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Archive for the 'Holm' CategoryAged in WoodJune 1st, 2003 BY D.K. HOLM I remember finding coveted film books the way most people remember where and when they first saw a favorite movie. In the case of the book Hitchcock’s Films, it was fall of 1971. I was in the Portland State University bookstore, then a massive monument to university press and special-interest books (now a textbook clearing house), with thorough holdings in most fields. After fantasizing for years about a career as either a comic book creator or a movie director, I discovered that I enjoyed reading about films more than making them. It takes a special personality type to helm the unwieldy juggernaut of a film crew. It takes no personality at all to read a book about it.
Posted by: The Editors That’s obsceneJune 1st, 2003 BY D.K. HOLM Two magazines were supremely important to adolescent boys in the early to late Sixties. One was Mad. This satirical, often sophomoric monthly undermined the mainstream society’s serious and popular cultural efforts. From the late Fifties through roughly 1962, Mad contributed impetus to the underground comix industry, to the anti-war and civil rights protests, and to the free speech movement. The other magazine was Playboy. In fact Playboy at its best appeals only to adolescent boys. The world of easy sex and sophisticated men with astute knowledge of cigars, wine, whiskey, jazz groups, and obscure Asian sexual tricks, men who appeal effortlessly to robust woman who have no inhibitions about providing sex: this is an adolescent fantasy (and obviously not confined to males aged ten to nineteen). Playboy embodies the James Bond ethos; never were a cultural icon and a publicity organ better matched. James Bond was one of two figures of enormous importance to Playboy magazine’s sense of itself. The other was Lenny Bruce.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 D.K. Holm is a long-time movie reviewer based in Portland, Ore. who has published five books: two on Robert Crumb, the cartoonist; two on Quentin Tarantino, the film director; and one on an aspect of film noir called film soleil. He has written two columns for Black Lamb: Big Screen and Little Screen.
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