Tag: 2010s

RIP, Elmore Leonard

Writer Elmore Leonard has died. The Detroit News remembers Leonard and reprints his “Squad 7: Impressions of Murder.” The Detroit Free Press also remembers Leonard. The Onion offers their own tribute. Here is a three-part interview Leonard did at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference. Cinemablend shares their […]

A Conversation with Lee Epstein

Daily Grindhouse interviews Lee Espstein, author of the biography, Lee Marvin: Point Blank (2013). “I had several moments when I realized that when you study someone’s career you’re going to see certain themes become prevalent, and with Marvin it was this constant thread of violence. I wanted to […]

A Monster Saved From Monster’s Ways

As Romance Editor Chris Szego has often noted here at The Gutter, the theme of modern romance is that the hero can change. But what about sea mutants—can they change? In Jonathan Cases’s Dear Creature (Tor, 2011) a sea mutant falls in love with a human woman. It’s […]

RIP, Haji

Actress and burlesque performer, Haji, has died. Gutter readers might remember her best as Rosie in Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!  LA Weekly and the CBC have obituaries. Here’s a probably NSFW video tribute to her work in Meyer’s films and video of her tribute to Faster, […]