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It was almost exactly 20 years ago that I drove to Anniston, Alabama, to spend a day with Dave Friedman. The following profile, written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was pegged to the release of Dave’s autobiographical A Youth in Babylon. I had a hell of a good time hanging out with “The Kingly Quack of the Iridescent Dream,” and this archival post is offered as a tribute. Dave died Monday at the age of 87. Heaven just got a little sleazier.
Hoisting a Bloody Mary that faintly radiates Tabasco, a …
Steve Dollar has been thinking about film since his childhood visits to the drive-in theaters of the Florida Panhandle in the early 1960s, where exposure to Mondo Cane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly irradiated his tender brain, causing permanent after-effects. Later on, he started writing about the stuff for daily newspapers in large American cities. He divides his time between Florida, Los Angeles, and New York – where he writes a weekly column on repertory film for the Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section, and covers other cinematic matters of a Gotham-istic nature. He also has contributed to such publications as Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Playboy.com, Time Out New York, and the GreenCine Daily. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms, an archive of heedless indulgences, and a free-for-all of forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies, celebrating anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
