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Author Archives: Tom Gualtieri
Marching Matters: Why the Pride March is Your March Too
When the men and women of the LGBT community first marched in 1970, little did they know they were marching for more than their own rights. Continue reading
My Year of Horror: Why Does Nature Hate Me?
Bugs! Aliens! Missing links! And monsters! This month in MY YEAR OF HORROR, Tom Gualtieri feels the wrath of Mother Nature. Continue reading
Posted in My Year of Horror
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Attack the Block, Basket Case, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Forrest Tucker, HP Lovecraft, Kingdom of the Spiders, Millicent Patrick, The Birds, The Call of Cthulhu, The Crawling Eye, The Trollenberg Terror, Them, Tippi Hedren, Universal Pictures, William Shatner
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My Year of Horror: Strange May Flowers
April showers of blood bring strange May flowers in Tom Gualtieri’s month of hybrid horror. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror
Tagged 3 Extremes, Ben Whishaw, best horror films, Bob Clark, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Deathdream, Dustin Hoffman, Fruit Chan Park Chan-wook, horror, Janette Scott, Perfume, Science Fiction, Society, Susan Sarandon, Takashi Miike, The Day of the Triffids, The Hunger, The Pact, Three Extremes, Tony Scott, Zohra Lampert
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What Edith Wharton Knew: Bieber, Ambition and the A-List
Tom Gualtieri wonders if social-climbing has changed 100 years after the publication of Edith Wharton’s THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. Continue reading
The Dubious Allure of Gore
With the release of Evil Dead today and the death of Roger Ebert yesterday, Tom Gualtieri reflects on his despair at the equation of gore with fear. Continue reading
Steubenville: On Rape and the Culture of Monsters
Tom Gualtieri on the societal impact of Steubenville. Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Anonymous, Candy Crowley, CNN, HeatherN, Knight Sec, Ma'lik Richmond, Poppy Harlow, rape, Steubenville, Steubenville Rape, The Good Men Project, Trent Mays
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My Year of Horror: March Madness
Your shrink will have a field day with this month’s twisted psychotics, neurotics and schizophrenics, coming around to fill your life with horror. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror, The Arts
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Massey, Catherine Deneuve, Emeric Pressberger, Frenzy, Hitchcock, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, Michael Powell, Moira Shearer, Pino Donaggio, Powell & Pressberger, Repulsion, Rob Reiner, Roman Polanski, Stephen King, The Fan, The Red Shoes, William Goldman
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Our Bodies, Our Choices – Part II: Men and Their Members
Part II of Tom Gualtieri’s series examining circumcision focuses on men and their parts. Continue reading
Posted in Science, Sex
Tagged Bris, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, Genital Mutilation, Male Circumcision, Male Genital Mutilation, MGM, Ryan McAllister
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Downton Abbey: Innocence in the Age of Irony
Tom Gualtieri explains the secret of the hit show’s popularity. Continue reading
My Year of Horror: The Unclassifiable
Some of the best horror films defy easy classification in the genre – but haunt you long after they’re done. Continue reading
Posted in My Year of Horror
Tagged Audition, Exorcist, Freaks, horror, Kissed, Let Me In, Let The Right One In, Mygale, Pedro Almodovar, Possession, Silence of the Lambs, Takashi Miike, Teeth, Thierry Jonquet, Tod Browning
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A Mind of Winter
Tom Gualtieri reflects on winters spent in Syracuse, N.Y.—including the tragic one in 1988. Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Memoir
Tagged Lockerbie, Pan Am 103, poems, poetry, Wallace Stevens, Winter
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