Ed Gorman's blog

I was never much of a Jean-Claude Van Damme fan. Action movies tend to put me to sleep and the only one I saw Van Damme in didn't do muc...

If Bill Crider and James Reasoner and I were to sit down and discuss sidekicks we'd likely bring up the great Gabby Hayes and work our w...

From Fred Blosser Ed, I see that Criterion has just released Jean-Pierre Melville's LE DOULOS (1963) on DVD. My capsule review from MY...

We had a three hour lunch with Barb and Al (Max) Collins and Marthayn Peligrimas and Bob Randisi. One of the highlights of my year, no kiddi...

What there's to say? Tony Hillerman was one of the great writers and great gentlemen of mystery fiction. Sarah Weinman has an excellent ...

David L. Ulin Book editor of The Los Angeles Times wrote an interesting piece on what our national ecoonomic catastrophe may mean for the pu...

Further comments on Touch of Evil: Norm Partridge: It really amazes me all the stuff Hollywood threw out. Of course, I wouldn't have exp...

Sarah Weinman's Sunday LA Times review discusses a man few if any of us have heard of previously. A fascinating and important piece. Red...

Ron Howard has put together one of the best campaing spots of the election. With Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler joining him to promote Obam...

My two buddies Norm Partridge and Tom Piccirilli and I have been trading letters. One of the subjects Orson Welles' the Lady From Shangh...

From Galleycat Posted by Ron | 07:00 AM | Party Hopping | Email this post | 0 Comments Why Didn't Borders Want Your Book? Andrew Wheele...

As I've mentioned before the careers of writers well known and not interest me. As I read The Cincinatti Kid by Richard Jessup last nigh...

Dorothy Parker once said that "Hemingway talks sentimental out of the side of his mouth." Meaning that Two-Gun Ernie for all his h...

Cinema Retro ran a piece (in its usual fine intresting style) on a new DVD of Capricorn One. I have a special interest in that film because ...

Ed here: I hope this doesn't mean that Bob will make me start mowing his lawn again. This just might go to his head. From Variety Randis...

Maybe Kathy Griffin was right when she joked years ago that Dakota Fanning had been in rehab when she was five or six (Griffin lost her Red ...

In my effort to get people to read Margaret Millar I'm reprinting some comments that the late Tom Piccirilli and I exchanged in e ma...

I'm rereading The Wrath of God by Jack Higgins (originally published as by James Graham and some of those editions are still around) one...

For crime writers my age reading Mickey Spillane was a right of passage. While my cousin had shown me underlined passages in I, The Jury, I ...

Really interesting piece on Booklgasm today about comic book writers and artists who've turned on some solid toextra fine novels. CAPES,...