Is it sacrilege to know Val Kilmer really only from his turn as the second Batman, from the first run of Cape Crusader movies we got back in the ’90s? It is, isn’t it. I never watched Top Gun. Obviously, I understand the actor from other stuff; he has done quite a varied bit, after […]
This isn’t a Chris Pratt hit piece, but how can I put this so you pick up what I am putting down: The Tomorrow War should’ve stayed yesterday’s pitch meeting. Helmed by seasoned animation director Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie), this ambitious Amazon Studios pandemic-era direct-to-streaming acquisition features Pratt, who also executive produced, as […]
And don’t you forget it: Pride was a riot. Last year, COVID-19 could not cancel Pride, and the celebration went virtual, was illuminated – it carried on. Closer to the streets, the people got back to basics. Some of us called upon the spirit of Pride and the result, at least here in San Francisco, […]
Udo Kier is coming. And he means to leave a mark. Indeed, the iconoclastic German actor – who has appeared in everything from Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein to Suspiria to Madonna’s SEX book to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Armageddon – is set to take a moment in the spotlight this summer, when he stars in […]
It is so pretty out here in Walnut Creek. The Diablo Hills live up to it, alright, but so far, so pleasant. So many trees, such a variety keeping it nice and fresh. No one mentioned there would be deer and wild turkey roaming the streets. I love it. Friendly peeps out there, too, who […]
There we were summer of 2018, roaming the cloisters of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal, when news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died. I found solace, reading word of his suicide on my phone, in that we were doing exactly what he had spent the latter part of his life advocating we all do, […]
So tomorrow’s Juneteenth. Ish. Corporate America is giving millions of American workers Friday off, in observance of June 19 on Saturday. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, when Texan slaves learned they had been freed, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. I expect that […]
Leave it to Jessica Chastain to make me wanna care, if only a little, about Tammy Faye Bakker. Indeed, the two-time Academy Award nominee is bringing life to The Eyes of Tammy Faye – and she is going for the win with a sure-to-be-hearty performance complete with the look, the sound, and the heft and […]
Tonight, Reuters reported first, that (Republican) Senators blocked an independent and bipartisan commission investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, and second, that the United States are sanctioning Belarus over the fraudulent grounding of a dissident-carrying plane back in Minsk earlier this month. It’s like, America…where do you get off? If you can, […]
History in the making is so much better than history repeating. Meet Lucia Lucas, a American transgender woman – Sacramento in the house! – and an international opera star, who became the first trans person ever to perform a principal role on an operatic stage in the United States of America, when she sang and […]
King of Cups 