Divine (Harris Glen Milstead) grew up in Towson, Maryland about a mile north of the Baltimore City line. I used to deliver the Baltimore News-American to the Milstead family’s home two blocks away from my house. F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived for a while down the street from him in the early 1930s, until Zelda…
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Author of Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters.
Filmmaker of LOVE LETTER TO EDIE.
Video producer, writer, educator in cinema.
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My Night in an Evangelical Air BnB on the Georgia/Alabama Line
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Growing Up in Towson
Growing up in Towson, MarylandPART 12Moving to the Country Life for my seventeen year-old self became nasty in the summer of ’68, when two good friends were shot, executed actually, by a gunman, while working the night shift in a South Towson Harley’s sub shop. The cretin walked in at closing, and told them to…
It’s the 55th Anniversary of The Beatles’ A HARD DAYS NIGHT
By Robert Maier One very hot night, August 19, 1964, to be exact, when I was just 13, the world changed. The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” opened at Baltimore’s 1,275-car Timonium Drive-in Theater. And I was there. It’s hard to understand now, before 10,000 TV channels on your phone, facebook, Twitter,and Instagram, etc. how…
Growing up in Towson, Maryland in the 1960s
I lived in Towson from 1955 to 1975 and was a teen there in the magnificent 1960s. Towson was home to several noted (or notorious), characters: Divine – aka Harris Glenn Milstead, respected ground-breaking cross-dressing actor/performer John Waters – Underground filmmaker, performer, author and cultural icon Madalyn Murray O’Hare – Notorious atheist activist whose Supreme…
List of Recommended Films on Netflix and Amazon Prime for Viewing at Home During the Flu Crisis
3/23/20 The Lighthouse Gay arty slow dark nonsense ** The Atlantics Confusing African modern ** Interstellar Sci Fi Deep**** David Crosby: Remember My Name Very good honest doc**** The Biggest Little Farm Excellent doc**** The Sisters Brothers Excellent atmospheric Western drama**** Echo in the Canyon Excellent 60s music doc ***** High Life Interesting Sci-Fi ***…
Quirky Documentaries Seminar Cabin Fever University Winter 2020
TITLE DIRECTOR LENGTH YEAR Screening Dates Point and Shoot Marshall Curry 93 min 2014 Thur. 1/16 Above Us Only Sky Michael Epstein 89 min 2018 Thur. 1/30 Fata Morgana and Lessons of Darkness Werner Herzog 75 min 50 mins 1971 1997 Thur. 2/13 What Happened Miss Simone? Liz Garbus 102 mins 2015 Thur. 3/5 This…
I Nearly Burned Down the Poe House
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Review of THE BALTIMORE KID by Tom DiVenti
Tom DiVenti was born and raised in an early 1960s working-class Baltimore City neighborhood. It was row houses, apartments and small ’30s-40s houses on dinky city-sized lots. Most people worked in Baltimore’s industrial world, and their children of the 1950s and 60s were expected to do so too. However, young DiVenti discovered a box of…