Remember Dial-A-Poem? That wonderful little phone number with a New York area code that you could call at any time of day and hear rants, songs, and straight poetry from some of the biggest names of the era didn’t last too long (it was active, on and off, from 1969 to 1971,) but it lingers in the collective memory of the ’60s generation like so many other icons of the time. Now, Dial-A-Poem has been reborn as a web site, archiving all the old content from the phone service, as well as bonus material that never made it on the line.
Tag: 04.30.05
Horror Grows Up
Horror movies aren’t supposed to be particularly good. After all, the camp value in a slasher flick is often more of a draw than the thrills and chills. But in the last few years, horror has become an upmarket genre in Hollywood, with high-profile actors and actresses clamoring for a fright pic of their very own. Not only that, there’s been a demographic shift in the audience for horror: young women, traditionally used as cheap sexual props and helpless victims in the blood-‘n-gore fests of old, are an increasingly enthusiastic percentage of ticketbuyers.