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Sawdust and Tinsel: Porter Wagoner 6 Aug 2013 | 07:04 pm
Porter Wagoner shakes me up. He sings of the cold hard facts (of life), the promise of murder, lock-downs in rubber rooms, and the power of the lord. When he was alongside the beatific, brilliant Doll...
The Love Song of D. Samuel Peckinpah 5 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm
I blame Warren Oates. Or rather, his white suited, blood spattered beautiful loser named Bennie. This is the man who ruined me for all others -- romantically, sexually, heroically, pitifully, existent...
Return of the Silver Witch: More Marilyn 5 Jul 2013 | 03:15 am
Kim Morgan on "Tribute." From my piece at The Los Angeles Review of Books. One of the most personally arresting images I’ve ever seen of Marilyn Monroe came not from a movie or newsreel footage or on...
Say It With Firecrackers: Holiday Inn 5 Jul 2013 | 02:47 am
Say it with Firecrackers. Say it! Fred Astaire does, to my everlasting delight in this amusingly dysfunctional, imperfect movie, Holiday Inn, in which Fred throws down those firecrackers and lets 'em ...
A Shot of Udo: Green and White Wedding 21 Jun 2013 | 04:35 pm
Udo Kier and Kim Morgan marry in Paris. Dream of Calfornia. Green & White Wedding from Kim Morgan on Vimeo. Shot by Cecile Grâce Janvier and Kim Morgan at the Centre Pompidou. Edited by Kim Morgan on ...
Fire is Inspirational: Richard Pryor 13 Jun 2013 | 09:47 pm
"Let me tell you what really happened... Every night before I go to bed, I have milk and cookies. One night I mixed some low-fat milk and some pasteurized, then I dipped my cookie in and the shit blew...
The Hypnotist Collector: Marilyn Monroe 1 Jun 2013 | 01:05 pm
Happy Birthday, Marilyn Monroe. An ode, from my cover story at Playboy Magazine, published December 2012. “I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from th...
Baby Love: Birthday Boy Howard Hawks 30 May 2013 | 11:07 pm
Hapy Birthday to the late, great Howard Hawks. Let's celebrate with one of his best, Bringing Up Baby. Here's my brief ode to Hepburn, Grant, bones, dogs, leopards and... "You're a fixation." We shoul...
True Grit: Link Wray La De Da 26 May 2013 | 01:00 am
“La De Da.” A song I never tire of and a revelation the first time I heard the unheralded stunner. Link Wray’s “La De Da” from his sorely underheard 1971 album "Link Wray" was recorded in Wray’s chick...
Girls: Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank 25 May 2013 | 12:52 am
It’s tough being a teenage girl. Especially when enduring and hopefully, when you can, enjoying, that breakthrough age of 15. A lot happens when you’re 15. Though some girls float through adolescence ...
