22 Things You Might Not Know About The Breakfast Club

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Kate Erbland gives us 22 Things You Might Not Know About The Breakfast Club.

My two favorites…

08.  Emilio Estevez was originally slated to play Bender, but Hughes couldn’t find anyone else who was right for the Andrew role, so Estevez ultimately switched and the Bender gig went to Judd Nelson.

10. Other actresses that could have played Claire [Molly Ringwald’s part]? Robin Wright, Jodie Foster, and Laura Dern, who all auditioned for the part.

Source: Mental_Floss.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Hat Sells for 2.4 Million Dollars

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Photo Credit: Charles Platiau / Reuters

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a hat in my life.  I don’t wear ’em.

While I would agree that the dome-topper pictured above is very stylish, even if I did buy hats, I couldn’t afford this one’s two point four million dollar price tag.

Yeah, you read that right.

Two.  Point Four. MILLION. Dollars.

That’s a lot of dough, even if Napoleon Bonaparte did wear the hat into battle.  The winner bidder paid more than five times the reserve!

If I wore a hat, I’d say, “Hats off to the winner.”

Source: Buzzfeed News.

When Universal’s Classic Monsters Hit the Big Screen for the First Time

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The Hollywood Reporter recently went into their vaults to bring together excerpts from their original reviews for the Universal Monsters…

  • Frankenstein
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Wolf Man
    and
  • The Creature from the Black Lagoon

It’s interesting to see how these films were originally reviewed,  some over 80 years ago.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter – When Universal’s Classic Monsters Hit the Big Screen for the First Time. 

13 (Shhhh!) Memorable Unbilled Movie Performances

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Don’t you love it when you’re watching a movie and suddenly there’s a cameo by an uncredited actor/actress?  It’s like an unexpected treat.

Entertainment Weekly took a look at 13 (Shhhh!) Memorable Unbilled Movie Performances.  Be advised if you click over you’ll find spoilers and uncredited performances by…

  • Kevin Spacey
  • Matt Damon
  • Will Ferrell
  • Keith Richards
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Bill Murray
  • Tom Cruise
  • Ned Beatty
  • Harrison Ford
  • Gene Hackman
  • Gary Oldman
  • Robin Williams
    and
  • Marlene Dietrich

Atlas’ The Scorpion & Planet of the Vampires!

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In the early 70’s, Atlas, a small comic company attempted to make it’s mark.  Although it folded after a few years Atlas did have a couple of comics that many fans [or at least this fan] fondly remember.

The Scorpion  was Howard Chaykin‘s swashbuckling, never-aging hero.  After Chaykin left Atlas he reinvented The Scorpion as Dominic Fortune for Marvel Comics.  I’d like to see Chaykin return to Scorpion.  Who wouldn’t?

The second Atlas title that I loved as a kid was Planet of the Vampires.  Think of Beneath the Planet of the Apes  and substitute vampires for monkeys.  Pat Broderick was the interior artist and Neal Adams inked Broderick‘s covers.

Man, those were the days.

 

15 Fun Facts About The Twilight Zone

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Neatorama recently posted 15 Fun Facts About The Twilight Zone that You Might Not Know.  Here are my three favorites from their list…

  • Serling narrated for the show, first through just his voice and then on camera during the second season. Serling’s first choice for that role was not himself, but Orson Welles.
  • The episode “To Serve Man” shows aliens visiting Earth and offering to take them to their home planet. They say that they have nothing but benevolent purposes and possess a book titled To Serve Man. After linguists translate the text, they discover that it’s a cook book.That episode starred Lloyd Bochner as one of the translators. Bochner reprised his role and the episode’s most famous line in the movie The Naked Gun 2 1/2.
  • Sterling wrote TV scripts throughout the late 40s and early 50s. His breakthrough script was for “Patterns,” a 1955 episode of Kraft Television Theater. This episode featured a very young Elizabeth Montgomery (later famous for Bewitched) in a tale of conflict and intrigue within the leadership of a corporation. It was enormously popular and earned Serling an Emmy.

Binge Reading The Savage Sword of Conan

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Diversions of the Grooviest Kind recently ran a Savage Sword of Conan cover gallery.  Man, it brought back some great memories of me binge reading the Savage Sword of Conan.

I started reading comic books when I was in elementary school.  Each year as I got older my comics buying dwindled.  As a senior in high school I was down to just regularly buying Master of Kung Fu, Marvel Team-Up, and an occasional odd issue of whatever popped out at me.

As a senior, John Beatty and I started hanging out again [I first met him in junior high but when I moved on to high school we drifted apart].   John turned me on to the world of comics fandom and other mainstream comics that were worth checking out.  John loaded me down with a bunch of Savage Sword of Conan magazines which I took home and devoured.  It was great having several months worth of stories to dive into.

Thanks to Diversions of the Grooviest Kind for their post that sparked the memory and thanks again to Big John for the loan of the magazines nearly 40 years ago!