 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
If you have a news item you would like to see posted please e-mail it directly to me at almaric@usa.net/.Well guys, it's taken me a while, but I've finally got the message boards up and running. Do me a favor, check them out and let me know what you think.
New at B-Independent.com
Production: New column from Tim Ritter.
Distribution: The Donald Farmer Collection
B-Independent.com Underground Film of the Year Announced!
Chapter Excerpt
March 23, 2002
Dig on this note I got from Donald Farmer. It looks like one of our underground pals made it to the big show!"One of the stars of director Donald Farmer's 1990 film VAMPIRE COP walked away with an Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremonies.
"VAMPIRE COP co-star Ray McKinnon and his horror actress wife Lisa Blount (from John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS)each received Oscars for a short film they co-produced.
"McKinnon and Blount were honored in the "BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM" category for "The Accountant," which McKinnon also acted in and directed.
"To B-movie fans, McKinnon is known for his role as a psycho gangster who dismembers Mal (BLOOD FEAST) Arnold with a chainsaw in director Donald Farmer's 1990 film VAMPIRE COP (available in the "Distribution" section of b-independent com). More recently, McKinnon played the fiance of Holly Hunter in the Coen Brothers film "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"
"In addition to PRINCE OF DARKNESS, Blount also starred with Jack (CHICO AND THE MAN) Albertson in the gory shocker DEAD AND BURIED. Her mainstream credits include playing Debra Winger's girlfriend in AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN.
March 20, 2002
Just a newsflash to warn you of the coming of the SECOND ANNUAL OTTAWA B-MOVIE EXPLOSION FILMFEST. Ottawa, Canada based filmmaker Brett Kelly (Spacemen, Go-Go Girls and the True Meaning of Christmas) is organizing the event which will take place in Canada's capital city in the fall of 2002. The submission deadline is July 15, 2002. For more information fans and filmmakers can go to the Official Site.
***** From Mark Pirro:
"RECTUMA went into pre-production this month. I’ve already started working on an opening sequence and have dabbled with the theme music. Now, as we move through the pre-production phase, I am working on accumulating things for the movie. Here is a list of what we’ll need before this ordeal begins:
"First of all, all you actors…NOW is the time to send us your pictures and resumes. The movie requires all types, although we are really looking for Japanese, Chinese, Korean actors (male and female) to fill a few key roles. SAG and Non-SAG talent is welcome to submit. Send pictures to: Casting/Pirromount Pictures PO Box 7520 Van Nuys, Ca. 91409.
We also need special effect make up artists, people who specialize in prosthetic make up and effects. We need to design a “butt mask” that can be worn by an actor. This will double for “Rectuma” in certain scenes. In addition, we’ll need a bean bag type size Rectuma for other scenes.
"We’re looking for someone who possesses the skills on room refurbishing. This room needs to be redesigned for blue screen photography and will, in essence, be used as a sound stage for many interiors of the production.
"We need someone to design a phony stinger missile launcher, capable of holding a giant cork (which also must be designed).
"That’s about all at the moment regarding the film. Naturally, we’re looking for people that live in the Los Angeles area and equally looking for people that work very very very very cheap (you know our budgets).
"In other news…
"As it currently stands, the DVD releases of Polish Vampire and Queerwolf will be June 2002. We may be taking advance orders as early as April or May.
"We’re packaging the three of our documentaries on one VHS tape for a limited time. This may end soon after the DVD releases. If you’d like to get the docs, “Polish Vampire: Behind the Fangs,” and “Queerwolf: Completely From Behind, and our 1994 entry, “Mini Motion Picture Making” you can order them through this website for $35 plus $4.00 shipping. We’ve been selling them individually for $14.95 and $19.95 each."
March 19, 2002
What do you know, it's only taken 2 weeks to get ahold of some news to pass along to you people. Remember, if you've got something, just e-mail it to me or pass it along via a private message on the message boards.
***** Ever changing their catalog, Dept.13 wants to make everyone aware of the following updates and modifications.
"We have posted release dates for new VHS titles, as well as our first DVD releases. You can SAVE 10% by pre-ordering any of these titles at www.dept13.com. The titles are:
BOOBIE TRAP - UNCUT (DVD, 7-25-02)
KILL SISTER KILL! (DVD & VHS, 10-8-02)
MELISSA WOLF UNLEASHED! (XXX VHS, 4-9-02)
PLAYTIME WITH MELISSA (DVD, 8-27-02)"The retail price for the VHS edition of BOOBIE TRAP - UNCUT has been reduced to $19.95. The retail price for the DVD will also be $19.95. The Short Version of BOOBIE TRAP has been deleted from our catalog and will be re-released in October as KILL SISTER KILL!"
***** Play-Mate of the Apes” – The latest spoof from Seduction Cinema
Butler, NJ – Seduction Cinema (http://www.seductioncinema.com) is excited to announce the Home Video and DVD release of its funniest and most ambitious production to date, “Play-Mate of the Apes” - an erotic film parody of both the classic original “Planet of the Apes” and the recent Tim Burton remake. So, exactly what kind of trouble can a spaceship full of nubile young women get themselves into?
Well, in the far distant future, sexy and fearless astronaut Gaylor (Misty Mundae doing her best Charlton Heston impersonation!) and her female shipmates (Anoushka and Sharon Engert) crash-land on a planet dominated by a race of intelligent talking apes led by the tyrannical General Lade who plots the enslavement of all humans. Lade is convinced that humans represent the inferior species due to a lack of musical “soul,” and, thus, deserve their fate of servitude. But when the imprisoned Gaylor brings down the house with a dynamic song’n’dance number, homo sapien/ape relations undergo a seismic shift! Soon Gaylor is befriended by the human-friendly monkey, Cornholeus (Debbie Rochon), her pink-haired simian assistant, Dr. Kweera, and an untamed wild woman (Darian Caine) who only has eyes for the girlish charms and hot erotic beauty of this sultry space explorer. Together they escape deep into the Forbidden Zone – a well-endowed landscape of sensual lesbian pleasures - with Lade and his henchmen in hot pursuit, and it will take nothing short of the coming of a rappin’ monkey god to bring peace, unity, and karaoke to the land.…
“Play-Mate of the Apes” is available at major retailers nationwide. For a peek at some of Gaylor’s more provocative “Earth” activities, check out http://www.mistymundae.com.
SEDUCTION CINEMA’S 1st EXCLUSIVE “GIRL” - MISTY MUNDAE
Butler, NJ – Seduction Cinema is excited to announce that Misty Mundae has been signed as the first exclusive “Seduction Cinema Girl.” For the next 3 years Misty fans can look forward to her starring in at least 5 Seduction Cinema films as well as producing, writing and directing 3 others. Fans can check out http://www.mistymundae.com for more details.
It’s been quite a year already for Seduction Cinema’s fan-favorite, Misty Mundae. After starring in the extremely successful erotic parodies Gladiator Eroticvs and Erotic Survivor, she blazed into 2002 as the butt-kicking action heroine of Misty Mundae Mummy Raider, then she did her best Charlton Heston impersonation in Play-Mate of the Apes, and now she’s writing and directing her own feature for Seduction Cinema, Confessions of a Natural Girl.
Describing her conception of Confessions, Misty says, “I had the story idea for some time. Basically, I wanted to portray lesbian seduction from a female perspective, with all the situational foreplay and sexy talk and dirty glances, and really show the types of things two or three willing young women would say and do to excite and seduce one another, and do it in such a way that reflects what an unbelievable turn-on it is - definitely for the participants and I’m sure for anyone watching! So, the film is partly a documentary where we talk about what we do – and then there are lots of re-enactments where we show you what we do!!!”
This is all heady stuff for the 22-year old, but when she’s not doing the soft-core lesbian thing, Mundae goes to college in New Jersey. She admits, though, to “getting a kick out of being recognized in video stores and at B-movie conventions” where she says, “most of the attendees are repeat offenders.” Misty’s also appeared numerous times in Celebrity Sleuth and Alternative Cinema Magazine and will be prominently featured in an upcoming issue of Femme Fatales.
Upcoming Misty Mundae projects include the hugely anticipated Michael Beckerman film - The Seduction of Misty Mundae, a feature inspired by the erotic masterpieces directed by Joseph Sarno in the 60’s and 70’s, particularly Inga, about a young woman experimenting with her sexuality with other women, and the happiness and hardship it imposes on her. Also in the pipeline is the thirteen part “made for cable television” series Misty Mundae College Girl, with a special home video release to follow. The pilot commenced production in January 2002, and the series will star Misty as a young woman experiencing the daily educational travails and erotic rigors of higher learning.
***** Just a quick reminder to make sure you haven't forgotten that this Saturday night, March 23rd to head on over to Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts for the 4th Annual FOO FEST!Again this year the great folks from WBTY Bentley College Radio and Alpha Psi Omega are sponsoring the event.
We've firmed up the program and here is the line up for the night, which kicks off at 7 pm. As always the event is FREE.
Scissors (world premiere)
Runnin With Scootie
Inquisition (world premiere)
-- intermission --
Knock on Wood
Kung Foo (world premiere)We are hoping for a good attendance and we hope that your one of the people in there!
For directions and the answers to all of your questions please check out www.FooFest.com
***** Mike Legge's CURTAINS is being shown in the next month or so at the Strange Brew Coffeehouse in Ohio, at their Friday night Indie Film Fest. Interesting venue if you want to visit their website.
March 7, 2002
TEMPE NEWSNow that our HELL ASYLUM Limited Edition DVD orders have all shipped, it's time to celebrate this weekend with a flurry of events!
CONVENTION: First up is the Monsters Among Us Convention this Saturday & Sunday at the Radisson Hotel Los Angeles International Airport, 6225 West Century Blvd. This event is hosted by our friends at Glamourcon and they've graciously invited us to promote HELL ASYLUM. Show hours are from 10 am - 5 pm on Saturday and 10 am - 4 pm on Sunday. Special guests include stars Tanya Dempsey, Joe Estevez and Brinke Stevens plus director Danny Draven, composer Josephine Soegijanty and executive producer J.R. Bookwalter...plus look for special appearances throughout the weekend by various local cast & crew members! For more show info, go to http://www.monstersamongus.com now!
SCREENING: Monsters Among Us attendees get priority admission to a Nighttime Film Fest which kicks off Saturday at 8 pm with HELL ASYLUM, followed by a Q&A with the cast & crew. Stephanie Beaton's THE BAGMAN follows immediately afterward. Admission is free but seating is limited!
ONLINE CHAT: Capping off the weekend is our first official Tempe online chat with a release party for HELL ASYLUM! By special arrangement with our pal Allen Richards at B-Independent.com, the chat begins at 5 pm PST (8 pm EST) and all you have to do is point your browser to http://www.b-independent.com/chat.htm and enter a screen name to begin! The chat is expected to last 2 hours and all of the convention guests above are scheduled to attend, along with screenwriter Trent Haaga and the gang from Chris Seaver's Low-Budget Pictures (whose MULVA: ZOMBIE ASS KICKER! is a bonus feature on the DVD). Any and all are encouraged to attend, bring friends and make it a big party!
Our final production for Full Moon is David P. Barton's DEAD & ROTTING, starring Stephen O'Mahoney (MURDERCYCLE), Tom Hoover (POLYMORPH), Debbie Rochon (WITCHOUSE 3), Trent Haaga (KILLJOY 2), Jeff Dylan Graham (CREMAINS) and Barbara Katz-Norrod (THE SANDMAN). We have the official trailer now online so check it out!
Beginning Monday, March 11th, 2002 our online store will begin accepting pre-orders for the DEAD & ROTTING Limited Edition DVD. Available on April 2nd, this is another fully-loaded disc:
- Widescreen 16:9-enhanced (1.85:1 aspect ratio)
- Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix
- Commentary with director David P. Barton, star Tom Hoover & "ghoul" David Greathouse
- Makeup effects on-set footage (12 mins.)
- Interview with director David P. Barton (14 mins.)
- Behind-the-scenes footage (15 mins.)
- "Howard Street Blues" (Early David P. Barton Super-8mm short film, 18 mins.)
- Early David P. Barton makeup effects Super-8mm footage (6 mins.)
- Isolated music score audio track
- Makeup effects still gallery
- Production still gallery
- Bonus feature: "Filthy McNasty" by Chris Seaver (starring Debbie Rochon)
- "Filthy McNasty" commentary track and "10 Years of Low-Budget Pictures" trailer
- Tempe DVD trailers and coming attractionsThis has shaped up to be one of our biggest and best discs yet -- limited to only 2,000 copies they're sure to go fast!
Tempe fans can also rejoice...the Full Moon double-feature rental disc of DEAD & ROTTING will also feature STITCHES, the creepy drama which makes its much-requested DVD debut! In addition to the widescreen 16:9-enhanced transfer the disc will include a STITCHES making-of and commentary from director Neal Marshall Stevens.
***** From John Bowker and Pipedreams Entertainment:
"The edit on Abomination: The Evilmaker 2 is complete, we are waiting on a few small items. As well as the movie, there are over two hours of extras including The Making Of, Interviews, Bloopers and filmographies. As well as using my regulars behind the camera (DP Joe Sherlock and Make Up man Rob Merickel), we also enlisted the talents of M.Edward Hegg (Rusted-Angel Productions) as Associate Producer. Benjamin Cooper (Thunderhead Entertainment) did all of the computer graphics and effects and Steve Sessions (This Is Not A Dream Productions) composed all the music. I had a lot of talented people helping me with this one.
"In June we go into full production on the last Evilmaker movie entitled Birthright: The Final Evilmaker and unlike the second one, it will be shot straight through for 10 days in and around Oregon.
"The Dreamwalkers release will be sometime in mid summer and we are looking at a Halloween release of The Seekers.
We are also going into production in the winter on a project called HOUSEBOUND. The beginning of it has already been shot by writer/director Tim Ritter. It's the story about a woman who has agoraphobia and can't leave the house. But, something evil is lurking in the shadows and in the walls.
Pipedreams Ent
Joe Sherlock's Dr. Squid
Thunderhead Studios
Tim Ritter
***** With a principle photography start date of March 16, 2002, "Here Comes Your Man," one of MINDSCAPE PICTURES' first productions is still casting, but has locked in several lead roles. While actor Gene Dante has been attached since day one, there are now three new female leads officially joining the cast, all from the Boston-based performance art group "Fantasy Factory" who perform monthly at a local night club.
Jennifer Irizarry is an actress and model hailing from New Bedford, Massachusetts. She regularly performs with Fantasy Factory and by day moonlights as an art and photography teacher. Her interests lie both with working in front of the camera and behind it, as she is currently the chief video archivist for Fantasy Factory.
Merrie Cartwright does currently work with Fantasy Factory, but is also co-coodinator of "Requiem" a monthly stage show put on by a performance art group based in Southern Maine. She is well-known for her myriad number of personas, having played a variety of different roles on stage, but her most surprising role is the one she plays during her day job as an assistant director of a scientific granting organization.
Rounding out the female leads is Tonya Tilden, the actress to be playing the role of Kara in "Here Comes Your Man." In the movie, Kara is apparently the woman from whom the sadistic lead character contracted his weapon of choice, HIV. Tonya's alternately sweet/devilish look made her the perfect choice for the role. She has acted in a variety of stage productions including "Mame" and "Hamlet," and also studied at the University of Paris, performing several works by Tartuffe.
There are still a number of female roles open for "Here Comes Your Man." If you are a Boston-based actress looking for more exposure on the independent moviemaking scene, don't hesitate to submit your headshot and resume to casting@mindscapepictures.com
MINDSCAPE PICTURES descended on Woburn, Massachusetts this past Saturday and began work on its first offical production, "Haunted." A horror story about four men paid to videotape and murder a man, then kidnap his grifriend and bring her to a decrepit warehouse, "Haunted" brought together veteran moviemakers Jason Santo, Roman Berman, Frank Parker and Kim Conley with new talent the likes of Gene Dante, Sheri Carter, Ron Higgins and Tom Howard.
The shoot began at 1 pm and lasted through 12 am, the last shot obtained outside as the March weather took a turn for the worst. Fourteen pages of the recently composed 27-page screenplay were efficiently lensed. Production is slated to continue on Sunday, March 10, 2002 again in Woburn, Mass. It is estimated there will be three days total for production.
"Haunted" is the second all-new story officially listed to be included on MINDSCAPE PICTURES' feature-length anthology "Bent." For more information, production journal entries and production stills, see the COMING SOON page for the movie at Mindscape Pictures
March 5, 2002
This weekend you can catch Webster Colcord's animated short, "Extreme Man and Insane Boy" at the Zombiedance film festival in Austin, TX on March 9th (www.zombiedance.com) and the Filmjunkie Fest in April in San Fransisco (www.filmjunkie.com). During Easter weekend It will play as part of Les Etranges Nuits du Cinéma in Switzerland (www.2300plan9.com).
The film features an ex-actor turned super hero, Extreme Man, who sits in his hilltop bunker waiting for word of criminal activity over his stolen police radio. Fueled by comic books and paranoia, the hostile and incompetent crimefighter has managed to assemble the accessories of a super hero, including a military vehicle which he calls the "Extreme Machine", and his sidekick, Insane Boy, who escaped from a mental institution and spends most of his time in a straight jacket. Together they face off against the villanous Screaming Skull, who has created an invention to re-animated dead bodies.
***** Hello friends!
Dropping a note to everyone regarding the update at...
www.playgroundfilms.com
In the "In Production" section you will find the latest news from the Playground. THE PRODIGAL SUM is the latest feature in preproduction getting the fast-track. We're speaking with our connection to funds this week to get the ball rolling!
Enjoy the brief description of the film and see some of the exciting Production and Character designs for the flick.
So far we've got a lock with Reggie Bannister (PHANTASM series), Bill Moseley (TEXAS CHAINSAW 2, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES), Greg James (DIVIDING HOUR) playing twins, and Todd Robinson as a whacked-out gangsta' accountant! And the potential cast gets broader and crazier as we go. Playground has been in discussion with Bruce Campbell (EVIL DEAD trilogy), Portland's own Kim Rhodes (ANOTHER WORLD, and featured appearances on STAR TREK: VOYAGER, TITUS, FAMILY LAW, etc.), legendary punk rockers The Misfits, cult-director John Waters (PINK FLAMINGOS, HAIRSPRAY), and infamous adult film actors Ginger Lynn Allen and Ron Jeremy!
Playground has also put it's Academy Award nominated (for A BEAUTIFUL MIND... congratulations!) make-up crew Captive Audience to work on the odd array of colorful characters... or colorless in the albino's case. And we've added the editor of the Academy Award nominated MONSTER'S BALL, Matt Chesse', to our impressive list of technicians and artist.
With this list of potential and locked talent we hope the financing will be forthcoming soon.
We'll keep you on the cusp of the latest as it comes in.
Thanks everyone for your continued support of Playground Films Corp.
Sincerely,
Mike Prosser & Greg James
PLAYGROUND FILMS CORP.
www.PlaygroundFilms.com
***** "Before the PSYCHO SISTERS, there were the TWISTED TEENS!" One of WAVE’s earliest tapes was a movie entitled TWISTED TEENS about a group of teens who enjoyed killing and showed "No Mercy". Pete Jacelone saw a segment from that early project and was inspired to create the PSYCHO SISTERS. Well, after a 13 year absence, the TWISTED TEENS are back with a vengeance! And this time they aim to live forever! TWISTED TEENS is in pre-production and will star a lot of new faces. It will have one of our largest casts ever. We are auditioning now for the key roles. Look for it by this time next year.
March 2, 2002
Screenwriter John Oak Dalton will script the urban action film THE PAYBACK MAN for Associated Artists, LLC. THE PAYBACK MAN will be directed by and starring Ivan Rogers (FORGIVE ME FATHER, LASERHAWK). More information will be available at www.ivanrogers.com. Dalton recently completed the screenplay "Mechanizer" for Polonia Brothers Entertainment, with Mark Polonia slated to direct.
***** Thunderhead chief Benjamin Cooper recently finished special visual effects chores on John Bowker's Evilmaker 2. He digitally rotoscoped over 40 shots of glowing red eyes, energy bolts and light flares for the Oregon lensed sequel.
Ben has also sat down to remaster his post-apocalyptic thriller, The Omega Diary. Never satisfied with the Spectrum Films VHS release which was several generations away from the original and had slightly jacked up sound, he's reconstructing the picture from the original camera masters and digital sound files. This will be followed by extensive color correction and Film Sim processing. Look for it on DVD this year for the first time ever at sell through price. Stay tuned.
Thunderhead Entertainment also offers services to indie film makers. Check us out at http://www.thunderheadstudios.com
***** OBITUARIES
Irish McCalla
1950s pinup queen and film star, Irish McCalla, is dead at 72. She was battling a recurring brain tumor when she succumbed to a fatal stroke at a nursing home in Tucson. McCalla had lived in Prescott, Ariz., since 1982 but moved to a Tucson facility after being diagnosed with her fourth brain tumor. One of the top models for artists and photographers, including a stint as a "Varga Girl" posing for the famed artist whose work was featured on the cover of Esquire magazine, McCalla was an ideal choice to portray "Sheena," the comic book jungle queen, in the 1955 teleseries. She was tall (5' 9 1/2"), athletic and performed her own stunts until the day she grabbed a loose vine and crashed into a tree, breaking her arm.
McCalla appeared in such B-pictures as "River Goddesses," "Five Gates to Hell" and "Hands of a Stranger," but is certainly best known for her star turn in director Richard Cunha's low-budget, horror classic "She Demons." In it, McCalla plays a pampered debutante stranded on a desert island populated by renegade Nazis led by a demented scientist whose experiments transform native women into hideous creatures. The film has achieved well-deserved cult status. She also appeared in producer Albert Zugsmith's "The Beat Generation." The cast of this lurid curiosity reads like a B-movie "Who's Who:" Mamie Van Doren, Dick Contino, Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Jackie Coogan, Paul Cavanagh, Sid Melton and more.
McCalla retired from acting to take up work as a painter. She formed McCalla Enterprises, Inc. and was a member of Woman Artists of the American West. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1969, overcame the affliction and returned to work. It recurred in 1981 and she again regained her health. She eventually completed over 1,000 paintings. Her work is on view at the Los Angeles Museum of Arts and Sciences, and the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
George Nader
Actor George Nader died of pneumonia at the Motion Picture Country Home near Los Angeles. He was 80. Nader was a contract player who starred in dozens of B-movies and several A-budget features in the 1950s and '60s. He is best known to genre-film buffs as the star of director Phil Tucker's 1953 sci-fi camp classic "Robot Monster." In recent years, the amateurish, no-budget film, shot in 3-D, achieved cult status. Born in Pasadena, Nader's interest in acting led to performances at the Pasadena Playhouse and, eventually, a studio contract. His beefcake good looks put him in competition with such rising stars as Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Jeff Chandler, but Nader was generally relegated to lower profile films, including "Six Bridges to Cross," "Carnival Story," "Four Guns to the Border" and "Man Afraid." Like his friend Hudson, Nader kept his homosexuality a secret in an era when such knowledge would have damaged his career irreparably.
Nader starred briefly as Ellery Queen in the 1958 TV series based on the fictional detective. He also appeared in the short-lived series "Shannon" in 1961. Cult-film fans will also remember Nader for his role in the 1964 sci-fi film, "The Human Duplicators," with Richard Kiel and Hugh Beaumont. His career declined over the next decade, and he retired to Hawaii. Nader's longtime partner, Mark Miller, was Rock Hudson's secretary, and Nader was one of the beneficiaries of Hudson's estate after the star died of AIDS in 1985. Nader's nephew, Michael Nader, turned up in bit parts in many of the 1960s "beach" movies, including "Beach Party," "Beach Blanket Bingo" and "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini."
Lucille Lund
Actress Lucille Lund, who portrayed the bride AND stepdaughter of Boris Karloff in director Edgar G. Ulmer's horror classic, "The Black Cat," died of natural causes in Torrance, Calif. She was 89. While a student at Northwestern University, Lund won the Universal Studios-sponsored "All-American Girl" contest, which resulted in a film contract. She beat out 1,200 other entrants. She made her film debut in 1933 co-starring with Robert Young in "Saturday's Millions." She appeared in more than 30 B-movies, serials and two-reelers with Kermit Maynard, Ralph Byrd, The Three Stooges and Charley Chase, among others.
She retired from films in 1939 to raise two children, but her role as Karen in Ulmer's cult classic, which starred Karloff and Bela Lugosi, ensured her a lasting place in the memories of genre-film fans. As Karen, Lund appeared in several scenes suspended in a vertical glass coffin from which she could not escape without help. One day, Ulmer called a lunch break and forgot all about her. "I couldn't get out," Lund told author Gregory Mank. "Everybody thought somebody else was going to get me out, but nobody took me out." She was stranded for an hour. In the early 1990's, Lund was invited to attend the Memphis Film Festival. Following an enthusiastic ovation, Lund told the crowd, "I really think the reason you all remember me is because I went to bed with Boris Karloff."
Lawrence Tierney Gravel-voiced movie tough guy, Lawrence Tierney, who had recently been in declining health, has died. He was 82. Tierney was the quintessential B-movie hoodlum, identified with roles in such films as "San Quentin," "The Devil Thumbs a Ride," "Born to Kill" and "Female Jungle." Cult-film buffs may remember Tierney from roles in "The Falcon Out West" and producer Val Lewton's "The Ghost Ship." Tierney made his biggest splash in the low-budget 1945 hit, "Dillinger," in which Tierney played the notorious gangster.
Tierney's offscreen run-ins with the law mirrored his movie exploits, with alcohol a contributing factor. He'd been involved with assaults, trespassing, shoplifting, drunken-driving and was even stabbed in a barroom brawl. His career went into decline and work for the volatile actor became scarce. It was years before he was clean and sober. "I'd say it was about time," he told an interviewer. "Heck, I threw away about seven careers through drink." Tierney began a tenuous comeback, appearing in such television series as `"Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Remington Steele," and such feature films as "Prizzi's Honor" and "Reservoir Dogs." He also played the father of Elaine Benes on an episode of the hit series "Seinfeld." Tierney was the brother of actors Scott Brady and Ed Tracy.
Chuck Jones
Trendsetting animator Chuck Jones died of congestive heart failure at his home in Corona del Mar, Calif. He was 89. Jones grew up in Hollywood and began his show business career as a child in Mack Sennett shorts. After graduating art school, he found work with such famed animators as Ub Iwerks and Walter Lantz. He later joined the Warner Bros. animation team under the auspices of producer Leon Schlesinger. They inhabited a ramshackle backlot office that they dubbed "Termite Terrace." Jones directed cartoons featuring Warners' most memorable characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew and, his own inspired creation, The Road Runner. He went on to earn four Oscars in a career that lasted nearly 60 years. Following his tenure at Warners, and later MGM, he directed the 1966 television classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," which was narrated by Boris Karloff, as well as the 1969 feature, "The Phantom Tollbooth."
March 1, 2002
HELL ASYLUM online chat!Sunday, March 10th at 5 p.m. PST. (8 p.m. EST)
Figure two hours and confirmed appearances from: Director Danny Draven, Writer Trent Haaga, Music composer Josephine Soegijanty, Executive producer J.R. Bookwalter, Stars Tanya Dempsey and Brinke Stevens, MULVA creator Chris Seaver and Low-Budget Pictures.
To join the chat, just click here, enter your name, and start talking.
Tempe Video
Brinke Stevens
Danny Draven
