Tag Archives: Change War

Posse McMillan: Kent Harrington in Noir City

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Don

We’re about halfway through the current Noir City run, and I’ve done all the days I’m going to do this year — lucking out when Kent Harrington, fellow Posse McMillan regular, happened to be on hand Sunday for a signing … Continue reading →

Posted in DMac, Film, Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Billy Wilder, Change War, Fritz Leiber, Hitchcock, Kent Harrington, Louis Hayward, Noir City, Peckinpah, Peter Maravelis, Repeat Performance, Richard Basehart, San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics, Sunset Blvd, The Rat Machine |

Sinister Cinema: A Couple of Popes

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Don

Breaking the pattern of recent years, this season I didn’t offer the usual Palm Sunday Tour in honor of Charles Willeford’s death, which fell on a Palm Sunday, March 27, 1988 — Willeford, who would be crowned posthumously by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Tour, Willeford | Tagged Burt Young, Change War, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Fritz Leiber, Gary Oldman, Mickey Rourke, Palm Sunday Tour, Palookaville, Sid and Nancy, The Pope of Greenwich Village |

Rediscovered: The Kindle in 1959

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Don

For no special reason I got the urge to reread Fritz Leiber’s Change War series, off and on, over the last few weeks, still have at least one or two more to go (since they never all quite saw a … Continue reading →