Editors' Introduction
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The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema's christ-devil child - Helen Donlon
For Zouzou "Pierre is beauty in its purest state: a perfect body, tall, black curly hair, black eyes with long eyelashes, high cheekbones and an irresistible smile. He often dresses in black." According to the actress, during filming in France, before they set off for Morocco, where filming continued, Clémenti fell off a cliff by accident and miraculously landed, alive and unscathed, in the sand, rescued only after Sylvina Boissonnas had called the fire brigade.
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We Don't Call Them Monsters, We Call Them Creatures: An Interview With Ray Harryhausen
- Miguel Ramos and Allen Frost
There's no drama if you don't have some kind of synthetic violence . . . But there's a big difference between realistic violence, or pseudo-realistic violence, and mythical violence, and I think people are aware of that. But you have to have a certain amount of violence to create a climax in your pictures. And unfortunately, if you have a hero in your picture, you've got to let him win rather than the creature.
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On the DL: Power, Politics, and Sport
- Andrew Hedden
For a short time, I recall, it was a point of pride for me to be able to relate how I had once been witness to another person's pain, a man's physical prowess and prospects coming up hard against a padded, but no less cement, wall. I'm talking about May 26, 1995, the night I sat in the concrete crown of Seattle's late and not-so-great King Dome, taking in one of Ken Griffey, Jr.'s first major injuries, a broken left wrist wrought whilst achieving a game-saving--but for Griffey, season crippling--catch against the outfield wall.
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Visions of Raven: Jack Kerouac and Film Noir
- Allen Frost
The doublecross is a film noir fixture. James Cagney's Cody was also betrayed by a close friend in White Heat, as Jack Kerouac suffered in The Subterraneans and Big Sur. Cagney and Kerouac were even doublecrossed by Florida doubles. Director Peter Bogdanovich wrote in Pieces of Time, "I finally met James Cagney the other day--the real one. There's a bearded fellow going around lately passing himself off as the actor. I was in Miami when this guy was there--they made him honorary mayor of Hollywood, Florida--and a paper printed pictures of him. Didn't look like Cagney to me. When Barbra Streisand was singing in Las Vegas around Christmas, they told her Cagney was in the audience so she introduced him from the stage and when this same bearded chap stood up, she thought, "Doesn't look like Cagney to me." Cagney himself seemed rather amused at this; he told several similar incidents that have occurred over the years . . ." Likewise, when Kerouac lived in St. Petersburg, "He stoutly maintained that there were several imposters passing themselves off as Jack Kerouac and they were responsible for his receiving that kind of harassment."
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