Ray Dennis Steckler
An e-mail I just got from Arch Hall Jr.: << Ray Dennis Steckler passed away last night. Ray had spent three or four days in the hospital in Los Angeles following the screening at the LACMA then...
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Still not one syllable about RDS in the LA Times, as of the Monday 1/12 edition.
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Tor havin fun wrote: Still not one syllable about RDS in the LA Times, as of the Monday 1/12 edition. I emailed WENN about him...nothing from them yet, either.
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I'm afraid to say, I've got a feeling the reaction of WENN will be "WHOO?" For the LA TIMES too. If LA TIMES looks in their files and realize they've never done a story on a particular person, he/she...
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TomWeaver999 wrote: << Does anyone have any info about the unreleased Jungle movie that he shot in the 1960s with Bob Burns as Kogar and Ron Haydock? Was it ever finished? << Bob Burns...
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I'm afraid to say, I've got a feeling the reaction of WENN will be "WHOO?" For the LA TIMES too. If LA TIMES looks in their files and realize they've never done a story on a particular person, he/she...
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Aw, I hate checking this folder. Steckler sounded like the greatest guy in his interviews and DVD commentaries. No apologies for standards of quality or lack thereof, he just grabbed his camera and...
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Don't worry, the LA Times will come through. They report everybody significant in movies. Steckler's death has had me thinking about a line from the wonderful article "Bad Movies," written by Jim...
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I'm afraid I have to join up with the east coast cynics. The LA Times has still not run a Steckler obit. You can't really make the case that he's too obscure, because they did a half page on Vampira.
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I was also one of the fortunate ones who actually talked to RDS when ordering a few films from him some years ago. I believe his daughter is in the first few Lemon Grove films. She is the most...
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Last night Richard Gordon, a bit appalled, handed me the NY TIMES obit for Ray Dennis Steckler -- almost half a page -- and then the TIMES obit for Edmund Purdom (a couple paragraphs). "How is this...
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Admittedly, Steckler led a far more off-the-beaten-track career comparatively. You could write a heck of a lot more about Steckler than Purdom.
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NY Times February 1, 2009 Ray Dennis Steckler, Low-Budget Auteur, Dies at 70By http://topics.nytimes.com...index.html?inline=nyt-per...
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Boo, LA Times. In light of this, could we say, designate a "Steckler" as a unit of measurement for sincere, lovable lunatic filmmaking. One Steckler could equal, say, 14000 Ratners.
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Hi Monster, All the RDS movies you are searching for are available at www.raydennissteckler.com. The site was taken down temporarily due to overwhelming response with sympathy e-mails, but movies...
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Mrs. Steckler is currently working on a Ray biography and she e-mailed me to ask for a comment about him, about his work, whatever, and she also asked me if I ever interviewed him. I never did...
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