This sign in the grass in front of the former Budwey’s Market on Kenmore Avenue looks like any of a number of the vote-for-my-guy signs that litter the roadsides this time of year. But while even most fans of the movies wouldn’t know it, “Max Rockatansky” is the full name of the title character in the Mad Max movies, originally played by Mel Gibson and most recently by Tom Hardy.
CORY PERLA shot this photo outside of the JN Adam Memorial Hospital in Perrysburg to accompany Anthony DiGesare’s article “Highway 62 Revisited.”
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[SCREENING] Were the 1960s the decade that changed everything? Maybe, maybe not. But the decade began with the release of Psycho, which certainly changed horror movies. Where Hollywood had once scared us with monsters, supernatural beings, and aliens—“others”—Alfred Hitchcock’s now classic film introduced us to the ultimate source of fright: ourselves, or at least people who looked just like us.