Mental Illness

Welcome Back, Gabe Kaplan Nobody’s Perfekt!

cultfilmalley April 22, 2020 0

*contains spoilers Growing up watching sitcoms with my family as a kid and there was a show that introduced John Travolta (1954-) to the world entitled Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-79). We used to watch it every week and the star and one of the creators of the show was Gabe Kaplan (1945-). He starred as…

The Sultry Cult of Pia Zadora (Part Two)

cultfilmalley June 9, 2019 1

*contains spoilers The Lonely Lady is a much better prospect, both as a movie and performance by Pia. The script is by far an improvement on Fake-Out despite its reputation. Incidentally, Matt Cimber was first attached to the project but he was replaced. Based on the Harold Robbins bestseller (1976), The Lonely Lady has long…