So you’ve written a book that fits the current vogue perfectly – let’s say it’s a grimy cyberpunk novel in the mid-1980s – does that mean you’ve guaranteed long-lasting fame for yourself? Probably not. But don’t worry, a lot of your compatriots are suffering the same fate. Oh, […]
Speaking of Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are interviewed together at wu-jing.org.
With the ladies of Forbidden Kingdom looking a little… lackluster, here’s some of the original white-haired bride, Brigitte Lin (Bride with White Hair and The East Is Red) and the original Golden Swallow, Cheng Pei-Pei (Come Drink With Me and The Lady Hermit). And here’s some Angela Mao […]
Hammer Studios and Corman horror star, Hazel Court, died Wednesday. She starred with icons like Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Peter Lorre–and even Patrick McGoohan (Danger Man) and Rock Hudson on television.
I once heard a reader dismiss a particular romance novel – and, in fact, the author’s entire writing career – because she felt the writer had no grasp of history. Her complaint? In the book, a character used a zipper several weeks before it was invented in real […]
The first paragraph alone does it for me in Heather Havrilevsky’s reviews of Friday Night Lights and the new reality-dance show, Step It Up and Dance: “When my sister and I were kids, we made our Star Wars action figures go on dates with each other. First we’d […]
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The Cultural Gutter 