Okay, since I'm taking an extended break, I figured I put up some kind of an Index for the curious who wander by.
This is by no means exhaustive, but if I put EVERYTHING in here, there would be no fun in the search.

Index:

40 Graves for 40 Guns: 04 April 2007
55 Days at Peking: 15 November 2007, 16 November 2007
2001: A Space Odyssey: 23 March 2007, 08 June 2008
Abby: 06 March 2008
Academy Theater: 04 April 2007
After the Fox: 09 September 2008
Alien: 27 March 2007
Aliens: 17 June 2008
Amadeus: 16 June 2008
Angels' Wild Women: 01 November 2007
Antonioni, Michaelangelo: 29 August 2007
Arousers: 18 April 2007, 05 November 2007
Balboa Theater: 29 March 2007, 02 April 2007, 09 April 2007, 23 April 2007, 26 June 2007, 12 September 2007, 12 October 2007, 01 November 2007, 05 November 2007, 12 December 2007, 17 December 2007, 16 January 2008, 28 January 2008, 13 February 2008, 24 February 2008, 13 March 2008, 17 March 2008, 01 April 2008, 12 May 2008, 19 November 2008
Batman: 18 July 2008
Battle Beyond the Sun: 20 September 2007
Birth Without Fear: 30 March 2007
Blacula: 25 April 2007, 15 October 2007
Blade Runner: 03 October 2007
Blood Feast: 29 March 2007
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils: 24 February 2008
Bond, James Bond: 31 October 2007
Broadway Theater: 26 April 2007, 16 October 2007
Cabrillo Theater: 26 March 2007, 29 March 2007, 27 August 2007,  20 September 2007, 17 October 2007, 03 April 2008, 22 September 2008
Caged Virgins: 04 April 2007
California: 12 April 2007, 03 July 2007, 15 October 2007, 19 October 2007, 19 November 2007, 24 February 2008, 06 March 2008, 10 March 2008, 16 April 2008, 07 July 2008, 18 August 2008, 24 October 2008
Camelot: 08 June 2008
Center Theater: 23 March 2007, 29 November 2007, 16 January 2008, 08 June 2008, 19 November 2008
Chaplin, Charlie: 15 April 2007
The Cheerleaders: 02 April 2007
Cinema 21: 15 November 2007, 16 November 2007, 27 December 2007, 11 January 2008, 06 March 2008, 23 July 2008, 25 September 2008
Cinema Grossmont: 04 February 2008, 31 March 2008, 10 April 2008, 21 May 2008, 08 June 2008, 25 September 2008
Cinerama Theater: 02 July 2007, 27 September 2007, 01 October 2007, 10 December 2007, 16 June 2008, 25 September 2008
Circus World: 29 November 2007
A Clockwork Orange: 27 February 2008
College Theater: 14 January 2008
Conan the Barbarian: 02 June 2008
Coonskin: 23 October 2008
Cover Girl Models: 05 November 2007
Crest Theater (Los Angeles): 07 January 2008
Damiano, Gerard: 30 October 2008
Deep Throat: 30 April 2007, 30 October 2008
The Depraved: 23 April 2007, 23 April 2007
Disco-Vison: 19 June 2007
Doc: 11 September 2007
Doctor Terror's House of Terror: 12 September 2007
Doctor Who and the Daleks: 20 February 2008
Dolemite!: 24 October 2008
Duel in Dragon Den: 09 April 2007
Earthquake: 04 March 2008
Elliott, David: 04 August 2008
Eve and the Handyman: 30 March 2007
Elvis Presley: 28 November 2007
The Empire Strikes Back: 23 March 2007, 02 July 2007
Enter the Dragon: 16 April 2008
Evil Dead: 07 May 2007
Flash Gordon: 15 April 2008
The Final Countdown: 10 April 2008
First Spaceship on Venus: 27 August 2007
Forbidden Motherhood: 30 March 2007
Fox Theater: 27 June 2007, 05 September 2007, 31 October 2007, 10 March 2008, 11 July 2008, 24 October 2008
Fox West Coast (chain): 17 September 2007
From Russia With Love: 31 October 2007
Galaxy of Terror: 01 April 2008
Gilded Cage Theater: 13 February 2008
Ginger: 23 March 2007
The Godfather: 11 January 2008
The Godfather II: 06 March 2008
Gorath: 08 November 2007
The Green Slime: 29 March 2007
Guyana- Cult of the Damned: 19 November 2008
Halloween (1978): 31 August 2007
Hercules: 15 April 2007
Heston, Charlton: 16 November 2007
Hopper, Dennis: 20 September 2007
House on Haunted Hill: 25 June 2007
In Harm's Way: 04 February 2008
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: 05 May 2008
Jaws: 10 April 2007, 20 June 2008
King Kong: 19 November 2007
King Kong vs Godzilla: 19 October 2007
Lee, Bruce: 16 April 2008
Love Camp 7: 19 February 2008
Love is my Profession: 12 April 2007
Loma Theater: 17 September 2007, 04 March 2008, 15 April 2008
Mann Theaters: 10 July 2007, 10 December 2007, 27 February 2008, 04 March 2008, 06 March 2008, 08 March 2008, 10 March 2008, 16 April 2008, 17 June 2008
Manson: 09 April 2007
Mark of the Devil II: 10 March 2008
Message from Space: 31 March 2008
Moore, Rudy Ray: 24 October 2008
The Mummy (1959): 12 April 2007
The Mutations: 10 March 2008
The National: 20 April 2007
National General Cinemas: 26 April 2007
New Beverly: 20 July 2007
Night of Dark Shadows: 05 September 2007
Night of the Living Dead: 20 February 2008
Night Tide: 20 September 2007
Notorious: 17 September 2007
The Nude Scrapbook: 05 May 2008
The Odd Couple: 08 June 2008
Orpheum Theater: 03 May 2007
The Outer Space Connection: 08 March 2008
Pacific Theaters: 28 March 2007, 10 July 2007, 29 August 2007, 01 October 2007, 10 December 2007, 04 February 2008, 13 February 2008, 19 February 2008, 27 February 2008, 08 June 2008, 16 June 2008, 17 June 2008, 29 August 2008, 23 October 2008
Parasite: 02 June 2008
Pets: 05 October 2007
The Phantom of the Paradise: 26 June 2007
Pick-Up: 12 April 2007
The Pink Angels: 17 December 2007
Pinocchio in Outer Space: 14 January 2008
The Playpen: 13 February 2008
Plaza Theater: 04 April 2007, 09 April 2007, 05 October 2007, 08 November 2007, 28 November 2007, 20 March 2008, 22 September 2008
The Pusher: 28 November 2007
Pussycat Theater (4th & F): 30 April 2007, 28 August 2007, 19 February 2008
Pussycat Theater (National City): 30 April 2007, 28 August 2007, 11 February 2008
Raiders of the Lost Ark: 21 May 2008
Reptilicus: 26 March 2007
Return of the Jedi: 25 May 2008
Return of the Streetfighter: 08 March 2008
The Road Warrior: 02 June 2008
Santa Claus Coquers the Martians: 27 December 2007
Saturday Night Fever: 17 October 2007
School Girl Wife: 17 March 2008
Seizure: 04 March 2008
Six Pack Annie: 09 April 2007
Skidoo!: 07 January 2008, 11 July 2008
Sleazoid Express: 05 October 2007, 26 December 2008
Song of the South: 28 November 2007, 29 August 2008
South Bay Drive-In: 27 March 2007, 09 April 2007, 25 June 2007, 03 October 2007, 12 October 2007, 03 April 2008, 18 August 2008
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: 05 November 2007
Space Thing: 28 August 2007
Spider Baby: 11 February 2008
Spreckels Theater: 02 April 2007, 15 April 2007, 18 April 2007, 05 October 2007, 20 February 2008, 08 March 2008, 12 May 2008, 08 June 2008, 09 October 2008, 23 October 2008
Starcrash: 20 March 2008
Star Wars: 28 August 2007, 24 March 2008
The Stewardesses: 16 October 2007
Stir Crazy: 29 August 2008
The Student Nurses: 12 May 2008
Super Swinging Playmates: 22 September 2008
Swiss Family Robinson: 27 June 2007
The Terminator: 17 June 2008
That Kind of Girl: 08 November 2007
This is Cinerama: 10 December 2007
This Island Earth: 09 October 2008
Thunderball: 31 October 2007
Titanic: 25 September 2008
Torso: 12 April 2007
Tower Theater: 30 March 2007, 12 April 2007, 12 April 2007, 26 November 2007, 05 May 2008, 08 June 2008
Tower of Screaming Virgins: 18 August 2008
Trouble Man: 03 July 2007
Valley Circle Theater: 28 August 2007, 11 September 2007, 24 March 2008, 18 August 2008, 09 September 2008,  25 September 2008
The Vampire Lovers: 12 May 2008
The Van: 22 September 2008
Van Nuys Blvd: 29 August 2008
Vertigo: 03 May 2007
The Virgin Witch: 12 October 2007, 17 October 2007
Walker Scott: 19 June 2007
The Warrior and the Slave Girl: 26 November 2007
Water Power: 30 October 2008
Watership Down: 31 August 2007
Weekend Murders: 18 August 2008
The Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman: 12 December 2007
Who Killed Teddy Bear?: 28 January 2008
The Wicker Man: 13 March 2008
Wild in the Streets: 08 June 2008
Winston, Stan: 17 June 2008
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm: 26 March 2007, 27 September 2007
Wright, Edgar: 19 September 2008
X-Files: 23 July 2008
Zabriskie Point: 29 August 2007
The Zestful Turk: 11 February 2008
Zombie: 03 April 2008

The man that inspired every depraved little thought ever expressed on the blog has died.
Bill Landis wrote the book Sleazoid Express about the sleaze and terror of the "Deuce" in New York City before redevelopment and Disney covered the whole thing in bleach like a dead sex crimes victim.
I've often written about Sleazoid Express because there was really no other book like it. Other books might talk about the Ilsa movies, but SE went the extra mile and talked about how it was like to be in the theater when one of those things unspooled on the silver screen. To read his words was to sit in one of those dodgy seats, fifty years old and reeking of whatever condition it previous occupant died of. It was to try and glare toughness at the crack fiends ready to cut you for the $2 in your wallet just because you looked funny and they knew you wouldn't say shit about it- 'cause no one's crazy enough to admit they'd actually paid money to see Olga snap the whip across some broad's back.
Oh, hell. Go read for yourself. And buy the damn book already. It'll help the economy and his widow, Michelle Clifford needs more reason to continue her fine career.
Sleazoid Express.
Fear of Darkness.
Weird Wednesday.
Filmmaker, the magazine of independent film.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this one.
Hundreds dead by their own hands at the suggestion of an apocalyptic madman?
There's a deranged sort of comedy at work in this situation. "Jonestown" and "drink the Kool-Aid" have an almost mocking effect in their current usage.
Anyways, offered with much confusion and morbid fascination: is the Hollywood version of Jonestown. 


San Diego tribunw C-11. 25 January 1980.

Most of you probably don't know who Gerard Damiano is so... (second ad)


(SD Tribune 20 April 1977)

Got an idea now?
He directed Deep Throat.
And The Devil in Miss Jones.
And a sloppy mess of others.  And oddly, there're very few taking time to mourn his passing outside the adult film world (and only a few inside that knew or even know of him).  So, fans of sleaze and slime, take a few minutes to think well of a guy that really got lucky and made a gigantic contribution to the cultural landscape. Try not to think of the borderline criminal nature of the circumstances behind Deep Throat. Or the fate of Linda Lovelace after the 1970s. Or the largely artless nature of porn today.
Just think of a guy that did a lot with not a lot.

(For more information on the rise of Pornography in the 1970s, check out The Other Hollywood by Legs McNeil and Inside Deep Throat. Both are works of depth and humor about a medium not known for either.)



San Diego Tribune B-6. Monday 18 July 1977.

And while he didn't direct it...

San Diego Tribune C-12. 19 July 1978.

I've included a couple of ads for films not directed by Damiano- but they do advertise the PussyCat Theatres chain which wouldn't have existed without the success of Deep Throat and its successors. For more information on the PussyCats and Downtown San Diego in the 1970s, check out Before it was the Gaslamp [it was called Stingaree] by Jay Allen Sanford.

Dolemite! (a.k.a. Rudy Ray Moore) has kicked his last ass.

Once again, I come to serve that confused segment of my audience that comes here for breaking news.

I would have had this up yesterday, but Dolemite! was so bad, I had to scan the ad THREE TIMES because it keep kickin' my scanner's ass! The digital revolution just can't handle Dolemite!

From Sleazoid Express by Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford:

[Rudy Ray] Moore started his career in the army, when someone asked him to tell a few jokes at a nightclub. He put out his first blue-humor record, Eat Out More Often (1970) through Dolphin's Record Store in Hollywood. His material was so rauchy that airplay was ridiculously impossible, so Rudy sold his records city to city through word of mouth. On the cover of I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing, he appears flanked by nude and natural sistahs. Rudy is physically out of shape but not afraid to flaunt it- bein' real always made him the funniest.

So now, we mourn Dolemite!





San Diego Tribune B-11. Wednesday 06 August 1975 (?!- Hiroshima Day).

But since we're here, would you expect anything less?

Today, I present the ad for Coonskin- one of Ralph Bakshi's follow-ups to his Fritz the Cat. I don't think Coonskin is available on a legitimate DVD in Region 1, somehow it's not appropriate or something- same reason we can't get Song of the South or Preminger's Porgy and Bess, which is a real shame since such prurient self-censorship gives freedom a bad name.
Like him or hate him, Ralph Bakshi is a necessary figure in animation: angry irreverence allowed that medium to grow up and away from the perpetual childhood the Walt Disney Studios have ghettoized it in. The different style paved the way for anime and CGI to make in-roads into Western taste- somehow, it was eventually okay to be an adult and like cartoons (though it probably got you on Nixon's Enemies list). So, without further interruption...




San Diego Union E-10. Wednesday 17 September 1975.

Just for the fun of it, I'm putting up something kind of random from 1955.



San Diego Union a-13. Wednesday 15 June 1955.

There wasn't much happening in April 1977. So a few cool movies might go unnoticed... until I came along.



I liked the condition of these. So now, they are loosed upon the world.

San DIego Tribune. Wednesday 13 April 1977.

Is someone you should listen too.
Not because he makes great movies like Hot Fuzz (seriously, how did that movie not get Oscar nominations?) and Shaun of the Dead. Or because he was involved in the TV-show-that-was-way-ahead-of-its-time known as Spaced.
No, Edgar Wright wrote out a list of worthy British films made since 1950.
And you need to see them. All of them.
Go here. Now.
Back?
Good. Told you he was awesome.