The best of the Mike Hammer movies is Kiss Me Deadly, with Ralph Meeker...and Cloris Leachman...and Abert Dekker...and Jack Elam...and Strother Martin...and the Great Whatsit.
The Great Whatsit showed up in Pulp Fiction, and perhaps in Repo Man, only it was the car trunk.
Kiss Me Deadly is one of those must-see movies.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who wishes we still had the cars and clothes in the movie.
I thought Richard Matheson was going to live another 15 years. But, he didn't.
I remember the first story I read my him, and I remember it vividly. "Born of Man and Woman." Yech.
He pretty much founded the genre of the cannibal zombies, with "I am Legend," which has been filmed three times. That must be some kind of a record.
He also wrote most of the good original "The Twilight Zone:" episodes.
Posted by Bob Wallace, why couldn't a bunch of rappers die instead?
So Jack Vance just died at 96. I didn't read much by him - The Dying Earth and The Eyes of the Overworld.
I do remember a story by him called "The Bagfull of Dreams" and it was one of the funniest things I ever read.
He had been a writer for a long time and if I remember correctly, had been in the Navy for a while.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, many of the modern fantasy and science-fiction writers are a joke.
This guy has clearly loved Commando Cody since he was a kid.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who is still working on his flying suit.
If I'm ever attacked by a lion at least I know how to save myself. I'll have to admit, though, I have no idea how this guy figured this out. I'll also have to admit that when women rub my feet the same thing happens to me, including my tongue hanging out.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who is just amazed by this.
This is the funniest one I've seen about the RomneySkank who tried so silence the Ron Paul supporter.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, this woman should be tormented every day for the rest of her life.
The only way I would have jumped is if thrown out. Then I would have crapped myself to death and when my suit was opened all they would find are me and my intestines.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who still gets a chill thinking about the whole thing.
Even though I don't understand what she's saying this Korean woman 'speaks my language' in several senses of that phrase.
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