Interview - Robert Graysmith (’Zodiac’)
Mystery of history
Zodiac author Robert Graysmith speaks
By Robert Newton
It was 1968, in San Francisco. Robert Graysmith was a cartoonist.
“I was 24 then,” Graysmith explains, “and one of the youngest cartoonists working for a metropolitan newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. I figured that a lot of the modern greats learned on newspapers and moved on from cartoons to creating fine art, so I would, too. Then, the strange letters started.”
These strange letters, written in a variety of different codes, were sent to the Chronicle and two other area newspapers, and were intended for publication. They were from a man who claimed to be responsible for three murders that year, a man would later identify himself as, simply, “Zodiac.”
Robert Graysmith was then a detective.
Graysmith’s penchant for solving puzzles, his convenient proximity to Chronicle reporter Paul Avery and his obsessive nature put him in the center of the Zodiac storm. […]
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New On DVD - The Manitou, Keeping Mum, Tideland, The Comedians Of Comedy
THE MANITOU [PG; appealed from R]
Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) has an abnormal growth on the back of her neck, a growth that takes the fetal form of a 400-year-old Native American demon that is growing at an alarming rate. Her friend and psychic huckster Harry Erskine (Tony Curtis) calls upon John Singing Rock (Michael Ansara) to rid Karen of the demon and save mankind. High camp ensues. Curtis’s ham-tastic performance becomes a bit bland after he sheds his “psychic abilities” and becomes just another onlooker with a couple of bright ideas, which is a way one might describe young low-budget writer-director William Girdler and the script of his last film, which was written in three days. Ansara is quite believable as the modern medicine man, but the best performance is by supporting Burgess Meredith with his outstanding deadpan delivery as Doctor of Anthropology Ernest Snow. For late 70s filmmaking, this […]
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Current Obsession
I admit I’ve been a MAC girl ever since I started wearing make up, and just recently started to branch out to other cosmetic lines. I picked up this Urban Decay Ammo Shadow Box kit around Christmas and loved all the colors in it…although smog and last call have been getting the most wear. […]
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03.07 Engage Internet Radio, eaTV, and Shatterproof Studios
Offering Creative Cures for Commercialism
By Alex Kantarelis
Listening to the radio can get old. Usually it’s the same watered down music every hour, on constant repeat, broken up with only commercials. Satellite radio has some benefits, but then again, who really wants to pay for radio?
Good news. There is […]
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03.07 Machine Head’s The Blackening
Lead Guitarist Phil Demmel Shares How the Killer New Album Took Shape
By Andrew T. Jones
Machine Head has been a hard-hitting metal band since its inception in the early nineties, but along the way they’ve been through a lot of changes. The band has almost fifteen years of experience, and while most bands tend to fall […]
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03.07 Machine Head: The Blackening
Lead Guitarist Phil Demmel Shares How the Killer New Album Took Shape
By Andrew T. Jones
Machine Head has been a hard-hitting metal band since its inception in the early nineties, but along the way they’ve been through a lot of changes. The band has almost fifteen years of experience, and while most bands tend to fall […]
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03.07 Up and Comers
Bands, clubs, artists, and businesses that you may not have heard of yet…but that we think are going to make a name for themselves really soon ~ and you get to hear about them here, right before they make it big!
BAND
Meet Switchblade Suicide
By Steve Henricksen
I sat down with the band to find out what these […]
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03.07 And in honor of our wedding issue…
Our Picks for the Top 10 Wedding Movies
The Wedding Singer
Father of the Bride ( original and remake)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Wedding Crashers
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Wedding Planner
Muriel’s Wedding
American Wedding
Runaway Bride
(OK, so we let Julia on the list twice. Face it, she’s good.)
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