Happy birthday to the great Jacqueline Bisset!
The Dope
Category: Movies and Television
The Stool
Happy National Teddy Bear Day!
From Dusk Till Dong
Happy birthday to Salma Hayek, star of From Dusk Till Dawn, a fun but forgettable vampire movie (with a historically awful acting performance by its screenwriter Quentin Tarantino) made memorable by Ms. Hayek’s turn as a stripper named Santanico Pandemonium. The scene in which she dances with an 11-foot python at a strip club called The Titty Twister inspired Hack to include it on his list of the 10 greatest films ever made.
The Maltese Piñata
Hack watched The Maltese Falcon again last night and got so excited that he wrote this. We begged him not to.
Van Nuys
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Ingrid Bergman!
Anchors Outweigh
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Gene Kelly!
Despisal
Happy birthday to the great Amy Adams!
Donkey Business
Today is the anniversary of the death of one of Hack’s heroes, the great Groucho Marx. It inspired him to write this book in tribute to the Marx Brothers. It’s not a bad read, but most critics thought it would have been better if he had left Zeppo in.
Jonny & Boris Meet Mannix
Happy heavenly birthday to 1970s TV icon Mike Connors!
Lifedoor
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Alfred Hitchcock!
Hack’s favorite Hitchcock film is the 1944 classic Lifeboat. He wrote this as a tribute to that film but he got confused midway into writing it and made it a tribute to the 1997 classic Titanic. It wound up being a ripoff of both films but it’s not a bad read.