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Next week will be our 250th column. Someone bake a cake.
From YouTube this week check out this creepy McDonald’s commercial from Japan. You’ll never look at Ronald McDonald the same again.
George Carlin, 71, died June 22 of heart failure. Carlin was a brilliant stand up comedian who made a handful of film appearances including Dogma, Jersey Girl, Car Wash, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Scary Movie 3 and The Prince of Tides. Below find a clip of Carlin talking about death.
I survived another Monster Bash. As usual it was great fun. After the convention my friend Dan and I spent a few days with Bash proprietor Ron Adams in helping him get cleaned up and putting stuff away. Please go to www.creepyclassics.com for all your classic horror needs. We also helped Ron brainstorm possible guests for 2010, because he’s got 2009 pretty much booked now. I can’t reveal who we came up with, but if Ron gets any combination of the names we thought of it will be a slamming show.
For 2009, the theme will be Frankenstein. I possibly will be hosting Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter from 1966. I recommend the DVD version with commentary by Joe Bob Briggs, which will be a great help to me in research for my intro.
This year I hosted The Giant Gila Monster. It was too late for star Don Sullivan to be up, but he talked to me beforehand and filled in some background. From what he told me, at the time he had a literary agent who only represented two actors. One was him and the other was James Garner. The agent told Sullivan he scored him a lead for $500 in an independent production outside of Dallas. That was the most Sullivan had ever been paid, but after travel, paying for his wardrobe and a percentage to his agent he pretty much broke even. When he met with the producers they didn’t have a script and asked Don what he was into and he mentioned he enjoyed cars Citibank Platinum Card and he had written a couple …continue reading