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Tag Archives: Kwik Stop
In Memory of Roger Ebert: Michael, Roger & Me
Roger Ebert died 12 years ago today. I wrote about him and how he reached out to me a couple of months before he died and how it coincided exactly with the other Great Event in my life in the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, On This Day, Personal
Tagged drama, friends, July and Half of August, Kwik Stop
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Kwik Stop (2001) finally streaming
If you’ve hung around here a while (as in, the last 15, 20 years) then you will know about Kwik Stop and my friend Michael Gilio. Michael and I go way back, and our brief romance somehow miraculously morphed into … Continue reading
#TBT Glasses
Me, Michael, Laurie. My God, we were babies. And yet, of course, life then was important and difficult and sometimes heart-wrenching. Life usually is. Life was also adventurous, hilarious, spontaneous. We may have more miles on us now but in … Continue reading
Year in Review: Running my mouth in 2014
I may write some magnum opus in the next two days, you never know, but here are links to some of the things I’ve written in 2014, here and elsewhere. I have worked hard to keep my site an eclectic … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies, Music, Personal
Tagged Alfred Wertheimer, Anna Magnani, Austria, Carroll Baker, Christopher Hitchens, Claude Rains, Eli Wallach, Elvis Presley, Eminem, France, friends, Gena Rowlands, Germany, Harry Potter, Howard Hawks, Inherent Vice, Iran, Iranian film, Israel, Italy, Jafar Panahi, Japan, Jim Jarmusch, Joan Crawford, John Cassavetes, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Wiig, Kwik Stop, Lars von Trier, Lauren Bacall, Lester Bangs, Liv Ullmann, Lon Chaney, Love Streams, Mark Twain, Martin Scorsese, Nicolas Cage, Orpheus Descending, Palestine, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Poland, Richard Linklater, Romania, Russia, Seth Rogen, Seymour Cassel, Sudden Fear, Supernatural, Sweden, Tennessee Williams, The Beatles, The Everly Brothers, Tommy Lee Jones, Trotsky, war, year in writing, Zac Efron
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My Favorite Roger: Michael Gilio’s Kwik Stop
An ongoing feature over at Roger Ebert’s site is “My Favorite Roger”: contributors writing about a piece of writing from Roger that they love in particular. Mine just went up. I wrote about Roger Ebert’s beautiful review of my friend … Continue reading
Kwik Stop (2001); Directed by Michael Gilio
Recently, I had drinks with Charles Taylor, a writer I’ve been reading for years (in Salon.com and other venues), and we’ve been corresponding for a bit, and finally met in person. It was great. We cut right to the chase: … Continue reading
Snapshots
— Finished Shirley Jackson’s collected short stories. They are so unsettling that it is fair to say that it ruined my day yesterday. Although there are other factors in play. Wow. She is so effective. If all you have read … Continue reading
Kwik Stop on iTunes; (Michael Gilio: Director, Writer, Actor)
Kwik Stop, written and directed by (as well as starring) Michael Gilio is now available for renting (or purchase) on iTunes. I meant to write a thing about this when it happened in December, but that was when everything started … Continue reading
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Tagged friends, Kwik Stop, Roger Ebert
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Michael Gilio Has Been “Blacklisted”
Let us turn our minds now to the annual December industry “black list” entitled “10 Best Unproduced Scripts in Hollywood“, a list eagerly anticipated by all the power-brokers in Hollywood. The list can be a predictor of future success, sometimes … Continue reading
Under-Rated Movies: #15 Kwik Stop (2001) Dir. Michael Gilio
You probably haven’t seen this film because even though it got some pretty high-end awards and nominations (Michael Gilio, the director, won Best Director at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, and the whole film was nominated as … Continue reading