One of the coolest things my son Hunter and I took in when we went to Las Vegas last week was the Atomic Testing Museum. The museum is very well designed, telling the story of the multiple above-ground and underground…
While I was in Vegas with my son Hunter we made sure to visit the Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. experience at the Treasure Island hotel. Originally located in Times Square, the Marvel attraction is set up as a training center for potential…
Several months ago I planned a Las Vegas trip for myself and my son Hunter as a graduation present (he finished high school in June) – he had never been to Vegas. Though he’s not yet old enough to do…
My friend Ariel confessed to me over dinner several months back she had never seen several movies that I considered seminal classics. Why she hadn’t done so was understandable. Ariel is much younger than me, over a decade. She grew up…
In Seattle for work this week and was able to make some time to visit the Star Trek 50th Anniversary Exhibit at the EMP Museum. The display is fantastic, with Paramount opening up their archives to showcase props and costumes…
When I graduated high school, my first real job was at a record store. Disc Jockey Records, part of the Kentucky-based chain owned by WaxWorks Inc., was opening a new location at the newly refurbished Eastwood Mall located just outside…
I don’t want to die. I also know that as much as I don’t want that to pass, it will happen. And it will happen to you, too. When I was younger, the idea that the people I idolized would…
I really don’t want to write anymore about Star Trek, but then CBS/Paramount does a stupid thing and I have to. This week, the owners of Star Trek released fan film guidelines, mostly in response to the lawsuit against the…
No, because of the wonderful system called Hollywood Accounting. Studios have been sued – repeatedly – around this practice, the most famous suit where this was a factor being Buchwald v. Paramount, which had Art Buchwald suing the studio who…
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(The bulk of my answer is derived from the books, not the movies). Bond and Bourne come from a place that most of us never have to deal with – a space where danger and or death is right around…
I’m sorry, but I love Billy Joel’s music. That is how a lot of people start the conversation when it comes to Billy Joel… They apologize for liking the guy’s work. I blame Piano Man. That song, man… I think…
I’m not the man I was. One of the great joys in my life has been toy collecting, and one of THE toys central to that has been the toy that is my namesake: G.I.Joe. I’ve collected the 12″ figure,…
I just discovered this, and it’s wonderful. Warren Beatty made the Dick Tracy movie for Disney in 1990, and he REALLY loved doing it. So much so, that for the past few years he has been talking about doing a…
I still miss Starlog. It was the first mainstream magazine that jacked directly into the high geekery I felt at an early age. It was one thing to be able to go to a local drug store and buy comics…
I’m an obsessive Apeophile. I adore the original Planet of the Apes films, flaws and all. When I was a child they played the films on Saturday afternoons and it was the first exposure I had to “unhappy endings”… and…