******SPOOKY SPOILERS!****** In the span of a month, my wife and I have gone to see comedian Paula Poundstone, comedian/world class art-collector Cheech Marin, and, as of this weekend, director/writer/comedy legend Mel Brooks’ 2007 musical adaptation of his own 1974 horror-comedy film “Young Frankenstein”; all at the modern, comfortable Lewis Family Playhouse. The Inland Empire-based…
Tag: Universal Monsters
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…
Retro-Musings: “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” trilogy (1954-1956) was the last of Universal’s classic monster movie franchises…
******GILL-MAN SIZED SPOILERS!***** When I was a kid, I was all about monsters. In those bygone days before the internet, my very first magazine subscription (at the age of eight) was the late Forry Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine. The monsters of the classic Universal movies (Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, the Wolfman) were…