Barry Bowe's Blog, page 64
February 27, 2020
Charley Bronson
Charley Bronson Clint is out and Charley Bronson is in – and he makes my new logo snap, crackle, and pop. If Charley were alive today he’d say, “Thanks, Barry. It’s my pleasure and a privilege to help you out.” Make no mistake about it, I am America’s Best Crime Writer. No, I didn’t sell […]
February 26, 2020
The Godfather Slap
The Godfather Slap “I’d like to Godfather slap the shit out of you.” You have no idea how many times I either said that, or thought that. So here’s a video demonstrating “The Godfather Slap” – and as an added bonus, it also includes “An offer he can’t refuse.” I love The Godfather. One of, […]
February 25, 2020
Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are my two favorite TV crime series, and the character Mike Ehrmantraut – played by Jonathan Banks – is a key player in both series. One of my favorite sequences comes in Season 1, Episode 9 of Better Call Saul – titled “Pimento.” In that episode Mike […]
February 24, 2020
The Literary Lion
The Literary Lion Subtitle: This is the shit you go through when you’re trying to get started. In The Dead Stripper, Steve Piasecki takes the train to New York to meet two literary agents. He has a definite appointment with one, but not the other. They traded phone calls and Steve hopes he can just […]
February 23, 2020
Clarice Starling’s Lamb
Clarice Starling’s Lamb I can’t count the number of times I watched The Silence of the Lambs since it came out in 1991 and never noticed Hannibal Lecter’s sketch of Clarice Starling holding a lamb. But this time, just now, there it is right in front of my face. And there’s also a cool foreshadowing […]
February 22, 2020
Koufax Kicks
Koufax Kicks Jack Nicholson made his mark in 1975s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He already had three decent credits in his pocket Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge, and Chinatown but other than Chinatown he was an also ran. But Cuckoo’s Nest put him on the map as a star. […]
February 21, 2020
Crissie’s Last Swim
Crissie’s Last Swim Did anyone see this coming? Seriously? If you looked at the movie poster, you might’ve had an inkling that something was up. But WOW. Poor Crissie got eaten up while her drunk pursuer passed out on the beach. I never saw it coming, not like that. And here’s the kick in the […]
February 20, 2020
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart I wrote about New York’s Penn Station the other day, and my buddy D. – that’s Darlene A. McGarrity – commented about her positive experiences at Penn Station. Which jogged my memory about an incident from almost 30 years ago. I lived in Manhattan twice. The first time during the 1960s at East […]
Al Lettieri
Al Lettieri So I’m watching one of my favorite actors, Charles Bronson – in the 1974 movie Mr. Majestyk – based on the 1974 best-seller of the same name – by one of my favorite authors, Elmore Leonard. And this nasty hitman Frank Renda enters the scene. Here, take a look. So I’m saying to […]
February 19, 2020
Nurse Ratched
Nurse Ratched In 1975, I was living with my family – wife and two kids – in Sunrise, Florida. My kids were going into their teens & doing things with their friends, I was playing in two softball leagues year-round, and the wife was playing mahjong with her Jewish lady friends from New York. In […]
