Driver 8A real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land making all his nowhere plans for nobody.(Untitled)- June 30, 2003 Happy birthday,Mr. Harryhausen! Today, Ray Harryhausen, the master of stop-motion, turns 83 years old. Some of my favorite Harryhausen movies: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)When the evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) shrinks Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) to roughly half the size of a Barbie doll, only one thing can restore her: the egg of a Roc. The Roc, of course, is a gigantic bird that lives on the remote island of Colossa. Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) hires a crew of mutiny-minded...http://blogs.salon.com/0001118/2003/06/29.html#a512 (Untitled)- June 29, 2003 And then, just when she is thinking (and not for the first time) about how this life holds no more surprises, no unplumbed marital depths, he says in a strangely casual voice, "It's a good thing you weren't sleeping with me last night, Jax. I had a bad dream. I actually screamed myself awake." She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on "Lassie" when she was a..http://blogs.salon.com/0001118/2003/06/29.html#a511 |