Pop culture at its most disturbing
It is not often that someone can be murdered not once, but twice, and still feel well enough to discuss it. But to ask James Collins (real name Jim Davis) about his death on the F/X hit American Horror Story, he is only too happy to describe every bloody detail. “Last season, I auditioned for AHS and was hired as …
While many people were in church, I spent my Sunday morning on the phone with playwright Del Shores. During our conversation, he was getting ready to visit his Aunt Sissy, the inspiration for the popular character Sissy Hickey in Shores’ cult hit, Sordid Lives. Shores was headed to Sissy’s to get a taste of her unique blend of Southern-fried wisdom captured …
25 years ago today, the world lost one of its biggest “larger than life” personalities. On March 13, 1988, porn star John Holmes succumbed to AIDS-related complications at the age of 43. The guy with the scrawny body and plain features will forever be known in pop culture as the porn star with the gigantic…ego. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, …
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