DIGGING INTO HIS PRE-DUMBLEDORE PERFORMANCE IN PETER GREENAWAY'S 1989 ARTFILM, 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover', AFTER READING THE DEATH NOTICE FOR MICHAEL GAMBON, THIS MORNING......

IN RETROSPECT....IT WAS BETTER....ALTHOUGH I'VE NOT KEPT UP WITH IT'S MANY SEQUELS SINCE ITS ORIGINAL COUPLE OF SEASONS.........

 Although I had abandoned any interest in American Horror Story after a couple of episodes of it's 1st season, I was induced....rather traduced.....seeing this year's cast of eccentric talents.....to watch the "Hotel" series premiere....What a gore fest trainwreck!.....Ryan Murphy has ripped off at least a couple of hundred scenes and dialogue from countless old movies......Kubrick's THE SHINING and Tony Scott's THE HUNGER were the most blatant references...(even the Bauhaus music from Hunger).....I felt I was watching gay Halloween porno....Dr. Decker's ghost face mummy butt-raping the hip druggie with a Madonna-inspired collapsible/erectile conical screw strap-on dildo....to an almost literal rip-off of Miriam and John Blalock's slaughter of the wannabe cool kids they picked up at the disco in The Hunger......Was I really watching Hostel IV, The Bloodfeast of Dr. Mabuse? Should we expect a subsequent series of Scream repercussive headlines about campus co-ed slaughters? Glamour is a World Problem.......Same as it ever was........