First published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning with the September 25, 1965 issue, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, was an immediate sensation. In what Capote coined a non-fiction novel, the story which details the murders of…
Jim Brown began his acting career shortly before retiring from the NFL in 1965. In a nearly fifty year acting career he has appeared in a variety of interesting roles. His turn as Cully Briston in 1969’s Riot is among…
Kevin Bacon achieved star status with the release of Footloose in 1984. Given the film’s success, Bacon presumably had many projects to choose from as a follow up. One can only assume that Quicksilver looked better on paper than it…
Loosely adapted from novelist Walter Wager’s 1971 thriller, Viper Three, Twilight’s Last Gleaming sets up an improbable plot, but still manages to be an interesting film with clearly more in mind than being just a standard thriller. Directed by Robert…
Brought to us by super-producer Aaron Spelling and his partner Leonard Goldberg, The Rookies revolved around three newly minted police officers: streetwise African-American Terry Webster (Georg Stanford Brown), naive recent college graduate Willie Gillis (Michael Ontkean) and U.S. military veteran…