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Starburst Memories: She knows you know

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Part of my nostalgic affection for GREASE (1978)  is related to the comedy version of You’re The One That I Want by Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard. He was a […]

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Dirk’s Five: Odeon Memories

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In a mash up of our usual features, this is a Starburst Memory that meets the Dirk’s Five. The Odeon in Bolton held a very special space in the heart […]

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Starburst Memories: The Face of 1994 – Christian Slater

31/05/2014by Dirk 1 Comment

All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. – Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) “Christian Slater was pretty […]

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Starburst Memories: A Pictorial History of Horror by Denis Gifford

27/04/2014by Dirk 3 Comments

Following the B-Movie’s Film School, I have been on the hunt for further examples of genuine second features (rather than those films that embody the ‘spirit of the Bs’). As […]

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Starburst Memories: PROP 6 – “You Talking To Me?”

26/03/2014by Dirk Leave a comment

I’ve written before about my former life as the co-editor of PROP magazine. I was reminded of an article in PROP issue 6 about TAXI DRIVER (1975) while compiling the […]

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Starburst Memories: Robert Mitchum “Calypso – is like so…”

06/03/2014by Andy Leave a comment

The OED defines “completist” as “An obsessive (and often indiscriminate) collector”. The key word here is “indiscriminate”. I have amassed some crap in my time. The gap in my Bowie […]

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Starburst Memories: “A morbid curiosity” The Woody Allen Biographers

13/02/2014by Dirk 1 Comment

There is a conventional interpretation of the life and career of Woody Allen. It goes something like this, he was good, then he had a fall, and the critics have […]

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Starburst Memories: How To Write Groundhog Day by Danny Rubin

30/01/2014by Andy 2 Comments

The rumor is that I wrote Groundhog Day very quickly. That is entirely true, if you don’t count most of it. ‘How To Write Groundhog Day’ by Danny Rubin is […]

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Starburst Memories: Jim Henson, The Works

19/01/2014by Dirk 2 Comments

One of the most well-thumbed tomes in the Dirk archive is Jim Henson, The Works. A hagiography from 1993 produced by Jim Henson Productions to celebrate the creativity of their […]

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Starburst Memories: Revenge of the Jedi

20/11/2013by Dirk

Dom Dirk has added RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) to his alternative 100, so I have delved into the archive at Dirk Towers to explore some of the points that he […]

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