Girls, Join Us Tonight At Eight As "Svengoolie" Presents The 1956 Classic "Forbidden Planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                               Long before "Honey West" or "Funny Girl," this was the film that made so many of us want to be Anne Francis!!!!!!!!!!!  And still do.  How could I know, when still in the single digits, upon first seeing this, it was a reworking of Shakespeare's final play, "The Tempest?"  By high school, having read and seen a production, I was able to see how it all fits, and so I am looking forward to seeing it in color, to see how the special effects hold up. Watching them in black-and-white as a child, they were pretty state-of-the-art.  But remember, this was a good twenty-plus years before "Star Wars," and such, so how they look today I cannot tell anyone till after this evening.

                                                 Little Pippin is so looking forward to this classic, as he is the only member of the household.  And our beloved Venusian friend, Cucumbo, I think, auditioned for the film, but did not make the cut.  Alas, that is show business.

                                                    Still, there is good news.  Because tonight "Sventoonie" is continuing his after party.

                                                    Tonight, he is going to deconstruct something even I never heard of, darlings--1971's "Lady Frankenstein," starring--are you ready?--Joseph Cotten, as the Baron?  Can you believe it?  From "Citizen Kane," just thirty years before, and now THIS?  Please don't confuse this film with the 1990 camp classic "Frankenhooker," where Louise Lasser plays the creator's mother.  This would also be a perfect film for "Sventoonie," as the mother fixated creator tries to reconstruct the body of his decapitated fiancé with body parts of prostitutes.  Mark my words; "Sventoonie" will eventually show this one.

                                                         This evening, though, look for the perfect blend of classic and camp.

                                        And here we are, darlings!  See why we all wanted to be Anne Francis????????????????????????????   And still do????????????????