Thanks to Eddie Muller, host of TCM's "Noir Alley," who paid tribute to "the amazing Talbot family" on his Saturday night show. Eddie showed my father Lyle Talbot's 1959 B-thriller City of Fear, costarring Vince Edwards as an outlaw slowly expiring from radiation poisoning and my dad as the Los Angeles police chief with a big problem on his hands.
The Saturday TCM show also featured the trailer that my son Joe Talbot made for Eddie's annual "Film Noir" festival a few years ago, before Joe burst on the scene with The Last Black Man in San Francisco. (Eddie was the first one to give a break to the talented, young Joe, a high school dropout who eschewed college and film school.)
Eddie also gave shout-outs to my brother Stephen Talbot, an award-wining documentary producer, and our sisters Margaret Talbot, an author and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and "the eminent physician" Cynthia Talbot.
Next up for our family: my wife Camille Peri has just finished writing Wilder Shore, a riveting portrait of the bohemian marriage of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. The book will be published by Viking Penguin.
And me? At the ripe old age of 71, after a year of working on a screenplay, I feel I can take off this holiday season and catch up on my reading and viewing.
