* AT THE BIJOU *: THE RAT PACK INTERVIEWS ROBERT J RANDISI! ~ (as overheard by Absolutely*Kate)

Friday, March 25, 2011

THE RAT PACK INTERVIEWS ROBERT J RANDISI! ~ (as overheard by Absolutely*Kate)

THE RAT PACK INTERVIEWS

ROBERT J RANDISI

(as overheard by

Absolutely*Kate)

"Hey fellas ~ what about this Bob Randisi guy? He's sure turning out a bookshelf load of RAT PACK MYSTERIES, you notice?"

"About a six-pack by my count now Dean and #7's gonna be a bullet on the charts too. Bet your bottom dollar."

"What about my top one?"

"Yeah, that'll work too. The guy puts the terrific in prolific."

"Man oh man - over 540 books and he still has time to talk to his bookie. That's even more songs than you've cut vinyl on Frank."

"Yeah yeah, sure, sure ... the guy's good and Katie set up the low down on our RAT PACK Mysteries right HERE, but let's fire some Q's at the mystery man under the hat and see if he's worth his snuff."

"Fair enough. You goin' first?"

"Might as while. I'll get to the bar sooner . . . "

DEAN's just so damn cool.

So pally, what do you drink when you're knocking these books out so literally?

RJ RANDISI expounds

Dino, I'm a bit like you. I drink in public (imported beer), but in the privacy of my office is iced teas, diet coke, and coffee.

FRANKIE sends me . . .

Yeah Mac, that's good. Me? I wanted to tell you you've got infinite panache there under your fedora. Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. Now let's get to the important stuff. What music plays to set your attitudes just right?

RJ RANDISI swings

Well, Frank, you know you're playing in the office all the time, as are Dino and Sammy. But there are some others, like Michael Buble, Elvis, the Beatles, Lucinda Williams, Bob Seger, Queen Latifah, Brian Setzer and more.

SAMMY? EEE-O-ELEVEN!

Me?

Hell Bob - I just wanta know if you got any regrets . . . or have you done it all your way?

RJ RANDISI is solid

Regrets, Sam?

I've had a few, but why dwell on them? I've pretty much done this my way, and I think I'll continue to do so.

Sammy,

you pilching

my lyrics
again?

Aw geeez Frank.

I don't have many easy songs.

ABSOLUTELY*KATE: Thanks you gorgeous gents. Man oh man how I love you guys. RJR's Rat Pack Mysteries are sellin' right over there with the popcorn and jujubes at the Sugar's Shack AT THE BIJOU. See 'em up close. You'll be hooked!

And . . . There's more show folks. The screenwriter who makes crimes happen on paper, Eric Beetner, he's up next . . . and here's some one act wonders to go with the rest of your popcorn ~

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

RAT PACK SHOWS

PLAYING AT THE BIJOU

RATPACKREVUE

Tuesdays.

Thursdays.

Sunday Matinees too.

Be there or be square.

RATPACKREVUE

AT THE BIJOU

Always swell to see you here.

~ Absolutely*Kate,

and our swanky renown

THE PACK DON'T WANT YA TO MISS A SHOW:

Sinatra: "If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love, then you haven't really got any."

Opening Night: "RAT PACK REVUE TO YOU"

RAT PACK REVUE: ROBERT J RANDISI TAKES THE STAGE

RAT PACK REVUE: "How Did All These People Get Into My Room?" By Robert J Randisi, working the lounge before he hits the main room

RAT PACK REVUE: "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" By Robert J Randisi, paying homage to Ocean's 11, the original . . . for all the right reasons

RAT PACK REVUE: "Who's Got The Action" By Kevin Michaels, knowin' more than the night club scene

RAT PACK REVUE: "STAR" By Julie Morgan, hitchin' TinselTown to a dick's star

RAT PACK REVUE: "OH SOUL O'MIO" By Absolutely*Kate, mirroring where scars shine bright

RAT PACK REVUE: "Divorce Your Loved One With Dignity" By Anthony Venutolo, oozing atmosphere, over the border

RAT PACK REVUE: "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" By Paul D Brazill, giving Dino a whole new swan song

RAT PACK REVUE: "THE GREAT AMERICAN SAILING HERO" By Absolutely*Kate, scuttling the way the tides roll in

RATPACKREVUE

~ ON OUR SWANKY STAGE ~

BIJOU AUTHORS ~

ERIC BEETNER ~

PAUL BRAZILL ~

KEVIN MICHAELS ~

ANTHONY VENUTOLO ~ and

ABSOLUTELY*KATE

+ a sailor new in town

BIJOU DEBUT ~

JULIE (LEWTHWAITE) MORGAN ~

SEAN PATRICK REARDON

PLUS STAGE AFTER PAGE AGAIN ~ OUR HEADLINER ~

STARRING IN AUTHORS-TO-AUTHOR INTERVIEWS,

MORE OF RAT PACK MYSTERY AUTHOR

ROBERT J RANDISI

WITH A

FINALE OF AN RJR ~ ROAST ~ AT THE BIJOU

~ ~ ~ ~

STAY TUNED.

You're nobody til somebody love you,

and we love you AT THE BIJOU.

ENJOY.

~ ~ ~ ~

4 comments:

Unknown said...: Hilarious... Loved the pics and some of Bob's musical choices I wouldn't have pegged him for. Glad to see Setzer on the list...; Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 12:50:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: I'm with Ant - LOVE Setzer, now I must go play some. A fine inverview Kate!; Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 10:03:00 AM EDT
Mari said...: What a cool interview! Loved the pics too. :); Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 6:50:00 PM EDT
Author said...: Great fun - really enjoyed this. And it looks so damn cool, too!; Monday, March 28, 2011 at 11:58:00 AM EDT

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1. The Godfather - (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) (Marlon Brando, Al Pacino)

2. Citizen Kane - (1941, Orson Welles) (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton)

3. Casablanca - (1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)

4. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable)

5. Seven Samurai - (1959, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune)

6. Wizard of Oz - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger)

7. On the Waterfront - (1954, Elia Kazan) (Marlon Brando, Carl Malden, Rod Steiger)

8. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean) (Alec Guinness, William Holden)

9. Rules Of The Game - (1939, Jean Renoir) (Roland Toutain, Nora Gregor)

10. The Godfather Part II - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro)

11. Lawrence of Arabia - (1962, David Lean) (Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn)

12. It's A Wonderful Life - (1946, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Donna Reed)

13. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg) (Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley)

14. To Kill A Mockingbird - (1962, Robert Mulligan) (Gregory Peck, Mary Badham)

15. Raging Bull - (1980, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci)

16. Star Wars - (1977, George Lucas) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness)

17. La Strada - (1954, Federico Fellini) (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn)

18. Psycho - (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) (Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh)

19. Sunset Boulevard - (1950, Billy Wilder) (Gloria Swanson, William Holden)

20. La Dolce Vita - (1960, Federico Fellini) (Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee)

21. Wild Strawberries - (1957, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson)

22. Singin' in the Rain - (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds)

23. Diabolique - (1954, Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot)

24. Dr. Strangelove - (1964, Stanley Kubrick) (Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)

25. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - (1939, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Claude Rains)

26. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall)

27. Once Upon a Time in the West - (1968, Sergio Leone) (Henry Fonda,Charles Bronson)

28. The Leopard - (1963, Luchino Visconti) (Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale)

29. Ikiru - (1952, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko)

30. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - (1966, Sergio Leone) (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef)

31. Vertigo - (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Kim Novak)

32. Fantasia - (1940, Walt Disney) (Philadelpia Symphony Orchestra, Walt Disney)

33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (1975, Milos Forman) (Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher)

34. Some Like it Hot - (1959, Billy Wilder) (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe)

35. Peeping Tom - (1960, Michael Powell) (Karl Heinz Bohm, Morira Shearer)

36. 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968, Stanley Kubrick) (Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain)

37. Empire Strikes Back - (1980, Irvin Kershner) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)

38. The Graduate - (1967, Mike Nichols) (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross)

39. Andrei Rublev - (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky) (Anatoli Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov)

40. The African Queen - (1951, John Huston) (Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart)

41. Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polanski) (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

42. All About Eve - (1950, Joseph L Mankiewicz) (Bette Davis, Anne Baxter)

43. The Grapes of Wrath - (1940, John Ford) (Henry Fonda, John Carradine)

44. 8 1/2 - (1939, Federico Fellini) (Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale)

45. North by Northwest - (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) (Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint)

46. Jaws - (1975, Steven Spielberg) (Roy Schieder, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss)

47. The Maltese Falcon - (1941, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor)

48. A Clockwork Orange - (1971, Stanley Kubrick) (Malcolm McDowell, Patrick McGee)

49. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - (1982, Steven Spielberg) (Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace)

50. Taxi Driver - (1976, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster)

51. City Lights - (1931, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill)

52. A Streetcar Named Desire - (1951, Elia Kazan) (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh)

53. Tokyo Story - (1953, Yasujiro Ozu) (Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura)

54. The World of Apu - (1959, Satyajit Ray) (Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore)

55. It Happened One Night - (1934, Frank Capra) (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)

56. Rear Window - (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Grace Kelly)

57. Life of Oharu - (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune)

58. Sunrise - (1927, F.W. Murnau) (George OÂ�Brien, Janet Gaynor)

59. The Gold Rush - (1925, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray)

60. Ugestu Monogatari - (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori)

61. Aparajito - (1957, Satyajit Ray) (Kali Bannerjee, Kanu Banerji)

62. Rashamon - (1951, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo)

63. The Seventh Seal - (1957, Ingmar Bergman) (Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot)

64. Battleship Potemkin - (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) (Vladimir Barsky, Alexander Antonov)

65. Pather Panchali - (1955, Satyajit Ray) (Subir Banerji, Karuna Bannerjee)

66. M - (1931, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Otto Wernicke)

67. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino) (Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken)

68. High Noon - (1952, Fred Zinnemann) (Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly)

69. The Silence of the Lambs - (1991, Jonathan Demme) (Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)

70. Rocky - (1976, John G. Avildsen) (Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire)

71. Bonnie and Clyde - (1967, Arthur Penn) (Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway)

72. The Treasure of Sierra Madre - (1948, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston)

73. Double Indemnity - (1944, Billy Wilder) (Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray)

74. The Philadelphia Story - (1940, George Cukor) (Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart)

75. Doctor Zhivago - (1965, David Lean) (Omar Sharif, Julie Christie)

76. The Birth of a Nation - (1915, D.W. Griffith) (Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh)

77. Amadeus - (1984, Milos Forman) (F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce)

78. Passion of Joan of Arc - (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Renee Maria Falconetti, Antonin Artaud)

79. Pulp Fiction - (1994, Quentin Tarantino) (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman)

80. Duck Soup - (1933, Leon McCarey) (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx)

81. Rebel Without a Cause - (1955, Nicholas Ray) (James Dean, Natalie Wood)

82. Ben-Hur - (1959, William Wyler) (Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd)

83. Raiders of the Lost Ark - (1981, Steven Spielberg) (Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman)

84. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg) (Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore)

85. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner) (George C. Scott, Karl Malden)

86. Aguirre, Wrath of God - (1972, Werner Herzog) (Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera)

87. The Bicycle Thief - (1948, Vittorio De Sica) (Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell)

88. Sansho the Bailiff - (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Kinuya Tanaka, Kyoko Kagawa)

89. Modern Times - (1936, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard)

90. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)

91. King Kong - (1933, Merian C. Cooper) (Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong)

92. Cinema Paradisio - (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore) (Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio)

93. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)

94. The Children of Paradise - (1945, Marcel Carne) (Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault)

95. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - (1972, Luis Bunuel) (Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig)

96. Annie Hall - (1977, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)

97. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - (2003, Peter Jackson) (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin)

98. Cries and Whispers - (1972, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid Thulin, Liz Ullmann)

99. Yojimbo - (1961, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai)

100. City of God - (2002, Fernando Meirelles) (Jonathan Haagensen, Alexandre Rodrigues)

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