Forrest J. Ackerman, the ur-fanboi of monster films, has died at age 92.

Rest In Peace, Forry.

My main obituary entry is at Blogger, but I'll mention it here, too, with a couple of images from the Richard Lester versions of The Three Musketeers, where Chuck played a wonderfully charming Cardinal Richelieu:


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Ace of Spades has a great photo in this post of Amy Winehouse, pre- and post-addiction. Rather typical loss of looks; Amy had a curvy, sexy body before she became an addict. Take a look.

But what does it mean?

Poll Eat it! Lick it! Snort it! Fuck it!

Answer below cut:
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...to note the passing of Marcel Marceau.

She don't look like that anymore.

*shudders*


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...that Sheryl Crow's next CD will be named Wave A Brown Hand For The Earth?

Discuss.

In a news story about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, I came across the following statement from Jolie's brother, James Haven:

“If it keeps going the way it’s going, they’ll be together for life,” Haven said.

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via NY Times.

John Montgomery noticed the television crews and reporters, corralled along the fence outside a Sanitation Department garage in Lower Manhattan. He noticed the way they snapped to attention when a black sport utility vehicle pulled up. He noticed the way they focused on the tallish, Garboesque woman who stepped out ( Read more... )

story here.Pretty nice arsenal, if I do say so. He had all this stuff stashed in "secret compartments" in his Mercedes SUV. He also has police strobes and sirens set up in the vehicle, too. Wannabe soldier/cop, obviously, or perhaps reads too many survivalist magazines ( Read more... )