Star Trek Into Darkness
Less a classic "Star Trek" adventure than a Star Trek-flavored action flick, shot in the frenzied, handheld, cut-cut-cut style that’s become Hollywood’s norm, director J.J.…
Remembering Bukowski
Charles Bukowski died on his day in 1994. His voice is open and fearless, romantic, honest. He probably has a whole generation of writers getting drunk and wondering why they can't write like that.
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In Big Ed's during the filming of "Barfly." Left to right, Bukowski, Ebert, Faye Dunaway, visiting fireman Andre Konchalovsky.
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My story about a day on location with "Barfly."
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Tom O'Bedlam reads Bukowski's incomparable "Who in the Hell is Tom Jones?"¶
Bukowski sits in the back set of a convertible and gives a running commentary along Hollywood Boulevard.
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Bukowski photos and a song by Johnny Cash
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Bono reads "Roll the Dice" by Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski Reads "The Fire Station"
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Tom Waits reads Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart," Hanks version of Ecclesiates 7, 3 -12:
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