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Yeah. Variety doesn't know much outside of immediate Hollywood.

Another Bukowski adaptation coming: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/voltage-charles-bukowski-movie-1201523342/

Just announced: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/o-brother-actor-books-pair-416217 Tim Blake Nelson to play Henry Bukowski in a biopic directed by James Franco

When it comes to Bukowski, and also supporting City Lights, you bet!

Just received my copy. Very nicely packaged, no bending, no lovemaking on it from caged gorillas. Time to avoid doing any work and read this.

Went to what turned out to be the final Hollywood Video in the Santa Clarita Valley, on Bouquet Canyon Road in what I guess is part of Valencia, even though it seems too far from the hub to be considered part. Nothing there. Not in used DVDs, not in the DVDs on the shelves that were...

Just added this to my to-do list for Saturday. The one near me hasn't closed yet. Wishin', and hopin', and dreamin'.....

Just got this e-mail from City Lights: It's going to Southern California, the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles. Hope the packaging is decent.

Barfly is going to be screened at Ebertfest. According to the schedule at ebertfest.com, it'll be shown at 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 24, and Barbet Schroeder will be there to talk about it. Most importantly, from the top link: Seems like the right venue to announce a future Criterion...

For Criterion, I'll wait. They did a hell of a job on "My Dinner with Andre" and Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise" and "Night on Earth," three of my very favorite films. I have the same faith for "Barfly."

Fiori pasta (looks like a honeycomb), flooded with garlic alfredo sauce. I only had it so there'd be cold leftovers, which I love more than immediate post-pot pasta.

This is one potential Criterion release that if I can't get it through my usual movie review connections (I write reviews for filmthreat.com), I will pay full price. I have no problem with it. I've wanted this for so long and mentally kicked myself for a while after it went out of print and the...

No worries, james. It would be pronounced that way anyway, so to my mind, you got it right. Not just that, but paying close attention to how the clues are written (it's the writer in me), I imagine the Jeopardy writers like to introduce words not widely known, or not considered as much when it...

Little late to the discussion, I know, but there's a great website called J! Archive which stores all the episodes aired, the exact way the clues appeared on the game board: January 20th show Scroll down to "Double Jeopardy" and you'll find the American Lit category and Bukowski at the bottom...

This week on rogerebert.com, Ebert's interview with Bukowski during filming of "Barfly" is featured under "First Time Online," (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19870210/PEOPLE/812229998) and his review of "Barfly" is featured under "Overlooked DVD of the Week." Damn...

That's all they could afford.

While in the backseat of the family car on the way back from Las Vegas, at night, I opened up the copy of "The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills" that I checked out from the Valencia library in the Santa Clarita Valley. I got to a poem called "The Screw-Game" on page 68 and read this...

Absolutely agreed there. Some of the mail carriers that pass through my neighborhood look like Bukowski probably would have if he had worked decades as one.

I solved that problem easily. I remain a bachelor. :D

It actually does, with his third paragraph: "When sober enough to hold a pen, he wrote various short stories and poems mimicking his life and current situations. Somewhere in his whiskey-soaked brain, he created the anti-hero to his problems: himself. The literary form of Bukowski's...

Exactly. Gerard, couldn't you have just offered to sleep on the couch for whatever crime you committed? Or was it just an accident? (Though I don't see how it could be)

That's why I wouldn't read any more of this guy's writings beyond that one, because he doesn't take time to slow down and attempt to peek under the surface of something.

Indeed that was Sylvester Stallone who, compared to Frank, got the better acting genes. But the latter Stallone did do a hell of a job in "Barfly."

Amen. And at least he was honest with himself, never pretending to be something he wasn't, like Frank Stallone the Singer. :eek:

It's funny. The night before last, I watched a bit of "The Bukowski Tapes," and I've had a yen lately to pull out "The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps," "Slouching Toward Nirvana," "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and "Post Office." Scratch that. My entire collection of Bukowski books, really...