‘Articles’ Archives
Seeing Red Again and Again…
We at Hollywood, Interrupted love responding to "retraction" demands and opening them up for mockery. However, in this case, we are running former LA Weekly news editor Alan Mittelstaedt's carefully composed retraction notice uncontested because we believe that he was defamed by Eric "Killer on the Road" Red's publicist, and we hope that he sues [...]
Seeing Red
Eric Red: There's a Killer on the Road Thinking of catching THE HITCHER this weekend? Hollywood's bloodlust to remake every single slasher film from the '70s and '80s finally catches up with the existential horror film that made C. Thomas Howell a killer and squandered the last bit of Rutger Hauer's BLADE RUNNER credibility. One of the [...]
Ebner Undercover: Scientology, Spy Magazine, 1996
"If you really want to enslave people, tell them that you're going to give them total freedom." - L. Ron Hubbard From 1991 Time cover story. According to Scientology (and stemming directly from Hubbard's "vision"), 75 million years ago, an evil ruler named Xenu implanted "thetans," or spirits, in volcanoes on the planet [...]
Pit Bullies, New Times, 1998
A coin toss determines which dog gets which corner in the pit. The toss also decides which dog will be washed first to cleanse it of poisonous substances it may have been coated with to weaken an opposing dog. Washings are carefully supervised by a judge. Next, the dogs are dried off and carried by their handlers to their corners. A referee [...]
Death of a ‘Nethead
By Mark Ebner BETWEEN BONG HITS AND BEER, Philip Gale brooded over ending his young life. Outside his apartment, marrow-chilling March winds scoured the streets of Cambridge's seedy Central Square. Inside the cramped walk-up, the air was hazy from the Camel Filters he'd been chain-smoking. Gale, a 19-year-old computer prodigy and MIT junior, had [...]
Wild Man Blues
Hasil Adkins drinks too much, screws too much, and rocks too muchBy Mark Ebner Article Published Jun 18, 1998Charleston, West Virginia's Yeager Airport sits atop a mountain, which is typical in a state that enforces few, if any, building codes. Request a window seat if you ever drop in; the views are spectacular. Green hills roll forever, with [...]
Mark Ebner Interview, News and Reviews
Mark Ebner, co-author of Hollywood, Interrupted interviewed at The Impious Digest. Mark notes that "Hollywood, Interrupted became the book that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times did not want you to read. Neither oracle reviewed it, and it was on BOTH their bestseller lists." 04/17/04: The Calgary Herald calls HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED : [...]
JOHN TRAVOLTA: THE STAR WHO ATE HOLLYWOOD
Former Spy contributor Mark Ebner explains why the gluttonous, greedy John Travolta--soon to star as a 10-foot-tall alien in a film adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's lousy sci-fi epic Battlefield Earth--is an especially gross example of Hollywood's current downward spiral. When Quentin Tarantino resurrected John Travolta in his pop pastiche, Pulp [...]
SNAKE PIT ON SUNSET!
Jakob Dylan played here, Adam Duritz tended bar here, and River Phoenix died here. For half a decade, the Viper Room has been ground zero for Hollywood hip. The inside story of the club that defined a generation. Is the Viper Room cursed? One of the club's previous owners passed away in his office, River Phoenix collapsed of an overdose out [...]
