And there goes another one

As remembered to us by Tom Waits:

“Well I'm goin' out west where the wind blows tall
'Cause Tony Franciosa used to date my ma*
They got some money out there, they're giving it away
I'm gonna do what I want and I'm gonna get paid.”

The Franciosa film I'll remember most is Dario Argento's wonderfully gruesome bright-red bloodbath Tenebre, which I stumbled across during a late-night horror-film binge a couple of Halloweens ago. It contains possibly the only filmed instance of death-by-pointy-modernist-sculpture.

* He was also once married to the great Shelly Winters, who just died last Saturday (I happened to hear that news while I was watching her great Western, Winchester 73).