TODAY the second of my six-part series on Philip K. Dick's life in Orange County, Calif., went up on the LATimes' Hero Complex blog.This second section gets him to OC from his often troubled life in the Bay Area and a really disastrous trip to Vancouver.Yesterday's installment started out with a 1976 scene in Fullerton in which his marriage unravels and the author tries suicide.Please stay tuned … [Read more...]
Archives for January 26, 2010
Tim Burton Goes Home to Burbank
I'D say director Tim Burton has done pretty well for himself -- successful cult filmmaker becomes bigtime filmmaker, is subject of a show at MOMA, lives near London's best cemetery, and he sleeps (presumably) with Helena Bonham Carter every night. And he was just announced to head the jury at Cannes this May.“After spending my early life watching triple features and 48-hour horror movie … [Read more...]