Orson Welles Being Hugely Mean-Spirited, With Mildly Sinister Undertones: 1983 Lunches

Orson Welles Asks and Answers:   ► Who shot a critic after a screening?   ► What drama critic enjoyed piss-laced tea?   ► Where did Mussolini get the fascist salute?   ► Why is Keaton funnier than Chaplin?   ► When did von Sternberg make a decent film?   ► How did FDR rationalize internment camps?   ► Which Shakespearean actor is seriously stupid?   ► Was Lombard's fatal flight the work of Nazis?   ► At what age do men start looking like Jewish mothers? Those and more of Welles' answers contained below

Dead Man Talking: Keith Richards Being Mean-Spirited With Assumed Sinister Undertones

Snark from a Cadaverous Guitarist
Who:
Keith Richards, the often-stoned Stone, expensive wino, and washed-up pirate   

What:
Opinions made about contemporaries in and out of the industry we refer to as the music business - - -  

Why:
Whether you agree or disagree with the man, if you appreciate honest insolence over phony pretense, you gotta respect his frankness

Dedication:
To brother wiedmann: The more[?] sober, Gen Y version of septuagenarian Richards. One of the rare few you'll come across who has no qualms about offering frank & unpopular opinions - while at the same time remaining completely indifferent to the perceptions of others   

Acknowledgments:
Jessica Pallington West's What Would Keith Richards Do?;
Assorted news stories and periodicals

Classic Key: The Most Memorable from the Great Subliminal Scare

For  Jack, just because the subliminal flashes of the Exorcist was a big part of the author's first book... 

Cinematic Homage: Motion Pictures That Contain Excerpts Of Other Films Within Them

Seen in Scenes Dedication: There are eight million stories in the naked city; this is one of them: According to former WNEW-FM personality Jonathan Schwartz, New York City broadcaster Channel 9 had pink-slipped their technician, Tony Monte. On his last night at the WOR-TV controls, Monte was responsible for airing the 1947 Prison Film Brute Force, starring Burt Lancaster (Likely a 'Million Dollar Movie') - - -

Weekly World News: Memorable Headlines Of The Best American Tabloid 1990-1994

Praise Be Joseph Pulitzer!
I can not believe the favorite tabloid of my youth, The Weekly World News, has made its premiere on Google Books. With a sizable percentage of the Facebook generation taking information gleaned from the internet as fact, you can almost imagine some of the hysterical middle school term papers that are bound be submitted in upcoming years - - -

A Paper For The Art Bell Crowd:
Based out of Florida, the Weekly World News was a supermarket tabloid that started out like it's contemporaries; printing gossip, weight loss plans, celebrity photos and other unreadable crap. From its premiere in 1980 through the turn of the decade, it had gradually transformed into a full blown fiction, with screaming headlines, pseudo stories, farked photos and weekly features from:
►Psychic Sophia Sabak - Later replaced by her younger, more attractive "niece" Serena
►Dear Dotty Advice Column - Innuendo-laced snark that made Xavier Hollander look tame
► Ed Anger's My America - Radical right editorials penned by a stone-age Archie Bunker

High Fidelity List Series: Top 10 Signs That Block Out Scenery And Defy Common Sense

Subtitled:
Signs, Signs, Everywhere is Signs

Background:
It all started when I found myself asking, "Have any of those huge electronic highway alert signs that came en vogue a year or two ago ever 'warned' me about anything of consequence?” The answer was a resounding, "No". I made a note to check the roadsides I travel upon for other useless signage – and believe you me; someone’s making a fortune here. If I had the political connections, I’d hand in my resignation tomorrow and open a sign manufacturing business.

Déjà Vu all Over Again: The Seven Reasons Bill Graham Closed Down The Fillmore East

Fillmore East - End of a 4 Year Run

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same:

In an open letter appearing on page 45 of the May 6th, 1971 edition of The Village Voice, Bill "Uncle Bobo" Graham published an open, 'Dear Friends' letter explaining his reasons for closing down the famous venues. The seven reasons he enumerated are quoted exactly as they were published - and resonate as much (if not more) today, then they did 35 years ago