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Peter Graves was in the film _Airplane!_ W./Lloyd Bridges! *NEW STAR: Lloyd Bridges!*

I love that pic of Elsa Lanchester making ready as the "_Bride of Frankenstein_"! I have that photo in a book. I took the photo out & had it blown up to an 8X10 and framed! )

*Gene Kelly!*

13) *Mamma Mia...The Out Takes* *So come on, now lets try it, I love you, cant deny it* *cos its true* *I do, I do, I do, I do, I do*

FREUDIAN -- _Freud_ (1962) (Montgomery Clift Plays: Sigmund Freud!) *NEW WORD: Porphyrophobia!*

_The Busy Body_ is a 100% departure from the usual William Castle films. I bought it sight unseen since it finally came to DVD Via Legend Films in July 2008. It took at least 2 viewings to get through it. It's slow moving, & well a little convoluted. The basic plot is: Sid Caesar stars as the bumbling right hand man of mob boss Robert Ryan who is sent to find a corpse buried in a suit lined with stolen mob money. But then there is a 2nd plot line which leaves you gong "WHAT!?!". LOL! _The William Castle Films I Own are:_ The Busy Body Strait-Jacket - Joan Crawford 13 Ghosts (1960) The Tingler (1959) Mr. Sardonicus (1961) Homicidal (1961) House on Haunted Hill (1959) Rosemary's Baby (1968) (producer) - (I also own it for the fact that Roman directed it!) I want to see: _I Saw What You Did_ W./Miss. Crawford, but alas it is out of print! I loved the _The Night Walker_ (1964) W./Barbara Stanwyck & her ex-husband Robert Taylor! Very interesting film. It's funny how people forget that Miss. Stanwyck made a "horror" type picture too! Sad that it is only available on VHS & not DVD! My favorite part of _13 Ghosts_ (1960)I love the ending where Margaret Hamilton as the maid picks up here broom smiles at the camera and goes on sweeping the floor....LOL!! The Best Lines from _House on Haunted Hill_ (1959): Frederick Loren: Don't let the ghosts and the ghouls disturb you, love. Annabelle Loren: Darling, the only ghoul in the house is you! The line that always makes me laugh from _House on Haunted Hill_ is: Annabelle Loren: Oh, I'm sure we're not going to go running around the house shooting each other, aren't you? .... LOL! William Castle directed Joan Crawford in '64's _Strait-Jacket_ and '65's _I Saw What You Did_. It would have been interesting to be on the set that day! *William Castle with Joan Crawford!*

*Don't forget _Brigadoon_ (1954) W./Gene is on Tue. Sept. 9, 2008 @ 1:15 pm (PT) Arizona Time!* *(Gene also does the choreography!)* *Trivia for _Brigadoon_ (1954)* The Breen office wouldn't allow the use of the two songs the Meg Brockie character sang in the stage version, "The Love of My Life" and "My Mother's Wedding Day" as the lyrics were too risqu?. Average Shot Length (ASL) = 32 seconds - about three times as long as most films made during the Classical Hollywood era. Cyd Charisse said that, of the several films she made with Gene Kelly, this was her favorite.

Tapioca - _Tommy_ (1975) *NEW WORD: Zeusophobia!*

I saw _Disturbia_ (2007) at an advance screening, & thank God I didn't pay to see it. So anyways, my partner and I went, & we just laughed through most of the film, & at other moments, I was like look wasn't that part in "Rear Window" etc.! I thought _Disturbia_ (2007) was 1 of the worst and most Over-Rated films of 2007. I also really don't think Shia LaBeouf is much of an actor. But today's generation are like things are cardboard! I think that is why I was so grateful for my mother; because as far back as I can remember I was always watching films with her. I think the 1st time I watched "The Birds" I was 6 or 7, & it scared the crap out of me. LOL!. My mother loved Alfred Hitchcock. I remember spending an entire week watching nothing about Alfred Hitchcock films with her. Her fav was either "_Rear Window_" Or "_The Man Who Knew Too Much_" W./Doris Day!

*What is funny about things like "Razzie" awards...* *United States president George W. Bush, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condolezza Rice are the only non-actors to have won Razzies for their appearances in the 2004 Michael Moore documentary _Fahrenheit 9/11_. Bush won Worst Actor and shared the Worst Screen Couple Award with Rice and "his pet goat," while Rumsfeld won Worst Supporting Actor. Rice lost to Britney Spears for Worst Supporting Actress.*

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Equipoise .... _Requiem for a Dream_ *NEW WORD: Octophobia!*

My Antonia ..... _Far and Away_ (1992) *NEW WORD: Bogyphobia!*

Jennifer Jones _Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing_ (1 of My Fav films W./her!) W./William Holden! *NEW STAR: William Holden!*

*_The Golden Turkey Awards_ is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved. This book is credited with giving the movie _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ by Edward D. Wood, Jr. the reputation of being the "_worst movie ever made_".* *List of Golden Turkey winners* *Most Embarrassing Movie Debut*: Paul Newman in _The Silver Chalice_ *Most Ridiculous Movie Monster*: Robot Monster *Worst Performance by a Popular Singer*: Tony Bennett in _The Oscar_ *Worst Title*: _Rat Pfink a Boo Boo_ *Most Brainless Brain Movie*: _They Saved Hitler's Brain_ *Most 'Badly Bumbled Bee' Movie*: _The Swarm_ *Worst Casting*: John Wayne as Genghis Khan in _The Conqueror_ *Worst Performance by a Politician*: United States Congressman and New York City Mayor John Lindsay in Rosebud *Worst Two-Headed Transplant Movie*: The Thing with Two Heads *Worst Rodent Movie*: The Food of the Gods *Worst Performance by a Novelist*: Norman Mailer in _Wild 90_ *P.T. Barnum Award for Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity*: _The Terror of Tiny Town_, a Western film with an all-dwarf cast. *Worst Musical Extravaganza*: _At Long Last Love_ (early 1970s musical starring Burt Reynolds) *Worst Performance as a Clergyman or Nun*: Mary Tyler Moore in _Change of Habit_ *Worst Performance as Jesus Christ*: Ted Neeley in _Jesus Christ Superstar_ *Worst Blaxploitation Movie*: _Scream, Blacula, Scream_ *Biggest Rip-off in Hollywood History*: The _1976 version of King Kong_ *Worst Credit Line*: The 1929 version of William Shakespeare's _The Taming of the Shrew_, "with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor". *Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography*: Him, a porn film about a priest with a sexual fixation on Jesus Christ *Worst Performance by an Animal*: Dinky the Chimp in _Tarzan and the Great River_. (During filming, Dinky attacked and injured lead actor Mike Henry.) *Worst Vegetable Movie*: Attack of the Mushroom People (mushrooms are actually fungi, not vegetables) *Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts*: Government Girl *Most Ludicrous Racial Impersonation*: Marlon Brando as a native of Okinawa in _The Teahouse of the August Moon_ *Most Obnoxious Child Performer*: David Kory in _Dondi_ *Worst Film You Never Saw* (category for films never completed or only released in a limited fashion): _Billy Jack Goes to Washington_ *Most Inane Technical Advance*: Percepto, designed by William Castle for his 1959 film, _The Tingler_ starring Vincent Price. At certain times in the film small vibrators attached to the underside of some seats within the auditorium were activated to give some audience members a tingle. *Worst Line of Romantic Dialogue*: an exchange between Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll in _Northwest Mounted Police_ *Worst Director*: Edward D. Wood Jr. *Worst Actress*: Raquel Welch *Worst Actor:* Richard Burton (a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films) *In addition, the Golden Turkey Awards had a reader's choice category for Worst Film of All Time, voted upon by readers of The Fifty Worst Films of All Time*. *First Runner-Up*: _Exorcist II: The Heretic_ *Worst Film*: _Plan 9 from Outer Space_

Burt Lancaster WAS in the film _Kiss the Blood Off My Hands_ W./Joan Fontaine! *NEW STAR: Joan Fontaine!*

Kirk Douglas was in _A Letter to Three Wives_ W./Linda Darnell! *NEW STAR: Linda Darnell!*

archipelago .... _The Little Hut_ (1957) *NEW WORD: Piazza!*

Wendy Hiller was in the film: _Making Love_ W./Michael Ontkean! *NEW STAR: Michael Ontkean!*

Rod Taylor was in the film _Welcome to Woop Woop_ W./Johnathon Schaech! *NEW STAR: Johnathon Schaech!*

*On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 @ 3:45 AM _The Tingler_ Will Be Shown on TCM!* *All times Eastern. Check Local Listings!* *William had some theaters showing _The Tingler_ (1959), equip their seats with electric buzzers to 'shock' the audience every time the 'Tingler' appeared on screen, to simulate the creature's "feeding on neural impulses from fear" as the film promoted*

Winslet, Kate

_XY & Zee_ (1972)

Vampira (as Maila Nurmi) was in the film _I Woke Up Early the Day I Died_ W./Tippi Hedren! (I saw this at the Dever Film Fest! Needs to be seen to be believed!) *NEW STAR: Tippi Hedren!*

Lionel Atwill was in _Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man_ W./Bela Lugosi! *NEW STAR: Bela Lugosi!*