*contains spoilers Name: JudiAge: 60Occupation: Public Servant Favourite Movie: Legally Blonde (2001) Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair and Matthew Davis. First Saw It: I don’t think I saw it at the movies, so it must have been on video cassette. Plot: A perky young woman goes to Harvard Law School to win her…
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*contains spoilers Arthur Miller’s one act play Some Kind of Love Story (1984) barely rates a mention in Timebends and I don’t think Miller considered it an important play. Like Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance, it was apparently based on a real life case in a New England town. This time a teenager was…
Read more Marilyn’s Ghost in Arthur Miller’s The Misfits and Everybody Wins (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Playwright and occasional screenwriter Arthur Miller (1915-2005 bladder cancer) was, of course, married for several years to troubled actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962 sleeping pill overdose). He tried to save her but she either didn’t want to, or was unable to, save herself. He wrote the classic plays Death of a Salesman and The…
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*contains spoilers Name: MikeAge: 76 Occupation: Retired Executive Favourite Movie: Last of the Mohicans (1992) Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, and Jodhi May First Saw it: At one of the large theatres in Leicester Square in London when it was first released. Plot: Sweeping fiction and love story set against the backdrop of…
Read more My Cult Movie: “…it was very sweeping and rugged…”
*contains spoilers Director Michael Mann (1943-) is well known for his film Heat (1995) starring Al Pacino and Robert de Niro. The film is seen as so iconic, every minute of its well over two and a half hour running time has been picked to pieces – incredibly even minute by minute – in podcasts.…
*contains spoilers The first killings happen in the first few minutes before Ringo learns the Fuentes Brothers have declared his former town Mexican Territory and do more or less what they like to subjugate the citizens. Ringo’s subliminal anger about all this is shown only by a small twitch in his eye. He is cool…
*contains spoilers Those who are fans of The Dollars Trilogy – A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – are fans of the spaghetti western even if they have not seen any others beyond them and the associated movie Once Upon a…
Justin Bozung (1977-) is a biographer and author who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. A writer for many magazine publications over the years, he sits on the board of the Norman Mailer Society. An archivist of Mailer’s work, he is the host of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast. In fact, there is a ten-part podcast…
Read more Author and Biographer Justin Bozung on Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance
*contains spoilers Who knows who has murdered who? It’s all a mystery as Hauser presses down on Ryan … Is it a frame? Hauser was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as well and it is probably the best performance of his career as he drinks hard, smokes pot in his office and tops off…
*contains spoilers There are movies that people either absolutely love or hate in equal measure and Norman Mailer’s (1923-2007 renal failure) Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987) has been one of those polarising movies. I love it, and always have since I saw it on VHS back when it was first released in the late 1980s…
