Bob Calhoun
- Location
- Pacifica, California, USA
- Birthday
- June 18
- Bio
- Bob Calhoun is a regular contributor to Film Salon and observer of offbeat media. His 2008 punk-wrestling memoir "Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling" (ECW Press) has spent one entire week on the San Francisco Chronicle's Bay Area bestseller list.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The One Thing Missing from The
Avengers
May 10, 2012 02:04AM - Straight-to-DVD: Marsha Brady
& the Snow White Slasher Flick
April 12, 2012 01:17AM - Straight-to-DVD: The Naked Nun
Revenge Flick for Our Times
March 15, 2012 02:52AM - I just saw Andrew Breitbart on
Saturday
March 01, 2012 01:02PM - Cain + Gingrich = Caingrich
February 26, 2012 03:34PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “@Mike, Damn. It's almost
the best part of the
movie!”
May 10, 2012 05:48PM - “And the pizza! If you
stick around for the extra
extra scene
at the very end on
i…”
May 10, 2012 02:34PM - “It's sad and terrifying
how Zimmerman has no remorse
just for
the act of
killing…”
April 24, 2012 07:25PM - “@John Rampton, Oh now
"Snow White: A Deadly Summer"
totally
sucks but
i…”
April 16, 2012 03:36PM - “@Retablo, I'll check it
out but I've already written
my
Breitbart reminisces in
R…”
April 15, 2012 05:11PM
Bob Calhoun's Links
For reasons unknown, 2012 is the year that the cumulative efforts of so many Hollywood lunches and industry cocktail parties have resulted in the release of several live action retellings of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves." Currently, there's the light-hearted "Mirror, Mirror" with Julia… Read full post »
Andrew Breitbart standing against the Tea Party Express Bus at
the 2010 California Republican Convention in Santa Clara. He
actually posed while I snapped this shot.
The last time I saw Andrew Breitbart was Saturday morning. I'd just pulled into the parking garage of the Burlingame Hyatt fo… Read full post »
Newt Gingrich talks algae at the 2012 California
Republican Convention in Burlingame on February 25, 2012. (Photo:
Bob Calhoun)
NOTE: Click here to see some more pics of Herman Cain and Gingrich (together they are Caingrich) from the California Republican Convention.
Newt Gingrich is re… Read full post »
Director Kyle Broom wanted to take "Prevention of Injury (POI)" through the film festival circuit just like every other independent filmmaker, but this 20-minute film has the burden of being about something. The film's main character doesn't have a name. He's referred to in the credits on… Read full post »
I'm toying with starting a new blog series where I analyze inane old TV shows with the same attention to detail that today's pop culture bloggers and critics (myself included) lavish on dense cable dramas such as "Mad Men," "Game of Thrones" or "Walking Dead." To kick… Read full post »
Frank Miller, the comic book writer/artist… Read full post »
In pro wrestling, victory isn't making your big comeback—it's staying away. I've dispersed this pearl of wisdom here and there since my last show with Incredibly Strange Wrestling in Bologna, Italy back in 2003. Bologna was an unusually glamorous destination for a low-rent, punk rock… Read full post »
Meg Whitman meets the media head on during an impromptu press
conference at the 2010 California Republican Party Spring
Convention in Santa Clara, Calif. (photo: Bob Calhoun).
Last year I went to as many conventions and trade shows as I could
talk my way into. One of these cons was… Read full post »
There was a guy in a Captain America suit staking out his space on the lawn of the National Mall in Washington DC waiting for Jon… Read full post »
For Superman's live action cinema debut, the first image that flickered onto the screen wasn't a star's name or a movie studio's emblem. It was the cover of a ten…
Okay, the Sarah Palin/Paul Revere story just won't die. It’s like the Anthony Weiner twitpic saga, but without shots of bulging underwear. On Sunday, Palin defended her creative interpretation of Revere's ride on Fox News. Meanwhile, her fans/supporters/followers (whatever the hell you ca… Read full post »
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump back when he still possessed an
air of dignity.
Does Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock, have top secret security clearance?
According to a Monday Huffington Post article, his Sunday postings on Twitter may reveal that the former WWE champion and star of…
UK actor Idris Elba as the Norse God Heimdall in the upcoming Marvel Comics movie "Thor."
As of last Friday, 1,473 people liked the "Boycott Thor (2011) by Marvel Studios" Facebook page. Among those showing their virtual disapproval of director Kenneth Branagh's upcoming comic book moive is E…
Remakes. Reboots. Re-imaginings. Prequels. Prequels to remakes.
That's what 2011 is going to remembered for—the year… Read full post »
Pro wrestler/rocker/game show host Chris Jericho ends his first wrestling memoir, "A L… Read full post »
My book, "Beer, Blood and Cornmeal," makes its network television
debut as a piece of set decoration on the NBC series "Parenthood"
in the lower left corner of the screen.
Lee Majors running in slow motion but at bionic speeds.
The first episode from the just released "Six Million Dollar Man" complete series box set that I popped into my DVD player not only has William Shatner in it, but it's a crazy Shatner who spouts beat poetry and can control… Read full post »
Mick Foley is the last person that you'd expect to be honored at something called the Rally to Restore Sanity. In the world of pro wrestling,… Read full post »
The last couple of days must have been strange for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. On Monday night, the Giants won their first world series since the team moved here from New York in the 1950s. Baseball fans partied in the streets until after 3am. Tonight Newsom was at the… Read full post »
It's Saturday morning and there's an expanding yoga circle on the lawn of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Gumby is doing yoga. So are a nun…
Comic-Con Jesus dispenses Gospel truth at the San Diego Comic-Con
(photo: Bob Calhoun).
You ask me to nominate somebody for the "Year in Sanity" and I'm going to have to say Comic-Con Jesus. Sure, a longhaired guy at a comic book convention dressed like the Son of God woul… Read full post »
"Judo" Gene LeBell is a two-time national judo champ, a master of submission holds and a one of the greatest Hollywood stuntmen to ever flip a Chevy Malibu. He taught Bruce Lee, Chuck…
We appear to be living in a brief sliver of time where anything is once again possible for Hollywood 's oiled up muscle men. Despite the seemingly endless ascendancy of geek chic…
Even at 70-something years old "Judo" Gene LeBell is still the toughest man alive, but he can't use YouTube worth a damn.
LeBell is a two-time national judo…
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