Rick’s Café Americain, 1942

In my attempt to reconstruct the floor plan of Rick’s Café Americain, from the movie Casablanca, I discovered that there were two separate sets in which the scenes were filmed, also there were certain areas that just did not exist because of the way the set was designed (as seen in the photos below), thus making an exact replica impossible. As far as I could tell the gambling hall was just beyond the bar, as this was the direction the police went and Signor Ugarte (Peter Lorre) came from (22:16), though watching the people in the restaurant proper turned after the gunshot (22:14) would make you think it was the opposite direction. I have done my best to fit all the pieces together in the most logical placement. Probably the best overall view of the café was between the 6:45 and 7:05 markers of the film. Continue reading “Rick’s Café Americain, 1942”

Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits, 1977

Just posting this fantastic cover

Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits gate-fold cover art was designed by Ernie Cefalu and features a sepia-toned Drew Struzan illustration consisting of the Alice Cooper band and various movie stars of the silver screen from the 1920s & 1930s, gathered in front of “Big Al’s” garage.

Seen from left to right: Humphrey Bogart, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell, Jean Harlow, Peter Lorre, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre scene (top), Alice Cooper band members (Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Neal Smith), Groucho Marx