Check out my Topless Robot list of the Top Ten Screen Characters Insultingly Named After Real-Life People…
RIP to the excellent Dennis Farina, passed on at 69. It’s not highbrow, but That Old Feeling, the farce in which he starred opposite Bette Midler, is a favorite in our house.
In observance of the naming of George, the new whelp of the House of Windsor, let me just say…
Remember Bunker Hill!
Just kidding. Mazel tov. Still, here’s my New Times review of 1994’s The Madness of King George.
No, in observance of the royal rugrat…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s go for our honoree to the 1961 British creature feature Gorgo, about another wailing youngster surrounded by gawking onlookers in the heart of London…
But the title reptile was a MOTW about a year ago, during the London Olympics, so this week let’s give the nod to his devoted Mum, known as Ogra…
…who comes to fetch him from the greedy exhibitors and nasty spectators. Let’s hope young George is as lucky.
