Barry Bowe's Blog, page 63
March 10, 2020
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas Joe Eszterhas was one of the hottest screenwriters in Hollywood for almost 20 years – from 1978 – 1995. I was just getting started as a writer back then, so he was on top of my lists of role models and idols. But he seemingly dropped off the planet around the beginning of […]
March 9, 2020
Sliver
Sliver IMDB describes 1993’s Sliver as a drama thriller and that’s exactly the way the movie starts. Check it out. I used a still shot of a semi-nude Sharon Stone in the introduction to let you know she was the star. Then the movie gets off to a great start. We have closed circuit […]
March 8, 2020
Susan Reinert Bribery
Part 4 Today’s story begins with William Bradfield and Jay C. Smith both behind the bars of Graterford Prison for the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children. In 1983 Bradfield’s jury convicted him on three counts of conspiracy to commit murder & sentenced him to three consecutive life sentences. Then three years passed. […]
Susan Reinert Books
Part 4 Today’s story begins with William Bradfield and Jay C. Smith both behind the bars of Graterford Prison for the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children. In 1983 Bradfield’s jury convicted him on three counts of conspiracy to commit murder & sentenced him to three consecutive life sentences. Then three years passed. […]
March 4, 2020
Blow
Blow Blow is a 2001 movie inspired by the true story of George Jung and how he, working through the Medellin Cartel in Colombia headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine pipeline into the United States during the 1970s. The movie stars Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. PeeWee Herman isn’t mentioned as one of […]
March 3, 2020
Passion or Treason?
No Way Out No Way Out is a 1987 action crime drama starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, and Sean Young. In it, a D.C. politician accidentally kills his mistress and both a coverup to conceal his identity and a witch-hunt to find the killer ensue. Is it a crime of passion? Or an act of […]
March 2, 2020
Dead Stripper
The Dead Stripper The Dead Stripper is a contemporary murder mystery / love story set in Philadelphia and its suburbs. Like Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote, Steve Piasecki is thrust into the role of amateur detective. To solve the crimes he encounters, he uses moxie, charisma, and dogged determination. An aspiring author awaiting his […]
March 1, 2020
I’m a Hooker
I’m a Hooker Nancy Allen plays a high-class prostitute who witnesses a murder and then, in fact, becomes a suspect. She then tries to evade being killed herself while at the same time trying to find the killer. The movie is 1980s Dressed to Kill starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, and Nancy Allen. I posted […]
February 29, 2020
Sexually Frustrated
Sexually Frustrated Dressed to Kill is a 1980 mystery thriller starring Michael Caine, Angle Dickinson, and Nancy Allen. In it, a sexually frustrated wife has an adulterous episode with a stranger in the back of a cab in New York City. Later in the movie a mysterious blonde kills the sexually frustrated woman, then must […]
February 28, 2020
Ken Loses
Ken Loses Breaking Bad is my second-favorite TV crime series – the first being Better Call Saul. And Walter White is one of my favorite characters. In this scene, although Walter White goes a little overboard, he extracts some Karmatic revenge from a supercilious jackass. The vanity tag on his BMW says KEN WINS. But […]
