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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 …
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Let’s say this: Rebecca De Mornay was the sexiest of many psycho characters afoot at this year’s Sitges 43, more officially known as the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya. The actress, who takes the lead in Darren Bousman’s remake ofMother’s Day (think Saw, retrofitted for Martha Stewart), struck leggy poses in her leopard-print dress during closing night festivities last Saturday, received a coveted Time Machine trophy (“It looks like an electric chair … I’m so honored!”) and lent some international movie star glam to a festival whose stalwart attractions are typically hidden …
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.
