He Was on His Way In, As Bruce Lee Was on His Way Out
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Jim Kelly the martial artist (not to be confused with the Buffalo Bills quarterback, the soccer player from the 1920’s, the Federalist House of Representatives member from the early 1800’s, the Jack the Ripper suspect, the managing editor of Time magazine, the federal judge, the saloon keeper, or the pirate), has a unique spot in martial arts film history. His first film (or at least the film that he received his “Introducing” billing) Enter the Dragon, in which he played Mr. Williams, also happened to be the very last film that the iconic Bruce Lee made before he passed away. So the film has a lore of its own. Read the rest of this entry »
I wouldn’t have known who Sid Haig was if it weren’t for director Quentin Tarantino, that brought Sid Haig back into a mainstream film in 1997 with the film Jackie Brown. This was mostly in homage to the numerous Blaxploitation films he had starred in with Pam Grier under the direction of Jack Hill (ie. The Big Doll House, Coffy, and Foxy Brown). Tarantino had chosen to star Pam Grier in Jackie Brown, and Sid Haig’s presence as a judge gave a further nod to their films together in the 60’s and 70’s. Tarentino would utilize him again in Kill Bill Volume 2. 
After fiddling around for what seemed like an eternity waiting for and trying to find the photos that I had paid to have taken with some celebrities of the Wizard World Comic Con on Saturday, August 13, 2011, my friend Jason and I were finally ready to get moving to the next event for the evening. Jason whilst making a trip to the car to charge his phone, had discovered that it was now raining – which put a bit of a damp damper on this event – an evening at U.S. Cellular Field to watch the White Sox play the Kansas City Royals. 
At last…at long last, I present to you…Deb and Hilly. It was some twenty-five years in the making – as I entered the planning stages, plotted, pined and longed, and finally encountered these two teenage vixens who represented the geek’s unattainable ideals, only to be conquered and won over by geeks like me. Yes, I’m referring of course to the two classmates of Wyatt and Gary in the epic teenage 80’s film Weird Science.