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My flight from Bangkok to Taipei to Anchorage to JFK lasted through a very long Sunday. Total time - 37 hours and according my body have been suffering a severe case of narcolepsy. Two evenings ago Willem Dafoe extended an invitation to a screening of ANAMORPH by HS Miller. “I’m playing a cop.”
“You get […]

The Italian Synod of Bishops had dipped into its bottomless fount of morality with an appeal for actors and actresses to resist any and all “vulgar and destructive” cinematic erotic scenes. The plea was issued after the release of CAOS CALMO with a classically classified ‘gratuitous’ sex scene. This exhibition of the actress Isabella Ferrari’s […]

While pornography is illegal in Thailand, XXX movies or nang-po are widely distributed for general consumption. Police crackdowns on this trade have little effect on deflating the sales of DVDs depicting the ways of the flesh. The demand for skin flicks featuring Thai females has created an underground film industry in Pattaya and this week […]

On Boxing Day 2006 a pick-up truck narrowly missed my daughter. I confronted the driver at the end of the soi. The tattooed tapestry got out of his truck wearing sneakers or trainers. He was bigger than I thought and I was wearing the 2nd worst footwear for a fight.
Flip-flops.
The worst are cowboy boots which have no […]

I worked at St. John of the Heavens Hospital the summer of 1973. Marilynn was working there. She went to Boston College. So did I. She was a candy striper. Orderlies earn five cents an hour than janitors. I call myself a ‘porter’. My first day I learned St. John’s was a waiting room for […]

Every January the electronic and computer companies promote their newest products at the Las Vegas convention center, which strangely coincides with the adult entertainment industry’s annual Awards Banquet in America’s City of Sin. XXX and IT go hand in hand since 95% of internet traffic is porno-bound judging from the SPAM dumped on the website and […]

Global warming experts and political pessimists have gelled to forecast a doomsday combination of socio-economic collapse exascerbated by catastrophic climate changes. Hollywood has been capitalizing on this apocalyptical vision with films such as George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and MAD MAX II, but the heroes usuallly survive the throes of extinction thanks to […]

Big Al called this week while I was in Bangkok getting a pension paper notarized for my retirement visa at the American embassy.

“Oliver Stone is directing a movie about the My Lai massacre. They’re looking for guys your age. Why don’t you go for an audition?”
It was only 2pm. I called the casting director. He […]

“You can see all the stars of Hollywood Boulevard.” The Kinks’ CELLULOID HEROES.
Roger Moore has joined the more than 2000 artists honored by Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The 79 year-old is best remembered for his role as James Bond, which he got thanks to his years as TV’s THE SAINT as well as Sean Connery […]

In the early morning hours of 9/6 Pattaya’s finest were notified by concerned citizens of suspicious behavior on a secluded Naklua beach. Upon arrival the police discovered that an international movie crew was filming an unauthorized sex film. The responding cops deemed the proceedings illegal and called for back-up to transport the 6 Japanese men, 2 Japanese starlettes […]