Email Author Bill Gallo

1991 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Bridal Sour

  published December 18, 1991

  The prototypical Steve Martin character has evolved into a decent, beleaguered goof who can but roll his eyes, dip into that little trademark... More >>

• Star Trek: The Geritol Generation

  published December 11, 1991

  Any Trekkie worth his stars can probably fix the precise moment when Kirk, Spock, and Bones replaced the Three Stooges (or the Father, Son, and... More >>

• Rent Control

  published October 9, 1991

  The New York character actor Joe Pesci ("I'm funny? How'ya mean, funny? You find me amusing?") is at his best when sniping, kibbitzing and... More >>

• Got Their Irish Up

  published September 11, 1991

  The British melodramatist and amateur muckraker Alan Parker has the blunt gift of a cartoonist, but he's not much good at filling out his... More >>

• Wild Irish Prose

  published September 11, 1991

  Galvanized by the raw vernacular of the Dublin streets, the language of The Commitments is dense and extremely local, kind of like a radically... More >>

• True Brit

  published August 28, 1991

  Dark Obsession is neither very dark nor very obsessive, but that does not disqualify it. On the contrary, all the fools and fops, snips and snobs... More >>

• Fellini Alright

  published August 21, 1991

  Giuseppe Tornatore is not the first young filmmaker to wilt in the heat of devotion to a past master (see: DePalma, Brian vis a vis Hitchcock,... More >>