The Writer's Life 12/7 - A Doppelganger, A Buzzcock & An Anniversary

Reed Tucker has a fun entertainment article in today's NY Post. Here are highlights, edited by yours truly: Director Rene Perez was in a bar in Spain a few years ago when he spotted a Charles Bronson photo on the wall. He couldn't place the movie, and asked the bartender about it. It wasn't the late Hollywood icon but Robert Kovacs, a performer at a local Wild West stunt show. After meeting the look-alike, Perez cast him in From Hell to the Wild West (2017) and Death Kiss (2018), the latter an homage to Bronson's Death Wish (1974). Kovacs is currently shooting another action flick with a different director. The newly minted actor, 62, whose screen name is Bronzi, dreams of starring in an epic western where “[My character] gets the girl, maybe plays a song or two, and rides off into the sunset.” When he’s not shooting movies in Hollywood, he works with his nephew’s construction company in Hungary. He trains religiously, and is broader and taller than his doppelganger was. Here's a side by side:

RIP Pete Shelley, 63, front man of the British New Wave band Buzzcocks. He succumbed to a heart attack. I'm only familiar with two of the band's songs, What Do I Get? and Something's Gone Wrong Again, both written by Shelley, both lively fun. My buddy Bags described the latter as one that "cries out for a video." I had one worked out in my head that would have been a blast to shoot. If there's an official video, I was unable to find it. Here's a live cut of the track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhy0gONfPo  And here's a pic of the artist as a young man: 

Today is the 77th anniversary of Japan's heinous attack on Pearl Harbor, the huge mistake that awoke a sleeping giant. Kudos to all those, living and deceased, who repelled the evil Japan and Germany perpetrated. Those countries lost their minds simultaneously, and paid a huge price, as did much of the rest of the world.

My thanks to Mr. Conspiracy, aka Steve, who bought How to Build Your Own Furniture by R J DeCristoforo, and to the woman who selected a book in Russian. Her English limited, she said she'd purchased one of my books a while back, and gave it to her granddaughter, who liked it. The kid is 14, probably 13 when she read it. I always ask young customers their age before selling any of my books. Unless accompanied by an adult, I won't sell any of mine to anyone under 18 or very close to that age. I suspect the book in question is A Hitch in Twilight. I doubt someone so young would like any of my others... My thanks also to Lou, he of the gift of gab, who helped kill more than a half-hour of waiting for other customers to show. 

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