Award-winning Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs passed away at his home in Beverly Hills this past weekend at the age of 74. Kovacs, who lensed such films as Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Ghostbusters and Say Anything — as well as contributing photography to Close Encounters of the Third Kind — actually cut his teeth on early…
Author: Erich Scholz
Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential (1952)Directed: Phil KarlstonWritten: Harry Essex, George BruceStarring: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston FosterMGM/ B&W / 1:33 / 99 m. Let us now turn our attention to all things NOIR…Got my mitts on a brand-spanking new DVD of the recently released B-programmer Kansas City Confidential. Unfortunately, this rough little gem has been languishing…
Generation Chickenhawk
Gen. Chickenhawks from huffpost and Vimeo. This video by Max Blumenthal illustrates the hypocrisy and willful ignorance of the “elite wannabes”. Suck it, Wingnuts! If you like the war in Iraq so much, why don’t you grab a gun and get your ass over there? Plus, it’s got the “Totally Not Gay” dude!
Mamie Van Doren
For your amusement: 76-year-old sex symbol Mamie Van Doren.
Mexico City Part 5 — The Final Chapter
When I was plotting our trip to Mexico City, I knew that by the end of the trip we’d probably want to totally chill in style. With that in mind, I booked us a night at the fancy-schmancy La Casona boutique hotel in Colonia Roma. The one night we spent at the La Casona cost…
Mexico City Part 4
Taxco, a colonial silver mining town, lies about 2 1/2 hours southwest of Mexico City by bus. After packing up our bags and saying goodbye to the Hotel Posada Viena, Tiffany and I walked to the Cuauhtémoc station and took the metro to the Autobus Terminal South. I had already spied the station when we…
Mexico City Part 3
To travel to the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan, we had to take the the number 5 metro line to the very northern-most part of DF and buy tickets aboard a bus that would travel the 25 mile distance to the site. Unfortunately, the metro was under construction and we were forced to leave the station…
Mexico City Part 2
For our second day in Mexico City, we decided to take the metro to the southern-most part of the city. The voyage involved a transfer to the overground Tren Ligero to visit Xochimilco, the ancient canal and chinampa system that allegedly gives a taste of what life was like in the Pre-Hispanic era. When people…
Mexico City Part 1
Mexico City is one of the world’s misunderstood places. The sprawling metropolis, home from anywhere to 12 to 25 million people — depending on who you ask — has a bad rep thanks to its smog, crime and squalor. But after spending a week around the DF (Mexico City is, like our own Washington, DC,…
Diving the Flower Gardens
After meeting Gordon Gibson at his Cedar Hill home on Friday morning, we made our way to Austin to pick up Layne Hedrick, a diving veteran and instructor with many Flower Garden trips under his belt. Layne was also certifying me for nitrox on this trip. We drove into East Texas and down to Freeport,…