Happy November everybody! Check out
my "Four Corners" column in the November issue of
Phoenix Magazine...
...this month concentrated into the four corners of The Churchill, the new downtown Phoenix hipster destination.
Also, Happy Friday. Check out
my "Friday Flicks" column on
Phoenix Magazine online, with my review of
Viper Club...
...and previews of Scottsdale International Film Festival and of the Netflix premiere of the Orson Welles movie
The Other Side of the Wind.
Also, RIP to a favorite character actor, James Karen,
passed on at 94. Karen was fondly remembered as Uneeda Medical Supply's genial, ill-fated Frank in 1985's
Return of the Living Dead and as the developer who "didn't move the bodies" in
Poltergeist. But he appeared in movies ranging from
All the President's Men,
Capricorn One,
The Gathering,
The China Syndrome,
Jagged Edge and
Wall Street and television roles on
The Jeffersons (as a KKK member saved by George Jefferson's CPR) and
Eight Is Enough and
The Golden Girls and the swansong of
Little House on the Prairie, as the evil railroad man who wipes Walnut Grove off the map. He had several Broadway credits including
Cactus Flower, worked with Buster Keaton in Beckett's
Film, was the heroic leading man in
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, and starred in countless Pathmark supermarket commercials. Despite his frequent villainous parts, he was highly endearing.
