Anyone else notice the plot similarities to "Mad Max"?

I can't pick a single favorite Meyer film, but I think "UP!" is my favorite of his post-"Dolls" movies. It's so off-the-wall.

I know it isn't the nicest thing to say in an obituary, but I think she was miscast for that particular role. The Faye character was supposed to be a very young and vain teenager. Karen Black seemed too worldly and demure. But I saw the film just a few days after reading the book (which only took a couple hours in…

I'm pretty old. Old enough to have seen the Battlestar Galactica attraction at Universal Studios when I was ten. I've also been a couple times since then, so I can tell you unequivocally that it was the greatest of all Universal attractions. Check youtube if you doubt my word.

I'm a human fly, I spell it F-L-SYSTEM ERROR

I hope the Cramps reunite with holographic Lux. He can rise up from a grave, digging himself out of the soil, and be all rotted away. Walkin 'round the stage in his high heels and leather g-string with his jawbone all exposed n' shit.

A supposed exchange between Price and Reeves on the set of "Witchfinder General":
"Young man, I have made eighty-four films. What have you done?"  "I've made two good ones."
Bam.
Thanks, I'll search out that radio play. I believe Reeves would have gone on to be another Kubrick, if he hadn't died so young. "Witchfinder…

There are a lot of reasons to love "Masque", but it's a Corman quickie, and doesn't have the same intelligence and sensibility as "Witchfinder". I should be more specific and say that it's the best movie he starred in, but not necessarily the movie that showed him at his most Vincent Price-y ("Masque" and "Phibes" are…

I think his most entertaining film is "The Tingler", but his best and most underrated is "Witchfinder General".

Are you crazy? They weren't electric shocks, they were motors that vibrated the seats. WW2 surplus motors, if I remember correctly. You guys are crazy.

It's not just her frozen pose, it's also the way the camera cuts to a long shot and you see her floating across the room, like something in an amusement park spookhouse. It's wonderful.

The filmmakers had "Fever" by Peggy Lee playing during that scene, and the producers changed it to Marilyn-Stupid-Manson. One of the many poor choices they made to degrade a fine movie.

It's not terrible, it is magnificent. You are incorrect, sir.

i checked a few weeks ago and it was closed to the public for renovations. I went on the tour once, a couple years ago, and there were towels on the floor to collect rainwater. The usual Frank Lloyd Wright construction, in other words.

Tonga Hut is okay. A little divey, which I like, but as with most such places, the drinks are girly-tasting. Plus I don't find myself out in the valley very often. Really, I believe Tiki-Ti's to be the overall best tiki bar in the country.

What sucked about the Beverly Hills Trader Vic's closing is that they kept it a secret, even up to the last night they were open, when my wife and I coincidentally drove right past it. Never ended up going, either. Drinks at Tiki Ti's are better, anyway.

Yeah, I was referring to the upcoming Clifton's, not the flophouse it was in recent years. There's a new Trader Vic's that just opened too, which I think is pretty strange.

That's true. Walking through the Tenderloin late at night can still be downright heart-pounding.

Yes, I agree with you. New businesses are opening downtown, that's clear. But my point is that it's still very polarized, and I question whether it's statistically safer than in the 90's. But I moved here eight years ago, so what do I know.

But what's so weird about DTLA is that so much of it still like that. You can walk out of a super-expensive hip restaurant, turn the corner, and suddenly you're on Skid Row. You don't see anything like it in Manhattan, or even San Francisco anymore. Staples Center, Target, the convention center and that whole…