REBEL IN SEARCH OF A CAUSE
©2024 By Legs McNeil On the 100th Anniversary of Marlon Brando’s Birth (April 3rd, 2024), Burt Kearns Honors Our [...]
alexrosas2023-09-06T10:57:28+00:00June 15th, 2023|TV & Film|
Yes, it does sound like it could be a biography of the founder and editor of Legsville.com, but NO! Legs and Cigarettes is a documentary short film, directed and produced by Legsville contributor Veronica Vigil that’s screening on Monday, June 19 in competition at TAFFNY, The Americas Film Festival of New York. Veronica’s documentary is described as “a deep and intimate conversation with photographer Robert Whitman, on one of his most iconic and provocative collections, ‘Legs and Cigarettes.’ A beautiful studio in Tribeca, a male photographer, a female producer and the lack of political correctness, are the main ingredients of this modern experiment with NYC as its background.” Whitman is a provocateur, whose career kicked off in a big way in Minneapolis in 1977, when he was invited to photograph a young local musician who was recording his first album. The musician’s manager hoped to use the photos in a brochure to help the nineteen-year-old get a record deal. The musician was Prince.
alexrosas2022-12-19T00:45:45+00:00December 9th, 2022|Books We Love, Literature, True Crime, TV & Film|
The first biography of the legendary and notorious actor Lawrence Tierney was published on Tuesday, December 6, by the University Press of Kentucky. Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy, by Legsville contributor Burt Kearns, traces Tierney’s career from his overnight success in the 1945 film Dillinger, through the drunken scenes, brawls, and arrests that derailed his career, to his “rediscovery” by Quentin Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs.
alexrosas2023-01-23T16:36:31+00:00November 26th, 2022|True Crime, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
More than sixty films. More than thirty television roles. More than seventy arrests. Lawrence Tierney was the toughest, meanest, coldest actor in Hollywood, onscreen and off. An overnight sensation in 1945 as Public Enemy #1 in the movie Dillinger, he proceeded to drink and brawl his way out of a career by the early 1950s – or so it seemed. Lawrence Tierney is the great untold story of the dark side of Hollywood – a story of alcoholism, madness and violence, but also survival, loyalty, and genius.
alexrosas2022-08-17T18:11:53+00:00August 17th, 2022|TV & Film|
Duncan Hannah is a New York City–based artist whose paintings have been featured in over seventy solo exhibitions around the world since his debut in 1980. His work has been collected by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Mick Jagger. Hannah has occasionally acted, and his filmography includes Amos Poe’s Unmade Beds (1976), Jennifer Montgomery’s Art for Teachers of Children (1995), and Michael Bilandic’s Hellaware (2013). Originally Published at The Criterion Collection | ©2016 By The Criterion Collection
alexrosas2022-10-21T17:20:46+00:00July 16th, 2022|Books We Love, Literature, TV & Film|
Al Martino played crooner (and wedding singer) Johnny Fontane. It was a role that Frank Sinatra tried to rub out. Frank believed the character in Mario Puzo’s novel was based on him, but it was a role Martino knew was his. A popular Italian-American balladeer in the early 1950s, he’d been forced to move to Great Britain after he defied the mobsters who’d bought his management contract. Martino returned to America and fought his way back onto the charts and success in the 1960s.
alexrosas2022-05-19T16:42:32+00:00May 19th, 2022|TV & Film|
When you think of an axe murderer what vision comes to mind? I bet it isn’t a frail, Christian mother wearing oversized glasses and a tight perm. This is why Hulu’s series, Candy, intrigues us so much. Based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (played by Jessica Biel), a suburban mom from Wylie, Texas who killed her lover’s wife by hitting her 41 times with an axe. Shockingly, Candy got away with it claiming self-defense.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:03:17+00:00April 21st, 2022|Comedy, Music, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
©2022 by Legs McNeil | Legsville welcomes comedian, actor, writer & director: Bobcat Goldthwait. A Legsville Oral History.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:03:43+00:00April 14th, 2022|Comedy, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
©2022 by Legs McNeil | Legsville welcomes comedian, actor, writer & director: Bobcat Goldthwait. A Legsville Oral History.
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:27:44+00:00March 19th, 2022|TV & Film|
When I first binge-watched nine episodes of “Inventing Anna” on Netflix a few weeks ago, I was appalled by the little sociopathic girl with the over-sized glasses, the crooked smile and that grating voice that reminded me of a broken fourth wheel on a broken grocery store cart; “You’re such a disappointment.”
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:41+00:00March 9th, 2022|Essays, TV & Film|
One of the great unknown stories about Andy Warhol is that he hired someone to impersonate him on a tour of colleges throughout the United States in 1967. And Andy almost got away with it. Almost...
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:34:26+00:00March 1st, 2022|True Crime, TV & Film|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-02-10T17:23:45+00:00February 10th, 2022|TV & Film|
I called him and asked for an interview, and told him what I wanted to talk about—and he graciously accepted. I think he wanted to try out his new stand-up act on me, and as usual John was hysterically funny. In honor of Valentine’s Day 2022, I present to you John Waters on pornography—So get comfy, I think you’re going to enjoy this one….
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:34:37+00:00January 26th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month, True Crime, TV & Film|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-01-26T01:04:31+00:00January 26th, 2022|Essays, Music, TV & Film|
"At age 20, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the downtown scene with a budding sophistication equally rooted in abstract expressionism and the post-punk, no-wave, hip-hop, graffiti grit of the Mudd Club avant-garde." | ©2022 by Amanda Sheppard
alexrosas2023-03-29T14:26:03+00:00January 13th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month, TV & Film|
This is the story of the 1970s summer photographer Nan Goldin and writer/actress Cookie Mueller spent in P-Town in the Cape, partying non-stop with eccentrics like Philippe Marcade, John Waters, and other brilliant weirdos.
alexrosas2022-01-02T02:33:45+00:00December 29th, 2021|Music, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
Assembled by the editors at Legsville
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:36:09+00:00December 28th, 2021|Music, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
Director: Jimmy Fisco | Co-director: GAYLE | Producer: Kristina Russo
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:53:58+00:00December 25th, 2021|Comedy, TV & Film|
From The Newsletter of Alison Arngrim | Loos Gravel Productions
alexrosas2021-12-27T20:20:40+00:00December 25th, 2021|TV & Film|
©2021-2022 By Legs McNeil | A top 5 list for your binge-watching pleasure. Here's the best of what you should be watching.
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:36:55+00:00December 25th, 2021|Sports, TV & Film|
Legsville editors pick our top five sports docs. Even if you don't like sports, you'll appreciate these!