Rittster
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Los Angeles area, California, United States |
| Favorite Movies | Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, White Heat, Anatomy of a Murder, The Killing (1956), Key Largo, Pickup On South Street, all Coen Brothers movies, L.A. Confidential, The Thin Blue Line-documentary, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (masterfully structured script by crime writer Howard Browne), Singin' In The Rain, Detour, The Big Combo, Murder, My Sweet, In A Lonely Place, The Naked City, Sin City, The Reckless Moment, Glen or Glenda?, Angels With Dirty Faces, Footlight Parade, From Here To Eternity, A Streetcar Named Desire, High School Confidential!, The Black Cat-Karloff/Lugosi version, Sherlock Jr., The Old Dark House (1932), Point Blank, Diplomaniacs, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, The Road To Morroco, Dragnet(1954), Alphaville, The Rules of the Game, M (1931), Underworld U.S.A, North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt, The Lady Eve, To Be or Not To Be (1942), The Palm Beach Story, Terror In A Texas Town, The Naked Spur, Hell In The Pacific, Annie Hall, Rebel Without A Cause, Wild In The Streets, Lenny, Midnight Cowboy, The Long Goodbye, Dirty Harry, Shock Corridor, Lolita (1962), Touch of Evil, Sons of the Desert, The Bank Dick, The Bride of Frankenstein, Million Dollar Legs--W.C. Fields version, White Zombie, City Lights, The Leopard Man, Phantom Lady, Radar Men From The Moon--movie serial, Captian Video--serial, Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers--serial, The Crimson Ghost--serial, Robot Monster, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Buck Privates, Bullets or Ballots, Boogie Nights, The Grifters, Mullholland Dr., The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seconds, The Iceman Cometh (1973--Robert Ryan rocks!), Faster Pussycat...Kill! Kill!, Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, That's Entertainment!, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Bad Day At Black Rock, and many more! |
| Favorite Music | "Happy Birthday To You" (my favorite 'cuz that's when I get presents and stuff), Gene Krupa (especially when he made those twisted and contorted faces while drumming, which he pretty much did all the time), The Beau Hunks Play The Original Little Rascals music (beats Prozac for depression, but you have to have seen some of the films for the music to evoke any feelings), Benny Goodman, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Dean Martin (when he's screwing around with the lyrics of the song he's singing), Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps (Be-Bop-A-Lula), The Collins Kids (Larry and Lorrie; Larry was the best 12-year old guitar player of all time), Janet Klein, Kay Starr |
| Favorite Books | Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West--an "advice to the lovelorn" columnist develops a Christ complex; sad and chilling and dark humor aplenty, Sally's In The Alley, by Norbert Davis--hilarous and sardonic "screwball" mystery about P.I. Doan and his dog Carstairs, Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler--the best of the Philip Marlowe detective novels, in my opinion. (The Long Goodbye is probably better but it almost seems like it should be in a seperate category.) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy--brutal and concisely written account of a despairing woman and her partner during a dance marathon, and the spectators who come to watch the exhausted couples drop like flies, You Were Perfectly Fine, by Dorothy Parker--short story about the conversation between a man and a woman after a night of wild partying, and what the man did and said while drunk, A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess--wry novel about little Alex and his droogs, Shabby Street, by Orrie Hitt--hardboiled and amoral Johnny Reagan cheats his employer and manipulates as many women as he can, The Killer Inside Me and Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson--the tragic (Killer) and comic (Pop.) sides of the same coin: small-town sheriff isn't as dumb as everyone thinks, All of Robert Leslie Bellem's "Dan Turner" stories, Various comic books written and drawn by J. Cole, B. Wolverton, R. Crumb, and D. Clowes; also most E.C. comics, The Complete Plays of Joe Orton--funny, funny, funny, farces, Did I mention they were funny? Books about movies: Classics of the Horror Film by Everson, Film Noir by Silver and Ward, The Illustrated Who's Who of Hollywood Directors by Barson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by Thomson, The Silent Clowns by Kerr, Movie Comedy Teams by Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide, Books about tv shows: My Name's Friday by Hayde, The Twilight Zone Companion, by Zicree |