Dig a Hole: Dick Anthony Williams, Cinema's Premier Pimpologist
On a busy Oscar Sunday comes sad news: we lost one of cinema's pioneering Pimpologists. I am forced to be uncharacteristically brief. For a period in the '70s, you couldn't buy a better celluloid whoremonger than Dick Williams. With his …
Dig A Hole: Zina Bethune, Scorsese's First Leading Lady
Technically, Marty's mother, Catherine Scorsese and Mimi Stark, star of the NYU short What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? were His first leading ladies. Zina Bethune, actress, dancer, choreographer, animal lover, and star of …
Dig A Hole: Bill Hinzman, George Romero's First Zombie
Short of beating, burning, or a bullet to the head, zombies aren't supposed to die, particularly of cancer. Alas, that was the fate that befell Bill Hinzman, the first flesh-eater ever to grace a George A. Romero Living Dead epic. …
Dig a Hole: Ben Gazzara
He built a career playing con-artists, criminals, pimps, cheats, and drunks, yet somehow you couldn’t help but believe every word that came out of Ben Gazzara’s mouth. Biagio Anthony Gazzarra was born August 28, 1930 on New York's Lower East …