Still The Biggest, And Greatest, Star Of Them All!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                            A celebrity strewn audience--including yours truly, the Raving Queen, actor  and teacher Austin Pendelton, Cujo, Pete The Pigeon, and those two lovable Pekingese, Victoria and Stinky--were on hand for the packed house premiere at the Film Forum, celebrating the now 60th Anniversary of the Ishiro Honda artistic masterpiece, "Gojira."

                              When the star made his celebrated, operatic entrance, from atop the hill, the audience erupted into applause.  There were however, a few nuts in the house--someone grumbling about Mothra, which caused me to hear Gojira, who was sitting in the back, with sunglasses, growl a little.  He also got disturbed when some anti-Japanese zealot applauded every time buildings smashed down on the Japanese people.

                                 There were even children in the audience, seeing this for the first time, and I think they were frightened. Fortunately, Gojira was on hand, afterwards, making a personal appearance in the lobby, comforting the frightened, the saddened, (like me, who cries every time Dr. Serizawa sacrifices himself, and then when Gojira rises above the water to give his final, aria-like, roar!!!!!!!!!!) to remind us it was just a movie, and he was going for the artistic gold.  Which he has earned, because time has not dimmed the power of his film.  From the storm on Odo Island, when he first comes on land, to the Tokyo night life he seeks out, to the female reporters arguing with the politicians, to the Wagnerian underwater finale, every minute of this film is pure artistic pleasure!

                                  We love you, Gojira!  And we love Baby Gojira!  There were none being sold at this engagement, so we have a real treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    We will have a tenth birthday party for him, later this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!