Tag: 1970s

Podcast-a-thon!

Need a little more genre poured into your head? Listen up to the monstertastic Monster Island Resort and the horrorific Conversations in the Dark. Don’t forget our good friends Todd from 4DK and Tars Tarkas as they discuss the eternal awesomeness of Polly Shang Kuan at Infernal Brains! […]

Dungeons & Dragons Changed Lives

“Wanting to be a cooler, beer-drinking, girl-bedding kind of guy, I stopped playing D&D when I went to college. There was shame in them thar imaginary hills. So I shelved that yearning for fantasy heroics, which looked so weak and antisocial. I told myself, You don’t need D&D […]

Elementary

“We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”—Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity.” When I wrote about Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder, I wrote that […]

RIP, Jane Russell

Actress Jane Russell has died at 89.  She starred in films and television in every genre from noirs (Macao with Robert Mitchum) to musicals (Gentleman Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe) to Westerns (The Outlaw). KPBS and The New Yorker have tributes.