Author: rgmaier
Author of Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters.
Filmmaker of LOVE LETTER TO EDIE.
Video producer, writer, educator in cinema.
Divine as a Boy Scout from Towson, MD c. 1959
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…
Alabama Cracker Barrel
Listen to my experience at an Alabama Cracker Barrel…
My Night in an Evangelical Air BnB on the Georgia/Alabama Line
Listen to my tale about a night at an evangelical Air BnB in the Deep South: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFkGtSjSsr8WfL67sJ4_-jC6llRGQHK0/view?usp=sharing
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
https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/i-nearly-burned-down-the-poe-house