Guess What, Girls? We Have A New Reader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         The follower indicator reads 116, so I want to welcome whomever that is to the blog.  I hope the rest of it lives up to what caused you to discover it, in  the first  place.

                                          The blog has been affected by Covid.  No more "Bitch Of The Week," or  true crime, though I  hope to return  to  both,  at  some point.  And the  book  reviews.  I intend  to  do  something today, however minimal.

                                               Nevertheless, I hope you find fun, knowledge, and enjoyment from  this blog.  On behalf of us all, welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          And now,  for this blog's unofficial welcoming song!

                                          Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, Join Us All Saturday Night, As Svengoolie Presents "Time Walker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Let's Pray I Have The Right Movie, This Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             Ever since Ridley Scott's "Alien" was the hit of 1979, filmmakers in the years following tried to  duplicate its success. One of these was 1982's "Time Walker," which I never heard of, and  I have a feeling why.  And not just because it is showing up on  "Svengoolie."

                                              The summary for this says something about an alien escaping from King Tut's tomb, then menacing a college campus.  Teens, terror, and  college--sounds like a hoot!  But how the hell does King Tut's tomb connect with a college campus?

                                                I guess we will have to wait till Saturday, when we watch with Svengoolie, and his lovable chicken friend, Kerwyn,  who always livens things up.

                                                 So, I  hope you all tune in with us, Saturday night!

                                                  Meanwhile,  I have to continue my exploration of  the character of Mama Rose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday To The Divine MERYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         Yes, darlings, it is Meryl Streep's birthday.  She is 73 this year, and nothing is  going to  stop her.  After all, she is a force of  nature we have admired for decades,  and will  in decades  to  come.

                                           Have a great time on your birthday, Meryl.  You have earned  it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            And  how  do you look  so well, at  your age????????????????????

                                           I  can  only  hope, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today Is The Longest Day Of The Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 It is evening, as I write this,  so let me say, first, it did  not seem that long.  Some say this day was June 20, but I was always taught the 22nd,  and  so there you are.  It is also the fifty second anniversary of the death  of Judy Garland.

                                 As  for the shortest night,  wouldn't that have been  last  night? Again, it sure did not seem  that way, to me.

                                 Now, the days get shorter.  Not  noticeable till around September, but now that we have built toward, it is time to build  back.

                                   Hope we all fare well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Summer Fun! Something's Begun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                     Well, here we  are, dolls, the most outdoorsy,  joyous time  of year.  And we are doing even better than last year, though we aren't out of  the woods,  yet.

                                        Today marks Proserpina's halfway point,  in  being up here!  Get it while  you  can, Proserpina!  Time has a  way of moving  on!

                                           But I wouldn't want to  ruin anyone's Summer, especially the  kids.  Summers  are best when you are a  kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                              Even if  that  lasts  more  than twenty years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               Have a fun  Summer,  everyone, and  here is  this  blog's official Summer song!

The season's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darlings, I Am So, SO Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               Until we sat down, this past Saturday night, and watched "Svengoolie," I had no  idea  I had  written about the  wrong  movie. It was "Curse Of The Undead," not "Curse Of The Living Dead."  I have the feeling,  having seen the above,  that the 1974 technicolor venture into French faux horror, may have been  better than this clunker.

                                                  Universal  was the  Studio Of  Monsters, throughout the  Thirties, Forties,  and Fifties, but this  1959 Vampire Western, with  no discernible actors who  went anywhere--except for Helen Kleeb, who played  housekeeper Dora, and went on to play Miss Mamie Baldwin in "The Waltons," in the 1970's--is, quite possibly, the worst effort they ever turned out, and it should have been  permanently shelved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Ronald Reagan and  Donald O' Connor may have been  down on their luck when  they did  the "Bonzo" and  "Francis" movies, but, next to  this, those seem like  artistic  masterpieces.

                                                  The only  points it gets  is for  some  shots  of  such visual  atmosphere, I am  convinced  someone on the  production staff had seen some  advance footage of Mario Bava's "Black Sunday," and was trying  to imitate that.

                                                    The  idea for  this  film  started out as a gag.  Had that been stuck with, and shot like  a Warner Bros. cartoon, it might have worked.

                                                     Instead, the film is all  over  the  place,  playing fast and loose with  the vampire mythos.  You know Drake Robie, (what a name!!) played by Michael Pate, is the  vampire, right away,  as he  is  the only one  in the  film, dressed  in black.  There is  a sexually graphic nature to the shots of  him  draining blood from  his  victims that  makes me wonder how they got this by the censors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    As for the victims,  they jettison  quickly from  young girls--makes sense!--to men involved  in a land dispute?   WTH?????????????????????????????

                                                     Hell could be watching this movie!  Thank God,  for  Svengoolie and  Kerwyn, to liven things up.

                                                      But, most of  all, girls,  forgive me!   I promise never to do  this again!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do You Know What This Is, Darlings??????????????????????????????

                                        Note I said "what," and  not "who."  I would expect every reader on here to know who that is--Marilyn Monroe.  But what is she wearing? And where was this  taken?

                                         Let me tell you, I only discovered this shot yesterday, even though it must have been taken in the Fifties.  Are  you ready, girls?  Here, goes.

                                         Marilyn is seated on the  20th Century-Fox lot, on what was the village set of  Lourdes, in "The Song Of  Bernadette!"  Even more remarkable,  she is wearing the costume Jennifer Jones wore in the role that won her an  Oscar!

                                           Whose idea this  was  to  do this,  I have  no  idea.  It certainly shows a different, darker side, to Monroe.   As for the  costume, I  cannot  be certain it was the exact one worn  by Jones, or  a  knock-off. Let's face  it, Monroe was more buxom  than Jones, so, if this was her actual costume, both parts would have had to been let out.

                                              But, leave it to me, dolls, to latch on to  a new factual facet for one of  my favorite  films.  As for Monroe, I  don't  think she  would ever have been quite right for  Bernadette, but those looking at this for the first time, will  be  seeing a different  side  of  her.

                                                 Wonder if Jennifer Jones knew about this, and how she felt?