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...Rida--a once struggling rapper who exploded late last year with "Low," which became a No. 1 song for 10 weeks--to let me join his Poe Boy crew for his 29th birthday. As a gift, I brought him some Grey Goose vodka and Patrón Silver tequila. All the products name-checked in rap songs remove the stress from the gift-giving process...
...blind Argentine author of poetry and fiction, one of Latin America's greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and elegaic, his short stories at once fantastical and grittily realistic--most notably the mystery-like ''fictions,'' reminiscent of Kafka and Poe. The 1973 return of Dictator Juan Peron prompted him to resign as director of the National Library in his native Buenos Aires. Far from a handicap, being blind, he said, ''leaves the mind free to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...hair made her a pinup favorite, but British actress Hazel Court also attracted a cult following in the 1960s for her piercing shrieks and gory death scenes in horror films like The Curse of Frankenstein and for her appearances in Roger Corman films inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's macabre works, such as The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death. In addition, Court appeared in several TV series, including a British export to the U.S. called Dick and the Duchess, before retiring from show business in the 1970s to pursue a successful career in sculpture. Her autobiography, Hazel...
...Richard Matheson; the others were the The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price in 1964 and The Omega Man with Charlton Heston seven years later. Matheson is a prolific, influential writer of horror and sci-fi novels, short stories and films, from Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe movies of the '60s to the seminal '70s TV films Duel (Steven Spielberg's first feature) and The Night Stalker and the '90s films What Dreams May Come and Stir of Echoes, based on his novels. Some of Matheson's TV fables - the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin...
...Eastwood character always had one (Joe, Mongo, Blondie). And it triggered literally hundreds of Westerns from an Italian movie industry that had already shown itself expert at imitating Hollywood and British genres: the Biblical epic turned into the sword-and-sandal muscleman movies, the sex-charged Hammer and Corman-Poe horror films made into even more erotic thrillers. For ordinary moviegoers of the 60s, the phrase "Italian films" did not conjure up Fellini, Antonioni and the glamour of alienation. It meant vigorous ripoffs of English-language genre films...