Novelist Samuel Youd, who wrote as John Christopher, has died. Gutter readers might remember him best for his science fiction series, The Tripods, which was adapted for television by the BBC and Australia’s Seven Networks in the 1980s. The Guardian has an overview of his life and career.
Bill Hinzman has died. Hinzman played the first modern zombie, who staggered across the graveyard in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
Actor Ben Gazzara has died. Gazzara is probably best known for his work with director John Cassavetes, particularly The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie; on the stage in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; and as the defendant in Otto Preminger’s Anatomy Of A Murder. Gazzara was also […]
Soul Train creator and host Don Cornelius has died. The LA Times has an obituary and YouTube has many, many Soul Train clips.
It’s the 50th anniversary of Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day. All Things Considered looks back on the classic picturebook about a boy named Peter encountering snow and interviews Deborah Pope, the executive director of the Ezra Keats’ Foundation about the implications of quietly introducing a non-stereotypical African-American […]
The Projection Booth covers Manos: The Hands of Fate, with a look at the Kickstarter project to restore Manos, an interview Ben Solovey, a reading of a review of Manos‘ premiere screening in El Paso as well as also links a-plenty (including to the Kickstarter project and to […]
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