If You Ever Find A Reason To Be In Randolph, New Jersey, You MUST Visit "Pink's Pharmacy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                          It  is  just SO pink,  darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Think of  Diana Vreeland, or  Kay Thompson, in "Funny Face."

                                            Is there ANY good reason to be in Randolph, New Jersey?  Not really, unless, like us, one  happened to be visiting friends, nearby.  But this little  bright gem was enough  to change my mind.

                                            Too bad the place was closed, so I  could  not  explore, and  buy me  some  pink  accessories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               Yes, I know of the book and magazines "Weird  New Jersey," but the state is not so much weird, as strange.

                                                  Because, when least expected,  a hidden gem, like this, can be  found!

Girls, There Is Nothiing Like Taking A Motel/Hotel Shower, To Make One Feel Like Janet Leigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Janet Leigh, in the shower, sets an  important example for all those anti-bathers.

                                   But, let me  tell you, darlings, this past weekend, David  and  I  spent the night at The Madison  Hotel, in Morristown, New Jersey.  That is right; New Jersey.

                                    Morristown is a lovely community, that David and I  could contemplate.  But Morris County?  Oh, my God!   I mean,  there are no sidewalks,  it is so rural, nothing but bugs and allergies, and I  thank my lucky stars  I grew up in Highland  Park.  I had access to a library, a universtiy, a  downtown strip spanning the enitre  town, and a bus to NYC ready to hop on, just across  the river,  in New Brunswick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        What the hell could I have done in Morris County? I would have turned into an embittered alcoholic, working  at some  industrial factory job.  See  why I had to get out of Jersey,  girls??????????  No matter how beautiful some of it seems,  and while it  is  great for  kids, it  is a  trap for  adults,  one whom  the  wiser ones  realize as  soon as they reach their  teens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            But that bathrooom  and shower setup made me  feel like  Janet Leigh.

                                            Now, if only I had had that patterned  bathrobe she slipped out of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What Do We Do On This Day, Girls??????????????????????????

                                                      "Kill her, Mommy, kill her.  Don't let her live."                                                                                               I won't  Jason, I won't!                                                                                                                                  Get her, Mommy, get her!  She can't hide!                                                                                                       NO  PLACE to hide!  Kill her,  Mommy!                                                                                                   KILL HER!                                                                                                                                                          I will, Jason,  I WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"                                                                                                          Betsy Palmer, as Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, in                                                                                                         "Friday,  The 13th" (1980)

                                                             

                                                        Well, first, darlings, it is scorching outside, so we should all stay in and hydrate.  But this being the day it  is, we are going to do our own "Svengoolie" tonight, and watch 1980's "Friday, The 13th," with the immortal Betsy Palmer, whose performance is  signature.

                                                            You gotta love Mrs. Voorhees,  dolls!  A mother who will  go to  any lengths for her child.   Even taking on  that horndog Barry, and that tramp, Claudette--whose fault it REALLY was--for causing the death of her son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                 The fun starts at  8PM, and we are all going to be there.

                                                                  Join us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I'm Being Threatened By These Awful, Cheap Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                     Oh, darlings, how well I  know this.  Trying to get oneself and education,  get into a good college, so high school rejects can be left behind, forever!  Many of us have been through it.

                                        Well, let me tell you something about cheap girls!   They may have their compact, lipstick, hairspray, and scanty clothing, but you know how they end up?  They do NOT graduate from high school, so  don't worry about them bothering you for the next four years.   They end up off the highway exits of  America, searching for truckers, whom  they can service, and drink with,  beer cans scattered about,  in a  sleazy Motel 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            Just ask me, who hails from Jersey, and has seen such behavior going  on  for  myself.  It is real, and while all states are suspect, most of  this takes place in New Jersey!

                                             But don't think being a school snitch  gets  you anywhere!!!!!!!!  You know what happens to the likes of her?  She gets that education, becomes a corporate sycophant, who is dumped out into the street the first chance execs get!  She then morphs into a "KAREN!"

                                                Never let cheap girls threaten you, dears.  Just display class, and a better wardrobe!

                                                  Believe me, compared to them,  it is not that difficult!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, Do Not Miss "House On Haunted Hill" This Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  Forget the 1999 remake, darlings; most of us have.  The original, made forty years before that, is  the one and only.

                                    From a black screen, to sounds of screams and moans,  followed  by the appearance of  Elisha Cook, Jr. face, as Watson  Pritchard, on screen, and his thrilling monologue, to the end of  the film,  where laughter slams the door in the viewer's face, this is a brilliant amalgamation of mystery, horror, and camp.

                                       First, there is  Vincent Price.  Enough said.   Then there is Richard Long,  as handsome pilot, Lance Schroeder, Carolyn Craig as Nora Manning,  the spinster searching for something, and wait till  she finds Lance!, and sexy Carol Ohmart, later to be seen  in the demented 1967 thriller, "Spider Baby," as Annabelle  Loren,  Vincent Price's wife.

                                         The housekeeper is a riot!  And the way she moves, as though wired,  or on roller skates, is priceless.  She is played by Leona Anderson; too bad she died in 1973; she would  have been great in "Starlight Express!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                            I cannot urge you enough to watch it, darlings!  I have seen it  countless times, and it is always a treat.  Thank "Svengoolie" for showing it!

                                             Next to  "Rosemary's Baby," this is William Castle's best film!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Could  this have foreshadowed the formation  of  the singing group, "Talking Heads?????????????????"

                                   
 

Can Beanie Play BARBRA??????????????????????????????

                                          Even more than Governor Cuomo's resignation, Theater Queens all over the world were rocked by the news that Beanie Feldstein, Jonah Hill's sister, will play Fanny Brice in the alleged (it has not  happened yet,  dolls!) 2022 revival of "Funny Girl."  Will  it play the Winter Garden????????????

                                           You have GOT to be kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Beanie Feldstein???????????  And no one even called, about seeing ME?   I have had my eye on this role since  I was  nine years old, and  I have the belting chops to do  it.

                                             Which makes me wonder about Beanie, who is facing two musical gigs.  Along with "Funny Girl," she is Mary Flynn in the film  version of "Merrily We Roll Along," which is being shot over a period of  twenty years,  to make  the age-youth thing realistic.  Hope I live long enough to see it, because, I can tell you right now, short of a miracle, Sondheim sure won't!!!!!!!!!  I am not sure Beanie is  any Ann Morrison, but BARBRA??????????????   BARBRA??????????????????

                                                  Beanie, don't you realize what you are in for?  THE most  iconic  role  in musical theater, with its originator still  alive????????????  The eyes of Theater Queens of  the world on  you, and  if  you do  just  ONE thing that is off  the way they feel it should be done--that is,  like BARBRA--you are going to get crucified?  Much as I want the job, I would be hesitant to take it.

                                                    Harvey Fierstein is tinkering with the book, so God  knows what score we will get! Will it  be the  original, or a hybrid of  the play and movie????????????????????

                                                     Sure, Beanie is playing Fanny Brice, but she is also playing  BARBRA, because "Funny Girl" is almost the same story as BARBRA"S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And one needs a BARBRA level performer in the role.

                                                       And I am not sure that is Beanie.  She can carry a tune, but where is the power, and the distinction?  I heard her on "Meadowlark," and let me tell  you,  she did NOT have the voice for  it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So, how can she be expected to  do  "Funny Girl?"

                                                         On a stage, with lighting Jessie Mueller could nail it with no  trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                          Or, maybe, Beanie will surprise us?

                                                          Please?????????????????????????????

It Was NOT "Black Narcissus," Hons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Oh, girls, I am telling you, "Black Friday" was one  strange  movie!  A mixture of gangster film noir, "Frankenstein," and "Dr. Jekyll And  Mr. Hyde," it did not exactly congeal, but has several  outstanding features.

                                   Let's start with Bela Lugosi playing a gangster, with that "Dracula" voice.  How strange is that,  loves?????????????????  He is  even forced to fall into a  body of water by a bay; how undignified.  And, in the most macabre irony I have ever seen,  he is killed off but being  entombed  alive, in  a closet,  whose  door is  blocked by a refrigerator?????????  This,  for  the man  who defined "Dracula" on screen??????????????

                                   And how about that shadowy stairwell set, clearly recycled from Universal's 1934 "The Black Cat," which Svengoolie  showed  several  weeks  before?

                                    Boris and  Bela  give it  their all; they are real pros.  But the two most interesting performances in this film, are given by Stanley Ridges,  as Professor George Kingsley,  who sometimes morphs into gangster Red Cannon, thanks to a surgical  procedure Karloff performs on his friend,  Kingsley, to save his  life.  The transformation, and acting, are  both so brilliant, David did not at first  get it was the same actor.  Ridges presents both side of  the human psyche, in a  performance that is  chilling, and  easily the  film's best.

                                        Then there is Anne Nagel, as hard bitten nightclub singer, Sunny Rogers.  She is  almost camp.  I love the reference  about her being  given  money to get out of trouble she  got into  in Chicago.  (The film takes place in New  York City.)  This is one  dame, whose back story I want  to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            Not  the usual "Svengoolie" fare, but interesting to get an opportunity to see so  seldom shown a film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               Oh, hons,  I am  telling you,  the great B-movies of the Forties!  How many of you still remember Sheila Ryan,  Kane Richmond, and Stephanie Bachelor??????????????????

                                                  "Gonna take a sentimental journey," darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!