a long ride from hell , in the original italian known as vivo per la tua morte ( literally " i live for your death ! " ) , is a 1968 film directed by camillo bazzoni .

it was based on the novel judas gun by gordon d. shirreffs .

the film was bodybuilder steve reeves ' final film prior to his retirement .

reeves , who turned down the lead of a fistful of dollars financed and co-wrote the film himself upon seeing the successful box office returns of the clint eastwood spaghetti westerns at the time .

the film did poorly and reeves retired from filmmaking that year .

a long ride from hell

a long ride from hell <EOT> a long ride from hell ( 1968 ) – mike ' s take on the movies ……… . rediscovering cinema ' s past

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a long ride from hell camillo bazzoni ( mafia connection ) . the screenplay for a long ride from hell was co - written by steve reeves ( his first and only screenwriting credit ) and roberto natale , who’s other notable screenwriting credits include bloody pit of horror , kill baby kill , lisa and devil and watch me when i kill . the screenplay was adapted from a novel written by gordon d . shirreffs titled ‘judas gun’ . the cinematographer on a long ride from hell was enzo barboni , who would go onto becoming a director in his own right . directing spaghetti western comedies like they call me trinity… and trinity is still my name ! the composer on a long ride from hell was carlo savina , who’s other notable scores include naked you die , the legend of blood castle , lisa and the devil and the killer reserved nine seats .

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hercules himself , steve reeves , lives for your death in a long ride from hell , an italian / spanish spaghetti western that proved to be the peplum star’s only effort as a producer , his only spaghetti western and also his final film .

our filmmaking friend eric zaldivar is back with a new killcount supercut , this one counting up all the bodies left behind in camillo bazzoni’s 1968 italo - american western a long ride from hell ( italian : vivo per la tua morte , which means , literally , i live for your death ! ” ) .

when the peplum genre had been ousted by the spaghetti western , steve reeves ( ‘the original hercules’ ) had returned to his home country , but a few years later , he was back in italy to try his luck with the new genre . a long ride from hell was supposed to be his glorious come - back movie . he would not only star in it , but also co - produce it and contribute to the script , based on a western novel by gordon shirreffs , the judas gun . but instead of a glorious come - back , it became a disastrous goodbye . a long ride from hell would be his swan song as an actor .

ride to hell switches from shooting to melee combat frequently . unlike some other games , though , it doesn ' t do anything to make you do the same , so there ' s nothing stopping you from simply shooting enemies that try to engage you up close .

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off model : the character models look cheap and dated , with stiff , plastic - looking hair . jake himself looks a little like eddie riggs from brutal legend , but ride to hell lacks that game ' s intentionally cartoony graphical charm .

overdrawn at the blood bank : whether from gunshot wounds or being smacked with fists , long combos make characters practically explode in a fountain of blood .

reeves — who financed a long ride from hell himself , co - produced , and even co - wrote the screenplay — appeared here as a cowboy named mike sturges , who , along with his younger brother roy ( ivan scratuglia ) end up going after horse thieves who’ve stolen some ponies from the sturges family . ( reeves named his character sturges as a tribute to director john sturges , who directed one of his favorite westerns , 1960’s the magnificent seven ) .

a long ride from hell is not a particularly great movie , yet it offers some shallow entertainment and is full of names that should mean a lot to the genre insider . i would say it ' s worth watching . the dvd on the other hand i can wholeheartedly recommend , mostly because of the one hour dick palmer interview which is almost better than the movie itself . wild east offers a really good presentation of this movie on dvd , that should not be missing from a collectors ' shelf .

extras for this release include a image gallery that has music from the film playing in the background , a trailer for the film ( 1 minute 1 second – 4 : 3 full frame ) , a segment titled ‘at home with steve reeves’ ( 13 minutes 45 seconds – 4 : 3 full frame in italian and english with english subtitles ) and a lengthy interview with mimmo palmara ( 57 minutes 57 seconds – 4 : 3 full frame , in italian with english subtitles ) . the segment with steve reeves has nothing to do with a long hard ride from hell or any of his other films . it is essentially a day in life with steve as some fans hang out with at his home . the interview with mimmo palmara covers the majority of the films he worked on . other topics include working with steve reeves , how he got his alias dick palmer , his friendship with sergio leone and stunt work . the image gallery , the segment with steve reeves and interview with mimmo palmara all previously appeared on wild east’s region 1 dvd release of a long hard ride from hell . also included with this release are trailers for family honor , slithis , horror high , stigma , rivals , the black clansman , the carrier , tomcats and they’re the gestapo warriors . overall code red gives a long hard ride from hell its best release to date .

“it’s been a hell of a ride” : damon first said these words to elena in the season 1 episode “blood brothers . ” it was right after he told her the story of how stefan forced him to become a vampire . it might’ve been the reason damon hated his brother for all those years , but as he told elena , “i suppose i should thank him ; it’s been a hell of a ride . ” eight seasons later , that statement stands , and in fact , it’s one he’ll make again by the end of the hour .

reeves did his own stunts on this picture too , since there were no italian stunt men big enough to double for him , but he also ended up aggravating a shoulder injury he’d received during a chariot scene in an earlier hercules film . unfortunately , a long ride from hell didn’t do as well as reeves had hoped at the box office and he took a financial bath on the picture . he ended up retiring from the movie business that same year , at age 42 , after appearing in 18 films during his career .

opinion : from the first minute this film suffers from its very tv - ish looking aspect ratio , which to me personally is always a bad sign , but not necessarily . a long ride to hell starts out like any other american western and develops into a little intricate story with 2 - dimensional villians lacking of any backstory and an emotionless star , who might look handsome in a close up but is unable to carry the movie . luckily , the film is a rather quick experience , with a few shoot outs thrown in for good measure , some decent camera work by barboni and even a short moment of love ! it would be easy to dismiss a long ride from hell as a failed effort to copy a standard american western or as a vehicle for reeves , but in the end that ' s what it looks like , despite the input of some of the genre ' s bigger names . it is a solid movie , from a technical perspective , but the script is a shame and the movie ' s over before one could ask " why , what , when , how " . for the genre fan it ' s definitely a must see , if only to fill yet another gap . all in all though , it ' s not a very great film unfortunately .

was even more of a departure from the time line of the rest of your films .

not long after returning from the war and joining the devil ' s hand , cook steals a nuclear bomb and plans to set it off so america will " bleed the way [ he ] bled " in vietnam .

watch it here , or better yet , buy the dvd from wild east productions .

looking for a copy ? i snagged a blu ray release from code red . another nice addition to the vault here at mike’s take .

a long ride from hell starred montana - born bodybuilder steve reeves , who had become famous for his physique in the 1940s , winning a “mr . america” contest in 1947 , when he was 21 , then becoming the first “mr . world , ” and then was named “mr . universe” ( twice , in 1948 and 1950 ) . we’re not sure where you can go after that , galactically . he owned a gym in miami for a while , called the steve reeves athletic club , and began making the transition to acting in movies , as you do . his first film role was as a baby - faced police detective in ed wood’s jail bait in 1954 , and that same year appeared as jane powell’s health - freak boyfriend in athena .

even though the main sub plot revolves around a heist were gold is stolen from a train . this film is first and foremost a tale about revenge . one area where this film stands out from many of its contemporaries are the scenes at yuma penitentiary in which the prisoners are often at the mercy of the sadistic prison guards . from an action stand point this film also holds up very well . there are plenty of shoot outs , fist fights and even the stereo typical bar room brawl is thrown in for good measure . visually the film goes for a more stark style than the more typical operatic style that has become synonymous with the spaghetti western genre . performance wise the entire cast are great in their respective roles with spartaco conversi ( the great silence ) , in the role of the lead prison guards being the film’s most memorable performance . another performance of note is rosalba neri ( lady frankenstein ) in the role of a prostitute . when all is said and done , a long ride from hell is a middle of the road spaghetti western that would have remained in obscurity if it were not for the presence of steve reeves in the title role this film .

jack bauer interrogation technique : jake ' s favorite way of getting information from devil ' s hand members .

code red presents a long hard ride from hell in an anamorphic widescreen that retains the film’s original aspect ratio . this film was previously released by wild east on dvd in 2009 and that release was not only non anamorphic , it also had combing and pal to ntsc conversion issues . for this release code red have created a brand new hi def transfer that blows away all previous releases of this film . code red’s transfer has been flagged for progressive playback . colors look strong and remain consistent throughout . black levels look very good and details look sharp . also code red’s dvd release is a dual layer presentation that has no problems with compression , edge enhancement is kept in check and the image remains stable throughout . it should be noted that there is some very mild instances of print debris .

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aeneas leads escapees from the trojan war to new land in italy , and must deal with new threats to his people .

reeves is going to find himself on the run from both the law , preston and bounty hunter / spaghetti western favorite aldo sambrell . it won’t be long before reeves turns the tables as he rides a trail of revenge . this is of course going to culminate in a much anticipated showdown with a fortune in gold at stake amidst the double dealings and back shooting hombres that populate this above average italian oater with a clean shaven reeves looking nothing like the hercules character he scored a major hit with worldwide .

there is so much to love about this hour . sure , you could say i’m on a bit of a high because , oh , i don’t know , katherine is now the hbic in hell , but that’s only one reason i’m madly in love with this episode . let’s start where we always do , with a trip down memory lane .

given your build and how little you ' re wearing , i can ' t imagine they used a stunt double for you in all those shots . it ' s obviously you . was there any concern for your safety with this long underwater filming ?

i wish some of these peplum flicks would be “saved” from neglect and issued on blu myself . i have pre ordered erik and look forward to my copy arriving . reviewed the film itself a while back which gave me the chance to show off an original one sheet from my collection .

? maybe you know nothing of reeves or his various guises . still , film fans will recognize his bearded machismo from such classics as

“take off to street music” : run - d . m . c . ’s “rock box” video rocked from the floor up to the ceiling

picture , there was another mr universe who hit the big time as the titular mythological brawler in a low budget peplum . steve reeves parlayed his success as a bodybuilder into a boom period as star of various sword and sandal adventures from the 1950s onward .

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suggests he was a close friend of william , and not a maternal uncle .

when that genre really exploded many people got involved , but it never bothered me . alan steele was italian and my stunt double in one of my films . i forgot what his real name was but it was a very long name , so he took an american name . i believe he made a couple of the reasonably low hercules films .

previously released by wild east in a pal - converted , non - anamorphic 1 . 66 : 1 transfer , a long ride from hell has been reissued by code red releasing in an anamorphic 1 . 78 : 1 transfer mastered in high definition . in seemingly the reverse of what we have come to expect from hd transfers of cult films , the colors here are bolder ( with the skintones looking suitably bronzed for the sun - scorched settings of the bulk of the film ; the film takes a nice detour into mossy , misty woods when mike hunts down another of maynard’s partners ) . the contrasts are also superior with the interiors looking believably lit compared to the brighter , somewhat washed - out pal master . the framing works for the most part ( and was likely the choice of the american rights holder cinerama releasing ; the film would have been projected at 1 . 85 : 1 theatrically in the u . s . ) . the english mono audio is fine throughout . an italian dvd was released last year by 01 distribution as part of a large spaghetti western line , but reports on several of the other titles in the series suggest that they are non - anamorphic and the scope titles have been reformatted to 1 . 85 : 1 . lisa and the devil composer carlo savina’s score was recently released on cd by digitmovies .

the song—the stoic lament of a travelling rodeo pro—was originally recorded , in 1973 , by terry stafford , a former rock - and - roll singer . chris ledoux , a real - life rodeo champion who also built a do - it - yourself career as a country act , cut a version a few years later , which found its way to strait , who made the song his own . stafford sang it with a crooner’s quaver , and ledoux intoned the lyrics wistfully , accompanied by a harmonica . by comparison , strait’s version , the only one that most people will ever hear , is masterfully plain . he occasionally approaches a syllable from above , using a mournful grace note , but he has an easy , conversational way of putting a melody across , as if he were singing to keep from talking .

and now for something completely different : the prologue sets the stage for it , with it jumping from biking to turret sequence , to brawler sequence , to a cutscene of your guy on a motorbike jumping over a huey helicopter . the game takes this further , with cutting out of the action to a cutscene or different style of play , or even a different area .

as part of the screener disc ' s added content , we get an unusual fan interview with reeves ( some italian tourists show up at his california home and discuss his career with him - very weird ) as well as an hour long overview with actor domenico palmara ( who played the turncoat sheriff ) . there is also a trailer for

strait has discovered that when he isn’t wearing a cowboy hat people often don’t realize that he is george strait . in san antonio , where he lives , he can usually visit restaurants unmolested , so long as he doesn’t smile too widely—he is famous for his smile , which is bright and crooked . one time , in key west , where he records , he was sitting outside the studio , naked from the neck up , when a woman accosted him . she said , “my husband says that george strait is in there , cutting a record , and i told him that can’t be true . why would he cut a record in this little place ? ”

behind the waterfall , stefan finds elena’s coffin . as cade tells him , “i can see why you both love her . she’s a beautiful soul . made dimmer perhaps by her association with the two of you . ” ( if this didn’t take you guys back to isobel telling elena she was doomed so long as she had a salvatore on each arm , i don’t know what will . )

steve reeves was born in glasgow , montana , a healthy and robust child of welsh , irish , german and english heritage , on january 21 , 1926 . his father was a rancher who also did carpentry and was a contractor . when steve was only six months old his mother entered him in his first contest in which he received the title of " most healthiest baby " in danials county . by the age of three , reeves was able to ride horseback on his own - the beginning of a lifelong love of horses .

she was a yugoslavian girl who was working in rome and had done a few small parts .

rating , it is solid , if ultimately superficial , western entertainment . you may not know steve reeves from anything other than the bicep rippling efforts of his sword and sandal past .

disproportionate retribution : start a gunfight in a casino and the police dispatches a few dozen officers armed only with pistols and batons . steal a bike and an attack helicopter tries to gun you down .

with robert taylor which was a roman film . we used a lot of costumes from that film for the extras in my films . they made special costumes for the main stars for every picture . but they do have warehouses of costumes for greek pictures they can fall back on .

incredibly durable enemies : it takes roughly an entire clip from a rifle to kill a single enemy , unless you aim for the head , which only requires one bullet . this ensures that the elite mooks immune to headshots take about half the ammo in the known universe to fell .

action prologue : a really confusing one at that , filled with a turret section , a qte fist fight , and jake putting bullets into colt ' s head . all of this is in random flashbacks while jake ' s riding on a motorcycle about to jump off of a ramp over a helicopter .

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it ' s said that it required numerous takes just to film you putting on your necktie ; while the impression from wood ' s films is that they ' re one - take wonders . do you remember this shot being a tough one ?

reeves built his superb physique in a day when drugs were unheard of . as a result , he developed a keen insight into the true requirement of advanced levels of muscle growth , nutrition , definition , fat loss and shape building for the natural bodybuilder . this book is his legacy . within its pages lie the knowledge acquired from a lifetime of real bodybuilding . a sample of what ' s in store includes : nutrition , losing bodyfat , reeve ' s championship training routines , the power of walking , a seminar with steve reeves , and much more . a book of this magnitude only comes along once in a lifetime !

though it was barely released in english theatrically , most spaghetti western fans couldn ' t easily see this film until wild east issued it as part of their exhaustive , amazing line of genre releases on dvd . the 1 . 66 : 1 flat transfer was okay but nothing spectacular , taken from a pal source , but the extras were terrific : a mammoth one - hour interview with costar palmara and some nifty home movie footage of reeves . fortunately code red upped the ante with a far superior new anamorphic transfer from the original elements in the cinerama vaults , first released

: implied with oswald markham , a . k . a . mack . he ' s obviously not a conway , and his matter - of - fact description of

this year’s roping event , the thirty - fifth , was held at the san antonio rose palace , a dirt - floor arena on the northern edge of the city , largely untouched by time or technology . ( it is down the road from tapatio springs , a golf resort that strait and a partner recently bought and renovated . ) a couple of announcers called the action , their voices both amplified and distorted by an antiquated

pretty boy has horrific burns leaving all of the skin missing from one side of his face . the last we see of him , jake is taking an electric sander to the good half of his face .

the legendary strongman steve reeves played his first western in what would prove to be his final screen role thus riding off into the sunset literally at the end of this spaghetti western he also had a hand in adapting from the novel judas gun via author gordon shirreffs .

damage sponge boss : cook in the dlc runs around while firing a machine gun , has a lot of health ( he ' s got about two - and - a - half times as much health as a giant mook ) , and is defeated simply by shooting him a lot .

on saturday morning , championship day , strait made his grand arrival on horseback , taking a ceremonial lap around the arena as fans hung over the railings , angling for selfies . a cowboy preacher asked for protection : “we pray that no harm , in any form or fashion , comes near the horses , the steer , or the cowboys . ” ( in fact , many of the steer were destined to become steak , just not quite yet . ) strait watched with his family , from a box next to the announcer’s booth , descending when the action was finished to present the prizes—more than a hundred thousand dollars apiece for the two winners , along with new trucks and trailers . all weekend long , the loudspeakers played nothing but george strait songs , and it is a testament to his legacy that some attendees might not have noticed . his music is so synonymous with the genre that a selection of his hits might simply sound , to the casual listener , like a classic - country playlist .

when barbarians invade his village and kill his father , a local man wages a one - man war against them .

never trust a trailer : a bizarre in - game example . during the opening montage , jake does a few things such as fire a turret at the devil ' s hand in what appears to be a forest , fights a biker on the side of the road , and jumps over a helicopter with his motorcycle . that last part is in the game . the turret and fight scenes aren ' t .

unexpected gameplay change : during the introduction cutscene at the start of the game , you ' re dropped into firing from a turret ( without any context ) , then you ' re thrown into a quick time event fight ( again , without any context ) , and then you get to the main story with bike riding / beat ' em up gameplay ( revealing the opening was a flash forward montage , and giving a bare minimum of context ) .

using yelp — kai’s love for leaving bad reviews has its upside — stefan manages to track down the karaoke - loving heretic . but when kai realizes stefan is human , he stabs him through the hand with the dagger that stefan wants so badly . as kai informs stefan , when you kill cade , hell goes along with him . thankfully , damon’s there to snap kai’s neck before he does any more damage to human stefan .

one gets the feeling from many of the decisions he takes over the course of the game , particularly the ones involving needlessly complicated zany schemes involving the deaths of a ridiculous number of innocent bystanders , that fighting in the vietnam war was not good for jake ' s mental health .

: jake walks up to a woman working on a truck cab and mentions he never saw a woman working on a truck before . since the game takes place in the early 70s this kind of makes sense ( as jake ' s childhood took place in the late 50s and 60s at a time when

tired of being typecast and still smarting from that recurrent shoulder injury , reeves left the limelight for a retirement outside the rigors of movie making . he married , raised horses , and occasionally spoke out about his time in competitive bodybuilding and as part of an international tinseltown . while something like

after more than two years of hard work and dedication to bodybuilding , reeves had developed a truly phenomenal body . friends told him repeatedly that he should become a wrestler , a dancer , or an actor in the movies because of his good looks and amazing musculature . he graduated from high school in 1944 , and on september 12 of that year reported to the precidio of monterey for induction into the army .

a man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother , all the while being shadowed by a mysterious pinkerton detective .

a grizzled ex - sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead .

jake ' s parents died by being pushed off a cliff . caesar meets his end by jake forcing him off a cliff

double standard : one of the women you can " rescue " from a bunch of thugs rejects their advances by saying that she saves herself for her man . once jake beats up the thugs , she suddenly decides that it ' s okay to have sex with him . note that jake asked for a beer as a reward . granted , post - coitus she mentions her " boyfriend " is an asshole , and she only mentioned him to use him as a beard .

it was released for the playstation 3 and xbox 360 , and its pc version was distributed through steam . the steam version quickly dropped the price to $ 5 , but was later pulled from the store outright in october 2014 .

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after returning from his tour of duty in vietnam , jake conway reunites with his uncle mack and younger brother mike . after the latter is murdered by members of the biker gang devil ' s hand , jake vows revenge against them .

. over the years a lot has been said about your working relationship with joseph e . levine , the producer . one time it ' s levine who ' s raking in the dough from the movies while you ' re just taking home a paycheck another report has levine being left out in the cold after making a few high ticket movies while you cashed in on the popularity and doing more films . what really happened ?

for a long time , the ups and downs of brooks and other country innovators only underscored strait’s position as the genre’s most dependable act . a wide range of singers , from martina mcbride to taylor swift , first faced big crowds by serving as strait’s opening act . when he moved up from arenas to stadiums , in the late nineties , he booked enough opening acts to create daylong mini - festivals , boosting the careers of faith hill , tim mcgraw , brooks & dunn . for the shows earlier this year , in las vegas , his opening act was kacey musgraves , who is twenty - eight ; when she was growing up , in east texas , strait was already a well - established star . after her own set , she reappeared with strait to perform a duet on a song called “run , ” dancing a bit and adding some new harmonies while he stood still , singing it just like the record . “he’s the steady train , ” she said , after the show . “and i can flit all around him . ” musgraves is a mischievous singer and songwriter , known for tweaking old country traditions . ( “it’s high time to slow my roll , let the grass just grow , ” she sings , with a knowing smile . ) even so , she was enjoying the challenge of trying to win over a george strait crowd , not to mention the challenge of trying to get to know strait himself . “i’ve gotten to hang out with him a little , ” she said . “we mainly just talk about horses . ”

all women are lustful : every single woman encountered in the game save one will immediately suggest sex after being rescued from sexual assault or after their husband has been beat up . this is while said baddies are still dying in the same room .

a former union activist and veteran endorsed by bernie sanders has a chance to win the district represented for twenty years by paul ryan .

good shootouts , better than average revolt sequence and terrific score . could have been a bigger title with a known spaghetti western star .

filmed in singapore it tells the story of sandokan who is a malaysian rebel who , with a group of renegades , goes up against a british general who is trying to force the king to resign .

we have reserves : the devil ' s hand has a large number of soldiers packed into a relatively small area , enough to make up a small army . and they come at you in waves .

people didn ' t consider it a sport , that ' s true . they thought it was a get - in - shape hobby . my friends and family didn ' t see much of a living in it unless a person could open a gym . my friends thought it was a good way to socialize and to compete . it is a sport in the respect that you compete - against the weights and other people in the gym . then ultimately you compete against other bodybuilders on the stage . so in that respect it is a competitive sport .

- a film which proved to do pretty good for him . he had a friend in rome who looked for films to buy . when

in - universe : when anvil drives into a building , jake goes on a convoluted mission to get the keys instead of just breaking in .

( 2 ) reeves had dislocated his shoulder during the filming of gli ultimi giorni di pompeï ( co - directed by sergio leone ! ) when his chariot slammed into a tree . the injury aggravated because of the stunt work in every successive movie and would eventually make weight - lifting impossible and lead to reeves ' retirement from film making .

on a friday night earlier this year , at t - mobile arena , a few paces from the las vegas strip , nearly twenty thousand fans came together to hear strait make his way through more than thirty of his biggest hits—a fraction of the total . “we have a lot of songs to play for you tonight , a whole lot , ” he said , and then he didn’t say much more . strait prefers to give his audience as few distractions as possible : he likes to play on a stage in the center of the arena floor , with four microphones arranged like compass points ; every two songs , he moves , counterclockwise , to the next microphone , so that people in each quadrant of the crowd can feel as if he were singing just to them . because he was playing in the round , there was no backdrop , and nothing in the way of pyrotechnics , with the important exception of that smile . his onstage outfit , which has barely changed in forty years , includes , along with the cowboy hat and cowboy boots , a button - down shirt and bluejeans , ironed stiff enough to form an exoskeleton . a promotional contract obliges him to wear wrangler jeans , and decades of ranching and roping inclines him to wear them stacked—that is , long and bunched up , so that he could , if necessary , mount a horse without fear of exposing any extra boot .

without it . . . that , and steve reeves ' 42 year old muscle man physique . at first , we fear we will never see mr . olympia ' s famed form , his wardrobe seemingly made up of as many layers of clothing as possible ( it looks mighty cold on the passing for the old west spanish set ) . but then we get to yuma and its all sinew and sweat . homoeroticism was never quite as swarthy as this , though it only lasts as long as reeves is incarcerated . once he breaks out , it ' s back to the vests and chaps , dammit ! still , reeves is all man in this movie , making his way from impossible odds to improbable escapes with all the finesse of a guy given over to one too many hours in his local gym .

while this may have it’s roots in the italian western craze , it plays very much like a seventies hollywood oater when the genre had hardened predating movies like lawman , chato’s land or the hunting party to name a few . reeves is the owner of a horse ranch who along with his brother , giovani ivan scratuglia and an old timer , spartaco conversi set out to get the horses back and bring the rustlers to justice . in to his camp rides american tv star , wayde preston , an old saddle mate who promptly sets up the brothers in an elaborate railway heist for a fortune in gold . he and his gang ride off leaving the old timer dead and reeves along with his little brother wounded and taking the blame as outlaws abandoned by the others due to their wounds . when a vicious sheriff turns up , he sends them both to the hard labor rock pits of yuma prison . considering this is a steve reeves picture , the rock quarry will give him a chance to show off that muscular physique he built his name on .

in the late seventies , some of the most successful country singers were gentle balladeers like kenny rogers and barbara mandrell , and the executives who initially heard strait’s demos thought he would likely remain a local favorite . his prospects may have improved with the release , in 1980 , of “urban cowboy , ” in which john travolta and debra winger do battle with a mechanical bull in a honky - tonk called gilley’s . ( the film was not , despite its plot , a comedy . ) “urban cowboy” glamorized rowdy texas bars and all the creatures that called them home , and it created a new demand for singing cowboys like strait . he got a record deal the next year , and had success with his début single , “unwound , ” a brisk drinking song built on a long - winded complaint : “that woman that i had wrapped around my finger just come unwound . ” he recorded it with session musicians but continued to use the ace in the hole band when he was on tour , as he almost always was . strait was happy to go around the country promoting “unwound , ” but woolsey , his manager , remembers rebuffing the record executives who wanted strait to dress up , taking off his cowboy hat and trading his stacked jeans for slacks . “you don’t understand , ” woolsey told them . “where he’s from , that is dressing up . ”

an image in a government briefing book helped a state department official see “the forest for the trees” in the west bank—and then was shared with the president .

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really launched her career and she did very well ever after . she did the film completely in italian because she came from the part of yugoslavia that spoke yugoslavian as well as italian . she was a nice person to work with and since it was my first big film i was more concerned with what i was doing rather than what the other people were doing .

after he’d hung up his sandals and spurs , so to speak , reeves continued to remain interested in physical fitness . he spent the remainder of his life living quietly in california , where he managed a horse ranch and raised morgan horses . he also wrote a workout guide , building the classic physique the natural way . he taught bodybuilding , too , which he believed could help young people keep away from drugs . steve reeves died in 1989 .

it wasn’t an absurd idea : texas was full of small bars where unpretentious country bands could bash out a living . just to be safe , though , strait enrolled at southwest texas state university , in san marcos , where he studied agricultural education , and where , one day , he came upon a bulletin - board notice from a group in search of a singer . he auditioned with “fraulein , ” a country classic from the fifties , and was hired as the lead singer of the group , which was called the ace in the hole band . one of the members was a pedal - steel player named mike daily , who has performed with strait ever since . daily’s grandfather was pappy daily , a legendary country impresario who discovered george jones , and his father ran an independent label , which issued three ace in the hole band singles in the late nineteen - seventies—strait’s first recordings . daily remembers that strait wasn’t planning on staying local forever . “i’m here to try to make it , ” strait told the musicians , and daily knew that making it would probably entail going to nashville , where talent scouts typically signed singers , not bands .

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coitus ensues : jarringly frequently . if you have to rescue any female from harassment , it always goes " jake murders the harasser ( s ) - > have sex with the victim - > go back to whatever you were doing " in that exact order with zero natural transition between these scenes .

sr : i ' m in good shape . i weigh a solid 200 . i get up in the morning about six o ' clock and go power walking for about a half hour , then go back in and do the weights for about a half hour , and then , in the summertime - at least nine months a year - i do pool exercises . then i go and ride my horses for about an hour , so from about six till ten it ' s all exercise , but pleasurable exercise . years ago i used to use comparably heavy weights and maybe 10 repetitions for each muscle . now i lift lighter weights and do about 15 repetitions . it keeps me where i want to be and it ' s no great stress on the body . i feel good , i look good , i ' m in great shape , and i don ' t have any injuries . tpv : that ' s great . do you have any recommendations for a herniated disc ? sr : i ' ve helped people with other things , but not that . do you do stretching ? tpv : yes , that ' s what my physical therapist has been instructing me to do . sr : put in a bar at home where you can hang , and possibly get some iron boots , or put some weights around your ankles so you can stretch your lower back a little bit . tpv : thanks . sr : you ' re welcome .

a george strait concert is a master class in the art of restraint . “he just stands there , ” an executive once marvelled , “and people go fucking crazy . ” strait leans away from the high notes , sways gently with the up - tempo songs , and says just enough to remind fans that they are not , in fact , listening to his records ; all night , he strums an acoustic guitar that no one can hear , maybe not even him .

how does somebody market a film and when is the right time to release it ? this is a question that calum waddell poses in the excellent bo . . .

told strait . “there are some key radio guys that are ready to be done with you . it has nothing to do with you as an artist—it has to do with the fact that they played you in the eighties , they played you in the nineties , the two - thousands , and here we are in 2012 , and nothing else in culture has held on that long . ” dungan remembers that strait seemed both alarmed and fascinated . “i don’t think anyone had ever said those words to him before , ” he said .

strait doesn’t believe in disappointing paying customers , so he endeavors to play every song that anyone wants to hear . casual listeners may know him best for “all my ex’s live in texas , ” a slightly drunken - sounding novelty song that long ago transcended its novelty status , elevated by countless bleary - eyed sing - alongs : “texas is the place i’d dearly love to be / but all my ex’s live in texas / and that’s why i hang my hat in tennessee . ” in this arena , though , people were just as excited for “check yes or no , ” a good - natured radio perennial about a love affair that begins in the third grade and lasts well past the third chorus . one key to strait’s success is that he is stubborn but not too stubborn . he adores the rough - hewn music and iconography of his native texas , but he has never been too cool to sing sweeter , softer songs about suburban love gone right . he is a traditionalist , but not a revivalist : instead of evoking a bygone past , he prefers to evoke a familiar , unchanging present . the quintessential george strait song involves a man who feels something strongly but can express it only winkingly . “if you leave me , i won’t miss you , ” he declares , at the start of “ocean front property , ” followed by a chorus made up of declarations that are , likewise , lies . “i’ve got some oceanfront property in arizona / from my front porch , you can see the sea , ” he sings . “if you buy that , i’ll throw the golden gate in , free . ”

only six faces : the game reuses character models a lot . this is particularly noticeable as it ' s even done for supporting roles with a decent amount of screen time . the women ( with the exception of brandy , ellie , and the strippers ) are particularly hilarious - even though they have a variety of different hairstyles and possibly faces , and one of them even has an ascot that none of the others have , from the neck down their bodies and clothes are all perfect palette swaps of each other right down to having the exact same black studded wristband .

twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre - roman italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city .

steve reeves ' swan song to film is a standard spaghetti western with good action scenes and a fast pace . it was a personal project for him and he ' d only return to acting if offered western roles . wish he ' d made more .

perdy is a woman who is tough , foul - mouthed , and . . .

in 1977 he contacted me and said , " would you go around and make personal appearances for me when the show opens in dallas , new york , chicago , and about seven other cities ? " i said that i would , and he asked , " how much are you going to charge me ? " i said that i didn ' t need much , just my expenses and five hundred dollars each day , which is nothing . he thought that was too much and said , " oh hell , i can get some muscle men jerks from the gyms in each of those towns - do you want me to do that ? " i told him to go ahead , and that ' s just what he did . for crying out loud , i gave him that price because i felt i was giving him a more than fair value for my time . these days when i do events i charge somewhere around a thousand dollars an hour , or if i stay three hours i ' ll do it for two thousand dollars . i was certainly worth more in those days than i am today . but levine - five hundred dollars a day for old times sake yet he wanted all the money .


radical act is a feature-length documentary by tex clark .

shot in 1995 , radical act documents the contributions of female artists to the 1990s indie rock scene .

participants include kathleen hanna ( bikini kill , le tigre , julie ruin ) , toshi reagon , gretchen phillips , melissa york ( team dresch , vitapup , the butchies ) , kim coletta ( jawbox , co-owner of desoto records ) , shirlé hale ( mary lou lord , gerty , womyn of destruction ) , sharon topper ( god is my co-pilot ) , journalist evelyn mcdonnell ( mamarama : a memoir of sex , kids and rock n roll and rock she wrote : women write about rock , pop and rap ) , author victoria " vicky " starr ( " kd lang : all you get is me " ) and dr. kay turner ( now folk arts director of brooklyn arts council ) .

radical act screened at the 1996 outfest film festival in los angeles and was included in miranda july 's " joanie for jackie chainletter " collection of short films .

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radical act ( film ) <EOT> in the current political and social climate , it seems almost a radical act to see two arab muslim actors playing romantic leads .

in uncertain times , it is a subtle act of rebellion to celebrate and uplift marginalized voices .

radical act , a feature - length ( and vintage ) documentary about the contribution of female artists to the 1990 ' s punk scene . featuring : kathleen hanna ( bikini kill , le tigre ) , tribe 8 , toshi . . . see full summary »

“when a woman makes a film , that is a radical act , ” director and screenwriter ava duvernay said at the women in the world summit in new york city on wednesday night . by that definition–and by any other , really–she and the other two women on stage , pakistani documentary filmmaker sharmeen obaid - chinoy and prolific actress meryl streep , are all radicals .

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sami is an expressive actor and the broad , physical moments he does so well is what got the big laughs in the screening i attended at the recent arab film festival in sydney , but the film ' s hidden strength is in those subtle moments .

ali ' s wedding , directed by jeffrey walker and starring osamah sami and helena sawires and billed as australia ' s first muslim romantic comedy , is one such film .

the film trades mostly on broad , physical comedy , making it appealing to a wide audience . but the impact of ali ' s wedding goes deeper than whether it can make audiences laugh .

co - written by sami and based on his memoir good muslim boy , winner of the nsw premier ' s literary award , ali ' s wedding has already picked up a slew of audience and critics awards at film festivals around the country .

i’m so grateful to her , because i always had it rolling in the back of my mind that i wanted this period in time to be remembered for the sake of history , and for it to be in the library , or , you know , in the world – as somebody who’s interested in music and that period of time , that radical act would be out there as having told part of the story . it was a showcase for these folks who were talking about music and what it meant to them , and all of whom are really great musicians . so i hope some people who see it say , “who’s this meg hentges ? let’s see if we can find some of her records . ” i hope people go back and listen to some of the musicians i recorded .

in this way , this film occupies a space alongside amal awad ' s recently released non - fiction book beyond veiled cliches . although very different in scope and style , veiled cliches also refuses to shy away from the conflict between love and repression that many muslims experience .

all three women not only make their presence strongly felt in the male - dominated film industry , but tackle women’s issues and promote activism in their work–whether through portraying brave women so powerfully that even men can’t help but empathize , or exposing women’s struggles by documenting or dramatizing them .

in the summer of 1995 , tex clark ( then a final - year university student ) embarked upon a trek across the u . s . to document the burgeoning role women were playing in the underground punk and indie rock scenes . the resulting film , clark ' s final undergrad project , was

stephen colbert has made no secret of his opinions about donald trump . the late night host has been a ray of light in an endlessly depressing news cycle , inventing new and myriad ways to roast the president . but colbert has been quietly staging a more subtle act of rebellion on “the late show , ” by celebrating people of different races , genders , and orientations with a refreshingly inclusive showcase of stand - up comedians .

here , among the cacophony of muslim immigration bans , burqa stunts in parliament , and the ever present alarmism over " homegrown terrorism , " is a film that refuses to put these issues at its centre , focusing instead on a story of , dare we say it , two star - crossed lovers trying to find a way to be together .

obaid - chinoy spoke poignantly about the psychological toll incurred by telling the heavy stories she takes on . “you have to live and breathe that reality with those people you are filming , often for years , ” she said . “their reality becomes your reality . their nightmares become your nightmares . you have to deal with your own demons when that film is done . ”

in the mid ‘90s , as female - led indie and punk bands proliferated under labels like foxcore and riot grrl , a college student named allison “tex” clark criss - crossed america with a vhs camera interviewing new - breed women rockers . pioneers like meg hentges and gretchen phillips of two nice girls , cult heroes like toshi reagon and bikini kill’s kathleen hanna ( later of le tigre ) , and musicians little known outside local scenes in austin , baltimore , or champaign - urbana talked to clark about how picking up guitars and drumsticks was not just musically liberating but an empowering and political act .

i started law school in 1995 , in september . i had submitted the documentary to a couple of festivals , but at the time i was on video , i wasn’t on film , and the film world hadn’t quite bridged the gap between , are we gonna show video , is video really cinema , and all that . like sundance , for instance , wouldn’t accept submissions unless they were on celluloid . and there were a lot of other ones . i mean , i wasn’t going to get into sundance , i know that , but they sort of were the tastemaker for that kind of policy . so i submitted it a couple of places , but really i was just studying , i was in law school , and the activist kind of interest that you see in the documentary got transformed into activism within the law and social justice interests that i had .

the show was great , phenomenal . but the one thing i missed from the original version were the backing vocals . the interplay between the awkward byrne in his tom wolfe - esque white suit and the grooving singers ( edna holt and lynn mabry ) was one of the elements that made the live shows captured by jonathan demme in the film stop making sense both sweet and transcendent , hilarious and delirious . fortunately the backing vocals are more prominent on kidjo’s album version , which drops june 8 . but also , the singer brings front and center what the heads placed 20 feet from stardom , as the saying goes : # blackgirlmagic

in streep’s latest film , suffragette –a british historical drama that will be released in the u . s . in october–she plays emmeline pankhurst , who led british women in their fight for the vote a hundred years ago . if a movie about voting rights sounds dull to you , you’re probably american : the british women’s movement “was different from the one in the u . s . , which was very polite , ” streep said . “in england , it was violent . ” after their attempts to petition parliament failed , the british suffragettes took a creative approach : blowing up the politicians’ golf courses . but it was “about wrecking property , not hurting people , ” she said .

nine pm on a saturday night in an english seaside town , eric and i eat in harry ramsden’s fish and chips restaurant across from the seafront . we’re just like the other couples sipping large glasses of wine ( the english equivalent of a “small glass” is a half pint ) and tucking into their cod and chips and mushy peas , only eric doesn’t drink , and told the waitress “no mushy peas” . ( i tried the mushy peas and agree they belong only in a color photo or black and white film . ) we’re just like the other couples making occasional conversation while the overhead speakers dotted in among the modest chandeliers play the type of music good old harry would have liked back in the day .

colbert isn’t the only high profile fan of carmen lynch’s ; the comedian recently wrote and starred in a short film directed by chloe sevigny . part of miu miu’s women’s tales series , “ carmen ” is an unsettling look at lynch’s life as a single woman comedian that begins with lynch telling jokes to an empty room . sans laughter , her black humor takes on an even more morose quality , which is the perfect complement to sevigny’s pensive shots of lynch walking the streets of new york . but not to worry — her colbert set is much funnier , if not entirely upbeat . “i love men in their forties , they’ve lost hope , ” she says . “they’re so real , they’re halfway to death and they know it . ”

kay turner , bac ' s folk arts director , has a ph . d . in folklore and anthropology from the university of texas , austin . in addition to her work at bac , she teaches courses on gender , theory of time and performance , and oral narrative theory in the performance studies graduate program at new york university . among her publications are beautiful necessity : the art and meaning of women ? s altars ( thames and hudson ) and baby precious always shines ( st . martin ? s press ) , an edited selection of love notes between gertrude stein and alice b . toklas . her current scholarly work includes ? september 11th and the burden of the ephemeral , ? an essay published in 2009 and a book project with dr . pauline greenhill , transgressive tales : queering the grimms ( forthcoming in 2012 , wayne state university press ) .

, talking heads thought and acted global . over the course of their previous three albums , they had made the transition from art - school weirdos to acclaimed rock band . now , as darkness dawned in reagan’s america , they wanted to do something truly historical . they thought big , expansive , the foundation of humanity . they thought africa .

on remain in light , an album on the library of congress registry , the rock quartet gathered musicians and sounds . inspired by afrobeat artists , specifically fela kuti , they played with polyrhythms , long jams , horns , backup singers . most critics and listeners loved it . but even that many years ago , some denounced the white americans for cultural appropriation . this is what makes angelique kidjo’s reinterpretation , or reappropriation if you will , of this seminal album so interesting .

kidjo is from benin , west africa . as a young singer recording her first album in the early 1980s , she enjoyed considerable less cultural freedom than talking heads . in fact , in ‘83 , she fled the country’s military - controlled government for paris , not wanting to be pressed into civic service ( a story remarkably similar to celia cruz’s flight from havana to the u . s . ) . in the decades since , she has become a global pop star , famous for her powerful voice , afrocentric anthems , and irrepressible dance moves . a few weeks ago , she staged a concert - cum - revival at the theater at the ace hotel , mostly playing all the songs from remain in light , but also leading the audience — and talking heads guitarist jerry harrison — in a conga line around the venue for some of her own classic hits .

i love the original remain in light ; it lived on my turntable when i was in college . but kidjo makes the songs her own , digging into their juju and finding new resonance in david byrne’s famed lyrics of alienation — “this is not my beautiful house , ” the colonized female sings the colonizer male’s words . vivien goldman says kidjo “triumphantly re - claimed the album for her continent” in her essay on the musician for women who rock : bessie to beyoncé . girl groups to riot grrrl , the anthology i edited ( hitting stores october 9 ) . as you can see from the video above , when kidjo sings “born under punches , ” it’s not a metaphor .

i hear from reliable sources ( my brother and st . vincent ) that david byrne’s current tour is also incredible , which i don’t doubt . i watched stop making sense for the first time in years last weekend ; it’s an important document of a band in transition . ( though you do have to wonder what everyone was on that allowed them to perform at that speed and intensity — ah , the ’80s . ) check out the mixture of aerobics and modern dance in “life during wartime” from stop making sense .

you would never have known from last night’s bold - as - love performance at the masonic lodge in the hollywood forever cemetery that liz phair has a history of crippling stage fright . maybe it was the army of ghosts that the artist said had her back ( “don’t touch my ass ! ” she scolded one ) , or maybe it was the quarter - century of power she found in the old songs she had dusted off for the show , but the exile from guyville played for about 80 minutes without falter or stammer . she wasn’t alone up there ; a younger musician whom she never introduced but referred to once as “connor” accompanied her on electric guitar and vocals . but sonically , his role seemed to be primarily one of moral support . about halfway through the show , phair had had enough of his trying to lead each song with a countoff . reminding him he was playing with “a rebel , ” she plunged into the next song without the human metronome . empowered by the small audience’s enraptured support and the refound determination of her old songs , phair played with a confidence and ease that evaded her when her first album , exile in guyville , whose songs she mostly played last night , made her an overnight indie star 25 years ago .

if you’ve listened to the recently released box set of that album and the previous tapes she recorded as girly - sound , you know how well that material has held up over time . that was even more evident at the show . the lodge was full of , well , women ( and men ) like me : well into middle age ( my friend sat over a vent because she was having hot flashes ) , nodding our heads to songs as we relived how phair was one of the first artists to express the gendered power imbalances of both intimate relationships and professional relationships in so - called alternative music communities . as she told me when i interviewed her back in april for the guardian : “i was tired of being the girlfriend of the guy in the band , i was tired of hearing that my music tastes suck . this was not ‘alternative’ ; this was just underproduced . ”

this was phair’s first show since the release of girly - sound to guyville . you’ll be hard - pressed to find tickets to the first leg of shows , but she has added more dates in the fall . for you angelenos , she’ll be at the theater at the ace september 21 . sure , this was a nostalgia trip for many of us , but i think her songs would resonate with young women today ; phair called it “fuck and run , ” today they call it “hook - up culture . ” as she told allison wolfe , for wolfe’s essay on her in women who rock : bessie to beyoncé . girl groups to riot grrrl , the book i edited ( out october 9 ) : . “male rock and roll singers have forever talked about sex graphically and gotten it on the radio . as a woman , i wanted to take that back . ”

said at the ascap expo panel i moderated may 7 . it was her lovely , evocative way of answering my question about what it was like to make an album with

. in three words , this gifted musician summarized the spirit of artistic collaboration , of two souls open to innovation and communication bouncing ideas off each other , emailing each other bits of sounds and bobs of lyrics , not being afraid to fail in front of each other or to embarrass themselves . i want this saying on a t - shirt : freedom is contagious . let’s catch it .

it was an honor to share the stage with st . vincent , and a pleasant surprise to be there with king princess , a new artist who is already blowing up on youtube . my first question was to point out that not only do they both have stage / pen names that denote a high sense of self - esteem , but they are also identities that are at least partially masculine : what kind of freedom does such a put - on persona give them ? both pointed out that their given names — annie clark and mikaela straus — don’t exactly shout “rock star ! ” clark said her given name sounds like a “stoner babysitter from 1985 . ” “king princess is like an attitude , ” mikaela explained . “i take comfort in it as kind of a shield to exist in , where i can make cohesive art .

hollywood , ca – may 07 : st . vincent , evelyn mcdonnell and king princess attend the 2018 ascap “i create music” expo at loews hollywood hotel on may 7 , 2018 in hollywood , california . ( photo by lester cohen / getty images for ascap )

her holiness and her majesty were both articulate , engaging , empowering . i loved the way they spoke to each other , sharing their experiences of being college dropouts ( st . vincent , from berklee school of music , king princess from usc ) and urging audience members , especially women , to take advantage of the cheap and easy affordances of such gear as apogee . but their personal styles were so different . clark sat straight in her chair , looking elegant and poised in a long dress she had gotten that morning , while straus lounged in hers , all comfy in a long shirt , pants , and track shoes .

at just 19 , king princess is already a fledgling online celebrity . she has earned her followers not just because she has a strong , vulnerable , warbling voice ( think regina spektor , kd lang , amy winehouse , lorde ) but also because she writes melody - driven songs about longing and loss , aimed unabashedly at female love interests . in

and at the expo panel , she is candid and open about her sexuality . her song “1950” is an ode to queer history , specifically the book

. she just released her latest song and video . like “1950 , ” “talia” is a song about a lost lover , represented by an inflatable love doll in the video . watch it here :

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the news of space x building its big effing rocket in san pedro has gone national , global even . it , along with some hot property deals , also led to the predictable headlines about an “ upturn for san pedro . ” maybe , maybe not . as “ marina del pedro , ” an info - rich exhibit currently at the angels gate cultural center , shows , the efforts to develop this community are as old as the port itself . curator and artist tim maxeiner ( discloser : he’s a friend ) turned to both historical archives and the contemporary local community to tell the tale of the port of los angeles’s push and pull relationship to nature , industry , people , and business . the german - born egalitarian pulls work from both teens he taught at the boys and girls club and such local artists as phoebe barnum and beth elliott . i even wrote an essay for it , about waterfront adventures in this whale of a town . the exhibit closes saturday , with festivities from 3 to 6 p . m . below is my essay , which will also be in the catalog , available this weekend .

i live on the edge of a forest . it’s five acres large , a potential home to 700 species , and it thrives in winter , when its trunks and leaves stretch high to the sky , swaying back and forth in the ocean currents . animals feed and hide here in the giant kelp : mammals as big as you , who will swim up to your kayak and look you straight in the eye or roll in the water underneath , showing off , or maybe even nursing their young . schools of fish — sardines or spanish mackerels — flash silver in the sun , and bright orange garibaldi dart nervously around rock outcroppings , having been pushed out of their nests by crustacean bullies : armored lobsters and their sideway cousins , the crabs .

i live next to one of the busiest ports in the world . ships laden with containers slip in and out of angels gate , like multi - colored skyscrapers moving sideways across the sea . towering cranes await them , a forest of metal redwoods silhouetted against the mountains , ready to pluck the rectangular boxes off the cargo decks like so many toothpicks hundreds of feet in the air , then stack them neatly on the dock , where they’ll continue their voyage via trains , or trucks — the atoms of the neoliberal capitalist organism continuing their global orbit . refineries belch smoke in the background , processing the crude black oil pumped up from the bottom of the ocean by the rigs that loom like watchtowers on the southern most edge of my view — the rigs are the south poles , the refineries the north . between them lie the kelp and the commerce , the dolphins and the dock workers , the whales and the freighters — the urban wild landscape of san pedro , my adopted home .

liz phair is sitting in the rose café , a well - loved venice , california , eatery where tech - industry entrepreneurs munch quinoa alongside music - biz hipsters sipping lattes . the critically adored singer - songwriter does not look like 25 years – sufficient time for her to conceive , deliver , raise and send a son off to college – have intervened since her debut album , exile in guyville , made her the rolling stone cover girl for third - wave feminism . she ignores her matcha until a foul odor of burning oil wafts over from the kitchen – a peril of open - air design . phair coughs . once , twice , repeatedly . it’s as if something heavy and toxic has seeped into this bastion of urban chic , landed in her sensitive lungs , and has to be expelled , forcibly and immediately . she perseveres , telling me about how the book she has written was compelled by the election of donald trump , her voice cracking under siege . then i begin coughing .

“it’s affecting you too , ” our canary in the coal mine exclaims . “sorry , i’m going to save you . ” she flags down a server and we move beverages and recorder to the bar , far from noxious fumes .

liz phair does not suffer irritants quietly . and lately , irritants abound . once again , men are excluding women from power , reducing them to sexual objects , and shutting down or demeaning their modes of expression . it’s guyville redux , only this time , it’s not just faux - alternative hipsters in the indie - rock scene of chicago in the early 1990s . it’s the top dog in the white house .

i caught up with phair recently for the guardian , one of the world’s greatest newspapers . i have to admit i was heavily influenced by the great interview allison wolfe did with her for women who rock . read my interview with liz here : urltoken

i first heard david ivar sing at house 1002 , a store where folks seek and discover odd treasures , on pacific avenue in san pedro , ca , the los angeles neighborhood david and i both call home . amid house’s cavernous space crammed with anchors and old tools and bamboo couches and vintage chandeliers , he sang leonard cohen , lou reed , and tom waits in a gentle loving tone , not an imitation of those rough - edged troubadours but a heartfull tribute . pacific runs from the end of the harbor freeway to sunken city , the off - limits tumble of asphalt and palm trees where seven decades ago , a housing development slipped into the sea . until a damn 7 - 11 opened a few years ago , there were no chain stores on pacific , just mom - and - pop ventures like house . this port town is a community of independent businesses and immigrants – a perfect spot for a french - swedish anti - folk anti - hero to lay his greek fisherman hat .

inspired by the words of mr . san pedro , mike watt , at a show – “release your own stuff ! put out your own music ! ” – david , under his musical name herman dune ( other stage names include black yaya ) , is releasing his latest , 13th album on his own on may 17 . sweet thursday is named after a john steinbeck novel and is also inspired by pedro’s monthly art walk on the first thursday of every month . along with brett sullivan of the band american anymen , david has made a video for each song . he’s releasing one video every thursday .

today , i have the honor of premiering “love cat blues , ” because , you know , i’m a cat lady . the video shows david driving around long beach , the south bay , and pedro in his old blue toyota , lovelorn and seeking . from his awkward southern twang in the spoken intro , to the road map background , to the steinbeckian title , to the americana groove , the album is a tribute to his adopted hometown and homeland , delivered at a time when immigrants are not always honored .

for more info about david and herman dune , and to buy limited edition copies of the album and of his art work , visit urltoken . you can watch the video below , or at urltoken , where you can also see his other videos as they are revealed over the next month .

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countless stand - up careers have been launched by plum late night appearances , including storied debuts by joan rivers , eddie murphy , and ellen degeneres on johnny carson’s “the tonight show . ” luckily for emerging comedians everywhere , the current resurgence of late night means the tradition is alive and well , which can be especially helpful for those comedians who might otherwise be a token at a comedy club — namely anyone who is not a straight , white man . no late night show is supporting a more inclusive roster of rising comedians than “ the late show with stephen colbert . ”

of the 11 stand - up comedians colbert has hosted in 2017 , only 4 have been white men , and one of those guys’ entire opening bit is about how he doesn’t look white ( for what it’s worth ) . all hailing from the new york comedy scene , where “the late show” is filmed , the talent pool is fairly evenly distributed across age , race , and gender lines , though the men do outnumber the women , and colbert has yet to host any trans comics . ( jimmy fallon recently had patti harrison on his show ) .

while there are no awards for being a good guy , it bears noting that colbert is doing his part to pay it forward and give exposure to voices that might otherwise not get heard in primetime . the inclusivity of “the late show” stand - up line - up is all the more apparent considering the show airs on cbs , which recently made headlines for refusing to pay asian - american actors daniel dae kim and grace park the same salaries as their white male co - stars on “hawaii five - 0 . ” looking at colbert’s guests , it is easy to forget that parity is not the norm .

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the proof , as they say , is in the pudding — and very funny pudding it is . each of these comedians offer fresh perspectives on topics the average white male comic couldn’t touch and would never think to explore . from topics such as gentrification , dating men in their forties , and flying as an arab - american , these stand - ups remind us what comedy does best : take pain and turn it into joy .

“i got just enough white people in my neighborhood to have a good grocery store , ” says out lesbian pat brown at the beginning of her colbert set , making light of the sensitive issue of harlem’s gentrification . brown won best female comic at the las vegas comedy festival , and released her first album last year , “the pat brown sex tape . ”

muslim comedian mo amer’s profile rose significantly when he was unexpectedly seated next to eric trump on a flight to scotland . amer immediately posted to instagram with the caption , “sometimes god just sends you the material . ” the two apparently had a good chat , with trump assuring amer their would be no muslim registry . while those reassurances might seem hollow , there is at least one muslim who got something good out of the trumps . amer details the experience further in his set , with a particularly amusing riff about how the flight attendant who upgraded him had to be a democrat .

cool and collected , greer barnes glides onto the “late show” stage with the swagger of a seasoned professional , after colbert introduces him with a clip from hbo’s “crashing , ” where barnes confronts the series’ star pete holmes about taking his stage time the night before he’s “supposed to do colbert . ” barnes is no stranger to comedy ; he has credits on “in living color” and “chappelle’s show , ” as well as more recently appearing on louis ck’s “horace and pete . ” his colbert set is confident and flawless , turning a funny bit about his fear of walking behind white women at night into a brilliant takedown of one of the most insidious examples of casual racism .

making her network television debut , onion writer sarah tollemache evokes the best of ellen degeneres with a clean set about aging parents , uber pools , and counting steps . dry and quirky , tollemache ends on an appropriately awkward “thank you” following a joke about death as a surefire solution to crippling debt .

sporting a bearded , megawatt smile , ramy youssef proudly introduces himself to the colbert crowd , adding that he’s muslim . “yeah , like from the news . have you guys seen our show ? ” he says . “i feel like no matter what i do , i’m just gonna turn 30 and get a hogwarts letter from isis . ” as the set continues , he takes it a little deeper , discussing god and the disconnect between reading the news and everyday life . it’s clear his star is on the rise ; youssef has a recurring role in the third season of “mr . robot . ”

sporting a mustache so handsome it made jimmy fallon jealous , out gay comedian matteo lane combines a storytelling joke style with grand old gay charm . “it’s hard to figure out who’s gay and straight in italy , they all look gay there , ” he says . “i pass for straight , that’s a problem . ” lane has also appeared on “late night with seth meyers , ” and his web series , “ janice and jeffrey , ” is currently streaming on ifc .

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the issue of women’s voting “is personal to me , ” streep said . “my grandmother had three children and still couldn’t vote . not in the school board election , let alone for president . ”

duvernay , who became the first african - american woman nominated for a best picture oscar with selma , her biopic about martin luther king , spoke about how different portraits of activism complement each other .

“this idea of the political as personal has a vibrancy now , ” she said . “you can see the interconnections . my hope is that people of color who are involved in the black lives matter movement might see suffragette and get ideas . ”

obaid - chinoy , who won an oscar in 2012 for her documentary about acid attacks on women in pakistan , tends to focus on exposing injustice in her home country . but her films also highlight inspiring women . one of her recent projects , ‘ho yaqeen : syeda fatima , ’ follows a female activist fighting for the rights of bonded laborers in her village in punjab . in a clip shown to the audience , a woman boldly confronts a man who beats his workers . she refuses to leave or back down as he tries to send her away , denies using violence and then defends it as his right .

“very often , we see women in my part of the world as victims , ” she said . “i hope by putting my camera out there , i am creating heroes in my part of the world for the next generation . i need my daughters to have heroes in pakistan . ”

she knows from first - hand experience how important it is to see women on screen–and how just one female role model can change the course of someone’s life . she spoke of watching cnn as a child , “on a grainy television , ” and seeing christiane amanpour “reporting among all the men , standing on the front lines” of the first gulf war .

“i said to myself , if she could do it , then anyone from this part of the world could do it , ” she said .

daily show host jon stewart , who moderated the panel , pointed to a common thread in all three films : “the men are assholes , ” he said , to the amusement of the women onstage as well as the audience .

but obaid - chinoy doesn’t mind hurting men’s feelings . “i like to make men uncomfortable , ” she said . she sees discomfort as the best impetus for change . “it’s only when you’re uncomfortable that you will perhaps look at yourself in the mirror and not like your reflection and think , maybe there is something wrong with the way i think . ”

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osamah sami plays the role of ali in muslim - australian romantic comedy ali ' s wedding .

every now and then , a piece of art comes along to remind us that there is more than one way to appreciate it .

that ' s not to say that ali ' s wedding ignores anti - muslim bigotry — no serious story about muslims can leave that out altogether — but it takes a back seat to the daily concerns in the lives of the characters ; the rivalry between the men at the mosque , the pressures of living in the shadow of a much - loved father admired for his wisdom , the irresistible attraction to the " wrong " girl .

and , of course , the difficulty of being young and muslim , not only because of racism but because of what is often a claustrophobic and judgmental community environment .

one of the unintended consequences of fending off bigoted attacks is the tendency to gloss over the more challenging aspects of being part of an ethnic community such as this .

even among more tolerant segments of society , there can be a failure to appreciate the complexity and diversity within immigrant and ethnic communities . as such , when members of such communities do attempt to point these out , they can be shouted down and silenced , or ostracised and dismissed as " native informants " .

the strictness , the subtle sexism in how parents favour boys over girls , and the unrelenting expectation to be " good muslim girls and boys " — these are real dilemmas facing real people .

like so many girls i have known , the youngster quickly learns to masks her pain behind an unreadable facial expression , suppressing emotional invalidation is how many us learned to survive .

ali ' s wedding refuses to sugar coat this experience of growing up muslim in a western context , of the agony of growing up torn between your own desires and those of your community , something that is all too often ignored because of the danger it can be appropriated by those with a bigoted agenda .

the key , of course , is how it is done . and how ali ' s wedding does it is in its lightest of touch and obvious affection .

the stories and characters are based on osamah sami ' s real - life experiences .

both , however , refuse to demonise and ridicule the people they are portraying . rather , they allow their subjects full humanity , exploring this real struggle alongside the valuable aspects of the culture ; family bonds , humour , the solace in community , the deep and abiding love .

this is the essential and necessary difference between criticism from within and much of the criticism of islam from without .

one appreciates complexity and seeks understanding , the other wants only to demonise and destroy .

ali ' s wedding coming so soon after beyond veiled cliches could signal something i ' ve been waiting to see for a long time — muslim and arab storytellers heading in a new and exciting direction regarding how they tell their stories . one that can lovingly recreate the good times without pretending the bad never existed .

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in 1995 and went to law school ( a fort worth native , she’s now a public defender in portland , oregon ) . for 15 years the movie was virtually unseen outside her living room , where she’d occasionally show it to friends .

, it’s snapshot of a time when women , especially gay women , were starting to assert themselves en masse in a mostly male domain .

before heading to work one morning this week , tex clark talked to mfw about her diy doc’s making and resurrection .

no . there is – well , yes , i am , because the other female tex that i knew is a trans - man and is no longer a she . so yes , but that wasn’t always the case . he is the main subject of a movie called gendernauts , if you are cruising the documentary section and you’d like to find out about the other tex .

i had been on the road as a roadie for a band called two nice girls . they broke up in 1992 , but they were sort of hailed at the time in the music press , such as it was , as the lesbian beatles . they were a four - piece , really musically great band . i just had written them a letter when i was in college and said , “hey , i’ll sell your t - shirts and drive your van if you let me come on the road with you , ” and they thought that sounded like a pretty good deal . so i had a lot of connections through the music world , through the acts that opened for them , and talking to them about music . i was 18 when that roadie gig began , and i was really interested in making documentaries , and so my girlfriend at the time , we got on the road together and started calling people up and asking if they’d give us interviews .

you know , i was in my early 20s , and i was in college and thinking about what it means to be a feminist , the personal is political , all those ideas . i was really interested in , and still am interested in , feminism and women’s voices . but also i just really like kickass hard rock that is being written and produced by women . but certainly my association with two nice girls was really helpful . i had maybe a little bit of an in .

[ the movie ] was something i’d shown a couple of friends over the years , and i stayed in touch with some of the musicians . but it was just kinda done . and then through social circles i met erin donovan , who has a million movies a minute , and she was telling me about a project she had , and i said , “i made a documentary once , but , you know , it’s not very good , you won’t like it” – you know , “it was years ago , da da da da . ” and she was like , “oh , i’ll look at it . ” and she went crazy . she was like , “this is on , we are gonna do this . ”

i have to tell you , i am not very plugged in to pop music . i know who lady gaga is , and i’ve seen her mostly in the tabloid internet bits , like “oh my god , can you believe what she did ? ” but i don’t really know her music very well . but it seems like she’s a good thing , from my very distant vista . she’s doing something that has always been done , from bessie smith and dusty springfield and on and on . which is , there are women who’ve had non - heterosexuality vibes who are making music that’s pretty sexual , and are embraced . but yeah , i think there’s something really queer and “screw you” about [ lady gaga’s ] public persona that’s entertaining .