Eric Roberts had another good weekend with The Expendables, although everything I had to say about the movie was summed up with two posts on my Twitter feed . That even includes what I just said about Eric Roberts having a good weekend. I’m still reminded that I recently added some new pieces to the “Articles & Interviews” sidebar here, including the wonderful/horrible story of how Eric Roberts once used me as his inspiration for a film role.

In more recent writings, people might want to check out my article on 1955’s The Phenix City Story. The notoriously Southern-fried film noir was recently (finally) released on DVD. I visited the famously crooked Alabama town a few times in the ’80s, so I’m fairly qualified to recap some of the true story that emerged in the wake of the movie. Film historians, however, will notice that I give Jack Warner credit for a notion that should really be attributed to one of the Mirisch brothers. I don’t know how I forgot that Monogram Pictures became Allied Artists.

 

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