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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King
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Mondo Film & Video Guide interview with Shelley Duvall about The Shining (November 5, 2010).
To see Vivian Kubrick's unforgettable documentary, Making The Shining, go here
Below is part one of my three-part 1979 interview with Stephen King as it appeared in the January 1980 issue of Heavy Metal. This was the debut of the Heavy Metal columns. I was told to devise a column name that was something unique, never before associated with films. After rejecting a few possibilities, I coined the word "Flix" as the title. It was a word I had never seen anywhere. Prior to January 1980, there was "flicks" but no "flix". Perhaps I should have trademarked it, eh?
Correction: Other sources say the Stanley that evening had taped orchestral music, not a live band.
Mondo Film & Video Guide interview with Shelley Duvall about The Shining (November 5, 2010).
To see Vivian Kubrick's unforgettable documentary, Making The Shining, go here
Below is part one of my three-part 1979 interview with Stephen King as it appeared in the January 1980 issue of Heavy Metal. This was the debut of the Heavy Metal columns. I was told to devise a column name that was something unique, never before associated with films. After rejecting a few possibilities, I coined the word "Flix" as the title. It was a word I had never seen anywhere. Prior to January 1980, there was "flicks" but no "flix". Perhaps I should have trademarked it, eh?
Correction: Other sources say the Stanley that evening had taped orchestral music, not a live band.
Labels: heavy metal, kubrick, shelley duvall, stephen king
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Civil Defense
In 2001, A Space Odyssey, Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) examines operating instructions for the Zero Gravity Toilet. Click to enlarge. Possibly Arthur C. Clarke had the 1962 Civil Defense Drinking Water/Commode military-style instructions in mind when he wrote the Zero Gravity Toilet copy. Around 1976, after food was discovered rotting in fallout shelters, they were cleaned, and supplies were removed. At that time, I grabbed the Civil Defense can seen below, and I've been using it for a trash can ever since.
Labels: 2001, arthur c. clarke, civil defense, kubrick
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
In a world...
We bid farewell to Don LaFontaine. The Voice of God is dead, fading out September 1.
LaFontaine on his signature style:
LaFontaine on his signature style:
My history begins as a recording engineer at the National Recording Studios, where I had the opportunity to work with Floyd Peterson producing promo spots for Dr. Strangelove. Peterson incorporated many of my ideas for the spots, and not long after, we went into business together. While working on the 1964 Western Gunfighters of Casa Grande, I had to fill in for an unavailable voice actor to finish a client’s presentation. Not long after, the client bought the spots, and my career as a voice actor had been sealed.
Prior and into the 1970s, I developed my signature style of a strong narrative approach and heavy melodramatic coloration of my voice work. Thankfully, my signature voice has commanded a busy schedule. I could voice about 60 promotions a week and as many as 35 in a single day. It has been said that my voiceover can add prestige and excitement to what may otherwise be a snoozer movie. Most studios are willing to pay a high fee for my service, thanks in no small part to my rigorous efforts and golden voice.
Labels: actor, kubrick, LaFontaine, narration, strangelove, voice, voiceover
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Vivian Kubrick's Making The Shining
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Vivian Kubrick was 17 years old when she made this documentary for BBC Arena. It runs 34 minutes, 59 seconds. Curiously synchronistic to post this right after the previous post, inasmuch as Jack Nicholson once did an interview where he revealed that in The Shining he was attempting to recreate the crazed characters he remembered from reading EC Comics. The documentary shows his preparation for the ax-wielding scene, getting into an EC frame of mind and looking not unlike a panel from Crime SuspenStories.
For Jerry Saravia's review of the documentary, click here.
Vivian Kubrick was 17 years old when she made this documentary for BBC Arena. It runs 34 minutes, 59 seconds. Curiously synchronistic to post this right after the previous post, inasmuch as Jack Nicholson once did an interview where he revealed that in The Shining he was attempting to recreate the crazed characters he remembered from reading EC Comics. The documentary shows his preparation for the ax-wielding scene, getting into an EC frame of mind and looking not unlike a panel from Crime SuspenStories.
For Jerry Saravia's review of the documentary, click here.
Labels: BBC, ec, jack nicholson, kubrick
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