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Comedy Movies of All Time and Funniest Films Ever

These classic comedies are still hilarious decades after they were first released, and they're the perfect way to introduce your kids to older films and icons. What makes a comedy a classic? Something that floats on the changing tides of time and taste, remaining relevant – and hilarious? It probably takes more than a football to the groin or a juiced-up fart on the audio track. We don’t have the answer, but with our Essential list of the best comedies ever made, we’re getting closer to laugh-out-loud enlightenment than humanly thought possible. We’re melting minds, splitting sides, and slapping knees here.

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," right? Well, a laugh a day might help keep that nagging sense of total doom at bay. At least we can hope. In many ways, it’s vital for humans to laugh whenever we can, especially in times of crisis. What better option to induce laughter—a natural stress reliever, mind you—than a movie? A comedy classic is the best medicine for such moments.

That brings us to the best of the best. There are comedies coming out all the time. But to become great, you have to have a few things. Part of it is a little bit of time, to make sure the laughs weren't just in the moment. The next is a die-hard fan base that will keep the story alive. And the third part is a little bit of movie magic. Dark comedies, slapstick, rom coms... the best of their sub-genres all have it.

The list of comedy movies on DVD will deliver the best choices. These timeless classic bone ticklers will make your leisure extra special. In fact, the festivals with your friends and family will become memorable when these movies are on the watch list. A marathon of these funny movies on DVD will release your stress and help you indulge in good art.

Monkeybone (2001) Dvd

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan

Format: Dvd, Remastered

Language: English, 5.1 Surround Sound

Run Time: 93mins

Region: Region-Free Playable Worldwide

Extras: None

Plot: In a coma, a cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone.

My Mom's A Werewolf (1989) Dvd

Actors: Susan Blakely, John Saxon, Tina Caspary

Format: Dvd, Remastered

Language: English, 5.1 Surround Sound

Run Time: 87mins

Region: Region-Free Playable Worldwide

Extras: None

Plot: After being bitten by a mysterious pet-shop owner, house-wife Leslie begins a gruesome transformation into a werewolf. Her only hope is her young daughter Jennifer who races against time to stop Leslie from turning into an animal for good.

Charley and the Angel (1973) Dvd

Actors: Vincent Mceveety · Cloris Leachman · Kurt Russell · Kelly Thordsen · Pat Delany · Edward Andrews

Format: Dvd, Remastered

Language: English, 5.1 Surround Sound

Run Time: 93mins

Region: Region-Free Playable Worldwide

Extras: None

Plot: Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.

Saturday the 14th Dvd

Actors: Richard Benjamin · John Hyatt ; Paula Prentiss · Mary Hyatt ; Jeffrey Tambor · Waldemar ; Severn Darden · Van Helsing ; Kari Michaelsen · Debbie Hyatt

Format: Dvd, Remastered

Language: English, 5.1 Surround Sound

Run Time: 75mins

Region: Region-Free Playable Worldwide

Extras: None

Plot: A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it.

Passed Away (1992)

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William Petersen, Diana Bellamy.

Format: Dvd

Language: English, 5.1 Surround Sound

Run Time: 96mins

Region: Region-Free Playable Worldwide

Extras: None

Plot: When Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) dies suddenly, his family wants to give him a fitting funeral. However, now that they're all in one place, each family member's problems come to the surface. The oldest son, Johnny (Bob Hoskins), tries his best to head the family, but he finds the task overwhelming. Dimwitted brother Frank (William Petersen) wants to help, but can hardly handle his daughter's pregnancy. Sisters Terry (Pamela Reed) and Nora also arrive to add to the commotion.

#comedymovies #movies #hollywoodmovies #oldmovies #classicmovies

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beautifulfaces-icons-and-gifs · 2 years

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Cloris Leachman on American Gods Season 2

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#Cloris Leachman #icons: Cloris Leachman #Cloris Leachman icons #Cloris Leachman as zorya vechernyaya #Cloris Leachman on american gods #Cloris Leachman american gods #american gods #american gods season 2 #american gods season 2 episode 1 #american gods s2 e1 #icons

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thecroodaceousperiod · 3 years

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Gran icons ⚡

In honor of the late Cloris Leachman ❤

#the croods #the croods 2 #the croods: a new age #gran crood #gran the croods #queen of wimmins #thunder sister #cloris leachman #gran crood icons #the croods icons #icon set #dreamworks icons #dreamworks

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trevorme · 3 years

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RIP, Cloris Leachman

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dewitty1 · 3 years

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Cloris Leachman, 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' Star And Hollywood Icon, Dies At 94

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#cloris leachman #January 27 2021 #Rest in peace #Comedy #Comedian #Actor #Iconic #You will be missed

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Cloris Leachman Dies, Iconic Oscar and Emmy Winning Actress Was 94

Very sad news is coming in as beloved actress and comedian Cloris Leachman has passed away. Per TMZ, Leachman’s son has confirmed that the Emmy-winning actress died of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California, on Tuesday night with her daughter, Dinah, by her side. She was 94 years old. “She had the best life beginning to end that you could wish for someone,” Leachman’s son said,…

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#actress #Cloris #dies #Emmy #Iconic #Leachman #Oscar #winning

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considerourknowledge · 2 years

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2021 In Memoriam

We here at Consider Our Knowledge would like to take a moment to remember some of the great and notable people we lost in 2021. As if 2021 wasn’t bad enough…

Stephen Sondheim- Iconic Broadway composer who died in November at the age of 91. His passing made us feel Sorry/Grateful.

Bob Dole- World War II hero and longtime Kansas Senator who was the Republican nominee for President in 1996. Also the Bobbiest Dole that ever Bob Doled. Bob Dole.

Ann Rice- Noted author who was the first to introduce the concept of really, really hot and sexy vampires in novels. Like way before that Twilight crap. You’re welcome, Stephanie Meyer.

Mike Nesmith- Musician and member of the Monkees. He died as he lived- wearing a stocking cap.

John Madden- Legendary football coach and broadcaster who helped explain the game to average fans. Will be buried with a turducken and a PS2 console on two, on two!

Harry Reid- Democratic leader and Nevada Senator who for a time rocked one dark lens in his glasses like a Bond villain. An old, boring, Mormon, legislating Bond villain in The Guy Who Filibustered Me.

Bishop Desmond Tutu- South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. We don’t have a joke here because he was so great except his last name is fun to say. Tutu.

Larry King- Longtime TV and radio host and actual goblin who somehow got seven different women to marry him. Seven.

Cloris Leachman- Award winning comedic actress who starred in such classics as Young Frankenstein and the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Also one of our top 5 favorite Clorises of all time.

Charlie Watts- Rolling Stones drummer who somehow, shockingly was outlived by his wrinkled, sinewy bandmates Ron Wood, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards.

#in memoriam #stephen sondheim #john madden #harry reid #charlie watts #larry king #bob dole #Rolling Stones #desmond tutu

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BY MICHAEL J. MOONEY | PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVE SHAFER

Staring at the front of the Royal Theater, I feel as though I’m looking backward through time. Taking in the cerulean marquee, the painted red fringe around the box office, the vertical ROYAL sign jutting into the afternoon sky—it’s easy to imagine why the denizens of Archer County flocked here for decades. The theater was a dark, cool respite from the blazing sun, a still escape from the whipping winds of the North Central Plains, a glimpse of entertainment from the outside world.

The theater—or what’s left of it anyway—peers out from the northeast corner of the town square. Without the storied theater, this could be any small town in Texas. Weathered barns and rusted oil pumps dot the landscape. Anchoring the town is the imposing three-story Romanesque Revival county courthouse, with stone archways and provincial peaks. There’s also a small café (Murn’s), a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it police station, a few antiques stores, and a single four-way stoplight swaying in the breeze like an apparition.

The Royal Theater as it is now and as it was then.

This isn’t just any small town in Texas, though. Archer City is the Texas small town. It’s the setting of both the novel and film versions of The Last Picture Show, a coming-of-age story rendered in black and white that earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Best Directing, and Best Picture. In Larry McMurtry’s book, published in 1966, the town is called Thalia. In the movie, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released in 1971, it’s called Anarene—a name taken from an abandoned town 8 miles away. But rest assured, both places are Archer City: the looming courthouse, the blinking stoplight, and the Royal Theater, where so many of the most dramatic moments of The Last Picture Show take place.

The novel, which McMurtry called a “spiteful” book intended to “lance some of the poisons of small-town life,” received critical acclaim when it was published. But it was Bogdanovich’s film that truly introduced the entire world, in utterly unromanticized fashion, to the intense, sweeping sagas of everyday life in Archer City. The Last Picture Show turned this particular and peculiar town into art.

Both the novel and movie contain language that was considered lewd at the time. McMurtry’s own mother, Hazel, once said that after reading the first 100 pages she hid the book in the closet and called her son that night. “Larry, honey,” she said to him, he revealed in his 2002 travel memoir Paradise, “is this what we’re sending you to Rice for? Those awful words!”

The film, with its nudity and frank depiction of teenage sexuality—including Cybill Shepherd’s first and only topless scene—absolutely scandalized upright, moral Americans all over the country. Nowhere more so than in Archer City, where it was regarded at the time as a “dirty” movie.

Now, 50 years after the film’s release, the town’s past dalliances with Hollywood are somehow simultaneously scuttled and omnipresent. There’s no billboard at the city limit announcing the place’s cultural significance, no notation on the water tower. But there are echoes of the art formed here, about this place, along every street, around every corner. Some might even feel the spirit of McMurtry, who passed away in Archer City earlier this year.

Over the last five decades, Peter Bogdanovich, a New Yorker who operated in Los Angeles, has told the story of the movie’s origin many times. He’d seen the novel in a store, liked the title, saw what it was about, and immediately put the book back down. Then actor Sal Mineo, who’d starred alongside James Dean and Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause, gave Bogdanovich a copy of the novel, saying he thought it would make a good film. Bogdanovich still didn’t read it, but gave it to his wife, production designer Polly Platt, and asked her to read it. When she inspired him to finally read it himself, he was intrigued by the challenge of conveying small-town life in Texas and eventually co-wrote the screenplay with McMurtry. Bogdanovich, Platt, and McMurtry took a long road trip scouting locations in Texas, but ultimately the director realized he wanted to shoot the movie in McMurtry’s hometown.

Set in the early 1950s, the story follows three teenagers—the co-captains of the football team and the so-called prettiest girl in school—through their senior year of high school, as they each struggle to make sense of adult concepts like love and sex and the fragility of human life. Sonny Crawford is the sensitive, thoughtful boy from a broken home. Duane Jackson is Sonny’s lovelorn best friend who escapes first into the oil fields and then the Korean War. Jacy Farrow is the coquettish rich girl who yearns wholeheartedly for something beyond the confines of her surroundings. The Last Picture Show also famously includes an ensemble of carefully rendered adults trying to cope with their own expired dreams and broken lives.

McMurtry repeated over the years that the characters he created weren’t based on any real-life individuals, but the people of Archer City always suspected otherwise. A man named Bobby Stubbs, who was photographed with McMurtry in their high school yearbook, believed he was the inspiration for Sonny. Stubbs had a troubled home life and worked nights like Sonny, and he drove the same kind of pickup truck. He was also once hit in the eye by the boyfriend of a girl he liked. “It kinda pretty closely followed me,” Stubbs used to say.

A woman named Ceil Cleveland Footlick was often asked if she was the inspiration for Jacy. She was “very good friends” (her words) with Stubbs and had been voted “Most Beautiful Girl” in her class. For years she brushed off the question, but in 1997 she published a memoir with the title Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow?

Because of the book’s reputation, getting actors to audition was a challenge. Randy Quaid was cast as Lester, an awkward, sleazy suitor of Jacy’s. He’d only read the parts of the script that involved his character, which mostly centered on Lester taking Jacy to a naked swimming party. “I just thought it was going to be like this B-movie, teenage, soft-porn movie,” Quaid would later say. “Something you’d see at the drive-in.”

None of the young stars had much experience in film. Timothy Bottoms, who’d only been in one movie before, was cast to play Sonny. Jeff Bridges, cast as Duane, had been a professional actor nearly all his life, but at 21 years old, this would be his first major film role. And Bogdanovich cast Shepherd as Jacy after seeing her face on the cover of Glamour magazine.

Most of the adults in the movie were played by established Hollywood actors, including Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, and Eileen Brennan. For the role of Sam the Lion, the wisdom-dispensing owner of the town’s pool hall, Bogdanovich cast Ben Johnson, the champion-rodeo-cowboy-turned-stuntman-turned-Western-movie-icon. At first Johnson turned down the part on account of the foul language, but Bogdanovich called in a favor from his director friend John Ford, who convinced Johnson to do it.

Almost as soon as filming started, real life began imitating the art being created. While making a movie about illicit sex and barely veiled scandal, the set was awash in illicit sex and barely veiled scandal. The actors spent a lot of time drinking and smoking together in their hotel rooms 30 minutes north in Wichita Falls, and that led to drama. Bottoms fell in love with Shepherd. Bogdanovich started an affair with Shepherd, dissolving his own marriage while his wife, Platt, continued to work on the movie. (Most mornings Platt styled Shepherd’s hair.) “It was quite a soap opera,” Burstyn said in the documentary Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas.

This was everything the locals had feared: all the immoral luridness of Hollywood, right here in a part of Texas not so comfortable with unwholesomeness that didn’t stay behind closed doors.

Outside of Archer City, it was a different story. The movie received great reviews from coast to coast. Johnson won the Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role and Leachman won for Actress in a Supporting Role. The film is still beloved today and maintains a spot in the coveted National Film Registry.

But at the time of its release, most of the locals disapproved. Strongly. The Los Angeles Times ran a story about it with the headline “Movie Riles Town It Depicts.” McMurtry, who was involved in Bogdanovich’s vision, eventually got so annoyed by the vicious gossip in town that he sent a letter to the editor of the Archer City newspaper, challenging anyone in town to a public debate.

His offer went unrequited.

Archer City’s population is 1,848, only a couple hundred larger than it was when McMurtry grew up there in the ’30s and ’40s. The town is the seat of Archer County, created in 1858 by the Texas State Legislature and named after Branch Tanner Archer, former secretary of war of the Republic of Texas. Ranching and oil have long been the predominant industries—by late 1926, there were more than 400 oil wells within 13 miles of Archer City—but many people are increasingly attracted to the town for its proximity to prime hunting.

Many of the locations where The Last Picture Show was filmed are gone now. Where Sam’s dusty pool hall once stood, with its door flapping in the wind, there’s nothing but an empty dirt lot. The Rig-Wam Drive Inn, the burger joint where Jacy dangled french fries over Duane’s head as if he was a trained seal, is just a plot of asphalt and patchy grass. The West-Tex Theater in the neighboring town of Olney, used for the interior movie theater scenes, was torn down in the mid-’80s. Today it’s a small, quiet park with a gazebo.

Some places are still here, but different. The restaurant where Brennan’s character worked turned into Booked Up No. 4, one of four bookstores McMurtry set up around the town square before shuttering all but one in 2012. The high school has some of the same old features, though it’s been updated and decorated with a handful of granite statues marking state titles the school has won through the years.

Much of the town looks and acts remarkably like it did when The Last Picture Show was made. Boys about the age of Duane and Sonny still speed through town in pickup trucks. Men the age of Sam the Lion still stop them to talk about football. The dance hall at the American Legion, where Jacy and Duane twirled around the room and Sonny ran into his estranged father, looks like it could host the same event today. On a recent evening, four or five locals were perched on barstools, sipping cold beers, listening to songs on the jukebox. They got rid of the old Wurlitzer years ago, but the updated digital version there now still plays all the Hank Williams Sr. songs from the movie.

In time, feelings in Archer City softened a bit. Mostly, the people here don’t talk much about the movie, or about McMurtry, the town’s most famous son. You can spend all morning at Murn’s Café and all night at the American Legion, the only bar in town, and never hear The Last Picture Show mentioned once. It’s not the source of tension it once was.

The public change of heart was most apparent in 1989, nearly 20 years after The Last Picture Show was filmed, when Bogdanovich returned to Archer City to shoot the sequel, Texasville, based on a book of the same name by McMurtry. This time the townspeople lined up to participate as extras. People came from miles away to sell concessions or to take photos or just get a glimpse of the nearly $20 million production.

“The bad taste that the movie left for some folks, that’s gone now,” then-high school principal Nat Lunn told the Austin American-Statesman at the time. “Especially with money being short in town, they’re ready for another dose of Hollywood.”

By the late 1980s, the three leads in the first film—Bottoms, Bridges, and Shepherd—had all become stars. While the entire budget for the first movie was around $1.3 million, Shepherd alone was paid $1.5 million to reprise her role. Bridges was reportedly paid $1.75 million. Bottoms, who’d complained publicly about Bogdanovich and said he didn’t like any of his co-stars, would only agree to return if he was given an additional $100,000 to fund the Picture This documentary.

In the two decades since the first movie, Bogdanovich’s career had soared and crashed. He and Shepherd had broken up; he went on to have multiple relationships, and she had two divorces. Bottoms was also divorced and remarried, but on the set he confessed the crush he’d had on Shepherd. Platt returned, too, and brought the 21-year-old daughter she and Bogdanovich shared. It became a grand, twisted Hollywood reunion, right there on the streets of Archer City.

Drawn by the potential spectacle of what was by then some sort of love-octagon, media outlets from across the country sent reporters to town. There were long feature stories in both Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. By all accounts, though, the entire production served as a therapeutic experience, healing the wounds of the past. At one press conference, the often-sullen Bottoms hugged Bogdanovich. Behind-the-scenes footage caught Shepherd hugging Bottoms. Residents of Archer County took photos of themselves on the set.

But when the movie was released, it tanked. It received middling reviews, earned back only a fraction of its budget, and even today it’s not easy to find on any of the major streaming services.

A lot of people associated with The Last Picture Show are dead now. Stubbs, who claimed to be the basis for Sonny, died in 1992. Johnson in 1996. Sam Bottoms, the real-life younger brother of Timothy Bottoms who played the mute boy Billy, died in 2008. Platt, the producer and production designer who somehow never pulled Shepherd’s hair, died in 2011. Then Brennan in 2013.

In January of this year, Footlick, the woman who wrote about being the real Jacy Farrow, died in North Carolina. Leachman died almost two weeks later. And on March 25, McMurtry, the writer who created all this beautiful trouble, died at the age of 84.

A few days after his death, nobody answered the doorbell at his house in Archer City, a majestic, three-story mansion just down the road from the high school. Looking through the front window, everything seemed to me to be just the way he left it, from the table made from a giant dinosaur fossil to the towering shelves of books in every room. McMurtry bought this place, the biggest home in town, after he won the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove. He’d wake up early in the morning, type for an hour and a half or so at his long oak table, then go to the bookstore to price antiquarian volumes. Most of the locals would leave him alone.

On the house’s front porch, a single rocking chair was situated to look out over the front yard into the surrounding neighborhood. Someone sitting there could see the comings and goings of a lot of people. As the early-evening wind moved through, the chair began to rock ever so gently.

These days, I sense the people of Archer City think differently of The Last Picture Show. It’s a part of the town’s story, just like the cattle industry and state titles. The movie is even mentioned on the town’s website, though it’s certainly not prominent.

There’s also a tiny park just off the square with a fiberglass horse covered in brands from local ranches and a display that chronicles a bit of the town’s history. The welded metal wall has separate panels for the town’s founding, the first successful oil well drilled here, and the giant fire that swept through in 1925. There’s also a panel explaining how the town was the filming location for The Last Picture Show and Texasville. Bogdanovich’s last name is misspelled.

A couple hundred feet away is the Royal Theater. Most of the building is a burned-out hull, popular for weddings, photo shoots, and occasional performances. The front of the building has been restored, though. It looks just like it did in the movie, the image that begins and ends the film. It’s haunting and beautiful, weathered and damaged—but still here, still standing, still looking at that single blinking light swaying in the wind.

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The Last Picture Show wasn’t the first movie based on a novel by Larry McMurtry, and it certainly wasn’t the last. You might besurprised by just how many films and TV shows have been made from his novels. Here are a few:

Hud, 1963 (based on Horseman, Pass By) The Last Picture Show, 1971 Lovin’ Molly, 1974 (based on Leaving Cheyenne) Terms of Endearment, 1983 Lonesome Dove, 1989 Texasville, 1990 The Evening Star, 1996

https://texashighways.com/culture/how-the-last-picture-show-changed-the-worlds-view-of-small-town-texas/

#archer city texas #larry mcmurtry #peter bogdanovich #the last picture show

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femme-fangirl · 3 years

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first hank aaron, which as a baseball fan hit hard

he was a true icon and a pioneer in the sport

then cloris leachman and that one hurt too

i was of course introduced to her in the mary tyler moore show, and phyllis is iconic, but my favorite role of hers is in spanglish

her evelyn is brilliant and so, so funny

and today, cicely tyson

so brilliant, so talented, a true national treasure who i first fell in love with in a guest appearance on emergency! but whose roles i adored from fried green tomatoes to the cameo on madam secretary

already 2021 can fuck right off

you will all be missed ♡︎

#cloris leachman #the mary tyler moore show #spanglish #hank aaron #baseball #cicely tyson #emergency!#madam secretary #the help #fried green tomatoes #rip

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malspinningyarns · 3 years

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Wow. Cloris Leachman, then Cicely Tyson, now Christopher Plummer. We are just losing acting icons left and right early 2021.

#cloris leachman #cicely tyson #christopher plummer

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10 Favorite Frankenstein movies

The Bride

A kind of sequel to Bride of Frankenstein ,that poses the question what if the Bride survived .I will admit I find the titular Bride’s story rather dull though Jessica Beals herself is good .....But all the stuff with the Monster played by Clancy Brown is AMAZING with his friendship to a circus performer played by David Rappaport of Time Bandits fame ,I like that it is about these two creatures finding their humanity and who they are , and I like that this version goes fully the creations are good ,while Frankenstein ,here played by Sting is the true monster

Son of Frankenstein

Lets get the bad out of the way ,the monster himself is a villain .He is just a brutish minion to Ygor.....Which goes against the development he has had in the previous films ,in fact the film kind of ignores Bride of Frankenstein .That said Karloff returns to play the monster ,and there is some depth to him ,with his devotion towards Ygor .....Which leads to the best thing about the film YGOR played by Bela Lugosi,in the most non Bela Lugosi role ever.Ygor is a creepy villain ,manipulative and very compellling ,out for revenge on those who broke his neck .We also have Lionel Atwil as the one armed Inspector and the always brilliant Basil Rathbone as the titular character ,and these three performances are why I like this movie

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

A more faithful adaptation of the book but with still some liberties taken ,I think this movie is underrated.It’s definately got Kenneth Branagh’s signiture hamminess and the casting of Robert DiNero as the monster is reallly distracting......But at the same time he gives a great performance as the more eloquent monster of the book ,Helena Bonham Carter,Branagh himself,Ian Holm , and John Cleese are all good (With Cleese giving a very good dramatic performance ) and the climax which is not from the book is FANTASTIC/

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

This is the darkest of the Hammer Frankenstein films.....And I mean that in both a good and bad way .There is a scene of sexual assault that was forced into the movie ,and it could be cut out of the movie no problem.That scene aside the film is pretty goood presenting a more villainous Baron ,blackmailing a couple into working for him ,it has one of the best monsters in the Hammer series played by Freddie Jones and the climax is one of the best of any Frankenstein film

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Of the official Universal monster mashes this is my favorite ,you have the titular duo doing their bits while the Frankensteins Monster ,Dracula, and the Wolf Man are still menacing .Dracula wants to put Costellos brain in the Monster,Wolf Man wants to stop them,and Costelllo keeps trying to warn Abbott about the monsters but Abbott never believes him .Costelllo in particular is hilarious everytime he is scared by the monsters ,Lon Chaney Jr is on top form playing straight man to the goofy duo ,Lugosi slides back into the role of Dracula so welll you forget he hasnt played him on screen in 17 years and I think this is Glenn Stranges lumbering brute of a monster works for this movie

Curse of Frankenstein

The film that established Hammer horror and Peter Cushing’s more villainous take on the Baron .The film really goes into Victors ambition and the creature presented is more gruesome and ghoulish

Revenge of Frankenstein

A direct sequel to Curse ,and my favorite of the Hammer FRankenstein films ,Cushing is marvelous ,I love his relationship with his assistant ,and I find it fascinating that the creation in this film is very downplayed ,like there is a monster technicallly but the film establishes that this series is more about the Baron himself

Young Frankenstein

One of the most loving parodies I have ever seen,telling the tale of Frankensteins grandson in the style of a classic Universal horror movie.It spoofs several elements from the Frankenstein series while still having an identity of it’s own .The cast is perfect,with Gene Wilder,Peter Boyle,Gene Hackman,Kenneth Mars,Teri Garr,Cloris LEachman,Madelin Khan and ESPECIALLY Marty Feldman all deliving fantastic comedic perfromances .If I have one nitpick I never cared for the ending but other then that the film is great

Bride of Frankenstein

This gothic sequel is in some ways supperior to the original.The monster evolves as a character,there is the beautiful scene with the blind old man ,the Bride herself is iconic ,there is a wonderful dark sense of humor and Pretorious is a deliciously fun villain

Frankenstein

One of my absolute favorite horror movies .Colin Clive is wonderfully intense as Frankenstein ,and Karloff makes for a extremely sympathetic monster.I dont have the words to describe how much I adore this film

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#halloween #horror #frankenstein #bride of frankenstein #young frankenstein #the bride #son of frankenstein #mary shelley's frankenstein #frankenstein must be destroyed #abbott and costello meet frankenstein #curse of frankenstein #revenge of frankenstein

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Wonder Woman: The Complete Collection

In the Fall of 1975 ABC Television introduce the world to one of the most beautiful superheroes ever and my personal all-time favorite; Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman. Now, Warner Bros is set to release the entire series remastered for the first time on Blu-ray. On July 28th (next week) the tv series will be released in a glorious HD Blu-Ray Box Set.

I was introduced to Wonder Woman as a child via the Super Friends in the early 70s, but there has been no version of the character more enjoyable to me than Lynda Carter’s portrayal. Besides being a total knockout beauty wise, her on-air presence bleed through the tv screen weekly.

Okay, this was television is the 70s, so the budget wasn’t that big, and the special effects don’t seem that special according to today’s standards, but all the elements that made Wonder Woman who she is today were in place back then; the Invisible Jet, Magic Lasso, Magical Bracelets and that magnificently sexy outfit.

Season One features adventures in Wonder Woman’s original World War II era, while Seasons Two and Three whoosh forward to the disco-loving ‘70s. All 59 episodes, plus the treasured pilot movie, are spread across 10 discs.

Bonus features include:

Audio commentary of the pilot movie by Lynda Carter & executive producer Douglas S. Cramer

Audio commentary by Lynda Carter on episode, “My Teenage Idol is Missing”

Featurette – Beauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Bracelets: A Wonder Woman Retrospective

Featurette – Revolutionizing a Classic: From Comic Book to Television

Featurette – Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Feminist Icon

The TV movie pilot, The New Original Wonder Woman, premiered on November 7, 1975 on ABC and it is fantastic IMO. The first season of the series, Wonder Woman, debuted February 16, 1977 on ABC. The second and third seasons of the series aired on CBS, with the final original episode premiering on September 11, 1979.

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The Wonder Woman series starred Lynda Carter in the title role as both Wonder Woman and her alter ego, Diana Prince, Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor, and Debra Winger as Wonder Girl/Drusilla. First season regulars included Beatrice Colen as Etta Candy, and Richard Eastham as General Philip Blankenship. Noteworthy guest stars included such luminaries of the era as singer/actor Rick Springfield, Red Buttons, Roy Rogers, Roddy McDowall, Frank Gorshin, Celeste Holm, Martin Mull, Dick Gautier, Ron Ely, Gary Burghoff, Leif Garrett, Ed Begley Jr., Dick Van Patten, Eve Plumb, Philip Michael Thomas, Cloris Leachman, Gavin MacLeod, Carolyn Jones, Joan Van Ark, Robert Reed, Anne Francis, John Saxon and many more.

This is superhero fun for the whole family!

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The Secret Passion of Ed Asner

Chapter Ten: Birthday Sex

Featuring Peter Jason and Ed Asner

My name is Adam, personal assistant Ed Asner and you may have read about me and Mr. Asner on previous stories. If you have, then you know that I have been fucking the soon to be 90 year old. Well, it's not every day that a living legend turns 90. So, we decided to celebrate Ed's 90th birthday with a gala benefit. On November 3rd, more than 400 of Asner’s friends and colleagues gathered at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, site of the first Academy Awards, to celebrate the life and career of the TV icon. Tom Bergeron, host of Dancing With The Stars, served as emcee for the festivities with Mark Hamill, Cloris Leachman, Brad Garrett, Ed Begley Jr, among others roasting him.

Scanning the crowd as I stepped away from Ed for a moment, I thought I'd just died and gone to heaven there were so many old good-looking celebrity men there. I couldn’t keep my eyes from flickering from one old man’s face to another as I threaded through the crowd to the bar area.

"I'll have a beer.” I said as I reached between to old guys sitting at the bar to place a twenty-dollar bill on the bar.

One of the old men was my type, slim, gray haired and fatherly looking while the other one looked very familiar, but I couldn't quite place him yet.

“Excuse me.” I said looking at the gray haired old man when I reached between the two for the beer that the bartender placed on the bar.

"Hey, long time no see." The gray haired old man said turning to look at me for the first time.

It was actor Peter Jason, a good friend of Ed who fucked me one time some time ago. He quickly jumped up, smiled broadly and gave me a big hug. It was good seeing him again after all that time and he’d barely changed. We talked a bit as I started getting a hard on staring at him.

"So you and Ed still fucking?" The old man said as I felt his leg touch mine. I like the light sexy touch of his knee against my leg as it sent chill bumps down my spine.

"Yeah, but we do see other people as you know." I said as I let my left hand drop to my side and slowly reached down and touched his thigh. I could feel his flesh beneath the soft fabric of his slacks as I rubbed his thigh with my fingers.

Suddenly he grabbed my hand and pulled it over to his crotch. Breathing like a marathon running dashing for the finish line, I pressed my hand against the crotch of his slacks, touching his dick. Then I move my fingers down and felt his balls beneath the fabric of his slacks. They were big and watery as my dick began to throb.

“You want to get out of here?” The old man said as he leaned over and whispered in my ear.

“Sure.” I said.

We check to see if any one would notice us leaving quickly slipped into a empty conference room. Locking the door behind us, we fell into an embrace, sharing a long passionate kiss as we began frantically undoing our pants. We probably didn’t have much time for a prolonged fucking, but neither of us certainly didn’t mind.

"Get on your knees boy."

I quickly dropped to my knees and took his dick in my hands. I was looking at his thick penis staring out at me from a forest of salt and peppered pubic hair. He grabbed my head and pulled it forward so that the head of his dick bumped my nose.

"Suck it!"

I reached up, took a hold of his shaft and took the head into my mouth wrapping my lips around it, circling the underside with my tongue. I sucked on it firmly and felt it grow in my mouth, mushrooming out. Fully erect he was above average length and slightly above average thickness that filled my mouth nicely as I slid my lips over it and taking it in down to its base. Peter then grab the sides of my head and began fucking my face, his hips moved slightly as I sucked on his cock. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the smell of his cologne mixed with his natural musk from his crotch and the wet sounds of my lips sucking an erect shaft.

"You really know how to suck a cock, boy." He said as his hips sped up.

After a delicious minute or two, I could hear him panting as he kneaded my hair and I felt the head of his wonderful cock swell just before he sudden exhaled, “No!”

Pulling me up, Peter kissed me hard, forcing my mouth open and his tongue deep in to it. He kissed me for a long time before breaking his hold on me as we both panted for air.

"Turn around and bend over the table so I can fuck you.” Peter said as he gave his cock a few hand pumps to make it throbbing hard.

I quickly did as I was ordered. Peter got behind me gripping my hips and spread my ass cheeks with his thumbs. He then rubbed the head of his cock along my crack and especially my pale pink button of an asshole.

"I’ve been wanting this for awhile now.” The old man said as I heard him spit into his hand then felt the pressure as he pushed the head into my ass.

“Give it to me. Fuck me.” I called out.

“Here comes ready or not.” Peter said as he shoved his fat cock into me.

“Ohh yes!” I called out.

Peter just laughed, grabbed my hips and forced his huge cock deeper and deeper into me.

“Now, I am going to give you a fucking like only I can.” Peter said when he finally had all his cock stuffed inside my old asshole. And with those words he pulled his cock part ways out and then slowly sled it back to the bottom of my asshole. Then he pulled out till the head almost slipped out then thrust it smoothly back in as each entry into me made me catch my breath.

"You like that huh? Bet Ed has fucked you a thousand times.” He said as his grip tightened.

"Yes." I gasped out loud.

"Tell me how bad you want my cock in your ass! Beg me to cum in your ass!"

"I love it, I need it. I need it SO bad. Fuck my ass, own it!"

I was pushing back against his thrusts enjoying the sound of skin slapping together, and that hard dick pounding my ass. I felt my balls tighten up to my body and my cock felt like there was an electric charge running through it.

"Please cum in me. Fill my hole. No ones ever cum in me before. Fill my ass!" I cried out as my asshole quiver and became spastic as I shot off. And still the old goat fucked me ever harder and faster.

“Yea, take my cock in that hot asshole. You got a good ass kid. A damn good, hot ass. Oh God, it is too good. I am losing it. Oh, I am losing it.” The old man cried out as thought he was in pain.

He thrust fully into me digging his fingers into my hips and grunted holding himself deep in me. He began spraying my insides with his hot cum. His hot load of cum throw me into a fit that left me weak and disorientated.

“You all right?” Peter asked as he pulled his cock out of my ass slowly.

“I would be all right it you would fuck me just one more time with that monster of your.” I said weakly. I really mean it. I wanted that old man’s cock again.

"Now when you take Ed home tonight. You go and fuck his brains out. Give her a fucking like she had never had before.” Peter said.

As I pulled my pants up, I thought of Ed, being it was his birthday. I couldn’t wait until we get back to his house. I was going to give him to fucking of her life the moment she walked in the door. I did just that.

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