#Geoffrey Gillespie

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Ask No Questions (1.11, LWT, 1972)

"What's your real reservation? The girl was pregnant, on hard drugs -"

"And she was taking her O-Levels into the bargain. None of which adds up to a reason to throw her onto a heap of stinking garbage."

"So, we're back to that: sentiment. Lily on a dung heap, you don't like it."

"Look. Between here and that dump, there's a small copse - dark, secluded. Now, if Harris, or anybody else for that matter, wanted to get rid of the girl's body, why not dump it there; easiest thing in the world, but no, he drove on, deliberately. An act of contempt. Rubbish to rubbish."

[mappingthemoon]

Movies/TV Watched 2023

The Postman Always Rings Twice / Bob Rafelson (1981)

Secretary* / Steven Shainberg (2002)

Spirited Away* / Hayao Miyazaki (2001)

Watcher / Chloe Okuno (2022)

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Anthony Minghella (1999)

Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright (2005)

Moonage Daydream / Brett Morgan (2022)

Volver / Pedro Almodóvar (2006)

Belfast / Kenneth Branagh (2021)

The Last Picture Show / Peter Bogdanovich (1971)

I, Tonya / Craig Gillespie (2017)

The Postman Always Rings Twice / Tay Garnett (1946)

Rocketman / Dexter Fletcher (2019)

The Unholy / Evan Spiliotopoulos (2021)

Mara / Clive Tonge (2018)

Frogs / George McCowan (1972)

Prometheus / Ridley Scott (2012)

Men / Alex Garland (2022)

All the Right Moves / Michael Chapman (1983)

Poseidon / Wolfgang Petersen (2006)

Saint Maud / Rose Glass (2019)

Monstrous / Chris Sivertson (2022)

Wander Darkly / Tara Miele (2020)

Howl’s Moving Castle / Hayao Miyazaki (2004)

Iris / Albert Maysles (2014)

Lamb / Valdimar Jóhannsson (2021)

In Fabric / Peter Strickland (2018)

The Elephant 6 Recording Co. / C.B. Stockfleth (2022)

The Visitor / Justin P. Lange (2022)

Smile / Parker Finn (2022)

Yellowjackets [szn 1-2] (2021-2022)

It Comes at Night / Trey Edward Shults (2017)

Everything Everywhere All at Once / Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (2022)

Black Bear / Lawrence Michael Levine (2020)

mother! / Darren Aronofsky (2017)

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story / Eric Appel (2022)

X / Ti West (2022)

I Heart Huckabees* / David O. Russell (2004)

The Right Stuff / Philip Kaufman (1983)

Goliath Awaits / Kevin Connor (1981)

Poltergeist* / Tobe Hooper (1982)

Doctor Who [TV Movie]* / Geoffrey Sax (1996)

Earthstorm / Terry Cunningham (2006)

Lake Eerie / Chris Majors (2016)

Fantastic Planet* / René Laloux (1973)

Synecdoche, New York* / Charlie Kaufman (2008)

Flight of the Navigator* / Randal Kleiser (1986)

NOPE / Jordan Peele (2022)

Women Talking / Sarah Polley (2022)

Striking Distance / Rowdy Herrington (1993)

Vivarium / Lorcan Finnegan (2019)

Saw* / James Wan (2004)

A Peculiar Noise / Jorge Torres-Torres (2016)

In the Earth / Ben Wheatley (2021)

Cats 2 / Jake Jones (2023)

Bringing Out the Dead* / Martin Scorsese (1999)

The Last Blockbuster / Taylor Morden (2020)

The Dance of Reality / Alejandro Jodorowsky (2013)

In the Mouth of Madness / John Carpenter (1994)

The Chamber / Ben Parker (2016)

Tenet / Christopher Nolan (2020)

Synchronic / Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead (2019)

Paprika / Satoshi Kon (2006)

The Menu / Mark Mylod (2022)

Sunshine / Danny Boyle (2007)

Devil’s Island / Sean King, Taylor King (2021)

Benedetta / Paul Verhoeven (2021)

Scotland, PA* / Billy Morrissette (2001)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover / Peter Greenaway (1989)

The Color of Pomegranates* / Sergei Parajanov (1969)

Face/Off* / John Woo (1997)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / Steven Spielberg (1982)

The Gilded Age (PBS American Experience) / Sarah Colt (2018)

Aniara / Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja (2018)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas* / Chuck Jones, Ben Washam (1966)

The Quake / John Andreas Andersen (2018)

The Guilty / Gustav Möller (2018)

The Muppet Christmas Carol* [VHS] / Brian Henson (1992)

M3GAN / Gerard Johnstone (2022)

Caught / Jamie Patterson (2017)

Shot / Jeremy Kagan (2017)

A Charlie Brown Christmas* / Bill Melendez (1965)

Body at Brighton Rock / Roxanne Benjamin (2019)

Trancers / Charles Band (1984)

Higher Power / Matthew Charles Santoro (2018)

*Asterisk = rewatch

Favorites first watched in 2023: Men, In Fabric, Yellowjackets, Everything Everywhere All at Once, mother!, NOPE, The Dance of Reality. (ETA: Vivarium and Aniara, which I wouldn't necessarily call "favorites" but they've stuck with me.)

Favorite rewatches: Secretary, I Heart Huckabees, Poltergeist, Bringing Out the Dead

[tfc2211]

Play ▶ Bee Gees (Psychedelic Mix)

Idea Turn Of The Century Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy Of Arts Every Second, Every Minute I Have Decided To Join The Airforce Horizontal Lemons Never Forget Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You Back Home Completely Unoriginal Change Is Made Earnest Of Being George Walking Back To Waterloo Such A Shame Harry Braff Cucumber Castle Indian Gin And Whisky Dry Sir Geoffrey Saved The World Jumbo Gilbert Green Please Read Me Mr. Wallor's Wailing Wall Red Chair, Fade Away [Stereo] Mrs. Gillespie's Refrigerator I've Got To Learn In My Own Time Out Of Line Kitty Can

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

DORO PESCH Is Continuing Work On New Solo Album

German metal queen Doro Pesch recently spent time at Miami Beach Recording Studios laying down vocal tracks for her upcoming studio album.

Earlier today (Friday, February 3),Doro shared a few photos from inside and outside the studio, including a couple of her sitting behind the wheel of a RAM truck. She captioned the pictures: "Here I RAM in Miami, doing more vocals for the new album!

"Wish that ride was mine, but it's the studio owner's. Thanks, Pablo, I'm soooo jealous".

Last October, Doro spoke to Metal Rules about the status of the songwriting and recording sessions for the follow-up to her 2018 double album "Forever Warriors, Forever United". She said: "The new record is almost done. It's like 80 percent done, and there are awesome songs. There are anthems, fast songs, and some really soulful songs. So, I think that 80 percent of the record is already done. I mean, 80 percent of the songwriting is done, and we have recorded lots of stuff. It will be out sometime later [in 2023]."

Asked if her new album will be stylistically similar to "Forever Warriors, Forever United", she said: "Yeah, but it's probably not a double album. The next year is my 40th anniversary as an artist. And, of course, we want to do something special, but it will be a single album."

"Forever Warriors, Forever United" featured 19 regular tracks and six bonus songs.

In September, Doro released a very unique single — a soulful adaptation of her classic metal anthem "Raise Your Fist In The Air". The track was made possible by the new ZDF (national German TV channel) music show "Music Impossible".

In May 2022, Doro told Sleaze Roxx that she does most of her songwriting now with former SISTERS OF MERCY guitarist Andreas Bruhn. "I met him, I think, in 1986," she said. "We've always worked good together. Actually, the new bass player we have in Europe, we wrote a new killer song together so that's a new friendship. It's an anthem. It's good! And I wrote one song with my very first producer from the 'Hellbound' album. We met up again and wrote a nice song together. It's a song for the animals because I love animals. It's called 'Heavenly Creatures'. That will definitely be on the new record I'm planning on putting out next year. Next year, I have my 40th year anniversary so we want to celebrate it big."

In celebration of 35 years of the "Triumph And Agony" album from her former band WARLOCK, Doro released "Triumph And Agony Live" in various formats, including CD, vinyl, cassette, DVD, Blu-ray, and a huge box set, in September 2021 through her own label, Rare Diamonds Productions. The "Triumph And Agony" artwork centered on Geoffrey Gillespie's famous original drawing of the "Warlock" embracing the blonde rock star.

[kwebtv]

Salem’s Lot  -  CBS  -  November 17 - 24, 1979

Horror / Miniseries (2 episodes)

Running Time:  183 minutes

Stars:

David Soul as Ben Mears

James Mason as Richard Straker

Lance Kerwin as Mark Petrie

Bonnie Bedelia as Susan Norton

Lew Ayres as Jason Burke

Ed Flanders as Bill Norton

Fred Willard as Larry Crockett

Julie Cobb as Bonnie Sawyer

Kenneth McMillan as Constable Parkins Gillespie

Geoffrey Lewis as Mike Ryerson

Barney McFadden as Ned Tebbets

Marie Windsor as Eva Miller

Bonnie Bartlett as Ann Norton

George Dzundza as Cully Sawyer

Elisha Cook Jr. as Gordon "Weasel" Phillips

Clarissa Kaye as Marjorie Glick

Ned Wilson as Henry Glick

Barbara Babcock as June Petrie

Joshua Bryant as Ted Petrie

James Gallery as Father Callahan

Reggie Nalder as Kurt Barlow

Brad Savage as Danny Glick

Ronnie Scribner as Ralphie Glick

[kinonostalgie]

BEN-HUR (1959)

THE CAST

Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O’Donnell, and Sam Jaffe

THE PRODUCER

Sam Zimbalist

THE DIRECTOR

William Wyler

THE SCREENPLAY WRITER

Karl Tunberg

(Based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace)

ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Picture (Sam Zimbalist)

Best Director (William Wyler)

Best Actor (Charlton Heston)

Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith)

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration-Color

(Edward C. Carfagno, William A. Horning, and Hugh Hunt)

Best Cinematography-Color (Robert L. Surtees)

Best Costume Design-Color (Elizabeth Haffenden)

Best Film Editing (John D. Dunning and Ralph E. Winters)

Best Sound Recording (Franklin Milton: MGM Studio Sound Department)

Best Musical Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Miklós Rózsa)

Best Special Effects (A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald, and Milo Lory)

CASTING NOTES

Several actors were offered the role of Judah Ben-Hur before it was accepted by Charlton Heston. Burt Lancaster stated he turned down the role because he found the script boring and belittling to Christianity. Paul Newman turned it down because he said he didn't have the legs to wear a tunic. Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, Geoffrey Horne and Leslie Nielsen were also offered the role, as were a number of muscular, handsome Italian actors (many of whom did not speak English). Kirk Douglas was interested in the role, but was turned down in favor of Heston, who was formally cast on January 22, 1958. His salary was $250,000 for 30 weeks, a prorated salary for any time over 30 weeks, and travel expenses for his family.

Stephen Boyd was cast as the antagonist, Messala, on April 13, 1958. William Wyler originally wanted Heston for the role, but sought another actor after he moved Heston into the role of Judah Ben-Hur.

Marie Ney was originally cast as Miriam, but was fired after two days of work because she could not cry on cue. Heston says that he was the one who suggested that Wyler cast Martha Scott as Miriam, and she was hired on July 17, 1958. Cathy O’Donnell was Wyler's sister-in-law, and although her career was in decline, Wyler cast her as Tirzah.

RECEPTION

Ben-Hur received overwhelmingly positive reviews upon its release. Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times, called Ben-Hur “a remarkably intelligent and engrossing human drama". While praising the acting and William Wyler's "close-to" direction, he also had high praise for the chariot race: "There has seldom been anything in movies to compare with this picture's chariot race. It is a stunning complex of mighty setting, thrilling action by horses and men, panoramic observation and overwhelming use of dramatic sound."

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes website reported that 85% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 54 reviews collected, with an average rating of 8.20/10. The critics consensus reads, "Uneven, but in terms of epic scope and grand spectacle, Ben-Hur still ranks among Hollywood's finest examples of pure entertainment."

[thegreeneroommagazine]

DORO Reveals Cover And Tracklisting "Triumph And Agony Live"

DORO Reveals Cover And Tracklisting “Triumph And Agony Live”

Today, DORO Pesch of Warlock reveals the album artwork and the tracklisting for her upcoming live masterpiece Triumph And Agony Live, which will be released on September 24th through DORO‘s own label, Rare Diamonds Productions. The artwork centers on Geoffrey Gillespie‘s famous original drawing of the “Warlock” embracing the blonde rock star. Doro says: “The cover and the whole artwork including…

[amphitritemists]

TMA 196 Spoilers

Joshua Gillespie is a descendent of Geoffrey Neckam. The mutual agreement not to investigate creepy things when it can avoid it is strong.

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor at USC Annenberg, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Katie Crawford will be discussing her new book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (published by Yale University Press) with Trevor Paglen in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Friday April 30th, presented with Gray Area!

*****

Where are you writing to us from?

Sydney, Australia. I normally live in New York, so visiting here is like being in a parallel universe where COVID-19 was taken seriously from the beginning and history played out differently.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Cooking through every cookbook I own, talking to good friends, listening to records, and trying to improve my sub-par surfing skills.

What books are you reading right now? Which books do you return to?

Right now I’m reading Jer Thorp’s Living in Data: Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future, the excellent collection Your Computer is On Fire from the MIT Press, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, and The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Yes, I have a problem - I never just read one book at a time.

In terms of books that I return to, there's a long list. Here’s just a few: 

- Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star's Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

- Ursula M. Franklin's The Real World of Technology

- Simone Browne’s Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

- James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

- Gray Brechin’s Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin

- Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's Objectivity

- Oscar H. Gandy’s The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information. Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries - such a prescient book about classification, discrimination and technology, published back in 1993!

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

Atlas of AI was influenced by so many writers and artists, across different centuries - from Georgius Agricola to Jorge Luis Borges to Margaret Mead. More recently, there’s been an extraordinary set of books published on the politics of technology in just the last five years. For example:

- Meredith Broussard’s Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

- Ruha Benjmain’s Race After Technology

- Julie E. Cohen’s Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

- Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein’s Data Feminism

- Virginia Eubanks’ Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

- Tarleton Gillespie’s Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media

- Sarah T Roberts’ Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

- Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

- Tung-Hui Hu’s A Prehistory of the Cloud

And that’s just for starters - it’s an incredible time for books that make us contend with the consequences of the technologies we use every day.

I’m also influenced by the artists I’ve had the privilege of working with over the years, including Trevor Paglen, Vladan Joler, and Heather Dewey-Hagborg. Vladan and I collaborated on Anatomy of an AI System a few years ago, and he designed the cover and illustrations in Atlas of AI, which I love.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

This may not be the most practical choice, but I’d open a library for rare and antiquarian books near Mono Lake. I’d call it Labyrinths, after Borges’ infinite library of volumes. One of its treasures would be a copy of John Wilkins’ An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668), where Wilkins tries to create a classification scheme for every possible thing and notion in the universe. It would be a cryptic joke for the occasional passer-by.

[ghostflowerdreams]

Vampire Films

It’s October! The month in which I watch even more horror movies than usual. Each year I tend to have a theme to help narrow down what to watch. So far I’ve done Zombie Films and Werewolf Films. This year’s them will be vampires. I tried to include foreign films (at least those with English subtitles), but only if I was able to get my hands on them.

I also made sure that each of the films listed below primarily revolve around vampires. This isn’t in any particular order either.

30 Days of Night (2007) – is an American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film is directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a thirty-day long polar night.

It was fun to watch! I love that the vampires were actually terrifying and not just pretty people with fangs. It does have some clichés and a basic plot, but I still enjoyed it. Did you know that the town of Barrow is a real place in Alaska? And that it does have 30 days of night? It’s a good thing that vampires don’t actually exist, especially these because this place would've been a paradise for them.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) – is an American vampire western film directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. It’s tagged as “The first Iranian vampire Western”. In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

It’s stylistic, slow placed with a very gothic atmosphere. It might not be for everyone, but it was neat in its delivery for sure.

Fright Night (2011) – is an American horror comedy film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig. A remake of Tom Holland’s Fright Night, the film’s screenplay was adapted by Marti Noxon. The plot follows a teenaged boy who discovers that his neighbor is actually a vampire, which culminates in a battle between the two.

I watched this film before watching the original Fright Night. This remake is actually pretty decent. It manages to be it’s own thing, while keeping the same concept as the original but with a modern take to it. It was fun.

Fright Night (1985) – is an American horror film written and directed by Tom Holland (in his directorial debut) and produced by Herb Jaffe. It stars William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, Jonathan Stark, Dorothy Fielding, Stephen Geoffreys, and Art Evans. The film follows young Charley Brewster, who discovers that his next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent, a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry’s killing spree.

It was released in the 80s so it certainly felt like I went back in time. What still stick with me after watching it was how the vampire dude did an excellent job at radiating charming yet creepiness, especially with his interest in Charley’s girlfriend.

From Dawn to Dusk (1996) – is an American action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. Bank robber Seth Gecko and his violent brother, Richie, are on the run – a robbery gone bad left several people dead – and the FBI and Texas Rangers are in pursuit. As they head for Mexico, the brothers meet the Fuller family heading the same way. They take the family hostage and continue the trip in the Fullers’ RV.

It was a fun and campy horror gorefest. Did you know that the director knew that he had a big gory movie on his hands, so to guarantee the film wouldn’t get a dreaded NC-17 rating he made all of the vampire blood green instead of red?

Let the Right One In (2008) – Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in is an Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s.

Not bad! It’s not every day that there’s a vampire film that focuses on a vampire kid. It’s definitely not the childish type of film either.

Near Dark (1987) – is an American neo-western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and Jenette Goldstein. The plot follows a young man in a small midwestern town who becomes involved with a family of nomadic American vampires.

Not bad! If you like The Lost Boys, you’ll definitely like this film too. I could almost see this existing in the same universe.

Salem’s Lot (1979) – is an American miniseries television adaptation of the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires.

It was okay.

Stake Land (2010) -- is an American vampire horror film directed by Jim Mickle and starring Nick Damici, who cowrote the script with Mickle. It also stars Connor Paolo, Danielle Harris and Kelly McGillis. The plot revolves around an orphaned young man being taken under the wing of a vampire hunter known only as “Mister”, and the battle for survival in their quest for a safe haven.

Think zombie apocalypse, but with vampires instead. It wasn’t bad.

What We Do In The Shadows (2014) -- Flatmates Viago, Deacon and Vladislav are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern society. From paying rent and doing the housework to trying to get invited in to nightclubs, they are just like anyone else - except they are immortal and must feast on human blood.

I liked it! It’s a fun mockumentary about vampires.

The Lost Boys (1987) – is an American horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Harvey Bernhard with a screenplay written by Jeffrey Boam. Janice Fischer and James Jeremias wrote the film’s story. The film’s ensemble cast includes; Corey Haim, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. The film is about two brothers who move to California to a beach town and end up fighting a gang of young vampires.

This is great! No wonder it’s a cult classic. However, I’m not a fan of the sequels. They’re not that great. So I would recommend that you stick with just this film, but if you really want to watch one of the them...I suggest the Lost Boys: The Thirst which was okay.

Vamps (2017) – is also known as Ghouls; Vurdalaki and Вурдалаки. It is a Russian action fantasy horror film directed by Sergei Ginzburg from a screenplay by Aleksey Karaulov, Evgeniy Kolyadintsev, Tikhon Kornev and Aleksei Timm, based on a story by Alexei Tolstoi (Mario Bava previously adapted it in 1963 for I Tre volti della paura; Black Sabbath). 

In the distant part of the Carpathian Mountains, near the border with the Ottoman Empire, there is an old monastery. The monk named Lavr exiled himself there and is an expert on mysterious powers. Empress Elizabeth sends her godson, Andrey, to bring the monk back to St. Petersburg. Andrey travels to the ill-famed place and meets with Lavr, but before they can return to the city they must face evil forces and creatures of the dark side.

It was a okay movie with a decent story, and it was also beautifully shot. I found it engaging enough to finish it.

Vampire Dad (2020) -- is an American comedy horror film directed by Frankie Ingrassia, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kathryn M. Moseley. In the early 1960s, Dr. Raymond is the picture-perfect husband and father until one night when everything changes. Victoria, the “Goddess of the Underworld”, bites Raymond and turns him into a vampire. Victoria recruits Raymond to be the therapist for creatures of the netherworld because monsters have feelings too and they desperately need his help!

It was lighthearted and nice to watch!

Blood Red Sky (2021) -- (also known as Transatlantic 473) is a action horror film directed by Peter Thorwarth, who co-wrote the screenplay with Stefan Holtz. When a group of terrorists hijacks an overnight transatlantic flight, a mysteriously ill woman must unleash a monstrous secret to protect her young son.

It wasn’t perfect, but it was a lot better than I expected. The mashup of terrorist hijackers on a plane, vampires and a protective mother actually worked well. It was refreshing to see something different in the vampire genre. However, be aware that you may need to turn on subtitles because there’s both English and German dialogue.

Boys From County Hell (2021) -- is a vampire comedy horror film directed by Chris Baugh, who also co-wrote the film with Brendan Mullin. A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering father and son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

It was fun to watch! It was great to see something different in the vampire genre. It takes place in Northern Ireland in a fictional backwater town, whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker stayed there once and based Dracula on the local legend of Abhartach.

NOTE: This isn’t a popularity list. Just a list of vampires films that I haven’t ever seen and those I have, but it has been a long time since I’ve watched them and wanted to re-watch again. I’m sure by now there’s been plenty of vampire films released. If I really enjoy one of those films then I might come back to this list and add them on.

[mrepstein]

Brian Epstein’s Address & Telephone Book

A small leather bound pocket address and telephone book that was owned and used by Brian Epstein. The book dates to 1967 and it consists of 57 pages of addresses and telephone number some of which are typed, some of which are in Epstein’s hand and some which have been added by hand on his behalf. // (click HERE to view more pages from the book)

The book contains a total of 404 entries - a selection of them are listed below:

A

ATV Ltd 

ABC Television Ltd 

AIR London Ltd. 

Tom Arnold Ltd 

Neil Aspinall 

Artistes Car Hire 

Annabels [nightclub] 

Alexander’s Restaurant 

Ashley Steiner Famous [talent agency] 

Al Aronowitz 

Atlantic Records 

Eric Andersen 

Bob Anthony 

B

Bryce Hanmer & Co [accounting firm] 

Bedford, Okrent & Co 

BBC Television Centre 

BBC Broadcasting House 

Al Brodax 

Cilla Black 

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Barrow 

Mr. & Mrs Don Black 

Bryan Barrett 

Jack Barclay Ltd  [Bentley dealership] 

Peter Brown 

Mr. & Mrs. B. Bullough 

Mr. & Mrs J. Bullough 

Miss J. Balmer 

Mr. &. Mrs. Ivan Bennett 

Eric Burdon 

Francisco Bermudez 

Lionel Bart 

David Bailey 

Bag O’Nails 

Tony Barlow 

Ray Bartell 

Rodney Barnes 

Bruno One Restaurant 

Sid Bernstein 

Kenn Brodziak 

Leonard Bernstein 

Al Bennett 

Beverly Hills Hotel 

Brian Bedford 

Scotty Bower 

David Ballman 

Bob Bonis 

Bill Buist 

Arthur Buist 

C

Dr. Norman Cowan 

Curzon House Club 

Crockfords Club 

Clermont Club 

Cromwellian Club 

Paddy Chambers 

Radio Caroline 

Michael Codron 

Cap-Estel Le 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Cassen 

Columbia Pictures Ltd 

Eric Clapton 

Capitol Records Mexico 

Michael Cooper 

Roger Curtis 

Neil Christian 

Maureen Cleave 

Thomas Clyde 

Cash Box 

CBS Records Ltd 

Denny Cordell 

William Cavendish 

Caprice Restuarant 

David Charkham 

Capitol Records 

Columbia Broadcasting System 

Bob Crewe 

May Cunnell 

Car Hire Co. for Lincoln 

Dr. Kenneth Chesky 

Capitol Records (Voyle Gilmore) 

Irving E. Chezar 

Danny Cleary 

Bobby Colomby 

Bob Casper 

Andre Cadet 

D

Daily Express 

Disc & Music Echo 

Decca Records 

Bernard Delfont Ltd 

Bernard Delfont 

Noel Dixon 

Jimmy Douglas 

Chris Denning 

Simon Dee 

Rik Dane 

Dolly’s [nightclub] 

Hunter Davies 

Terry Doran 

Pat Doncaster 

Norrie Drummond 

Alan David 

John Dunbar 

Peter Dalton 

Kappy Ditson 

Robert Dunlap 

Robert L. David 

Diana Dors 

Ivor Davis 

Tom Dawes 

Brandon de Wilde 

Don Danneman 

E

Malcolm Evans 

Clive J. Epstein 

Mr. & Mrs. H. Epstein 

EMI Records Ltd 

EMI Studios 

Geoffrey Ellis 

Etoile Restaurant 

Tim Ellis 

Terry Eaton 

Kenny Everett 

John East 

Bob Eubanks 

Esther Edwards 

Ahmet Ertegun 

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Alan Freeman 

David Frost 

Georgie Fame 

Robert Fraser 

Andre Fattacini 

Dan Farson 

Billy Fury 

Barry Finch 

Marianne Faithfull 

Robert Fitzpatrick 

Warren Frederikson 

John Fisher 

Danny Fields 

Francis Fiorino 

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Dr. Geoffrey Gray 

Hamish Grimes 

Derek Grainger 

Rik Gunnell 

Rik Gunnell Agency Ltd 

Derrick Goodman & Co. 

Peter Goldman 

Christopher Gibbs 

David Garrick 

Geoffrey Grant 

Mick Green 

John P. Greenside 

Michael Gillet 

General Artists Corp. 

John Gillespie 

Voyle Gilmore 

George Greif 

Ren Grevatt 

Milton Goldman 

M. Goldstein 

Gary Grove 

Henry Grossman 

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Mr. & Mrs. Berrell Hyman 

Doreen Hyman 

Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Hyman 

Mrs. A. Hyman 

Steve Hardy 

H. Huntsman & Son Ltd 

Simon Hayes 

Frankie Howerd 

Henry Higgins 

Chris Hutchins 

Tony Howard 

Wendy Hanson 

Marty Himmel 

Casper Halpern

John Heska

Ricky Heiman

Joe Hunter

Ty Hargrove

Hullabaloo.

Walter Hofer

J

M.A. Jacobs & Son 

David Jacobs [lawyer] 

Dick James Music Ltd 

Mr. & Mrs. D. James 

Mick Jagger 

Brian Jones 

Michael Jeffries 

Drummond Jackson 

David Jacobs [d.j.] 

Brian Joyce 

Gerry Justice 

K

Gibson Kemp 

Johnathan King 

Mr. & Mrs Maurice Kinn 

Kingsway Recording Studios 

Ashley Kozac 

Kafetz Camera Ltd. 

Reg King 

Andrew Koritsas 

Ed Kenmore 

Walker Kundzicz 

John Kurland 

Murray Kauffman

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Larry Lamb 

Martin Landau 

Kit Lambert 

Dick Lester 

Mr. & Mrs. Vic Lewis 

Tony Lynch 

Radio London 

Mike Leander 

John Lyndon 

Bernard Lee 

Kenny Lynch 

Denny Laine 

Lomax Alliance 

Ed Leffler 

David G. Lowe 

Richard W. Lean 

Goddard Lieberson 

Laurie Records 

Liberty Records 

London Records 

Alan Livingston

M

Melody Maker 

Peter Murray 

Keith Moon 

Mr. & Mrs. G. Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Matthew 

Midland Bank Limited 

Vyvienne Moynihan 

Gerry Marsden 

Ian Moody 

Michael McGrath 

Cathy McGowan 

Mr. & Mrs. J. McCartney 

Albert Marrion 

Robin Maughan 

Peter Maddok 

Gordon Mills 

Brian McEwan 

John Mendell Jnr. 

Marshall Migatz 

Fred Morrow 

Chruch McLaine 

Vincent Morrone 

Jeffrey Martin Co. 

Gavin Murrell 

Dean Martin 

Gordon B. McLendon 

Sal Mineo 

Scott Manley 

Bernard Mavnitte 

Verne Miller 

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John Neville 

Joanne Newfield 

Tommy Nutter 

Francisco Neuner 

Tatsuji Nagasima 

New Musical Express 

NEMS Enterprises Ltd 

Graham Nash 

Nemperor Artists Ltd 

Louis Nizer 

Bob Nauss 

Gene Narmore 

O

George H. Ornstein 

Olympic Sound Studios 

A. L. Oldham 

Myles Osternak 

Roy Onsborg 

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Col. Tom Parker 

Jerry Pam 

Plaza Hotel 

PAN AM. rep 

Bob Perlman 

Allen Pohju 

Robert H. Prech 

John Pritchard 

Prince Of Wales Theatre 

Don Paul 

Sean Phillips 

Jon Pertwee 

Ricki Pipe 

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David Puttnam 

David Puttnam Associates 

Tom Parr 

Harry Pinsker 

Kenneth Partridge 

Larry Parnes 

Priory Nursing Home 

Viv Prince 

Steve Paul 

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Radnor Arms [pub] 

Leo Rost 

Keith Richard 

Record Mirror 

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Charles Ross 

Rules Restuarant 

Marian Rainford 

Bobby Roberts 

Bill Rosado 

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Vic Singh 

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Simon Scott 

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Squarciafichi 

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Herb Schlosser 

Gary Smith 

Jim Stewart [co-founder, Stax Records] 

John Simon 

Jerry N. Schatzberg 

Lex Taylor 

Robert Shoot 

Lauren Stanton 

St. Regis Hotel 

Eric Spiros 

Howard Soloman 

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Taft Limousine Corp 

[Sidney] Traxler (lawyer) 

T.W.A. Ken S. Fletcher [director, public relations, TWA] 

Derek & Joan Taylor 

T.W.A. (Victor Page) 

Martin Tempest 

Evelyn Taylor 

Twickenham Studios 

Kenneth Tynan 

Alistair Taylor 

F. T. Turner & Son Ltd. 

R. S. Taylor 

Michael Taylor 

George Tempest 

Norm Talbott 

U

United Artists Corp Ltd 

U.P.I. 

V

Klaus & Christine Voormann 

V.I.P. Travel Ltd 

W

Mark Warman 

Gary Walker 

Robert Whitaker 

Peter Watkins 

Peter Weldon 

Mrs. Freda Weldon 

Alan Warren 

Orson Welles 

Sir David Webster 

Alan Williams 

Dennis Wiley 

Terry Wilson 

Nathan Weiss 

Norman Weiss 

Gerry Wexler 

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Murial Young 

Bernice Young 

Z

Peter Zorcon 

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Doro lança clipe de 'All For Metal' com integrantes do Testament, Amon Amarth, Kreator e outros

A contara alemã Doro Pesch lançou o videoclipe de ‘All For Metal’, prévia do novo álbum,”Forever Warriors, Forever United”, duplo e contendo 25 músicas novas, que sai no dia… - https://is.gd/fgtLeH

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DORO PESCH Says Her Next Studio Album Is '80 Percent Done'

German metal queen Doro Pesch spoke to Metal Rules about the status of the songwriting and recording sessions for the follow-up to her 2018 double album "Forever Warriors, Forever United". She said: "The new record is almost done. It's like 80 percent done, and there are awesome songs. There are anthems, fast songs, and some really soulful songs. So, I think that 80 percent of the record is already done. I mean, 80 percent of the songwriting is done, and we have recorded lots of stuff. It will be out sometime later next year."

Asked if her new album will be stylistically similar to "Forever Warriors, Forever United", she said: "Yeah, but it's probably not a double album. The next year is my 40th anniversary as an artist. And, of course, we want to do something special, but it will be a single album."

"Forever Warriors, Forever United" featured 19 regular tracks and six bonus songs.

Last month, Doro released a very unique single — a soulful adaptation of her classic metal anthem "Raise Your Fist In The Air". The track was made possible by the new ZDF (national German TV channel) music show "Music Impossible".

This past May, Doro told Sleaze Roxx that she does most of her songwriting now with former SISTERS OF MERCY guitarist Andreas Bruhn. "I met him, I think, in 1986," she said. "We've always worked good together. Actually, the new bass player we have in Europe, we wrote a new killer song together so that's a new friendship. It's an anthem. It's good! And I wrote one song with my very first producer from the 'Hellbound' album. We met up again and wrote a nice song together. It's a song for the animals because I love animals. It's called 'Heavenly Creatures'. That will definitely be on the new record I'm planning on putting out next year. Next year, I have my 40th year anniversary so we want to celebrate it big."

In celebration of 35 years of the "Triumph And Agony" album from her former band WARLOCK, Doro released "Triumph And Agony Live" in various formats, including CD, vinyl, cassette, DVD, Blu-ray, and a huge box set, in September 2021 through her own label, Rare Diamonds Productions. The "Triumph And Agony" artwork centered on Geoffrey Gillespie's famous original drawing of the "Warlock" embracing the blonde rock star.

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It’s early June 1971. It’s the height of Bowie’ ‘friends’ phase. Peel invites Bowie to do another radio concert at the Paris Cinema Studios in London. Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey are back from Hull to help David out on his new album (Hunky Dory), bringing with them a new bassist, Trevor Bolder. In other words, this is the first ever gig with the as yet unnamed Spiders from Mars. Bowie’s also brought along some of the people he’s been hanging and working with recently: George Underwood, Geoffrey Alexander, Mark Carr Pritchett and Dana Gillespie – people who have taken lead vocals on a number of the songs in the set. Now it’s time for the final groove, and the band launch into Ron Davies’ recent It Ain't Easy. It’s a rousing version, Bowie taking lead on the first verse, Alexander on the second, and Gillespie joining in on the chorus. A stunning way to end the concert. Bowie will record this a few weeks later for the Hunky Dory album. However, it won’t make it onto that release, but instead surface on Ziggy Stardust.

Written by Ron Davies. Recorded 3 June 1971. Broadcast 20 June 1971. Available on Bowie at the Beeb (2002).

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In the Heat of the Night: The doomed TV Show

I was looking up information about the movie In the Heat of the Night and I kept running into the TV show. I did not care at first but I kept seeing headlines about things going wrong with the show. The series starred Carroll O’Connor, the actor behind the bigoted Archie Bunker from the show All in the Family. He seemed to be perfect as the racist southern chief, Bill Gillespie, but it did not turn out to be that easy. It occurred to me that trying to continue a movie that was a statement against deep south racism and placing it in the late 80s/early 90s was not a great idea, but the amount of outside garbage the whole cast went through is just staggering. Here is a taste of some of the worst:

1988 writer’s strike: The second season was delayed because of a strike. There was already a problem with the writing because the lead actor, Carol O’Connor who was also a producer, kept changing the final scripts. The original writers wanted to focus on a series of murders but O’Connor wanted to flesh out the characters. He also wanted to have the actors who played the deputies, one of whom was his real life son, to have more screen time. A lot of the writers did not return to the show after the strike and O’Connor fired the executive producers and pretty much took over the show. One person being the head writer, executive producer, and the lead actor for a show was unheard of and it was very hard on O’Connor. He only lived a short time longer after the show ended, passing away in 2001.

Howard Rollins had problems: The man that played the part of Virgil Tibbs (the role made famous by Sidney Poitier) had to leave during the 3rd season to go to rehab. He was eventually fired in the 6th season due to “health problems.” It is sad to think that the powerful character of Detective Tibbs was played by a man who was unable to control his drinking and was fired. His alcoholism affected his body and he developed health issues and died shortly after the show finished in 1996. 

Hugh O’Connor was stressed out: After seven seasons of trying to stretch out a story that perfectly fit into a 2 hour movie, the show slowed down and was semi cancelled. A last season was actually just 4 TV movies that highlighted single cases. Carol O’Connor’s son, Hugh, was one of the deputies on the show and was seriously depressed by the ending of the show. It was so bad that the boy committed suicide two weeks before the last show was aired. It destroyed Carroll and he was plagued with regret and sadness for the rest of his life.  

Actors decided to just leave: There were not a lot of peripheral characters, but a couple of them just left the show. Most famous was Geoffrey Thorne, who decided he wanted to become a writer, when he was unceremoniously dropped from the show. He left to try out different things and his character was taken out of the show without explanation or any kind of farewell. Thorne was not the only actor that this happened to. 

It seems like everyone on the show was either fired or eventually died from overwhelming difficulties. It comes from trying to recapture the spark from a time sensitive piece of work. The movie was much better because it was contained into a couple of days. The ticking clock really added to the drama. This was all lost on the TV show because it was just too long. 

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Doro reveals cover art and track listing for Triumph And Agony Live

Doro has unveiled the cover art and track listing of her upcoming live album, Triumph And Agony Live. The effort is scheduled for release on September 24th through Doro’s own, Rare Diamonds Productions. The artwork is based off of the original cover of the Warlock classic done by Geoffrey Gillespie. Doro says: “The cover and the whole artwork including booklet and inlay are a combination of…