Chris Klimek Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Chris Klimek

I'm sad to hear that Loretta Lynn has left us. I reviewed a @930Club gig of hers for the @washingtonpost in 2008 that turned into a sort of family psychodrama between the Coal Miner's Daughter and her grown son Ernie Ray, doing her no favors. https://t.co/XI1JdQGofg

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Pal-For-Life Glen inscribed my copy of his (marvelous) book THE CAPED CRUSADE by quoting Spock’s dying words from WRATH OF KHAN. Which makes alllllllllll the sense in the world, honestly. https://t.co/TSNs2MsvVD

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I never got the 10 sequels to Carl Franklin & Denzel’s 1995 Walter Mosley adaptation DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS that I wanted, but at least that shoulda-been-a-franchise-starter is getting a @Criterion release 27 years later. https://t.co/zdv5ckQwOb

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This book was a great help as I edited Cory Graff’s @airspacemag feature about how George Lucas used material from THE DAM BUSTERS, etc. (plus genuine WW2 aerial gun-cam footage) to sub in for missing VFX shots in early work prints of STAR WARS. But any film buff should read it! https://t.co/A6EZabqVwI

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@mousterpiece @OhitsBIGRON Like Kate Mantilini. Which doesn’t rate a mention in HEAT 2, oddly, but gets namechecked several times in Ron Shelton’s excellent BULL DURHAM making-of memoir, THE CHURCH OF BASEBALL.

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It's Gene Roddenberry's 101st birthday today. In lieu of engaging w/ the complicated legacy of that visionary horndog here, I'll share his dope stationery from when I read his correspondence in the Smithsonian Archives for a piece on STAR TREK's 50th back in 2016, a century ago. https://t.co/E94zvyx9wm

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@MrDanZak I actually had to go back to make sure George Miller was nominated for FURY ROAD (he was), given that DUNE was nominated in I think all the same categories — minus director.

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The story of the star of XANADU, as only the star of FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER and the writer of STAR TREK: NEMESIS could tell it! https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1478471646650449920

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Claremont was at least good enough to acknowledge his benign pilfering by naming the leader of *his* Hellfire Club after Peter Wyngarde, the memorable guest star of the initially too-hot-for-U.S. broadcast 1966 AVENGERS episode “A Touch of Brimstone.” Which rules, obviously. https://t.co/dKegfk7d7j

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@SteveBeall3 We just covered the 1970 Elmore Leonard-adapts-his-own-novel movie THE MOONSHINE WAR on @NotaNumberPod, which sent me back to the JUSTIFIED episode of that tile—the first one of S2, which naturally made me watch the whole superb season again. It’s the only time I can wear my hat!