July 20, 2010

 

 

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HAWAIIAN PRINCESS

Ben Pleasants reviews Princess Kaiulani.

LITERARY LOS ANGELES

How Traveler's Bookcase Beat the Book Superstores.

OFFENSIVE TO ASIANS?

Why did American Airlines censor Up in the Air?



PROGRESSIVES FOR WAR?

After March 20 protest rallies, one peacenik wonders how many progressives oppose "Obama's war"?

REAL ANARCHISTS DON'T TAKE GOVERMENT MONEY

Says anarchist playwright Ben Pleasants.

X-FILES PARODY TARGETS IRAQ WAR, PATRIOT ACT

Read about Pentagon Possessed: A Neocon Horror Story!

Pentagon Possessed

WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Read about the winners of the 2009 Tabloid Witch Awards!

MY DINNER WITH A SLASHER

Red Velvet is a slasher film with an indie, Sundance Channel feeling.

DEATH IN CHARGE

Devi Snively's double win at 2009 Shriekfest Film Festival

HORROR ARCHIVES

What scares Dark Shadows actor.Jonathan Frid ... Dracula's descendent.writes play ... Horror film auteur Warren J. Norman... Actress founds.Screamfest L.A. ... Scream Queen.Leanna Chamish.... Horror films haunt Shriekfest.... Scream Queen Linnea Quigley ... Twisted Sister.Dee Snider ... Shannon Lark is a horror only actress ... From our early parody days: Ceausescu Turns Jacko Into Vampire ... Commentary: Don't Blame the Devil This Halloween ... From the Weekly Universe: Wimpy wiccans.infuriate Satanists ... Ghosts propel UFOs ... Kansas City ghost-hunters.... Return of Karl Kolchak ... Theater of bloody horror ... Possessed by a ghost ... Terrifying truth about heaven ... Why YOU should share your ghost sightings ... Ghostbuster investigates Haight-Ashbury haunting ... Mina Harker's vampire tours ... Followed by demonic UFOs ... I saw Green Man's ghost ... Living orbs from other dimensions ... Angel orbs bring comfort after son's death ... Terrifying truth of shadow people ... Send a FREE Halloween greeting card!

JACKO KILLED THE MUSIC VIDEO STAR

How Michael Jackson and "Performance Videos" Destroyed a 1980s Art Form

JACKO'S 'SECRET' VIDEO

Read This Exclusive Investigator Report ... From the Archives

WAR ON BIG MEDIA MONOPOLIES

Docu defends YOUR right to rip, remix & burn music and movies!

Read about Rip! A Remix Manifesto!

COPYRIGHT TYRANNY

 

Long Copyright Terms Resemble Book-Burning

Big Media Is Stealing YOUR Copyrights

Pirate Party Demands Copyright Reform

Libel Laws Killing Free Speech

Music Copyrights Extended

* Horror

Women's "Viscera" Horror Film Fest Announces 2008 Selections

Enter our Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest ... Read about our 2008 winners and their exciting awards presentation in Santa Monica ...

* Libertarian Laura

A libertarian perspective on film, by Laura G. Brown.

* 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

* Charlie Wilson's War

* Crossing Over

* Extract

* Idiocracy

* Man on Wire

* Milk

* The Secret

* Up

* The Visitor

 

LIZ ADAMS WINS BIG

'Side Effect' Takes Best Director, Audience Choice at 2010 Viscera Awards.

QUANTUM NOIR

Filmmaker James Kerwin on Yesterday Was a Lie.

FILM SCHOOL RIP-OFFS

NYU film school grad Seth Hymes: Don't waste your money!

FILM FESTIVAL RIP-OFFS

J. Neil Schulman explains how to avoid them -- and how to fix them!

BIG BITING PIG -- GRASSROOTS HORROR THAT ENTERTAINS

Kentucky filmmaker Steve Hudgins tells how he does it!


 


ISRAELI PEACENIK

Yossi Khen addresses Los Angeles Libertarians

California Peace Protest Turmoils

Monterey Peaceniks: End Afghan War!

Tea Party Boots Libertarians, Peaceniks

FIGHTING CITY HALL

Runs for Non-Existent Office, to Prevent Carmel Valley City Incorporation.

I TOURED RED CHINA

Read Her Insider Report!

MAD AS HELL

California Trucker Challenges West Covina City Council

Obama posters

OBAMA DISSAPOINTS DOVES

Seaside Peaceniks Hold Obama Accountable

Culpepper flag
Canadian flag

Canadians Do NOT Fear Terrorism

Learn Their Secret Weapon!

* Year of the "Illegal"

* Two Sean Baker films nominated for a John Cassevetes Award, both of them sympathizing with 'illegal' immigrants.

* J Lo's Bordertown Challenges NAFTA

* Movie Muslims

* 1960s Antiwar Protest Films

* Ben Pleasants

Former L.A. Times writer and playwright Ben Pleasants -- who refuses government arts funding -- covers the Los Angeles literary scene:

* Communist Lillian Hellman vs. Mary McCarthy

* Charles Bukowski's Nazi Past

* Bukowski on Writing the Short Story

* Dope Fiend Poet Steve Richmond

* Rediscovering Ask the Dust Author John Fante

* Dan Fante, Man on Fire

* Ben's Visceral Bukowski Bio

* The Good German

 

 

 

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