****

 

There can be

no more exceptions

or privileges.

Everybody must be equal...

 

The power of peace

must be dominant.

 

- Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

****

 

 

JAI GURU DEVA OM

JAI GARU DEVA OM

JAI GARU DEVA OM

JAI GURU DEVA OM

 

 

 

!Amen!

 

 

!!Mir,

Peace,

Salaam,

Shalom!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

Gary Wright

 

1943 - 2023

 

 

!Thanks for making my life

 

a misery,

 

 gentle Dream Weaver!

 

 

!!And for reassuring us that

 

Luv Is Alive!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Congratulations

 

to my

 

Brothers and Sisters

 

on

 

the SAG/AFTRA

 

and

 

WGA

 

picket lines!

 

 

!!You went the distance!!

 

 

!!!!WELL DONE!!!!

 

- Brother Gar,

 

CUPE 1628

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Whoops!

 

!!!!!And

 

Happy Belated

 

50th

 

Anniversary

 

to

 

the allegorical Pink Floyd recording

 

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON [1973],

 

the 

 

GREATEST

 

POP ALBUM

 

EVER!!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!!And

 

a belated

 

Happy 40th anniversary

 

to

 

John Badham

 

and

 

two fine and talented

 

cast and crews

 

for

 

the eerily and presciently

 

twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced docufeature films

 

BLUE THUNDER [1983]

 

and

 

WARGAMES [1983]!!

 

 

****

 

 

And

 

a belated 

 

Happy 20th Anniversary

 

to

 

Sir Ridley Scott,

 

Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman,

 

Sam Rockwell, Bruce McGill

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly George Lucas toasting

 

and

 

Terry Zwigoff roasting

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

MATCHSTICK MEN [2003]!

 

and

 

another belated

 

Happy 20th Anniversary

 

to

 

Lilly and Lana Wachowski,

 

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss,

 

Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas,

 

Kathryn Bigelow and Francis Coppola

 

toasting

 

and

 

Vic Morrow roasting

 

indie animaction films

 

THE MATRIX RELOADED [2003]

 

and

 

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS [2003]!

 

and

 

yet another belated

 

Happy 20th Anniversary

 

to

 

Sofia Coppola,

 

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson,

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the twilit, alllegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas addressing

 

indie docufeature film

 

LOST IN TRANSLATION [2003]!

 

                                                                And

 

a belated

 

Happy Tenth Anniversary

 

to

 

Sofia Coppola,

 

Israel Broussard, Katie Chang,

 

Taissa Farmiga, Claire Julien,

 

Emma Watson, 

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman

 

addressing

 

indie docufeature film

 

              THE BLING RING [2013]!                                                                                                                                                                                   And                                                       another belated                                    Happy Tenth Anniversary                                          to                                                        Gia Coppola,                                      James Franco, Jack Kilmer,                Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff,

and

the rest of the talented

cast and crew

of

the twilit, allegorical,

and CGI enhanced

indie docufeature film

PALO ALTO [2013]!

 

 

Still another

belated

Happy Tenth Anniversary

to

Kimberly Peirce,

Chloe Grace Moretz,

Julianne Moore

and

the rest of the talented

cast and crew

of

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly Gary W. Wright,

Diablo Cody

and Jason Reitman

roasting

docufeature film

CARRIE [2013]!

 

 

And

yet another

belated

Happy Tenth Anniversary

to

Jason Reitman,

Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet,

Gattlin Griffith

and

the rest of the talented

cast and crew

of

the daylit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly

John and Deborah Landis

addressing

indie docufeature film

LABOR DAY [2013]!

 

 

 

****

 

 

Well,

I am finally

setting down and doing

a

more thoughtful look

at

the films of Sir Ridley Scott,

so

keep your eye on the Sir Scott link

in

the Zone Warriors section,

and

drop by

the "essay" on

Quentin Tarantino

for

already revised

and

UNREAL

"insights"

into

the daylit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced,Ozian themed

and

implicitly Tarantino addressing

Sir Scott

indie docufeature artbuster

AMERICAN GANGSTER [2007].

 

 

 

Also drop by

 

the Gary W. Wright link

 

for

 

BREATHTAKING

 

"insights"

 

into

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

Andy Muschietti

 

super satirical animaction film

 

THE FLASH [2023].

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

Well, luckily for us all,

 

today ended the dread

 

fortieth anniversary year

 

of

 

the helicopter crash

 

that killed

 

actor/writer/director Vic Morrow

 

and

 

child extras Renee Chen and Myca Le

 

around 2:20 pm in the early morning

 

of

 

July 23, 1982

 

on

 

the George Folsey jr. produced

 

John Landis set

 

of

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

computer generated imagery enhanced, 

 

Landis and Steven Spielberg

 

executive produced,

 

Frank Marshall produced,

 

and

 

Kathleen Kennedy associate produced

 

Landis, Spielberg, Joe Dante

 

and

 

George Miller

 

docufeature film

 

TWILIGHT ZONE:

 

THE MOVIE [1983].

 

 

!Thank God for that!

 

 

Alas,

 

 while that dire and infuriating

 

anniversary year

 

has been left behind,

 

we have now just

 

begun the

 

fortieth anniversary year

 

of

 

the release

 

of

 

TWILIGHT ZONE:

 

THE MOVIE

 

on

 

June 24, 1983.

 

 

So we have gone

 

from the frying pan

 

into the fire,

 

people.

 

 

!Frak!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

*"Quite the movie fan

is Holly Gibney

(although she hasn't been in

an actual theater

since the previous spring),

and she enjoys

Hollywood tentpole movies

every bit as much as art films.

One of her faves

from the eighties

is Conan the Barbarian,

and her favorite line

from that film

is spoken by a minor character.

"Two or three years ago",

the peddler says of Set

and his followers,

"they were just another snake cult.

Now they're everywhere."

 

- a paragraph from p. 17

of

the allegorical Stephen King

indie docufiction novel

Holly [2023]

that affirmed

the implicit link

of

eccentric Holly Gibney

to

eccentric Gary Wright.

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

!By the way,

 

feel free

 

to

 

drop by

 

the

 

Luc Besson "essay"

 

for

 

ASTOUNDING

 

and

 

already re-re-revised

 

insights into

 

the

 

daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Besson roastin' and toastin'

 

James Gunn

 

super satirical animaction film

 

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

 

[2023]!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The truth is always the best,

 

the only trouble is-

 

what is the truth?"

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

OUT IN THE OPEN:

 

life on the street [1997]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Then

when we in turn

write, speak

or do things,

we release our ideas

out into the environment,

where they can infect

new brains.

Ideas,

like viruses,

thus proliferate

at prodigious rates,

changing at prodigious rates,

as they do so."

 

- George P. Smith

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...Received opinion

is

often wrong

and

usually boring;

the text is yours

to interpret...

This ability

to read symbolically,

to view

the very world around us

symbolically,

is at the heart

of

the whole literary

[and cinema games].

To accept things

at first glance

to be

as they appear

on the surface

is to be trapped

in the literal.

To be able

to see

symbolic possibilities

allows one

to begin to make

connections

between things

that at first

seem to have

little to do

with each other."

 

- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD

 

from pp. 88 and 136

of

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper [2004]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The Evil

running rampant

around the world

shows no sign

of disappearing.

It hasn't changed

since I became

a Hero for fun.

In other words,

I am having no effect

on society.

I'm not sad about that.

I do this for fun,

so I just need

to satisfy myself."

 

- from

the intriguingly garish,

twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

One and Murata Yusuke

indie manga

ONE-PUNCH MAN:

volume one,

p.92.

 

For some equally garish thoughts

on

ONE-PUNCH MAN,

with "...his lifeless expression

to his bald head

to his unimpressive physique"

[from the Chapters/Indigo Books website],

check out

the

Wright "essay"

in

the Zone Warriors section.

 

!Wright on!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

 

- Ti Jean Kerouac

from

the 123rd Chorus

of

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

And remember,

when in the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

of

collectibles, games

and

narrative art

in Streetsville,

the "Village in the City"

of

Mississauga.

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

Victoria Amelina

Tim Bachman

Russell Banks

Bob Barker

Jeff Beck

Lillian Bennett

Ethan Bespflug

John Biernat

Jane Birkin

Robert Blake

Earl Boen

Ricou Browning

Jimmy Buffett

Giulia Cecchettin

Robert "Bobby" Charlton

Anthony Ciccone

Carole Cook

David Crosby

Shahzada Dawood

Suleman Dawood

Charlotte Drozd

Netta Epstein

Tarek Fatah

Eliza Fletcher

Ed Fury

Michael "Micky" Geller

Shir Georgy

Paul Grant

Hamish Harding

Steven "Steve" Harwell

Peter Hernndorf

Nicholas "Nick" Hickey

Karolina "Caroline" Huebner-Makurat

Juliet Hulme

Barry Humphries

Abby Huntsman

Al Jaffee

Mikala Jones

Terry Jones

Kibbutz Kfar Azza

Kibbutz Be'eri

Kibbutz Nahal Oz

Kibbutz Magen

Lahaina, Maui

Tiferet Lapidot

CoCo Lee

Michael Lerner

Lewiston 18

Gina Lollobrigida

Alexandre Look

Shani Louk

Marilyn Lovell

Shane MacGowan

Mark Margolis

Hazel McCallion

Cormac McCarthy

Casey McIntyre

Christine McVie

Murray Melvin

Ben Mizrachi

Lloyd Morrisett

Paul-Henri Nargeolet

Peta Neuman aka Peter C. Newman

Tyre Nichols

Nova Festival 260

Sinead O'Connor

David Onley

Jansen Panettiere

Tatjana Patitz

Samuel Paty

Margaret Pellegrini

Matthew Perry

Lisa Marie Presley

Mary Quant

Bryan Randall

Paul Reubens

Robert "Robbie" Robertson

Richard Roundtree

Andrew "Andy" Rourke

Stockton Rush

Julian Sands

Vivian Silver

Tom Sizemore

Suzanne Somers

Stella Stevens

Ray Stevenson

Robert Swan

Tina Turner

Adi Vital-Kaploun

Nicholas L. Webber

Raquel Welch

Tom Whitlock

Cindy Williams

Samantha Woll

Yahav Winner

Burt Young

Erin Yoxall