Val Kilmer: He Was Our Huckleberry
Sean MurphyNice to see some great tributes to Val Kilmer rolling in (and this one in particular, by Esther Zuckerman in the New York Times, where she offers the astute and, to me,…
Jim Morrison: Still Hot, Still Sexy, Still Dead
Jim Morrison took his last bath on July 3, 1971 in Paris. R.I.P. Lizard King. (I wrote, in what most normal people would consider painful detail, about The Doors in…
Remembering Michael Cimino’s Masterpiece, ‘The Deer Hunter’
Imagine this: Michael Cimino, fresh off five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and the next big “thing” fails to complete the filming of Heaven’s Gate (1980) and…
The Doors: America’s Star-Spangled Band (Revisited)
The 4th of July presents an at least two irresistible reasons to talk about The Doors. One: Jim Morrison took his last bath on July 3, 1971 in Paris. R.I.P.…