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mst3kproject · 2 years

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Evil Spawn

Picture a mix of four parts The Wasp Woman to one part Weasels Rip my Flesh, with John Carradine.

The opening card informs us: the Venus probe 'Odyssey' returns to Earth. It brings back alien microbes for study by independent laboratories. The use... and misuse... of these microbes is the subject of this film. It's a good thing they told us that, because based on the rest of the movie we would have no idea. Cut to an Evil Scientist freeing a Venusian weasel-bug from a metal filing cabinet. It mauls a dude, who turns into a zombie and rips a guy's arm off (serious deja-vu here). The Evil Scientist then goes to see John Carradine, who tells her that she must continue his work before abruptly dropping dead. None of this is really important.

Next, we meet Lynn Roman, who was once the hottest star in Hollywood, but that was before she committed the unpardonable sin of of turning forty. Evil Scientist comes to see Lynn and offers a magical youth serum, which does not noticeably rejuvenate her – but after nightfall she turns into a giant Venusian weasel-bug that drinks the blood of the living! After killing everybody who insulted her and a couple of people who didn't, she is gunned down by the police, leaving her biographer alive to tell her story.

I have a number of observations about this movie that don't really fit into a smooth narrative, so I'm just gonna deal with them one by one in an attempt at chronological order.

Within moments of pressing 'play' you will find the first thing I always remember about this movie, which is that the opening shots are stolen from Planet of Dinosaurs. How cheap do you have to be to steal the vacuum-cleaner spaceship from Planet of Dinosaurs?! This bit doesn't even serve any storytelling purpose. We already know that we've got crap from outer space because the text told us. We don't need to see the crap from outer space because it's not all that important. All this footage accomplishes is making the movie thirty seconds longer.

John Carradine is only in one scene. He looks extremely old and unwell, and I'm not sure I understood anything he said. I was slightly concerned that he actually did die right there and they just kept filming, but according to Wikipedia he lasted long enough to be in two more movies. Evil Spawn is, however, the last movie he appeared in that was released before his death in November 1988.

The 'top secret lab' where Evil Scientist steals the samples is absolutely located in somebody's suburban basement, and I would be willing to bet money it's the same house as we see Lynn living in. I'm not going to criticize them too hard for this, because they made the wise decision to spend the money instead on their monsters. The humanoid Venusian weasel-bug Lynn turns into isn't particularly impressive, but I do like the little one the scientists were keeping in their filing cabinet. It's obviously a hand puppet, but it's a fun, creative hand puppet with little red LED eyes, and its design is more alien than most things on Star Trek.

Remember how in The Leech Woman they had some lousy 'old lady' makeup for Old June and just caked a centimetre or so of foundation on for Young June? Evil Spawn does neither. Actress Bobbie Bresee, playing Lynn, was in fact forty at the time the movie was shot, and she's a better-looking forty than I am... but they literally never try to make her look either older or younger. After getting her first shot of Venusian youth serum she strips in front of a mirror to check out her restored hotness, and I honestly thought she was looking for evidence that the stuff had done anything because she looks exactly the same. I guess she is supposed to look younger, because other characters keep commenting on it, but as far as I can tell they didn't even try to show this.

Also, the first shot of Lynn is of her orgasm face. I... what?

We never find out what the Evil Scientist's plan is. We do learn that her name is Evelyn, pronounced with a long E so it sounds like “Evil Lynn”. I'm pretty sure this is a reference to Lynn in this movie rather than to the character from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, but I'm not sure what we're supposed to take from it. Nor do I have any idea what to make of the room she keeps as a shrine to Lynn Roman, covered with photos and articles about her on the wall. She even has a mannequin head that bears a vague resemblance to Lynn. She brushes its hair and argues with it. Then she kills herself when the police arrive, leaving us wondering what the hell that was all about with no possibility of ever getting an answer.

Had Evil Spawn appeared on MST3K (or should it do so in the future), it would have been a heck of a workout for the titty drones. Showing us breasts seems to be one of the movie's major purposes in existing. Lynn feels herself up in the shower both before and after her supposed youthening. Her secretary Elaine is killed while skinny-dipping. And a woman named Tracy is in the middle of a striptease when Venusian Weasel-Bug Lynn interrupts. Each of these scenes, of course, goes on long after we've got the point.

But then, the movie is actually quite slow anyway. I'm sure I've complained about movies that are in such a rush to get to the action that they don't bother letting us meet the characters. That is not a problem here. Evil Spawn takes its time to get to know Lynn and understand the root of her fear of aging, which is more than Countess Dracula ever did. This does help – we're never unclear about what's going on and we understand why Lynn is choosing these people in particular to exact her revenge on. There's just a bit too much of it, making scenes drag on, which is not a good thing when those scenes are nothing but mediocre actors yelling at each other. Some of this time really could have been better spent telling us what Evil Scientist's actual goal was... but then, I suspect even the writers didn't know that.

Above and beyond all that, the biggest thing that caught my attention is a sort of running joke in which Evil Spawn can't seem to stop reminding us that we are, in fact, watching a bad movie. Sometimes it does this by mentioning other bad movies – Lynn's agent has posters for 1969's The Stewardesses (a mediocre 3D softcore porno-comedy, which is apparently a real genre) and 1986's The Tomb (an awful mummy movie featuring both Carradine and Cameron Mitchell from Space Mutiny, and definitely a future ETNW). But mostly, it just straight-up talks about it.

When Evil Scientist offers Lynn her magical Venusian youth serum, Lynn complains, “this sounds like a bad science fiction film.” Later, Lynn's biographer Ross tries to convince her that she needs to be in the hospital, telling her, “this is not the plot of some movie, this is real!” People do say things like this in real life, but they shouldn't do so in movies, because it destroys suspension of disbelief by reminding us that we are, in fact, watching a movie. Reminding us that we are watching a bad movie is even worse, and also gives the impression that even the characters think the plot is stupid.

Evil Spawn brings up bad movies again every time we find out anything about Lynn's career. The reason she is so desperate to look younger is because she wants to play the lead in a movie called The Savage Goddess, and the absolute last insult that pushes her over the edge is learning that the producer wants her to play the main character's mother instead. At another point, she's offered a script for She-Demon, which she considers beneath her because it's being made by an Italian company with a budget of less than a million dollars. This seems pretty rich coming from a woman who is currently appearing in Evil Spawn.

I am, honestly, puzzled by this motif. It's not unusual for movies to be interested in the film-making business – you're supposed to write what you know, after all. But Evil Spawn is particularly obsessed with bad movies, and the fact that the lead in The Savage Goddess is such a desirable part for somebody seeking to re-ignite her career suggests that there is really no other kind. I suppose this is meant to be a joke, a wink at the audience and an acknowledgement that Evil Spawn is not exactly Oscar material. It doesn't work both for the reasons I discussed above and because of something I've mentioned before: the best bad movies are the ones that at least try to take themselves seriously. References like this make Evil Spawn feel like everybody on the project would have agreed with Lynn: this material is beneath them, and because of it the joy that makes things like Starcrash and Teenagers from Outer Space such fun is entirely missing here.

A movie called She-Demons was in fact made in 1958. There isn't an actual Savage Goddess, but there's a 1932 jungle film called Savage Girl. Surprisingly, I haven't yet seen either. I will remedy this in short order, and you will hear about it when I do.

#mst3k #reviews #episodes that never were #evil spawn #poor john carradine #80s #i reference star trek #tw: suicide

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spawksstuff · 8 months

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Summer Stock Pennsylvania -1950

De and Carolyn went with George Reeves to the New York area to try to get something going there after the studio system collapsed in LA. Here are some newspapers clippings of when both he and Carolyn decided to do some summer stock. All of these come from The Republican and Herald, The Record American, and the Evening Herald.

16 August - 2 separate articles from different papers

23 August

30 August

6 September - This is when John Carradine taught their bird to say "F- Hollywood"

These photos were not part of the clippings, but were found from another website:

13 September - Poor Carolyn. Can you imagine posting that in the paper these days? I guess it was a way to ask for prayers or the equivalent? It's nice they're planning a "get well" shower for her.

15 September -

20 September

Also September 20

#deforest kelley #deforest and carolyn #summer stock #pennsylvania

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beardedmrbean · 9 months

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“1916 showed us the way!” didn’t it lead to multiple Eastern Europeans leaving their home countries to escape communism? And iirc in the 80’s ussr had to ban a American movie because Russians were surprised that even the poorest Americans could have their own car.

Hmm what happened to the Romanovs? Oh yeah after their murders they are heavily romanticize (heh) and later became saints. That usually happens when the next leaders are worse than the last.

I can say more but Jesus Christ commies are dumb, can someone make Liberty Prime already?

Ya some of the most hokey jerry rigged contraptions in history were made by smart people who were trying to escape their communist utopia.

Also you're thinking of "The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)" staring Henry Fonda, only thing good that ever came from a John Steinbeck novel imho. The Grapes of Wrath (film) - Wikipedia

Although Steinbeck avoided a call from the House of Un-American Activities Committee, the film based on his book, which subtly (many would say openly) criticizes capitalism during the Great Depression by following a family of sharecroppers, received significant backlash from the public.

In the times of the so-called “Red Scare”, such criticism was perceived as “socialist”, “Marxist” and above all ― un-American.

John Carradine and Henry Fonda In ‘The Grapes Of Wrath’

Therefore, when the film was given the “Red Label”, the USSR felt that it was time to step on the stage.

Stalin himself considered that if The Grapes of Wrath managed to annoy the U.S. government so much, perhaps it could be used as a propaganda tool in the country which he governed with an iron fist.

He approved the film to be released in the USSR in 1948, at the time when the Cold War was just “heating” up. This wasn’t a common sight at the time, as cinemas only promoted domestic productions.

Stalin, who had the final say on pretty much everything that was going on in the country, was highly suspicious of foreign movies, which he considered to be “subversive”.

However, in this case, Uncle Joe thought that a film which the Americans label as “socialist” must be heaven-sent in the largest and most influential socialist state of the time.

This was a sound conclusion given that the main subjects of the story ― the Joad family ― are suffering from poverty after losing their farm due to the recession which forces them to become migrant workers.

However, after the film was released, Stalin’s idea completely backfired. In the film, it appeared as though even the poorest owned an automobile ― a luxury that was off limits to an ordinary Soviet citizen at the time. Instead of evoking anti-capitalist sentiment among the common folk, it was as though the only thing the viewers could see was the difference between being poor in the USA, compared to their own experience in the USSR.

While the USSR boasted itself as the country that belongs to the peasants and the workers, Stalin had, in fact, canceled many of the privileges that were gained during the country’s first years. ___________________

Romanov's suffered from blue blood, but yes they were absolutely slaughtered, SOP for royalty generally speaking.

Last Czar of Bulgaria, Simeon Borisov von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (you may recognize some of those names at the end, they're all related to each other) is still alive and served as Prime Minister there for 4 years so don't always get murdered.

Another fun bit with the commies is they blame capitalism for their own failures too, 'US didn't trade with them so they didn't have enough food' kind of thing.

hunger makes you dumb, we should have a give a snickers to a commie day, might help

#anonymous

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If Peter Lorre were in "A Christmas Carol"...

...what role would he play?

(This picture is from The Mask of Dimitrios but I felt his somber expression was apt.)

First, I feel compelled to say that for me, Alastair Sim is "the" Scrooge. He's exceptional. His face is so reflective and nuanced. His voice is resonant and gorgeous. His eyes are like great, luminous soul-windows.

So I'm not replacing Alastair at all, I am just inventing yet another Christmas Carol movie...

But would Peter play Scrooge? I like him as the lead in anything, and this would be no exception; Peter could pervade the atmosphere with remoteness and disdain, a curl of the lip, a sardonic glint in the eye, the unholy amusement at all the poor fools (literally and figuratively) surrounding him. Humanity! Bah! HUMBUG!

And then the gradual dethawing of his icy, padlocked heart, chip by chip, key-twist by key-twist, the torment and loss and longing churned up by the Ghost visits, the final terror-stricken howl, and then - ah, and then! - the utter joy (leavened with care and mindfulness) and rush to make up for all that lost time. It's delicious to contemplate.

But I also find myself quite strongly seeing Peter as Bob Cratchit. The mournful expression as he tries to warm his fingers by the single candle on his desk. The unshakeable good cheer and good personhood that pervades him. The unconditional love for his family and fellow human beings. The heart-wrenching scene over Tiny Tim. The fact that Peter would, indeed, steal every scene he was in. ❤

Let's make a list! Idle musings with creative attention to timelines include:

Scrooge - Peter Lorre or Boris Karloff or ? Marley - Karloff or John Carradine Cratchit - Peter or ? Cratchit's wife - Kathleen Lockhart Tiny Tim - Freddie Bartholomew Nephew - Nephew's Wife - Scrooge's sister, Fan - Gene Tierney Scrooge's lost love, Alice - Donna Reed Fezziwig - Sydney Greenstreet complete with his "sir" this and "sir" that Ghost of Christmas Past - Ghost of Christmas Present - Eugene Pallette (okay maybe not :D) Ghost of Christmas Future - Scrooge's housekeeper - Elsa Lanchester

Feel free to disagree & completely jumble up the list!

Incidentally about Peter & the Cratchit role, another reason is because of this anecdote from the biography:

[Vienna, 1933, under martial law. 8 o'clock curfew. Lorre is with his friends & actors in the Majolica Hall, a subterranean Bohemian wine place where they had to get their food after curfew. To keep their spirits up against hearing all the shooting outside and police cars racing around…]

Composer Robert Stoltz said to Peter that it was funny how they always gave him parts where he plays a monster or a Greek chorus kind of thing. Why couldn't he play an important classic part?

Peter: "You are thinking of Hamlet. I know the whole play from beginning to end, all the parts."

Another person urged Lorre to recite some of the play, yet the others felt funny about that. Screenwriter Walter Reisch said, "After all, he with his shoulders hanging down and the fat face. He was very, very overweight at the time. He looked much older than he really was."

But Peter said: "I want to do it, really. It has been deep in my heart ever since I was twelve. Ever since I ran away from home. Ever since I saw Hamlet with all the great stars of Europe, it has been the great dream of my life. If you will really keep quiet, I will give you a bit.”

Reisch and the others thought it would be nothing but a disaster.

But then:

"He didn’t start with 'To be or not to be,'" said Reisch. "He started reciting the first gravedigger from beginning to end."

After finishing, Peter scolded his audience:

"You sons-of-bitches, you thought I was going to play Hamlet and make a fool of myself. My part is the gravedigger and if I had ever played it on the stage I would have stolen that play. There would have been no Hamlet and no Claudius, no Polonius, no Laertes and no Ophelia. It would have been me."

Reisch said: "It was terrific. After the first lines he got up and took a knife, as if it were the gravedigger’s spade, and he started to dig into the earth. You forgot the shooting outside, you forgot the Majolica Hall, you forgot everything. You forgot Hitler. You forgot Hamlet. You saw Peter Lorre as the gravedigger and that showed to me this guy knew his limitations, and at the same time made the best of his shortcomings, his figure, his funny face, his reputation as a monster."

I'd be inclined to say Peter didn't really have limitations, just what others put upon him.

Incidentally, I saw this: "According to an essay by Dave Duggins on the Web site Horror-Wood, 1947 nearly brought us A Universal Horror Christmas Carol, which would have featured such stars of classic Universal Pictures horror movies as Boris Karloff (playing Scrooge), Bela Lugosi (as the Ghost of Christmas Past) and John Carradine (as the Ghost of Christmas Future, aka the Grim Reaper). For script excerpts, go to www.horror-wood.com/carol.htm." Source - of the quote; the website referenced doesn't seem to exist anymore.

I leave you with a PSA: There is ample time to subscribe to A Dickens December, created by @warrioreowynofrohan, which releases a portion of the book each day from December 1st to December 26.

It's really, really lovely to read this as a serial. No offense to Dickens, who went through a small slice of hell to publish it solely as a novella; my enjoyment is possibly because I'm oversaturated with unrestricted binge access to just about everything else. (I am appreciating "The Peripheral," which is awesome, being a weekly release.)

I had completely forgotten so many devilish lines that you don't get in dramatic readings/movies:

"Don't be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us to-morrow."

Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first.

And the beauty of lines such as:

The brightness of the shops, where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed.

#peter lorre #a christmas carol #peter lorre musings #peter lorre meta

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llpodcast · 6 months

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's science fiction/fantasy book by Robert C. O'Brien, with illustrations by Zena Bernstein. The novel was published by the New York City publishing house Atheneum Books.

This book was the winner of numerous awards including the 1972 Newbery Medal. Ten years following its publication, the story was adapted for film as The Secret of NIMH (1982).

The novel centres around a colony of escaped lab rats–the rats of NIMH–who live in a technologically sophisticated and literate society mimicking that of humans. They come to the aid of Mrs. Frisby, a widowed field mouse who seeks to protect her children and home from destruction by a farmer’s plow.

The rats of NIMH were inspired by the research of John B. Calhoun on mouse and rat population dynamics at the National Institute of Mental Health from the 1940s to the 1960s.

After O’Brien’s death in 1973, his daughter Jane Leslie Conly wrote two sequels to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 American animated fantasy adventure film directed by Don Bluth in his directorial debut and based on Robert C. O'Brien's 1971 children's novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The film features the voices of Elizabeth Hartman, Peter Strauss, Arthur Malet, Dom DeLuise, John Carradine, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, and Paul Shenar. It was produced by Bluth's production company Don Bluth Productions in association with Aurora Productions.

The Secret of NIMH was released in the United States on July 2, 1982, by MGM/UA Entertainment Co. under the United Artists label. It was praised by critics for its elegant and painstakingly detailed animation, compelling characters, and deep and mature plot, and won a Saturn Award for Best Animated Film of 1982. Though only a moderate success at the box office, it turned a solid profit through home video and overseas releases. It was followed in 1998 by a direct-to-video sequel, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, which was made without Bluth's involvement or input and met with poor reception. In 2015, a live-action/computer-animated remake was reported to be in the works. A television series adaptation is also in development by the Fox Corporation.

Opening Credits; Introduction (1.21); Background History (4.50); Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Plot Synopsis (6.15); Book Thoughts (11.37); Let's Rate (42.18); Introducing a Film (44.01); Secret of NIMH (1982) Film Trailer (46.00); Lights, Camera, Action (48.33); How Many Stars (1:33.30); End Credits (1.35.41); Closing Credits (1:37.18)

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#SoundCloud #music #Literary License Podcast #Family Film #Fantasy #Science Fiction #Children's Book

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowden, Russel Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson, based on a novel by John Steinbeck. Cinematography: Gregg Toland. Art direction: Richard Day, Mark-Lee Kirk. Film editing: Robert L. Simpson. Music: Alfred Newman.

Movies lie to us about matters of politics, history, and social justice (among other things). In The Grapes of Wrath we get a feel-good affirmation of the myth that "we're the people" and that we'll be there "wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat." Art is greatest when it immerses us in people's lives, thoughts, and emotions, not when it preaches at us about them. That's what makes William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying a greater novel than John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Both are superficially about the odysseys of two poor white families, but Faulkner lets us live in and with the Bundrens while Steinbeck turns the Joads into illustrated sociology. Ford won the second of his record-setting four Oscars for best director for this film, and it displays some of his strengths: direct, unaffected storytelling and a feeling for the way people can be tied to the land. It has some masterly cinematography by Gregg Toland and a documentary-like realism in the use of settings along Route 66. The actors, including such Ford stock-company players as John Carradine, John Qualen, and Ward Bond, never let Hollywood gloss show through their rags and stubble -- although I think the kids are a little too clean. Nunnally Johnson's screenplay mutes Steinbeck's determination to go for the symbolic at every opportunity -- we are spared, probably thanks for once to the censors, the novel's ending, in which Rosasharn breastfeeds an old man. But there's a sort of slackness to the film, a feeling that the kind of exuberance of which Ford was capable in movies like Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956) has been smothered under producer Darryl F. Zanuck's need to make a Big Important Film. I like Henry Fonda in the movie, but I don't think he's ever allowed to turn Tom Joad into a real character; it's as if he spends the whole movie just hanging around waiting to give his big farewell speech to Ma (Jane Darwell, whose own film-concluding speech won her an Oscar). Still, I can't help feeling that Tom Joad's descendants became Donald Trump's voters.

#The Grapes of Wrath #John Ford

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50-awfull-bad-films · 2 years

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Frankenstein’s island 1981 is so bad it’s bad . John Carradine ,Cameron Mitchell in wasted roles. Men in hot air balloons crash on an island inhabited by native girls on leopard bikinis, and a few idiots laughing maniacally, zombie men, and the monster himself. Wow this is a major b movie by the king of the bad b movies Jerry Warren. Who made teenage zombies and the incredible petrified world. Ouch this has the earmarks of a really poor production and sad to see John Carradine in one of his last movies. Katherine Victor who starred in many Jerry Warren movies plays Sheila Frankenstein the great grand daughter of Frankenstein the doctor not the monster. Steve Brodie, Robert Clarke, and Andrew Duggan also star on this mess. The balloon sequence was stock footage.

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missholson · 6 years

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Erle C. Kenton: House of Frankenstein (1944)

Dracula dies

#house of frankenstein #erle c. kenton #john carradine #this is brilliant #one of my favourite scenes #cinematography #movie highlight #i really like him in this film #pleasant surprise #poor dracula #he must crawl to his coffin #it is rare to see dracula as a supporting character #his time in the film is very short #but even better #or the best perhaps #maybe it's the moustache #:D #own gif #own post

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thealmightyemprex · 2 years

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WEstember Jesse James

This 1939 film follows Jesse James(TYrone Power) as ......Loook I am not even bothering with a plot descrption:I did NOT like this movie.This film is pure cornball melodrama ,with a good portion of the runtime just being characters moralizing .The film actually loses track of the plot ,intitilly being Jesse and Frank(Henry Fonda ) wanting revenge on the railroad .....And that just stops halfway through .Castis all good ,but everyone including the leads ,Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda.....Feel underused ,and thats not even getting to poor John Carradine who feels like he is being crammed itno the final act .Also this movie is infamous for some animal cruelty as they throw TWO HORSES OFF A CLIFF ,so thats a strike against it .OVerall ,its not worth a watch

@ariel-seagull-wings @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @marquisedemasque @filmcityworld1 @lord-antihero @princesssarisa @amalthea9 @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years

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ANGELA CARTWRIGHT

September 9, 1952

Angela Margaret Cartwright was born in Altrincham, Cheshire, England, in 1952.

Shortly after Angela’s birth, the family - including older sister Veronica, also an actress - moved to Los Angeles.

She made her first film appearance at the age of three years as Paul Newman's character's daughter in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)...

and appeared with Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier in Something of Value (1957), which was labeled ‘Adult Entertainment’.

Cartwright joined the cast of “Make Room for Daddy” (later “The Danny Thomas Show”) in 1957 at the age of five.

“Make Room for Daddy” (aka “The Danny Thomas Show”) ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. In March 1953, Danny Thomas chose Desilu Studios to film it using its three-camera method, perfected on “I Love Lucy,” which ran concurrently on CBS.

Shortly after the third season finished filming, Jean Hagen (who played Margaret, the Mother) left the show. It was explained that Margaret had died suddenly off-screen. In a four-part story arc that began in April 1957, son Rusty fell ill with the measles and Danny hired Kathy O'Hara (Marjorie Lord), a young Irish nurse, to look after him. Kathy was a widow with a little girl named Linda (then played by Lelani Sorenson). Not surprisingly, Danny quickly fell in love with Kathy, as did the kids.

When “I Love Lucy” went off the air (in its half-hour format) in 1957 and “Make Room for Daddy” was facing cancellation, CBS acquired the show and moved “Make Room for Daddy” into “Lucy's” old time slot. With the change of network, the producers also changed Kathy's daughter. Lelani Sorenson was replaced by Angela Cartwright as Linda. Linda was adopted by Danny, and the show's ratings dramatically increased. Never underestimate the ‘cute’ factor!

In “Lucy Makes Room for Danny” (LDCH S2;E2) on December 1, 1958, Lucy and Ricky sublet their Connecticut home to the Williams family (of “Make Room for Daddy”). When Lucy proves an over-protective landlady, the arguing families end up in court!

The night this “Comedy Hour” premiered, “Make Room for Daddy” also aired and concerned Little Linda’s tonsillitis, a subject previously covered by “I Love Lucy” in “Nursery School” (ILL S5;E9). Despite only a half hour passing for viewers, Linda is in perfect health when she arrives on the Ricardo’s doorstep at 9 o’clock!

This cross-over sets in motion a curious anomaly:

Lucy Ricardo meets Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) and his TV family on this episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”;

Danny Williams drives through the small town of Mayberry and meets Sheriff Taylor, which spawns “The Andy Griffith Show”;

“The Andy Griffith Show” is where the Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) character began, before getting his own show;

Gomer, although unnamed and uncredited, turns up on “The Lucy Show,” although here she is Lucy Carmichael, not Lucy Ricardo (even though both women share the maiden name McGillacuddy);

The upshot of all of this is that Lucy Ricardo and Lucy Carmichael both exist in the same world.

Along with her TV brother Rusty Hamer and Keith Thibodeux as Little Ricky, the young stars are called to testify in court about their parents’ poor behavior! Unexpectedly, the children are more polished and reasonable than their elders.

Linda gets some personal time with the judge, played by Gale Gordon. Linda suggests the final verdict: that Fred take Ethel to Florida for two months. She reasons that it will (a) cure him of being a miser, and (b) thaw his frozen ears!

RICKY RICARDO (about Linda): “She’s a regular Lucy Junior!”

In a quid-pro-quo programming move, Lucy and Desi played Lucy and Ricky on “The Danny Thomas Show” on a January 6, 1959 episode titled “Lucy Upsets the Williams Household.” While rehearsing a nightclub show together, Danny Williams invites Ricky and Lucy Ricardo to move in to his apartment. Lucy and Kathy, meanwhile, are spending up a storm at the department stores. To curb their spending, the boys cut off their charge accounts in this battle of the sexes. The character of Linda is only briefly in the story and has no scenes with Lucille Ball.

Cartwright again played Linda Williams in “Make Room For Granddaddy” (1970-71). In January 1971, once again “Daddy” and “Lucy” cross-over, with Lucille Ball playing Lucy Carter of “Here’s Lucy”, Kathy’s old friend, coming to New York for a visit.

When Danny comes home from a trip, there is a series of accidental flirtations between Lucy Carter and Danny that make her believe he is being unfaithful to Kathy. The episode is alternately titled “Lucy and the Lecher” and (less controversially) “Lucy, the Houseguest.” Angela is then 18 years old. This time she gets to stay in the room for Lucy’s arrival!

In 1965 Angela played the role of Brigitta Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music, perhaps her most recognizable role, in one of the most famous films of all time. The film also featured “Lucy” alumni Norma Varden (as housekeeper Frau Schmidt), as well as background actors Leoda Richards, Bert Stevens, Norman Stevans, Bernard Sell, Monty O’Grady, William Meader, Sam Harris, Gertrude Astor, Leon Alton, and Steve Carruthers. The original stage musical (which did not feature Cartwright) was on Broadway at the same time that Lucille Ball was doing Wildcat. The musical’s composers, Rodgers and Hammerstein (aka Dick and Oscar) were frequently mentioned on “I Love Lucy.”

Also in 1965, Cartwright returned to television to play Penny, youngest member of the Space Family Robinson, on “Lost in Space” (1965-68). The Irwin Allen science fiction series went from a black and white drama in its first season, to a color comedy in its second and third. In the season one opening credits, the only character identified by name is Penny. Cartwright was 13 when the series began. “Lucy” alumni who made guest appearances in “Space” include Fritz Feld, Reta Shaw, Wally Cox, Michael J. Pollard, Strother Martin, John Carradine, Hans Conried (who also played her Uncle Tonoose on “Daddy”), Al Lewis, Stanley Adams, Arte Johnson, Norman Leavitt, Helen Kleeb, and Janos Prohaska. Cartwright has remained involved in the franchise, doing cameo appearances in the 1998 re-boot and the 2019 TV series.

Cartwright was back on the Desilu lot to guest star on two episodes of “My Three Sons” in 1965 and 1969.

Angela’s older sister Veronica made two appearances with her sister on “Make Room for Daddy” in 1959 and 1961, one with Lucy’s good friend and co-star Bob Hope. Veronica also appeared on “The Twilight Zone,” a show introduced on “The Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse” in 1958 with Desi Arnaz standing in for Rod Serling as host.

Angela Cartwright married actor Steve Gullion in 1976. They have two children.

She has been a photographer for 30 years. She is also a fashion designer. Her work is displayed at her studio in Studio City, Los Angeles.

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Halloween sitcom specials.

When the Halloween season comes rolling in I like most people start to watch more horror movies (maybe even more than I usually do). But near Halloween the horror I watch needs to have a childish innocence to it. Memories of Halloween with candy and costumes and telling each other innocent ghosts stores around a fire to spook each other. That's what Halloween is for me, memories of how as a child monsters and ghosts were just too damn cool. So the horror films I choose are more monster based often with a folklore campfire tales twists. However I also love flashing back to the cheesiest childhood memories of tv at the time. Everyone loves the better episode of Simpsons Treehouse of horror. The VHS collecting geeks I talk to often post articles about the infamous Halloween make up tips tapes and safety PSA tapes of the 80s.

For your retro entertainment I bring you a list of my 10 favorite sitcom and kids show Halloween episodes of my youth. I say my favorite not the best because I'm sure if I said the best I'll get a msg saying I'm wrong. Also I'm sure some kids gonna tell me of a that's so Raven episode and I'm an old so I never watched that. Also people always talk about the Rosanne Halloween episodes so I will let everyone else talk about those. Also note there was never a Golden girls Halloween special and if there was there is no doubt that would be the top of my list. So this is in no real order . . .

10: Facts of Life Season 5 episode The Halloween Show

Natalie is making a home movie and SPOILER tricks all the girls into believing their den mother is possessed by a ghost and is turning random people into sausages and feeding them to the group. Yeah seriously that's the point, I mean you don't know its Natalie tricking everyone so she can film a reality horror film until the end but you figure it out. Its completely unbelievable that the group of girls fall for this and legit believe it enough to try and fight their den mother that they have been best friends with for five seasons. The magic of a show being 25 minutes long that the characters have to jump to huge assumptions and get over it and a chuckle pretty quick too.

9: Webster Season 4 episode Witchbusters

Webster has some non Halloween oddly creepy episodes as it was pure 80s kids entertainment. Webster loved wearing Halloween masks and in season 2 he finds a creepy doll in the room of a missing girl that looks like a real person and comes off very Black Christmas/ Psycho. But I love the season 4 episode where Webster is peer pressured into sneaking into an old ladies house on Halloween because everyone thinks she is a witch. When Webster sneaks in his friend chickens out and leaves . Webster then finds one of the old ladies cats and thinks it is his friend who had been turned into the cat by the witch. Like many episodes the issue at had happens because Webster is really dumb. So of course he kidnaps the cat and takes it home because he thinks its his friend. Dumb Webster Dumb. Man I loved that stupid show.

8 .Family Matters season 8 episode STEVIL

Many people seem to remember the Halloween episode where infamous Steve Urkel brings a ventriloquist dummy to the Winslows Halloween party and as as ventriloquist dummies do , it comes to life and tries to kill everyone. Goosebumps meets Family Matters right there. I noticed its been the hip show to talk about this seaspn, probably cause this happened in the 90s.

7. Mr. Belvedere season 3 episode called Halloween

Mr Belvedere is depressed after eye surgery and the youngest kid in the family Wesley gets old Mr Belvedere in an eye patch and brings him out trick or treating which in turn sends him out on a bit of a bender. Also in the episode the daughter wants to wear a sexy maid costume to a party but her dad wont let her. So her older brother wears the maid costume to the party so they can secretly switch costumes there. Just one of many episodes where the older brother Kevin did a drag scene to show off his legs. ALSO in that episode the dad Bob Ueker is asked to join a sort of Shriners group but they end up being a crazy hooded cult. Which is extra funny cause in later episodes you find he did join the Shriner group after all and they never mention them being a cult. In fact the next time you see the cult members they are friends of the family and all go in drag with the oldest son they can go under cover to catch a purse snatcher.. but that's another episode.

6. Alf season 2 episode called Some enchanted evening.

Alf wants to go trick or treating cause well candy of course. The tanners think its too dangerous for Alf to go out even that he insists everyone will think he is just in a costume and not an actual Alien Life form. Eventually a Halloween party is held at the house and Alf meets an old cat lady. Alf loves cats... sorta. Also in the episode is an appearance of Lewis Arquette the dad of the all those wacky Arquette kids.

Seeing the costumes that appear in all these episodes makes one feel like in the 80s and 90s there was a rule that you couldn't have a Halloween party if there was not one devil, one pirate , one French maid, one little bo peep, one scarecrow and one Dracula. Like it was a rule or something.

5. KnightRider Season 3 episode called Halloween Knight

Michael Knight must investigate the visions of a confused woman. They believe she will be the next victim of a murdered in a gorilla suit. In the episode a man wears one of the silver shamrock pumpkin masks from Halloween 3. I did an whole article on this last year. Just another reason for you to go look through the riotatthemoveis archive.

4. Fall Guy season 4 episode called October 31st

Elvira guests stars as her self as she teams up with Lee Majors and the Fall guy team to break a curse and solve a possible murder in an old castle. Guest cameos of John, David and Keith Carradine. Also Lewis Arquette. Elvira would return the next season in an episode called.. wait for it.. October the 32nd... Yep.

3. Night Court season 3 episode called Halloween Too.

Every season of Night Court got a Halloween episode but this one is suiting for the humorous episode title and for Markie Post (who was in the episode of Fall Guy I just mentioned) wearing an amazingly and awkwardly hot witch costume. She shows up in this costume after Judge Stone has just broken up with his girlfriend who he discovers is an actual witch with magical powers as he believed her magic compromised his position on the bench. Guest cameo by Anne Ramsey as another witch. All the Halloween episodes are but I really like in this one when Quan Lee misunderstands the concept of Trick or Treating and thinks you need to threaten people for candy. Also I just needed an excuse to post this picture of Markie Post.

2 . Diff’rent Strokes Season 7 episode called A Haunting we will go. Arnold and his new step brother Sam (yeah that's a thing if you ever watched the last two season of Diff’rent Strokes) peer pressure them selves into sneaking in to an old haunted house. (similar to the Webster episode as poor little Gary Coleman and Emanuel Lewis would always be compared to each other). What makes this episode gold is when Arnold and Sam break into the haunted house they have detailed replica Ghostbusters costumes on, decades before Strangers Things season 2. We also get a door banging , chandelier shaking haunted house , dusty piano and everything if I remember right and then they show us how they did it. Very cool for an 80s kid like me. Also guest stars the amazing John Astin.

Last but not least...

Punky Brewster season 2 episodes Perils of Punky part one and 2. The cartoon series has an episode of the same name but no relation. This two parter is something if you know me you have heard about a lot. Punky and her pals go camping and meet a native shaman who tells them about a haunted cave, so in part 2 what do they do.. go in it of course. Then shit get surreal. Punkys friends get offed one by one by evil spirits then get turned into severed heads, one that flies and one that is stuck in the rock wall. It all ends with Punky having to battle a giant spider with shades of the original IT movie and has to hack it to death with an axe. Ending in the spirit of native girl waving goodbye in the cave that looks just like Punky as her friends magically come back to life as if it was all a dream... or was it. The episode is to be seen to be believed. My second favorite next to the episode where Punky thinks she killed a man at her restaurant but finds out he is just a narcoleptic with a broken hearing aid. COMEDY!!!!!

There are so many more, feel free to msg me and let me know old tv shows that had wild Halloween episodes that you hold dear.

I need some Count Chocula and a reason to watch some more... hmm maybe some boo berry,... oh man, anyone got an Haunted House pasta or Scarieos?

dang.

#halloween #halloween special #halloweentv #sitcoms #80s #80stv #80ssitcom #nightcournt #family matters #punky brewster #knightrider #webster

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House of Dracula

There are some familiar faces here, including John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr – both of them far younger and less drunk than when they appeared in the films MSTies are familiar with. Honestly, though, I picked House of Dracula to watch mostly because I've got a lot going on in the runup to Christmas this year and I wanted something short. This turned out to give me not only a movie to watch but an angle to attack it from, because time management is probably House of Dracula's biggest single problem.

Medical researcher Dr. Franz Edelmann is apparently famous far and wide, enough so to attract not one but two celebrity patients. Not only does Count Dracula hope the good doctor can cure his vampirism, the very next day a werewolf shows up wanting a solution to his own supernatural problem! Edelmann believes that the key to helping them is a particular fungus, and while searching for a place to grow it, he comes across Frankenstein's monster hibernating in a cave! Now with three abominations in his care, will Dr. Edelmann be able to help them? Or will they make a monster out of him instead?

This movie is a mess. Its only goal seems to have been stuffing as many famous monsters into a single film as they possibly could, and the story they came up with simply cannot support that. 2004's Van Helsing was way too long and loud, but the vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein monster were all part of the same story and each had an essential role. House of Dracula is half as long but tries to give each monster a story of its own, leaving them pushing and shoving for their share of screen time which must also be shared with Edelmann's own Jekyll-and-Hyde subplot! The result is that the audience has no idea who we're supposed to root for or what we ought to pay attention to.

The first to arrive is Dracula. He says he wants a cure and Edelmann gets right to work on one, but we soon learn that what the Count is really after is Edelmann's pretty assistant, Meliza. If that's the case, however, why does Dracula actually allow Edelmann to experiment on him? Is he doing something behind the scenes to counteract the attempted cure, or is he just taking it for granted that this won't work? What was he going to do if Edelmann actually managed to de-vampirize him? Annoyingly, we never find out – Dracula is also the first of the monsters to die when Edelmann lets the sunlight into his coffin, and that's it for him.

Come to think of it, why is this movie even called House of Dracula? The castle where the main action takes place is explicitly said to be Edelmann's residence. Dracula is only a visitor. I suppose House of Dr. Edelmann doesn't sound very scary, but there is really no way to justify House of Dracula, especially when the vampire is only in half the movie.

Frankenstein's Monster doesn't arrive until about twenty-five minutes in, and then spends much of the remaining forty lying on a slab. The Jekyll side of Dr. Edelmann doesn't seem to know what to do with him, so he just leaves him lying there so the Hyde part can resurrect him later. The writers are not at all interested in the Monster as a character, which is standard but disappointing. To bring up another ambitiously terrible modern film, I Frankenstein was the Mount Vesuvius of hot messes but it was about Adam's search for purpose and identity, which he found in the knowledge that he had a soul, as confirmed by the Devil himself! In House of Dracula, the monster is basically a prop. Once brought back to life he staggers around, immediately encounters a torch-wielding mob that was there looking for somebody else entirely, and gets the castle burned down on top of him.

That's two monsters down without contributing anything much. Next we have the evil version of Dr. Edelmann, brought out by mixing his blood with that of Dracula – why this makes Edelmann go all Mr. Hyde rather than simply turning him into a vampire, I have no idea and the movie does not bother suggesting one. Hyde Edelmann wanders around cackling, strangles his groundskeeper, and zaps the Frankenstein Monster to life, all for no apparent reason besides a desire to Cause Problems on Purpose. Since we are repeatedly told that Jekyll Edelmann is a genius, it would stand to reason that his evil side would be, too, but there's no hint of a master plan.

Unable to cure himself, the good Edelmann vows to commit suicide, but first he wants to finish his work by curing the Wolfman and the hunchback. This seems like it would give evil Edelmann a reason to sabotage that work, but he never tries to. The Jekyll-and-Hyde subplot goes straight up the ass of nowhere.

That leaves us with the Wolfman. I guess he's the hero of this story, but I base that entirely on the fact that he's the only major male character who actually survives. The Wolfman as portrayed by Lon Chaney Jr has always been a tragic character, and the situation he finds himself in here has great potential. After being horrified to find he's nearly killed Dr. Edelmann during one of his transformations, he gets his cure and need never worry about taking another life – but then he is forced to shoot Edelmann so that his evil side cannot cause any more mischief. This could have been a source of conflict if the writers bothered to delve into it, which of course they don't, because the damned movie just ends right there. If House of Dracula had limited itself to Jekyll-and-Hyde Edelmann and the Wolfman trying to help each other, it could have been an interesting film about the good and evil in all of us while still having some fun monster action.

With these four stories trying to go on, only connected by the thinnest of threads, you wouldn't think House of Dracula would have time for a love triangle. Sure enough, it doesn't, but of course they try to have one anyway. As I mentioned above, Dracula wants to make a vampire of Edelmann's assistant Meliza, but Meliza herself has fallen in love with the Wolfman. I guess it's still a better vampire/human/werewolf love story than Twilight, but mostly because the writers of House of Dracula have the sense to know that their vampire is a fucking creep. They have no time to properly deal with anything in this movie, so they obviously have no time to develop these relationships. The closest we come is a scene in which Dracula hypnotizes Meliza into playing the piano for him. This is fairly effective at showing his obsession with her and her distaste for him, but the romance between Meliza and the Wolfman is shown mostly by having the two of them stand next to each other a lot.

The only other character to get meaningful screen time is Edelmann's other assistant, Nina. This is the first mad scientist movie I've seen where the hunchbacked assistant is a woman, so that's at least unconventional. Dr. Edelmann has promised to cure Nina of her deformity and there's a dream sequence about it at one point, but at the end the Frankenstein Monster just throws her down a flight of stairs and we never see her again so I guess she died. That made me a little angry because it was so pointless. It’s not even a fridge death to motivate a male character. She’s an unattractive woman, so she is entirely disposable.

None of these six major characters have much by way of a personality, because the need to get through all this other stuff leaves no room for character development. Since Meliza and Nina are women, they naturally get even less than the men do, but I guess it's nice that the two of them are never antagonistic towards each other. They seem to be at least work friends, and the only time they actually have a conversation, it's about Nina's concern for Meliza's health as she falls under Dracula's thrall. I suspect this is at least partly because Nina is 'the ugly one' and the two therefore cannot be romantic rivals.

This is all presented as just a bunch of stuff happening, with no attempt to make it anything but a coincidence that it's all going on at the same time in the same place. With no unity to the disparate narratives, the movie as a whole never feels like it's going anywhere. The ending doesn't even manage an anticlimax because we haven't really had any buildup, and I think the actors recognized this, because most of them don't seem to be making much of an effort. Chaney in particular sounds downright bored with this movie, and Martha O'Driscoll as Meliza appears to be sleepwalking even when she's not hypnotized by Dracula. The only person who's actually enjoying himself is Onslow Stevens as Dr. Edelman, scenery-chomping his way through the Mr. Hyde parts of the performance.

It's all kind of a shame, really, because on the level of craftsmanship House of Dracula isn't all that bad. The special effects in particular are really quite good for the early 40's. The series of fades that represent the werewolf transformations are lovely. An early shot of a bat puppet flying isn't great, but there's a little animation of its shadow transforming into Dracula's that's nicely done. None of this looks real, you understand, but the people who made this movie were more interested in getting the general idea across than in wowing us with visuals. I'd rather have that than a lot of modern movies in which everything looks flawless but serves no purpose beyond spectacle.

If I wanted to reach, I guess I could suggest that House of Dracula has something to say about the idea of a cure. Various characters are interested in the idea of cures, whether giving or receiving them. Dr. Edelmann has his miracle drug fungus that he wants to bring to the world. Nina and the Wolfman are both hoping to receive this cure, while Dracula pretends that he wants it as well in order to get access to Meliza. In the first part of the movie I thought perhaps the Doctor would use his vampire cure on Meliza after ultimately destroying Dracula, but I was disappointed. Then when Edelman cannot reverse his own condition, he seeks death because he has become the disease, and the world needs curing of him!

Sadly, I doubt the film-makers thought about it that hard. They just wanted to cram all those monsters in there and yeah, they managed it, but not in a way that was worth watching.

#mst3k #reviews #episodes that never were #house of dracula #poor john carradine #you is a warwelf #40s #tw: suicide

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National Examiner, August 17

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Farewell to Regis Philbin and Olivia de Havilland

Page 2: Secrets behind Caddyshack

Page 4: Cher’s amazing looks over the decades

Page 6: Even a monarch needs some fun during a pandemic and that’s why a seven-year-old lad in England created a word game especially for Queen Elizabeth and got a thank-you note in reply

Page 7: Who can forget Kevin Bacon’s rebel-with-a-dance role in 1984′s Footloose that shot him to superstardom -- not Rob Lowe who was supposed to play the lead but suffered a terrible injury that kept him from the role, Orlando Bloom suffered a brutal blow after his beloved dog Mighty went missing and he was forced to admit he was gone, Dolly Parton is worth approximately $500 million but before she became a singing sensation she spooned up a lot of ketchup soup, Madonna says she was fined $1 million by the Russian government for a gay rights speech in 2012 but she isn’t about to pay up

Page 8: After years of portraying heroic Army soldiers in blockbusters like Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan Tom Hanks is starring as a World War II Navy ship commander in his new movie Greyhound and real-life sailors couldn’t be happier to welcome him to their ranks

Page 9: Animals have anxiety too -- how to help your furry friends relax

Page 10: Carlos and Denise Pagan have a note out front explaining why they can’t come to the door -- Carlos has been undergoing chemotherapy for bllod cancer -- and after an Amazon driver read it he returned with a very special delivery to cheer up the South Carolina couple -- he marched off to the store and returned with flowers and a get-well card for this customer he had never met

Page 11: Your Health -- keep an eye out for signs of cataracts, what your bruises may be telling you

Page 12: Cracking Hollywood’s most shocking unsolved murders -- George Reeves, Brittany Murphy, Natalie Wood

Page 13: David Carradine, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Crane

Page 14: Dear Tony -- to banish bad dreams remember the good times -- Tony predicts Winona Ryder will write a book that could well be made into a movie about her abuse allegations

Page 15: A struggling single mom with $7 left in her bank account won $100 with a scratch-off lottery ticket and donated it to the police

Page 16: It wasn’t all laughs and lunacy for the Three Stooges -- comedy favorites faced abuse, poor pay and heartache

Page 18: A North Carolina teenager with time on her hands during the coronavirus lockdown has found a great new way to occupy herself -- she sends handpicked gift collections to ailing children

Page 19: A New Jersey cop went the extra mile in a borrowed kayak to rescue a frantic dog stuck up to the neck in mud

Page 20: Cover Story -- Regis Philbin was a brave fighter to the end -- secret life of host who was everyone’s pal

Page 22: A Kansas dog that went missing for eight days turned up right back at home -- in Missouri nearly 60 miles away at the house where she lived two years ago

Page 26: Tony’s Mystic World -- have you lived before? Take this test and find out, here’s some great news for Grease fans -- a prequel is on the way, Jennifer Lopez is not above the law -- she was left stranded after she parked her dune buggy on a beach in New York’s fancy Hamptons and got towed

Page 28: Cover Story -- Olivia de Havilland took icy feud with sister Joan Fontaine to the grave

Page 30: The Good Doctor

Page 40: R.I.P. John Saxon a tough guy of westerns and drama and Elm Street

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves on vacation in Hawaii (picture), Jane Seymour leaves an Australian quarantine hotel after a 14-day stay (picture), Ryan Reynolds kindly offered a $5000 reward to help reunite a Vancouver woman with her stolen teddy bear that contained a recording of her late mom’s voice, two years after her reported overdose Demi Lovato says she’s turned her life around, Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young are engaged, Gwyneth Paltrow says she’s trying to raise her two teens to have a strong work ethic and not rely on their family’s fame, after the discovery of the body of Naya Rivera following her drowning death her ex-husband Ryan Dorsey vowed to keep her memory alive for their four-year-old son Josey, Courteney Cox is missing boyfriend Johnny McDaid who’s been quarantined in the U.K. while she’s been hunkered down in California, Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock will share custody of their children River Rose and Remington Alexander, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are now proud Greek citizens

Page 45: Carol Alt (picture), Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson show off their new Greek passports alongside the country’s prime minister and his wife (picture), Johnny Depp is showered with flowers and other tokens of fan appreciation in London (picture), Natalie Portman is super excited for her upcoming Marvel role in Thor: Love and Thunder, composer Alan Menken scored his first Emmy award making him the 16th EGOT -- someone who’s won an Emmy and Grammy and Oscar and Tony

Page 46: 10 Steps to a healthy heart

Page 47: Super sister acts -- Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, Haylie and Hilary Duff, Ashlee and Jessica Simpson, Tamera Mowry-Housley and Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen, Dakota and Elle Fanning, Zooey and Emily Deschanel

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