One year ago today
Andy Griffith: Before Mayberry, A Movie Monster: The facts that Griffith played a bad guy in his first film role, and that both the performance and the movie, Elia Kazan’s 1957 A Face In The Crowd, are largely overlooked today.
Five years ago today
Shepard Fairey cover design: Penguin’s reissues of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm sport gorgeous Shepard Fairey cover designs.
Ten years ago today
Silence of the Lambs fan-musical: Two wayward film school grads (brothers) have translated Silence of the Lambs into a series of multiple-gut-bursting songs, including the rollicking number ‘Are You About A Size 14?’ and the introspective ‘Put the Fucking Lotion in the Basket!’