Barry Bowe's Blog, page 62
March 20, 2020
The Big Easy
The Big Easy The Big Easy is a 1986 crime drama starring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, and Ned Beatty. The movies set in Cajun country and Dennis Quaid plays a lovable but corrupt homicide detective with the New Orleans Police Department. Ellen Barkin is an outsider who comes into the Big Easy to investigate the []
March 19, 2020
Blow Out
Blow Out Blow Out is a 1981 mystery thriller directed by Brian DePalma and starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, and John Lithgow. John Travoltas character records sound effects for grade-B horror movies. Late one night hes recording sounds on serpentine Lincoln Drive when he unexpectedly hears a car crash. He dives into the water and []
March 18, 2020
Casablanca
Casablanca I was wondering about a topic for today ─ and then it hit me over the head like the proverbial ton of bricks. My Favorite Granddaughter Allie and I were sitting in my Chevy Suburban at 5 oclock yesterday morning in a holding area at Philadelphias International Airport. Shed arrived on an earlier flight []
March 17, 2020
He’s Being a Dick
Hes Being a Dick Chapter 2 begins like this in my new crime drama The Dead Stripper. 2 Lipstick on His Collar Hes being a dick, a female says into her cellphone. Her names Jessika but she goes by Jess. Shes talking to her best friend Margo while sitting on a sectional sofa in []
March 16, 2020
Money for Nothing
Money For Nothing If you were living or working in Philadelphia in 1981 the name Joey Coyle should ring a bell. He was an unemployed longshoreman who one day found a bag of money laying in the street. That bag had somehow fallen out of the back of Purolator armored truck and it contained $1.2-million []
March 15, 2020
STOP Pay Fare
STOP Pay Fare There are so many great scenes in The Godfather. This is one of those scenes and the video says it all. But between you and me I think that kick in the head is what did Sonny in. Im Americas Best Crime Writer Barry Bowe & I approve this []
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March 14, 2020
You’re a Cantaloupe
Youre a Cantaloupe True Romance is a 1993 movie starring Christian Slater, Patti Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Chris Walken, and Sam Jackson. I watched the movie three or four times before I realized that Brad Pitt played the stoner. James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano, plays a hit man ─ a []
March 13, 2020
Murder, He Wrote
Murder, He Wrote I dont know Johnny Depp & wouldnt want to be seen with him in public, or private. But if I were casting my new crime novel The Dead Stripper for the screen Id want him to play lead character Steve Piasecki. Hes an amazing actor with tremendous range. But let me qualify []
March 12, 2020
Jaws
Jaws We were living in Fort Lauderdale when Jaws came out in 1975. But we watched it in West Chester with some old friends when we came up north for a vacation that summer. By the time we returned to Florida everybody was talking about the movie and bathers had their heads on swivels when []
March 11, 2020
Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct I wrote about the movie Sliver two days and wrote about screenwriter Joe Eszterhas yesterday. Joe Eszterhas was the screenwriter on Sliver and Basic Instinct. Sharon Stone starred in both movies and I used her picture in my last two posts. So why not? Lets run her classic scene from Basic Instinct. And, []
