Staff Profiles

Rock

Staff Writer & Opinionated Bastard

Having been born in the era where the sole source of entertainment was an analog-fed black and white television, and an incurable night-owl; I was damned to whatever late night specials were shot over the airwaves. I hailed from a small town in southern New Hampshire, chock full of tall tree's and sandwiched between mountains, receiving at best five channels from our rooftop antenna. This environment during my formative years would escalate into a penchant for monochrome celluloid viewing that has yet to subside as the years go by.

I remember Frank Avruch hosting late night movies on the weekends during the late-seventies and early eighties on one of the Network stations. His program exposed me to many of the Hollywood classics of the 1940's and 1950's. Cagney,Hepburn, Tracy, Errol Flynn, to name a few. A few years later, when C-Band satellite came about, Robert Osborne would pick up where Frank had left off. His love of film history was an added bonus to viewers of Turner Classic Movies. He would be responsible for my exposure to Bogart and the world of film-noir.

Being witness to the birth of the Video Cassette Recorder as a standard household fixture, I was exposed to virtually all the slasher flic's of the 1980's, and although I enjoyed them then as I do now, my first love was the black and white B-Movies of the 1940's and 1950's. The VCR format provided the accessibility to older films that had not been available to me before.

Though I make my living working with the technology of tomorrow, I primarily use these tools at home to find, research, view, and dissect articles of interest involving the past, mainly old movies. What I intend to bring to Killingboxx is some insight to what Hollywood used to be and the people that made it what it was.

I have yet to see any of Hollywood's current directors make a film anywhere near the quality or stature the likes of Edward Dmytryk, Nicolas Ray, or Anthony Mann.

Hollywood used to have star's. Now they have celebrities. None of Hollywood's current big-billed, summer-blockbuster actor's and actresse's have the presence and talent that Claude Rain's or Audrey Totter had.