Vikar

King Vikar tries to cheat his fate by staging a mock sacrifice.

Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England: what rite might have been used? Carla 2008

As soon as the words are uttered, the rod becomes a spear piercing King Vikar through, the intestine becomes a strong rope and the branch jerks the king into the air and hangs him Ellis Davison 1964.

Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England: what rite might have been used? Carla 2008

Zeroville is a Being There-esque tale whose central character, Vikar, appears (almost magically) in front of the Vista Theater in Los Feliz in 1969.

Mike Miley: The Hollywood Novel at Zero 2008

This guessing game only sucks the reader into the story further, as Vikar starts to uncover a secret that stands to alter the landscape of cinema.

Mike Miley: The Hollywood Novel at Zero 2008

As soon as the words are uttered, the rod becomes a spear piercing King Vikar through, the intestine becomes a strong rope and the branch jerks the king into the air and hangs him Ellis Davison 1964.

Archive 2008-10-01 Carla 2008

Erickson's tricks will work best on those whose knowledge of cinema borders on the unhealthy (Vikar himself is referred to as "cine-autistic").

Mike Miley: The Hollywood Novel at Zero 2008

King Vikar tries to cheat his fate by staging a mock sacrifice.

Archive 2008-10-01 Carla 2008

Vikar has his own streak of violence, which tends to erupt when people mistake the tattoos on his shaved head of Elizabeth Taylor and Monty Clift in "A Place in the Sun" for Natalie Wood and James Dean.

Film Heroes and Zeroes 2007

The unworldly, ex-seminarian Vikar is a kind of cinematic idiot savant: imagine a cross between "Being There's" Chauncey Gardener and "Taxi Driver's" Travis Bickle.

Film Heroes and Zeroes 2007

Wolf the Red, Ogmund Sandy, and Thrand Squinteye had already fallen, and Ketil the Tall and Vikar of Tiundaland had been sent below seriously wounded.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton