Neil Gaiman and Jim Thompson bonded by Scam Fiction?
It’s all a scam, isn’t it?
My alarm goes off in the morning and I eat some cereal some marketer scammed me into thinking tastes good and is good for me. I wash myself with products I’ve been scammed into thinking will make me more pleasant company. I buy cigarettes I’ve scammed myself into thinking won’t really shorten my life from a convenience store clerk who scams me into thinking I’m paying a fair price. I go to my day-job and scam my boss into thinking I’m working hard just as he scams me into thinking my paycheck is as much as I deserve. Then I come home and attempt to scam you fine people into thinking I know what I’m talking about when it comes to crime fiction.
But of course, you’re too smart for that.
It’s all a scam, isn’t it?
My alarm goes off in the morning and I eat some cereal some marketer scammed me into thinking tastes good and is good for me. I wash myself with products I’ve been scammed into thinking will make me more pleasant company. I buy cigarettes I’ve scammed myself into thinking won’t really shorten my life from a convenience store clerk who scams me into thinking I’m paying a fair price. I go to my day-job and scam my boss into thinking I’m working hard just as he scams me into thinking my paycheck is as much as I deserve. Then I come home and attempt to scam you fine people into thinking I know what I’m talking about when it comes to crime fiction.
But of course, you’re too smart for that.
- 4/1/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
'The Schwarzenegger Trilogy': An Interview With The Creators Of The Film Arnold's Watching Right Now
From The Rock to Vin Diesel, none of our modern-day musclemen have quite pulled off the Schwarzenegger binary. As big as Arnold was, he was practically asexual, a cop wholesome enough to teach kindergartners if he had to (Dwayne Johnson as a hockey-playing tooth-fairy is a distant second). Which is why we so love the nostalgic glory of The Schwarzenegger Trilogy, a 1,600-frame animated film made on commission by L.A.-based animators Harry McGowan and Jimmy Thompson for the Standard Hotel's short film festival, (and which Arnold is watching right now).
Drawn entirely in highlighter and black pen, the Trilogy's part one (aptly titled "5 4 3 2") tackles Arnold's explosions, part two, "Galleria," recreates the "Terminator" scene when John Connor meets the Terminator and part three, "come on...get down," re-cuts famous Arnold lines into a pseudo-rap. There's none of the philanderer here, or the lousy governor. This is Arnold in his prime -- half-robot,...
Drawn entirely in highlighter and black pen, the Trilogy's part one (aptly titled "5 4 3 2") tackles Arnold's explosions, part two, "Galleria," recreates the "Terminator" scene when John Connor meets the Terminator and part three, "come on...get down," re-cuts famous Arnold lines into a pseudo-rap. There's none of the philanderer here, or the lousy governor. This is Arnold in his prime -- half-robot,...
- 9/1/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Summer is a time for beaches, blockbusters and books - and this season is packed with three much buzzed-about film adaptations: Eat, Pray, Love, The Killer Inside Me and Twelve. People.com wants to know: Before buying your movie ticket, which source material will you be adding to your summer must-read list? • Eat, Pray, Love, out August 13 In this big-screen adaptation based on Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 bestseller - a globetrotting memoir following a divorcée traveling to Italy, India and Bali in search of fulfillment - Julia Roberts divorces Billy Crudup, rebounds with James Franco and ultimately romances Javier Bardem.• The Killer Inside Me,...
- 6/7/2010
- by Janet Mock
- PEOPLE.com
As we've done in years past, we're going to be spotlighting the horror offerings at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 21st through May 2nd in New York City. First up is the uber violent and controversial The Killer Inside Me.
Along with providing a few additional stills from Michael Winterbottom's adaptation (the director is pictured in action on the right), the official 2010 Tribeca Film Festival website has an expanded synopsis for the film as follows:
Casey Affleck is Lou Ford, a small-town deputy sheriff ordered to evict local prostitute Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba) for taking up with the son of a prominent businessman. It only takes one encounter with the seductive Joyce for Ford to get swept up in an intense sexual affair with her, and soon he's hatching a scheme to blackmail her lover so they can run away together. But behind Ford's accommodating Texan smile hides a cold-blooded killer,...
Along with providing a few additional stills from Michael Winterbottom's adaptation (the director is pictured in action on the right), the official 2010 Tribeca Film Festival website has an expanded synopsis for the film as follows:
Casey Affleck is Lou Ford, a small-town deputy sheriff ordered to evict local prostitute Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba) for taking up with the son of a prominent businessman. It only takes one encounter with the seductive Joyce for Ford to get swept up in an intense sexual affair with her, and soon he's hatching a scheme to blackmail her lover so they can run away together. But behind Ford's accommodating Texan smile hides a cold-blooded killer,...
- 4/19/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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