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A Karloff by Any Other Name: The Boris Karloff Blogathon

By Daedalus Howell | November 28th, 2009
Though the neck-bolts persisted like a pair of parens framing Boris Karloff’s 38-year career following his portrayal of the Frankenstein monster in 1931, the actor once beamed “The monster was the best friend I ever had.” Such is a testament to good casting, better luck and why the role remains indelibly Karloff’s though he only [...]
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Matinee Idyll: Indie Screening in Wine Country

By Daedalus Howell | January 9th, 2009
Once upon a time, at some party or other in Hollywood, the host proudly showed off his expansive DVD collection, after claiming to have dumped his books to make space. “DVDs are the new novels,” he crowed proudly, unaware that he had offended not only this particular writer, but nearly everyone within earshot who [...]
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By Daedalus Howell | November 12th, 2008
Meanwhile, in Hollywood, your intrepid reporter slung his Timbuk2 “blogger bag” over his shoulder, and dashed from the Virgin America terminal to a random rental car shuttle. And since he hadn’t the foresight to book a car prior to departing Sonoma, he booked it via his iPhone while en route. Mysteriously, at no point did [...]
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Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood

By Daedalus Howell | August 15th, 2005
In honor of “Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus” author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s August 30th birthday, below is the first of a handful of Frankenstein-themed miscellanea soon to appear in this blog. It may be worth noting that Shelley would have been 208. Her novel, incidentally, is 189, which means she wrote it at the tender [...]
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