Darlings, this being Easter season, , stores all over New York City pull out the stops on their window displays.
Well, I want to tell you about one that is downright scary!!!! It is at the candy store Lilac Chocolates, just a few blocks north of Monsieur in the Village, on Eighth Avenue, near Jane and Hudson Streets. Now, while
the above pic is an approximation, and is charming in its own way, try to imagine these bunnies as unusually HUGE, and you have the Lilac window display. It isn't cute or charming; it is downright scary, and creepy!!!!
Like "Night Of The Lepus."
That's right; these enormous chocolate bunnies are so menacing they look like they are going to attack anyone who looks at them, just the giant white bunnies in that sci-fi trasher forty years back, "Night Of The Lepus," which featured a constellation of actors so down on their luck they had to do this clunker, like James Whitmore and Rory Calhoun!!!!! And would you believe this was the great Janet Leigh's farewell to film????
After being immortalized on film, by being stabbed in the shower in Hitchcock's "Psycho," she deserved better!!!!
You will feel plunged right into the nightmare of this film when you go by the store window. I swear, these chocolate rabbits look like they may actually have teeth!!!! For sheer terror, it has Lilac's Halloween window display beat; I can tell you!!!!!
So drop on down to the Village and catch this disturbing display, best looked at in the dark, when the store is closed, so all your fears can run rampant!!!!! Happy Easter from Lilac, darlings!!! Now, just what kind of a message are they sending???????
Girls, I am telling you, this is no Easter Parade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe Janet Leigh was also in John Carpenter's The Fog, which co-starred her daughter Jamie Lee. But yes, this was her last leading role, such as it is!
ReplyDeleteI saw "The Fog" years after it came out, and thought it better than how it was received at the time--which was as a poor second to Carpenter's masterwork, "Halloween." Well, how could he possibly top that?
ReplyDeleteI recall the opening scene with John Houseman telling the story being especially effective.
I had forgotten, however, that Janet Leigh had appeared in this. A vast improvement over 'Lepus', thank God, but yes, the latter was her last leading role. She deserved better!