*contains spoilers The Linda Blair (1959-) movie Dead Sleep (1990) looks into a part of Australian medical history which should not be forgotten like this movie unfortunately is. The fundamental question of whether a family and the patient themselves should listen and take psychiatric treatment and advice as the gospel truth and not just as…
Read more The Aussie Cult of Actress Linda Blair in Dead Sleep (1990)
*contains spoilers The character Inger plays in The Farmer’s Daughter is a naïve but attractive Swedish governess who wins over Washington, DC and when it initially premiered in September 1963, it was an instant success. Her hair was also a conservative light brown and styled. The show proved that Inger was a gifted light comedienne…
Read more The Cult of Actress Inger Stevens in Run, Simon, Run (1970) Part Two
*contains spoilers Swedish-born American actress Inger Stevens (1934-70 drug overdose) was a beautiful blonde and blue-eyed woman who was also fragile, something which led to her early death as a result of unrequited love and abuse at the hands of men who didn’t really care. She made a handful of movies and her performances weren’t…
Read more The Cult of Actress Inger Stevens in Run, Simon, Run (1970) Part One
*contains spoilers and strong course language My favourite memory of Fetchit is in the movie Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) where he plays a black Muslim helper to Charlie Chan who smokes a hookah, no doubt containing hashish, and spends time in the back seat of his car with his girlfriend. Is it such a…
Read more Hallelujah for the Bamboozled Cult of Actor Willie Best (Part Two)
*contains spoilers and strong course language “My show is about racial healing,” says actor Damon Wayons (1960-) in Spike Lee’s (1957-) movie Bamboozled (2000). This film, which was dismissed back when it was first released, is now regarded as some sort of cult film. It hints at the possibility that you can be white on…
Read more Hallelujah for the Bamboozled Cult of Actor Willie Best (Part One)
*contains spoilers Bipolar and bisexual actor Jack Cassidy (1927-76 burned to death) was the father of pop star David Cassidy (1950-2017 liver failure) and he seemed to be on the verge of something big in terms of his character acting career just before he died in an inferno in his West Hollywood penthouse apartment sparked…
Read more The Cult of Actor Jack Cassidy in The Phantom of Hollywood (1974)
*contains spoilers and strong course language This may be a rant by a former lunatic in the order of Leonardo DiCaprio having a clear moment of thinking in Shutter Island (2010). It is a speculative article and may offend some readers. Please don’t continue to read this article is you are easily shocked. It is…
Read more The Cult of Protest in Joker (2019) and The King of Comedy (1982)
*contains spoilers My love of the actress Susan Sarandon (1946-) has always been based on a combination of her luminous brown eyes, her seemingly perfect breasts and her beautiful acting ability and persona. I fell in love with Sarandon before she became political when I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) while barely…
Read more The Cult of Actress Susan Sarandon in Atlantic City (1980)
*contains spoilers The musician Sting (1951-) appears to have had a rather desultory film career. It all seemed to have started so promisingly with the big screen adaptation of writer Dennis Potter’s (1935-94 pancreatic cancer) tv play Brimstone & Treacle (1982). But his music seems to have taken precedence in the years that followed… Not…
Read more The Cult of Musician Sting in Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
