It’s already Week 4 in Inktober and the new film version of Stephen King’s It is still going strong in theaters. I, however, am partial to the schlocky ABC-TV mini-series from 1990. The always delightful Tim Curry brought Pennywise the Dancing Clown to life and, single-handedly brought back coulrophobia.
A one-time cartoonist, Martin Landau abandoned his artistic career to pursue acting. He worked with the great Lee Strasberg at the prestigious Actors Studio, along with his friend Steve McQueen. He met and became close friends with fellow actor James Dean. Martin made his first major big-screen appearance alongside James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller …
Week Three of Inktober brings us the great Bette Davis in her 1962 tour-de-force as Baby Jane Hudson in the Gothic horror classic Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
“She’s livin’ in sin with a safety pin.” Nancy Spungen came into this world with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and her life only got worse. As a child, she constantly cried and threw tantrums until she was out of control. She was prescribed a liquid barbiturate, but it did nothing to suppress …
With her mother working two jobs and her father tending to the home, Leona Gage was on her own. At 13, Leona met 24-year old US Air Force airman Gene Ennis. The two were married and Leona gave birth to their first child at 14. Ennis shipped out for duty and never responded to Leona’s …
It’s Week 2 of Inktober. Here’s Jeff Morrow as the mysterious “Exeter” in the 1955 science-fiction B-movie This Island Earth, a favorite of the MST3K crew.
Everyone knows about my love of cemeteries. I have been to many cemeteries and I have seen a lot of graves. However, no grave is as opulent as the Taj Mahal. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
In 1962, Charles Bradley was taken to the venerable Apollo Theater by his sister to see a performance by energetic soul singer James Brown. Charles was inspired. He soon left home to escape poor living conditions and found himself on the streets, homeless and sleeping on subway cars at night. He found salvation with the …
Maybe somewhere down the road a-ways You’ll think of me, wonder where I am these days Maybe somewhere…
Well, whadaya know! It’s Inktober again. While other online artists are attempting the “one drawing per day” challenge, I, in my infinite and self-proclaimed laziness, will be doing one drawing per week. After all, I still participate in Illustration Friday (non-stop since 2007, I might add) and I do my weekly Dead Celebrity Spotlight, posted every …
