speak to cancer patients can be truly awful). At any rate, many, many thanks. And wherever the future takes you, let me know if I can do something to support.
KELLEY JONES
No. No. No. No... ...I picked up the first issue the week or so after I met my wife. I used VW in many capacities over the years, and the most important was to explain my love of the kind of cin- ema and pop culture I loved to her. Lots of girls before her didn’t like this stuff, and I sounded like some desert zealot when explain- ing the life’s blood that THE OUTER LIMITS was to me. The debates over different Bond ac- tors was a serious discussion. The eye-rolling when I would go on about watching BLACK SUNDAY the umpteenth time. Introducing them to Cushing and Lee was arduous and painful. VW would do that for me. And my then-girl- friend, now wife, became a fan due in no small part because of Tim and his stalwart writing staff—they managed to translate on the pages of VW that same enthusiasm for Roger Corman and Michael Reeves that I had, but in a scholarly yet fun way. My day was made when an issue was in the mailbox. This is how it must have felt when DiMaggio quit... or Roosevelt died. No. No. No. No.
DAVID J SCHOW
Not surprising, somewhat in- evitable, and bittersweet in this era of what John-Paul Checkett rightly called “deprofessionalized” film criticism. And while one wishes for a nice, round number to bracket the series, no small measure of pride can be taken in the reality that VW said what it had to say, established a high bar few of us could clear consis- tently (but the effort was always
fun), essentially redefined this sort of film writing in a fast-for- ward, modern age, and staked out unique ground—I can’t cite another magazine like it, or one I would read so quickly with each new issue. I suspect there might be a last gasp or two in the wings, if we’re all patient.
CONSTANTINE NASR
I discovered VW when I first came to LA about 25 years ago, and it has been with me—and guided me—ever since. Your magazine has influenced me and the work I do in home video, and the preservation of film history, in more ways than I could count. It remains the best magazine of its kind (okay, it was one of a kind) and for me, it was the only maga- zine I waited for with excitement, and in the last decade or so, the only magazine I cared was even published. You elevated the bar, broke it down and never looked back. I count my complete col- lection of VW a sacred treasure. My knowledge of cinema has been widened because of you. My quest for the obscure and the dif- ferent has been guided by your bright beacon. I have made dear friends with many of the people I encountered in your pages. I know my professional work owes a huge debt to you both. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your story, and I will be here for you when you return, in whatever form it may take.
TOBINA JOPPEN
No more VW?! This came to us like a terrible shock, though I am sure that your work will con- tinue in one way or the other and this will be rather an evolution than anything else. And yet, I can’t help having a pinch in my heart and I will sadly miss the object that arrived every other
month in its yellow envelope at our house in the French coun- tryside. My husband François Cognard and I have probably been around from the very begin- ning, having lived in LA at the end of the ’80s, and the beginning of the ’90s, always checking the newsstand at the corner of Holly- wood and Vine for the latest is- sue. After leaving the States for France, it was my husband’s first (and so far only) magazine sub- scription he ever had with all the issues neatly arranged in fold- ers that he ordered from you and put on the top shelf of our library. I first got in touch with you when ordering the marvel- ous book about Mario Bava for my husband’s birthday. When we produced our first movie [AMER], my husband was eagerly waiting for a review that took for- ever to come. Anyway, you can- not imagine how excited we were, when a review appeared of our second movie f rom Cat tet / Forzani [THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS] in the 25th Anniversary Issue, introduc- ing it “barkingly” as an A-list title and later in the review you wrote: “While watching it for the first time, I quickly understood and took heart in the fact that I was likely its perfect audience (as readers of this magazine are likely to be).” So yes, it has been wonderful to have you in our lives, to be part of the world you cre- ated where people speak the same language!
DENNIS DOROS
As somebody who was there at Volume 1 Number 1, thank you for such an incredible run. It’s an amazing accomplishment. VW has been a major contribution to film history—changing the “canon” time and again. Thank you! And I look forward to your next act.
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