Ron Silver, July 2, 1946-March 15, 2009

Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died this morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post.

“Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning,” said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped create.

“He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years and his family is making arrangements for a private service.

Hey, Gang.
Don't know if it's important, but the same dealer that was selling all those R J novels has a copy of "Soft and others" for 10 bucks! I noticed that the lowest that I have seen it on "Abebooks" was like 14.95, so even with 3.50 shipping, it's still a good deal! From the looks of the cover, it looks like it's in good condition!

Just thought that I would share that with you all!

Lexx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3VSw1XBOo


Not sure if this link thing will work, but I found this on youtube,
and it's actually pretty funny.

Mike

I am trying to read through all of FPW's books as they appear in the Secret History of the world and just finished Black Wind (what an amazing story). Next is The Keep but it is unclear if there is a revised edition or not. Can someone let me know if there is one and if it is out in paperback. (I hope this has not been posted before and if so I am sorry for being repetitive.)

Thanks
Debby

I was in a little book store that knows me well and the owner has an illustrated bookplate or (tip sheet - it was not numbered and had no space for numbering) and I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about it

Icarus

I watch a great many abyssmal to mediocre low budget horror movies to discover the few real gems that are out there and Alien Raiders is one of those gems. Not quite a new classic it is nonetheless an excellent little hostage/horror hybrid-think Dog Day Afternoon meets The Hidden(another gem). The first half of the movie is great as a heavily armed crew take over a small town grocery, then there is a slight lull before a pretty solid conclusion. The acting is better than most 'B' fare as is the writing.

An amazing horror film. (I have to call it "horror" because of the vampire theme, but although there's blood and some violence, there's no gore.) The plot has large holes, but when you come down to it, this is a relationship film between a bullied 12-year old named Oskar and Eli, the strange girl in the next apartment who's not human. A Swedish production, filmed in the cold, white dead of winter, it's visually striking and the most original thing I've seen in a long time. Check out the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckdZpYVn38

After reading the latest FPW newsletter and waiting as long as I could, I emailed Gauntlet about the shipping of their edition of Legacies, slated to ship in February.

Word from Gauntlet is they hit a small delay, but should be shipping the end of this month.

(Didn't find anything about this upon searching; forgive me if it's been posted already.)

Thanks,
MarcC.

I'm inquisitive...

Anyone see "Castle", on ABC, Monday night?

I always get a kick out of Nathan Fillion's work. This time, I sat coughing and feverish with a cold, and decided to check it out. He's a whirlwind, and the show is stylish, but the first script seemed to be only slightly better than the old NBC Mystery Movie "Bannacek" skeleton of story construction. Perhaps producers think the "formula" is just right, and deserves repetition every season, and, sure, the "love-interest-murder-mystery" pattern is not only successful, it can be very satisfying (love the way they've handled it on "Bones"), but one hopes this treads new ground.

The unique thing, apart from Nathan Fillion's performance, was the appearance of Stephen J. Cannell and James Patterson as friends of Castle, who is a novelist. I wonder if they'll keep bringing authors on. Could be fun.

Just thought I would bring it up and see if anyone saw the show. I'd been looking forward to it, and it wasn't bad. Not stellar, but not bad.

Be Seeing You!

Anyone watched the movie?

I saw it yesterday, my expectations have been very high, and they were very high beaten!

IMO it is a really great movie. Clint eastwood is a king and did a very good job as actor and producer. I don't want to write too much here, you have to watch it yourself, but you should!

greets