tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post1456717829955203664..comments2023-08-01T09:20:49.475-04:00Comments on Wide Screen World: Across 110th StreetRichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11376065182154885503noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post-28916756218552568742013-07-18T20:39:14.315-04:002013-07-18T20:39:14.315-04:00Oh, have you become one of those Area 51 conspirac...Oh, have you become one of those Area 51 conspiracy-theory types? I can just picture it! No, I've never even heard of any doc called 'Sirius.' Must've came and went pretty quick.<br /><br />My e-mail's in the sidebar near the top. Let me know when you wanna hang out and I'll make the time.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376065182154885503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post-80898556991179889712013-07-18T18:02:50.069-04:002013-07-18T18:02:50.069-04:00I do not doubt that, the whole culture, to use tha...I do not doubt that, the whole culture, to use that dirty word, is being downsized and getting much worse.<br /><br />I have been getting more into sci-fi but more from a factual perspective, been researching alien races and their manipulations here for many centuries, stuff like that ...haha...<br /><br />Did you see, though I do not know if it was distributed in NYC yet, that alien disclosure themed SIRIUS documentary?<br /><br />We should catch a movie together in the city sometime this summer! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post-57992241919331223862013-07-18T17:35:09.851-04:002013-07-18T17:35:09.851-04:00I once attended a screening of an old Peter Lorre ...I once attended a screening of an old Peter Lorre film co-hosted by Nick. I talked to him briefly; he seemed more or less the same. While I don't know for sure, I suspect he may have been one more victim of the Village Voice's housecleaning.Don't know for sure.<br /><br />The only other person from the old gang who I still see is David. He got married and adopted a couple of kids.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376065182154885503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post-14326172340066761332013-07-18T16:18:10.320-04:002013-07-18T16:18:10.320-04:00... haha ... yes, still around! Though, in all fai...... haha ... yes, still around! Though, in all fairness and actuality, who knows, at this stage, how long any of us will be here for much longer, things seem on a convergence path to cataclysm in so many ways. I am no longer in the city, but upstate, not very far, however. Difficult, without a great deal of funds, to do much of anything one might want to do even in terms of changing even rudimentary & fundamental aspects of one's life these days, too. <br /><br />You have a lot of fun with your blog, clearly, and you personalize it to your own experience, which is more engaging and pure. <br /><br />Did you ever notice that Nick Pinkerton was writing film reviews for the Village Voice for a while? Then, some altercation of sorts occurred or other melodrama, not very clear to me and was difficult to get him to explain via e-mail, but the net result being that he quit there last February?<br /><br />I once ran into Anthony Quinn in 1993, on the upper east side, when going to look at some apartments with my ex-girlfriend from Austria, where I had just come back to NYC from and needed a new place to reside, we were trying to find our way through some dingy office building and ran into Quinn and a woman half his age, and he directed us to the suite we were seeking. <br /><br />Do you ever see Rich Weinstein or any other old SVA, KIM'S, or VIDEO STOP denizens? <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post-66139047910920366402013-07-14T12:14:37.142-04:002013-07-14T12:14:37.142-04:00Well well well. Fancy meeting you here! Nice to kn...Well well well. Fancy meeting you here! Nice to know you're still around - I had thought you had dropped off the face of the earth or something!<br /><br />You're right about Anrhony Franciosa; I'm glad you mentioned him. I hadn't remembered his part in the film until seeing it again and he is quite good.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376065182154885503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189120682398421108.post-34036241524201162542013-07-13T19:19:14.794-04:002013-07-13T19:19:14.794-04:00I once worked with a guy named Rich at a place cal...I once worked with a guy named Rich at a place called Video stop and loaned him a vhs to watch of this film! Small world!<br /><br />Interestingly, I tried watching this film a few years ago and did not really enjoy it as much as I once did. I think Anthony Franciosa's performance is actually the most interesting one in the film, there is a lot of conflict and emotional sub-textual turmoil well translated but not in an "overdone" manner. Another fine character actor we lost not long ago. I think a lot of the dialogue had a large influence on that creature, Tarantino, and his "work", but, then again, what didn't influence him ....? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com