He was an illustrator who did a lot of movie posters, most notably for Breakfast at Tiffany's, Barbarella and a few Bond films. Maybe more notable was his style of pulp paperback covers, which I remember well and I think you will all immediately recognize.

See some examples in the NYT Obit.

There's so much crap going on that I wanted a light-hearted read and found this at Recycle. Some of you are probably familiar with the TV series (which I've never seen). Jeeves is the valet to the Bertie Wooster, who is not too bright. Bertie and his friends get into one sort of trouble or another in each story, and Jeeves sorts it out. It's amusing, but not laugh out loud funny. As I said in my review of another Wodehouse book, it's a bit like Sherlock Holmes: you know the general shape of the story before you start, but enjoy how it plays out and how the superior intellect prevails, only this is funnier. Those of you who enjoy Downton Abbey might like it.

Remastered for a release in theaters 4/24-427. Remastered album release as well. I don't think I ever saw it. Saw the preview a few times at Camera One though.

We don't seem to have a thread devoted to space, but there seems to be more and more stories that are space related, so I'm creating this one...

--tg

The trailer says ‘Terrible Fights’
Got that right.
It’s Bruce Li versus a snake wizard who has Bolo Yeung as a hench. Chiu Chi-Ling is credited here but I didn’t see him. Yue Tao-wan, who has made a career out of being cross eyed, is a guide, along with To Siu-Ming, who can also cross his eyes. They steal some bananas from some natives in an early moment of comic relief. Best of all is there’s a snake pit full of real live snakes and a dude in a gorilla suit doing gorilla Kung Fu. 
The version I watched was in terrible condition with long black out moments, varying sound loudness (one sound burst made me jump), and bleached out film. Seen on hoopla.

There’s no reason to watch this whatsoever. It’s somewhat of a cult fav, at least it’s been preserved for its quirkiness, but ultimately it’s just not weird enough to work. It’s only passingly odd.

I regret watching it but I felt it was my duty to the genre because it comes up from time to time.

By short, it's less than 250 pages, and it encompasses many ancient cultures, although mostly European, with nods to China (weak) and Aztecs (surprising). Forsyth is a tad smarmy in his tone, which bugged me at first, but I got used to it later. He's got a lot of funny factoids about world history. His chapters on the Wild West, symposiums, gin in the UK, and ale were particularly revealing. In the end, I found it an enjoyable light read, a book gifted to me that has been sitting on my nightstand since xmas.

He was the bass player from Gang of Four and Shriekback. Gang of Four was a bit too abrasive for me (although "Natural's not in It" is a great song) but I loved Shriekback. I think ED did as well. TG will probably not remember, but we were at Lisa Wolfe's house one night and she put on the 12in. of Shriekback's "Lined Up" and I thought it was one of the most incredible things I'd ever heard. The bass line is still one of my all time favorites. I was hooked.

The rest of you might remember Shriekback for "My Spine is the Bass Line" or "Nemesis" where they rhyme nemesis with parthenogenesis. DM: if you haven't heard them you might want to check it out.

Fell down a rabbit hole with this

I blame the oat milk capp I got from StaffoLife today. Not that tasty but it had a kick and Im still up.

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VIIS

A Taiwanese Kung Fu movie about Tamo. It’s really bad. The Kung Fu is horrible. The story is all twisted up. Tamo’s 18 styles is some poor rendition of Hung Gar Tiger Crane. Tamo gets killed by the heroine (who is the only actor with any skills) because she’s slapping him for wanted to make her love interest into is disciple while he’s sitting in meditation. Then when she goes to show her beloved, they dig up the coffin to find one sandal (part of the Tamo myth) that flies around and kicks and scolds them. Then Tamo is back to life to fight the main villain, a Taoist master who has trained his hand until it’s black and burns whatever it touches (the training sequence where his thrusts his palm into a bowl of ash then alternates with a pot of dry ice fog goes back and forth like a half dozen times - way too long - we get it already).

There’s also a mantis henchman who is green - in clothes and face makeup. No idea why.

Not D00M recommended.