Actor Josh Hartnett might be playing the Night Stalker of Los Angeles – if true crime writer Philip Carlo has anything to say about it, that is.
His book, “The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez,” has just been optioned by Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell and his producing partner (and brother-in-law) Nick Karaylannis.
Mickey Rourke, who attended Carlo’s book party last week at the Greenwich Hotel, will play the main character, and Carlo has said he’d like Hartnett for the other lead character.
Carlo was diagnosed with ALS in 2004, but has written two books …read more

He’s played a President on “24” and a senator on “Sin City.” He’s voiced the part of Lex Luthor and knocked us out as Curly Bill in “Tombstone.” In fact, Powers Boothe seems like he’s been around forever, but most of his roles have been after 1980 (not counting an uncredited role of a Bolivian bandito in 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”).
I recently caught up with Powers at his home in California’s Hidden Hills. Read on for his thoughts on the possibility of “Sin City 2,” the secret to a long marriage in Hollywood, and being inducted …read more

Buck Rogers certainly has a long history, dating back to the 1939 movie starring Buster Crabbe. The story follows a pilot and his young passenger, who crash-land on a mountaintop and are put into suspended animation by a strange gas. They awaken 500 years later to discover that the Earth is now ruled by a tyrant called Killer Kane, and they lead a fight to overthrow him.
There were other incarnations of “Buck Rogers,” all of which I believe originated from a 1920s cartoon strip that morphed into a 1934 short starring John Dille, Jr. as Buck. There was a …read more