theater in Hollywood to see it a couple years ago. But now, incredibly, you can enjoy it on Netflix streaming here.
And let us not forget his finest hour: the role of Akton, the android who's kind-of an asshole, in Starcrash, which I'm reasonably sure is the best movie ever made.
Marjoe makes the movie. And look, he's a polyglot:
Gortner hasn't appeared in film or television since the mid-90's, but occasionally shows up at fundraisers. A theatrical production based on his life has been playing in major U.S. cities for the last couple years.
6/2/12
Protolectro
When preparing this blog's 81st playlist I couldn't get anything to upload to the creaky old divshare account, so I'm trying Badongo. I "locked" all the songs to prevent downloading and my subsequential imprisonment.
If you know of a better file hosting service that has embeddable music players, let me know. Badongo's player is obtuse and hideous. It's also buggy; half of the songs display without a title, so here's the playlist in order:
Autumn - "Synthesize"
Ruth - "Polaroid/Roman/Photo"
EMaK - "Filmmusik"
Front 242 - "Controversy Between"
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Torso Corso"
Rockets - "Cosmic Race"
Ausgang Verboten - "Consumer"
Suicide - "Touch Me'
Crash Course in Science - "Cardboard Lamb"
Medikao - "Détective"
Bal Paré - "Palais d'Amour"
Plastics - "Deluxe"
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