******SPECTRAL SPOILERS!****** And now for something completely different… As a kid, options for ‘family-safe’ Halloween entertainment in our primitive, pre-streaming era were a bit limited, with some exceptions, such as CBS’ annual broadcast of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (1966), Halloween variety specials, and Halloween-themed episodes of TV shows. “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”…
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WonderCon 2024 in Anaheim was a weekend of fantasy and imagination spent ‘under the weather’…
Welcome Back to WonderCon! The title of this column is both literal and metaphoric. The usually sunny spring weather of Southern California gave way to two days of near-nonstop rain, which forced a few last-minute changes to this year’s WonderCon 2024 in Anaheim (right across the road from Disneyland). The metaphoric aspect refers to my…
Musings for Halloween: “The Changeling” (1980)…
*****SPOOKY SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Many years ago, I remember seeing a trailer for a then-new horror movie coming out which featured George C. Scott (“Patton” “A Christmas Carol”) living in an apparently haunted house. The one thing that made me nearly wet my seat was the sight of an antique wheelchair, shrouded in cobwebs and sans…