Oop, it's actually called The Monster Show by David Skal
First sentence: "Tod Browning lay in his grave, eating malted milk balls."
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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DavidS - Jun 26, 2006 12:40:33 pm PDT #2481 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Jun 26, 2006 12:58:58 pm PDT #2482 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Tod Browning is a hero to my people. I wonder what he would think of that.
DavidS - Jun 26, 2006 7:58:00 pm PDT #2483 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wonder what he would think of that.
He'd dig it. He was all Crip Power! before that was a notion.
Cashmere - Jun 27, 2006 6:08:49 am PDT #2484 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang=Oh, so fucking good.
sumi - Jun 27, 2006 6:19:46 am PDT #2485 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Excellent. I'm going to be watching that sometime this week. (It came in from Netflix over the weekend.)
Sean K - Jun 27, 2006 8:30:44 am PDT #2486 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, ow.
Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.
I'm getting ready to head out for a bit, and S is watching Tammy and the Doctor, the third Tammy movie, starring Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda. It also features a young and dashing Adam West as a playboy doctor in the early 60's mode. I watched one scene with him in it, as he hits on Tammy, and it was actually kind of.... well, good. And very Bruce Wayne. Three years before he would actually take on the role for the first time.
And now I'm picturing him at that age in a better costume, with a modern Batman/Bruce Wayne role to inhabit, and good direction, and it's kind of working for me. I find myself pining for an Adam West Batman we never got and it's breaking my brain.
Ow.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2006 10:32:49 am PDT #2487 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
You make me wonder if 40 years from now Christian Bale is going to be a kook pitching an Uncle Batman character to whoever's making the Batman entertainment in the 2040s.
Kalshane - Jun 27, 2006 11:23:34 am PDT #2488 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
You know, I have to wonder, had the old show been done serious instead of campy, if West would be doing that sort of thing now. Has he ever discussed having read the comcs? I suspect his only example of the character was the one he portrayed, so Batman is probably firmly entrenched in his mind as being "silly". (As it was for many people until Burton's Batman.)
DebetEsse - Jun 27, 2006 11:39:49 am PDT #2489 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Matt! Batman Beyond! How cool would that be?
Jessica - Jun 27, 2006 12:13:04 pm PDT #2490 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset