The Creature’s Girl
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
The classic Universal Monsters may be old hat to some, but I can guarantee that if you catch a child young enough, these guys (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon, for example) still have the ability to galvanize and terrorize. I know they did just that to me. Of particular creepiness of the whole lot was that creature from the blasted lagoon. That guy was so ugly, when he walked into a bank they turned off the cameras. Read the rest of this entry »
Back in the late 1990’s, I used to subscribe to a magazine called Autograph Collector. Within its pages were recommendations for celebrities who would be nice enough to respond to through-the-mail request for an autograph. (Of course if this magazine had had a larger circulation, the influx of mail that these poor celebs would probably single-handedly change all of that…) One of the celebrities who had been reported to have a high success rate was model/actress Natasha Henstridge. 
American Pie was to the 1990’s as Porky’s was to the 1980’s. Neither film is for everyone, and they both have their share of raunchy and titilating moments. But behind it all was good kids with a lot of heart and raging hormones. I think both films are a little more like real high school life than most of us would like to admit…and that’s what makes them so much fun. I’ve already discussed my meeting with the 
I’ve made no secret of my love for all things Superman, but attempting to collect Superman memorabilia can be a tremendous can of worms. Between the comic books, films, TV series, cartoon series, and never-ending line of merchandising, I feel fortunate that I’ve only attempted to collect the DVD media and autographs of the major players in the films and TV series. Even this though can be daunting. Since there have been so many versions and interpretations, even this limited silo of collecting can be far-reaching. 
Being the doctor of psycho Psycho killer Norman Bates probably isn’t the most enviable or illustrious job that one might aspire to have. In fact it really didn’t turn out well at all for Dr. Bill Raymond (played by Robert Loggia) in the 1982 sequel to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. He ended up getting stabbed and knocked down that famous flight of stairs that private detective Milton Arbogast tumbled down 22 years earlier.