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When I was growing up in the seventies, everything was "The Godfather", and rightly so, as the film has taken its place as one of the best American films ever made. I recall reading in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind, how William Friedkin rode past Francis Coppola and his friends on the street after winning his Oscar for "The French Connection", waving the statue out the window, shouting. I don't know if this served directly as an impetus to Coppola ...

 

One of my favorite films, and a film that I watch again nearly every year, is the film that elevated director William Friedkin to the level that Warner Brothers would entrust him with another literary treatment, a horror story called "The Exorcist". But that's jumping ahead. In October, 1971, the film version of a best-selling non-fiction book (yes, studios used to go to books for ideas, rather than just remaking old films, imagine that) called ...

 

1. Set the challenge to yourself that you will start doing X after you do Y; for example, you'll continue working after you have achieved Level 6 ranking in Grand Theft Auto Multiplayer (I'm nearly there). 2. Set an arbitrary deadline for yourself that will hang over your head like some kind of swinging torture device in an old Roger Corman movie starring Vincent Price, so all you'll be able to think about is this date and how every second is ticking, ticking, ticking, closer and closer ... 3. Reformat your hard drive and reinstall ...

 

I do tend to go on and on when it comes to movies, but when it comes to movies from the 1970's you can't shut me up. Along these lines, starting this Monday, for seven days, I'll be presenting a different 1970's movie each day that is important to me for one reason or another. Plus some bonus treats. So drop by and check it out, maybe…

 

(via MacMerc) Mac fanboys were secretly quaking in their boots a few weeks ago when it was announced that TV funnyman Jerry Seinfeld was tapped to take part in a $300 million ad campaign on behalf of Micro$oft as a response to Apple's "Get a Mac" ads that have been chipping away at the software manufacturer and its Vista woes for well over a year now. If this (see…

 

(via AICN) Don LaFontaine, a.k.a., "The Voice", passed away yesterday in Los Angeles, and with him, ends an era of movie trailers. Most will know him from the recent Geico commercial, even though they have heard his voice for years. LaFontaine's career began as a recording engineer at National Recording Studios where he linked up with Floyd Paterson to produce promo spots for Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"…