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Interview with . . . Ray Van Horn Jr.

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Book Review: Behind the Shadows by Ray Van Horn, Jr

Behind The Shadows is the title of Ray Van Horn, Jr.’s latest book, a horror compilation released at the back end of 2024. Behind the Shadows delivers 10 stories and reads like a bit of a love letter to the 80’s and 90’s where the author’s love of music, movies, 80’s horror and comics shines through in every story. An anthology that delivers 10 clever stories with plenty of attitude, plenty of…

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From Scream Queen to Lady Badass: An Evolution of Women in Horror by: Ray Van Horn, Jr. Is there anything more cringeworthy in the horror genre than the unfashionable damsel in distress trope?  It’s a hard sway from today’s horror scene, which has at least given actresses a 50/50 chance of being cast as sexpot butcher bait or given a more motivating assignment of kicking evil’s ass.  Or in the contemporary cases of Toni Collette in Hereditary or Lupita Nyong’o in Us, redefining what women can do to the genre, much less for it. As long as Betty Crocker and Hoover appliances were bleakly tagged upon the kitchen-bound stereotypes of women in pop culture, devaluation of females in horror was likewise an interminable norm.  Let’s face the facts; horror films of yesteryear were seldom rewarding to their leading ladies, especially being outnumbered for work 3 to 1 by the men. Bad enough those women lucky enough to be cast into a protagonist position in 1950s and later, Eighties horror, were often disposable eye candy.  Females of the drive-in days of the Fabulous Fifties were scripted to divvy just enough common-sense motherly dialogue to ferry the B-level masculine drivel overruling them.  This, as muscleheads in rubber suits, werewolves the palest shade of Lon Chaney, Jr. and stop-motion clay monsters sent women of the Fifties into extreme closeup mode, shrieking their guts out.  Frozen in place for seconds until they were either rescued by alpha intervention or they disappeared from the story altogether offscreen.  In either scenario, done so without a fight.  You just know the ancient warrior goddesses Sekhmet, Hel, Athena and Freya were face-palming themselves at the hapless (and hopeless) sight of these pin curled, Victory rolled “scream queens.” You can catch a plethora of black and white horror nuggets on your own or to the tune of Svengoolie’s loveable cornball drag.  For those who grew up watching Universal monster flicks and the 1950s atomic age romps via their local ghost host emcees on late Saturday nights, Sven (aka Rich Koz) is a horror hound’s security blanket.  Those monochromatic oldies but goodies he peddles from the Fifties through the early Sixties remain timid by today’s extreme standards.  Yet the bigger offense lurking from those often-gaudy terrors from the beyond lies more in the way women who weren’t Barbara Steele or Beverly Garland were portrayed. From that golden age of nuclear-fused lizards, ten story arachnoid, gelatinous daubs of doom, wetland creatures and bulbous-eyed aliens spewed the brainless stereotype of women-in-peril.  Even if a female lead of 1950s horror was given a quasi-glamorous occupation such as laboratory assistant, naval yeoman or, heaven forbid, a department manager, chances are, she would be there to offer her two cents, only to be shot down instead of offered a rifle (much less trained to use one) to help the boys in one of their suicide missions. As long as scream queens of the Fifties could screech louder than Little Richard and torch the screen with more conflagration than a McCarthy-ist burning of old EC Tales From the Crypt comics, this was all of which was required of women in horror.  This, along with a random appearance pushing an Electrolux vacuum in a full dress and high heels during commercial breaks for Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle. It’s no wonder a young Patty McCormack in the titular The Bad Seed from 1956 shook the world she lived in as an unforgettable, horrific little badass of her time.  Far more insidious than easily irritable Bill Mumy from the “It’s a Good Life” episode from The Twilight Zone.  McCormack’s glaring eyes of silent condemnation and her manipulative wares were a low-key but unnerving announcement of a new order slow to come.  McCormack represents one of the early-on female horror survivalists. If you want to really stretch the truth, we can go back as far as 1939’s The Wizard of Oz to pinpoint one of horror’s first female survivalists.

  Think about it.  I mean, sure, Oz is a G-rated family classic, so much it used to run faithfully every year on network t.v. on Thanksgiving night.  Yeah, the flying monkeys were scary enough to any twerp born before 1990.  The same with those jerkface trees pelting our yellow brick-skipping heroes with apples.  The freaking Wicked Witch of the West, though…man was she so sinister, we took feral delight in Dorothy’s dispatching her with a bucket of water.  All to help her newfound, combusted friend made of straw.  It was an act of courage not even the quivering lion had inside of him at that decisive moment heroes are born.  Pin the medal on Judy Garland instead. Boop-oop-a-doop?  Oh, hell no.  Betty may have had cartoon perverts to fend off, but she never had had to turn tables, much less escape a subterranean death circus from cannibalizing, brain-sledging chainsaw freaks like Caroline Williams did. When we think about how far women have come in the entertainment realm, it’s action and horror where ladies have staked far more equality than any other movie genre, much less any other industry.  Gal Gadot, Scarlet Johansson, Letitia Wright, Brie Larson, Eva Green and Margot Robbie have defined ultimate femme badassness in the comic book adaptation turf.  The organizers of the Women’s Rights Movement are no doubt smiling from the other side.  Yet I’m sure those in attendance on that fateful day on August 2, 1848 in Seneca Falls could never have foreseen the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Marilyn Burns, Danai Gurira, Adrienne King, Heather Langenkamp, Jessica Walter, Glenn Close, Essie Davis, Kyleigh Curran, Megumi Okina, Eihi Shiina, Shauna MacDonald, Caroline Williams, Camille Keaton, Sarah Butler, Neve Campbell, Millie Bobbie Brown, Milla Jovovich and many bold, badass ladies moving the horror genre forward in a pro-estrogen rebellion. The theme of badass women of horror has become such a hot topic in the mainstream media everyone has their own Top 10 or 20 lists, most of the aforementioned filling their ranks.  In this case, I’m talking about women of the genre who have either the natural skill set or the raw nerve to persevere through the ordeals of physical or psychological terror.  This could be Michonne, Sasha, Maggie or Carol from The Walking Dead, which has prided itself, in comic book and television form, of depicting its women with a stoic resolve to dispatch both zombies and pissant human aggressors who get in their way of seeing the next sunrise.  The Walking Dead as a show has become so mainstream its protagonists are as abundant and sadly throwaway as Game of Thrones, yet each show has more memorable, tough women to possibly give the late Rush Limbaugh reason to rue the day he first uttered “femi-Nazi.”  For that matter, the topsy-turvy world of Stranger Things proves a woman’s worth standing in defiance against an otherworldly cataclysm, even those non-bioengineered girls deprived of the gift of telekinesis.  While we’re at it, we can give the entire ensemble of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (the show and the dark Archie comic book it was bred upon) a huge nod for its women exhibiting even more moxy than its male leads. We can wince in pain at the unnerving twittering of Asami Yamazaki’s (Eihi Shiina) methodic and excruciating piano wire torturing of Ryo Ishibashi in Audition, made worse knowing Yamazaki’s black widow act is simply how she gets by in life.  We can roar in triumph at Suzy Bannon’s (Jessica Harper) sleuthing and exterminating of Madame Blanc’s ballet school of the occult in 1977’s redder than red prototype version of Suspiria.  Take your pick who had the better outing in Cat People: Simone Simon in 1942 or Natasha Kinksi in the erotic remake forty years later.  Both well ahead of their times. Even though it doesn’t go well for her in the end, not a soul who’s ever watched the original Carrie would not cheer for her.  Stephen King’s debut novel will always

stand the test of time despite the famous legend of his wife, Tabitha, rescuing the manuscript from the trash before it became the timeless adolescent tragedy it is.  Everyone enduring the high school experience, particularly those who were persecuted, not only wants Carrie White to triumph over her tormentors, but they welcome Carrie’s phoenix-like evolution into a walking Hell on Earth.  She should’ve survived, fairness rules applying.  Despite becoming a murderess, we wanted Carrie White to live, despite her volatile Catholic guilt dictating otherwise.  Nobody playing her in the many adaptations of Carrie displayed both her fragility and fury better than Sissy Spacek in 1976.  The same with her film mother, Piper Laurie, as the bible-thrashing Margaret White.  Horror, much less film in general, had never seen the likes of either.  Powerful performances of powerful women doomed to meet and die in each other’s arms at the gates of purgatory. The transition in horror over the next couple decades from laughable shlock like The Crawling Eye to roles planting aggressive women at the forefront of the story like Repulsion, The Exorcist, Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby, Play Misty For Me, Eyes Without a Face and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? showed women possess as dark as a side as any man, given provocation, wherewithal, stamina and/or supernatural elements guiding a chemical shakeup.  It would take most of the 1980s to catch back up to this trailblazing thesis after one film both revolutionized the role of a woman as survivalist and, unfortunately, exploited the subversive titillation factor which the decade ran mad with:  John Carpenter’s original Halloween. When we think of the quintessential female badass of horror, the de facto crown goes straight to Jamie Lee Curtis.  An idol to many as a pillar of strength, Curtis is still today a statuesque frame of feminine perfection as the stock of Hollywood royalty (Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh).  As horror’s top-reigning “scream queen,” we’ve enjoyed Jamie Lee’s comeuppance through the horror genre as the iconic foil to her pasty-face masked nemesis (and her one-time brother before the age of retcon), Michael Myers, in the Halloween series.  Curtis also appeared in lesser-discussed horror pieces like Terror Train and the original versions of The Fog and Prom Night before heading toward comedy, drama and action films and later, as an author of children’s books.  An unparalleled leader of women. We all fell in love with Jamie Lee Curtis as extemporal babysitter Laurie Strode in her original run in 1978, where she was more on the lam in nerve-wracking pursuit by Myers.  Yet it was that ironbound instinct inside of Laurie Strode which made us applaud her.  Laurie Strode has already been on edge, convinced she’s being stalked through the first half hour of Halloween.  When this manifests into its ugliest form, Strode’s early-on maternal instincts kick in to protect her elementary-aged charges in the face of sure slaughter.  Down the road, an older Laurie Strode would have a satisfying return grudge match against Michael Myers in 1998’s Halloween:  H20, only to go balls-out against him in 2018 in a wholly re-imagined Halloween which delivered the goods—even if its successors, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends were insufferable wastes of Curtis’ talents.  Give it to Curtis, though; all the Halloween movies she’s appeared in, nobody’s handed Michael Myers his sadistic ass more times, notwithstanding the inglorious Halloween:  Resurrection. While Halloween took the next step in horror evolution which Curtis’ own mother staked in 1960’s Psycho, the true dawn of the slasher film stepped out of the throttled safety zone of an idyllic suburbia and dropped with a creepy echo of ki ki ki…ma ma ma… into an equally tranquil summer camp via 1980’s Friday the 13th.  Horror in the Eighties feasted on a rowdy diet of gore one-uppance, boob flashing, marijuana glorification and, of course, women largely existing to be chopped as objects of subjugated meat.

  Things have come a long way since Slumber Party Massacre.  The Friday the 13th series, which was party time at the cinema for my generation, did redefine a woman’s place inside a slasher pic, albeit with caveats, which the original Scream righteously called shade upon. Adrienne King, Amy Steel, Dana Kimmell and later down the line, Lar Park Lincoln, were all survivors of their bloodthirsty attackers.  None of them have sex inside their respective first, second, third and seventh films.  I do issue further caveats that King dies in the beginning of Friday the 13th Part 2 (like this is a spoiler?) and it’s presumed Steel had off-camera sex with her boyfriend, Paul, while Kimmell testifies to a glorious love affair with her love interest, Rick, who instantly looks to have a return slip of the sausage upon their reunion in Part III.  King tokes the ganja in the original Friday, but cutting slack to all of these ladies, each of them ran for their lives with the knife’s edge in their wake, yet all them delivered savage responses to their assaulters. Only King gets the distinction of putting Mama Voorhees (the incomparable Betsy Palmer whom I had the joy of interviewing for Metal Maniacs magazine) down permanently.  Should we give Palmer props for being one of the genre’s first serial killers?  Absolutely, even if it’s gore maestro Tom Savini doing the stalking, laughing out loud.  Though as Betsy told me and other interviewers, she did Friday the 13th strictly to get the money to a buy a new car to move forward in life.  Pamela Voorhees unintentionally became bigger than her, and Betsy Palmer has already been a household name on Candid Camera, I’ve Got a Secret, Studio One in Hollywood and The Goodyear Playhouse.  One of the few heralded women of 1950s entertainment. Sigourney Weaver showed the world what one woman left to fend for herself and a cat could do on a space freighter as huge as a Scottish castle, all of her shipmates mauled, in 1978’s Alien, one the most calamitous sci-fi/horror hybrids imagined.  Weaver’s Lt. Ellen Ripley is one of the hallmarks of cinematic achievements for the advancement of women, even more so for her grunt-like manhandling of the ostensible xenomorphs in the gangbusters 1986 sequel, Aliens.  Ripley became such a household name of feminine muscularity Aliens director James Cameron had no choice but to buff up his darling on-the-run Sarah Connor into a female survivalist who could stand tall in the cumbersome shadow of Arnold Schwarzenegger for the senses-raking Terminator 2:  Judgment Day.             If you’re talking women who just wouldn’t take it anymore, there was Farrah Fawcett in the harrowing made-for-television retaliation piece The Burning Bed.  Mother’s Day from 1980 was a sick yet appropriately gruesome revenge yarn in which two of three kidnapped women get vicious payback upon two horse-faced rapists and their appalling mother.  The Drano down Ike’s throat bit remains one of the most rewarding moments of the decade’s kill scenes. Yet there are five words in the horror lexicon most fans think of when it comes to female-dished retribution. I Spit On Your Grave has turned from a cult exploitation film in 1978 to a torture porn phenomenon via its 2010 remake.  Both Camille Keaton and Sarah Butler endured onscreen depravity beyond what any well-paid actress in Hollywood would accept.  There’s suffering for your art, and there’s what these two ladies endured, spending a large chunk of their respective films’ running times naked in grueling, wooded conditions.  Butler herself gave me a candid recount of what it took from her to shoot the Spit remake in an interview we did in 2010, hours after I received the screener for review.  The payoff for Keaton and Butler’s brutalized characters presents some of the grisliest get-backs ever portrayed on film. Gore geeks delight in Sarah Butler’s revenge, i.e. feeding one of her attackers his own castrated member and plugging the unscrupulous sheriff’s butt with his own shotgun.

  The original I Spit On Your Grave and its direct remake exists as warnings there are repercussions to sexual cruelty, in particular against women.  The 2010 version has such a rabid fan base it makes “Films You Must See Before You Die” lists.  Only the atrocities flung throughout Cannibal Holocaust and The Human Centipede provide more discomfiture. Stephen King, the master of the macabre, has given us a rich pantheon of horror heroes and villains for more nearly 50 years, and amongst his most memorable female survivalists would be Donna Trenton in Cujo (brought to vivid, tragic believability by Dee Wallace Stone in the movie adaptation), Beverly Marsh from It, even Wendy Torrance, who was far stronger in King’s novel than Shelley Duvall’s often cherished mousy interpretation.  Rose the Hat and Abra Stone in Doctor Sleep are survivalists in their own way, though approaching their ideals and one another from opposite sides of the morality line.  Then there’s Jessie Burlingame’s cuffed ordeal in the just-wrong Gerald’s Game.  Let’s not forget the more recent “Gwendy” trilogy shared in writing between King and his trusted collaborator, Richard Chizmar.  Gwendy has become a figurative pillar of strength throughout her narrative, having thrust upon her an enchanted button box filled with temptation and the means to end our entire world.  Survival of the human race pending one woman’s scruple set put to a prolonged test. We can talk about Heather Langenkamp, aka Nancy from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies as one of the genre’s definitive badass lady survivalists, since she’s gone dream-to-dream against the original knives-out badboy, Freddy Krueger three times along with appearances in Shocker, Home, Sub, Truth or Dare and Hellraiser:  Judgment.  Is there anything more satisfying in than watching Neve Campbell match wits against all of the Ghost Faces she’s had thrust upon her in the Scream flicks? In the video game world, Lara Croft is recognized as the leading female badass for the Tomb Raider series, which may be more in the action realm, yet there are plenty of horror elements Croft faces down.  Claire Redfield is perhaps video game’s CGI poster babe from the Resident Evil series, but never eff with her.  The lady knows her way around weaponry as much as Ghost from Call of Duty.  Ellie from The Last of Us games has evolved into a zombie-chewing grinder in her adult life and her character has pushed the envelope with her sexuality.  Ellie is finding even greater life through HBO’s excellent new adaptation series.  The gamers may hate on the televised version, but the horror fans are wonky for The Last of Us.  While ladies in horror comic books have long been demoted in much the same fashion as those ‘50s B movies, go back and dive into the EC horror classics like Tales From the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear.  The ladies may be lovesick saps at times, but more often than not, they’re just as, if even more conniving than the male antagonists.  Revenge-driven stories are galore in those deliciously gross vignettes.  Most of the horror hijinks are calculated by women, either for selfish gain or they’re just plain nuts; or on the flipside, they’re receiving justice keeper assistance from the grave. If you’re a horror hound, the name Vampirella is second-to-none when it comes to vampirism lore.  Yeah, she dashes around in thongs and that goofy collared sling barely keeping her top goodies shelved.  Part of the sexual revolution of the 1970s in which she was born.  Sleaze factor aside, Vampi is still a badass mama who’ll rip you apart, demon, vamp or fiend, and she’s in rowdy company with her monster maven cohorts, Pantha and Draculina.  Vampi is now celebrating 50 years, the nonpareil survivalist of comic book nosferatu.  Other longtime women haunting comics are Lady Death, Purgatori, Avengelyne, Jennifer Blood, Sara Pezzini, aka the Witchblade and of course, the imitable Goth goddess from The Sandman books, Death.

Perhaps one of the most memorable images in horror not yet mentioned is the final moments of The Descent, one of the greatest modern horror films along with Let Me In/Let The Right One In, It Follows, Hereditary, Get Out and Us.  I sat there thunderstuck my first time watching The Descent once Sarah (Shauna MacDonald) finally escapes her spelunking trip gone disastrous.  The story already set up with the calamity Sarah’s endured from the loss of her family in the beginning of the story, her bloody climb out of the caves with her friends lost to her, the sting of betrayal and those cave mutants in hot pursuit is exhausting.  Especially if you’re claustrophobic and managed to make it all the way through the film.  The way Sarah speeds away crying with David Julyan’s heartbreaking score whirling overtop her anguish…it’s one of the most humanistic scenes of shattered continued existence ever conceived. We’ve seen female lycanthrope shred their victims in The Howling movies and we’ve seen gals lay booby traps even John Rambo would geek over in You’re Next.  Samara Weaving had the wool pulled over her eyes on her wedding night, but she served her new in-laws in the often hilarious Ready or Not.  Danai Gurira is a beacon of strength for women, not only as Michonne Hawthorne, but also as Dora Milaje general Okoye in the Black Panther films.  The ladies have finally found their voice in horror, and it’s not just a high-pitched falsetto to the tune of dark fate.  Emily Blunt spoke volumes without having to use hers hardly at all in both A Quiet Place films.  Naomi Harris’ handiwork with a machete in 28 Days Later?  It sang a sanguinary tune that women in horror have become simply bad…ass…

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What celebrities can you think of that have managed to develop their sun or reach its highest potential if that makes sense? Like how you said Betty White is one of the few developed Capricorns, do you think there are others who have done the same with their sign?

aries: lady gaga, kristen stewart, reese witherspoon, jennifer garner, selena, jessica chastain, bette davis, marvin gaye, gregory peck

taurus: malcolm x, audrey hepburn, george clooney, leonardo da vinci, elizabeth II, penelope cruz, cher, william shakespeare, daniel day-lewis, stevie wonder, orson welles, tchaikovsky, socrates, jimmy stewart, laurence olivier

gemini: lauryn hill, lenny kravitz, jfk, marilyn monroe, stevie nicks, johnny depp, prince, paul mccartney, naomi campbell, judy garland, jean-paul sartre, marquis de sade, michael j. fox, anne frank, miles davis, josephine baker

cancer: robin williams, princess diana, meryl streep, diahann carroll, prince william, elon musk, solange, dalai lama, nikola tesla, tom hanks, nelson mandela, angela merkel, mike tyson, alexander the great, frida kahlo, liv tyler, ernest hemingway, anthony bourdain, julius caesar, natalie wood, franz kafka, ringo starr, richard branson, malala yousafzai, debie harry, elizabeth warren, chris cornell, missy elliott, marcel proust, antoine de saint-exupery, cat stevens, helen keller, kawhi leonard, lena horne, michael phelps

leo: jackie kennedy, jennifer lopez, arnold schwarzenegger, robert de niro, coco chanel, kate bush, helen mirren

virgo: michael jackson, keanu reeves, mother theresa, karl lagerfeld, elizabeth I, jeremy irons, ray charles, mary shelley

libra: desmond tutu, rita hayworth, cardi b, brigitte bardot, gwen stefani, catherine deneuve, kim kardashian, oscar wilde, bruce springsteen, christopher reeve

scorpio: lisa bonet, grace kelly, vivien leigh,alain delon, pablo picasso, winona ryder, marie curie, hedy lamarr, rupaul, chloe sevigny, robert f. kennedy, carl sagan, sylvia plath, joni mitchell, anna wintour, albert camus

sagittarius: jimi hendrix, zoe kravitz, brad pitt, bruce lee, tina turner, frank sinatra, ludwig van beethoven, edith piaf, maria callas, jane birkin, adam clayton powell jr, marina abramovic, jane austen, gianni versace

capricorn: david bowie, aaliyah, betty white, dolly parton, mlk, ralph fiennes, michelle obama, francoise hardy, kate moss, sade, marlene dietrich, joan of arc, benjamin franklin

aquarius: abraham lincoln, jennifer aniston, shakira, mozart, oprah, megan thee stallion, paul newman, fdr, thomas edison, virginia woolf, kelly rowland, brandy, michael hutchence, peter gabriel, eddie van halen

pisces: sidney poitier, anais nin, albert einstein, kurt cobain, liz taylor, drew barrymore, juliette binoche, edgar cayce, jon bon jovi, johnny cash, chopin, michelangelo, nina simone, fred rogers, ruth bader ginsburg

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ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

April 8, 1946

Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth. Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney,  Norman Taurog, Charles Walters. Robert Lewis Producer: Arthur Freed for Metro Goldwyn Mayer

The shooting schedule ran between April 10 and August 18, 1944, with retakes plus additional segments filmed on December 22, 1944 and then between January 25 and February 6, 1945. The film was first proposed in 1939. 

Synopsis ~ We meet a grayed, immaculately garbed Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. in Paradise (his diary entry reads "Another heavenly day"), where he looks down upon the world and muses over the sort of show he'd be putting on were he still alive.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Lucille Ball ('Here's to the Ladies') is appearing in her 64th film since coming to Hollywood in 1933. 

Fred Astaire ('Here's to the Ladies' / Raffles in 'This Heart of Mine' / Tai Long in 'Limehouse Blues’ / Gentleman in 'The Babbit and the Bromide') also appeared with Lucille Ball in Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), and Follow the Fleet (1936). His name was mentioned twice on “I Love Lucy.”

Lucille Bremer (Princess in 'This Heart of Mine' / Moy Ling in 'Limehouse Blues') 

Fanny Brice (Norma Edelman in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') appeared in the original stage version of many editions of The Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway.

Judy Garland (The Star in 'A Great Lady Has An Interview') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943). 

Kathryn Grayson (Kathryn Grayson in 'Beauty') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Lena Horne (Lena Horne in 'Love') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Gene Kelly (Gentleman in 'The Babbit and the Bromide') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943),  Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and A Guide for the Married Man (1967). He made an appearance on the Lucille Ball special “Lucy Moves to NBC” (1980).  

James Melton (Alfredo in 'La Traviata')

Victor Moore (Lawyer's Client in 'Pay the Two Dollars')

Red Skelton (J. Newton Numbskull in 'When Television Comes') also starred with Lucille Ball in Having Wonderful Time (1938), Thousands Cheer (1943),  Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950).  On TV he appeared on “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in “Lucy Goes To Alaska” (1958). Ball and Skelton appeared in numerous TV specials together. 

Esther Williams (Esther Williams in 'A Water Ballet') also appeared with Lucille Ball in Easy To Wed (1946). 

William Powell (Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) also played the same character in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). 

Edward Arnold (Lawyer in 'Pay the Two Dollars') appeared with Lucille Ball in Roman Scandals (1933) and Ellis in Freedomland (1952).

Marion Bell (Violetta in 'La Traviata')

Cyd Charisse (Ballerina in 'Beauty') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Hume Cronyn (Monty in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') was honored by The Kennedy Center in 1986, at the same ceremony as Lucille Ball. 

William Frawley (Martin in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') played the role of Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”. He also appeared on “The Lucy Show,” his final screen appearance. 

Robert Lewis (Chinese Gentleman in 'Limehouse Blues' / Telephone Voice in 'Number Please')

Virginia O'Brien (Virginia O'Brien in 'Here's to the Ladies') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943),  Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and Meet The People (1944). 

Keenan Wynn (Caller in 'Number Please') appeared with Lucille Ball in Easy To Wed (1946), Without Love (1945), and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). 

SUPPORTING CAST

Ziegfeld Girls

Karin Booth  

Lucille Casey  

Aina Constant  

Elizabeth Dailey  

Frances Donelan  

Natalie Draper  

Karen X. Gaylord  

Aileen Haley  

Carol Haney  

Shirlee Howard  

Margaret Laurence  

Helen O'Hara  

Noreen Roth  

Elaine Shepard  

Kay Thompson  

Dorothy Tuttle  

Dorothy Van Nuys  

Eve Whitney - appeared on “I Love Lucy” episode “The Charm School” (ILL S3;E15).

Dancers

Gloria Joy Arden

Jean Ashton  

Irene Austin  

Judi Blacque  

Bonnie Barlowe  

Norman Borine  

Hazel Brooks  

Ed Brown  

Kathleen Cartmill  

Jack Cavan  

Marilyn Christine  

Laura Corbay  

Rita Dunn  

Meredyth Durrell  

Shawn Ferguson  

Jeanne Francis  

Jean French  

Mary Jane French  

David Gray  

Bill Hawley  

Doreen Hayward  

Charlotte Hunter  

Virginia Hunter  

Patricia Jackson

Margaret Kays  

Laura Knight  

Laura Lane  

Dale Lefler  

Melvin Martin  

Diane Meredith  

Lorraine Miller  

Joyce Murray  

Janet Nevis  

Ray Nyles  

Billy O'Shay  

Jane Ray  

Dorothy Raye  

Beth Renner

Melba Snowden  

Walter Stane  

Ivon Starr  

Robert Trout  

Chorus Boys

Rod Alexander

Milton Chisholm  

Dick D'Arcy  

Dante DiPaolo  

Don Hulbert  

Herb Lurie  

Matt Mattox  

Bert May - appeared on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford”

Jack Purcell  

Tommy Rall  

Ricky Ricardi (!)

Alex Romero

“LIMEHOUSE BLUES” starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, and Robert Lewis

Robert Ames (Masked Man)  

James Barron (Couple with Banners)  

Eleanor Bayley (Couple with Branches)  

Mary Jo Ellis (Couple with Banners)  

Sean Francis (Ensemble)  

James King (Rooster)  

Harriet Lee (Bar Singer) 

Eugene Loring (Costermonger)  

Charles Lunard (Masked Man)  

Patricia Lynn (Ensemble)  

Ruth Merman (Ensemble)  

Garry Owen (1st Subway Policeman)  

Ellen Ray (Couple with Parasols)  

Jack Regas (Masked Man)  

Billy Shead (Couple with Parasols)  

Ronald Stanton (Couple with Branches)  

Wanda Stevenson (Ensemble)  

Ray Teal (2nd Subway Policeman)  

“LOVE” starring Lena Horne

Juliette Ball (Club Patron)   

Lennie Bluett (Dancer)   

Suzette Harbin (Flirt)   

Avanelle Harris (Club Patron)  

Maggie Hathaway (Dancer)  

Charles Hawkins (Club Patron)  

Marie Bryant (Woman Getting Her Man Taken)   

Cleo Herndon (Dancer)   

“THIS HEART OF MINE” starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer

Helen Boyce (Countess)   

Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (Lieutenant)

Naomi Childers (Duchess)

Charles Coleman (Majordomo)   

Sam Flint (Majordomo's Assistant)

Sidney Gordon (Masked Man)   

Count Stefenelli (Count)   

Robert Wayne (Dyseptic)   

“PAY THE TWO DOLLARS”  starring Edward Arnold and Victor Moore

William Bailey (Subway Passenger)

Joseph Crehan (1st Judge) - played a Detective on “I Love Lucy” “The Great Train Robbery”

William B. Davidson (2nd Judge)

Eddie Dunn (3rd Subway Policeman)   

Harry Hayden (Warden)   

George Hill (2nd Subway Policeman)   

Wilbur Mack (Subway Passenger)   

Larry Steers (Magistrate)

“NUMBER PLEASE” starring Keenan Wynn

Peter Lawford (Voice of Porky)

Grady Sutton (Texan)

Audrey Totter (Phone Operator Voice)

Kay Williams (Girl)

OTHERS

Bunin's Puppets

Elise Cavanna (Tall Woman)

Jack Deery (Man)

Rex Evans (Butler in "A Great Lady Has An Interview”)

Sam Garrett (Roping / Twirling Act)

Silver (Horse in "Here's to the Ladies') 

Arthur Walsh (Telegraph Boy in "A Sweepstakes Ticket") - appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined” (ILL S3;E11). 

‘FOLLIES’ TRIVIA

Sidney Guilaroff, Lucille Ball’s hair dresser, who takes responsibility for her famous ‘golden red’ for this movie, becoming her trademark color.

Although they appear in different segments, this is the only feature film collaboration between “I Love Lucy co-stars" Lucille Ball and William Frawley. Coincidently, Frawley's character in this film shares a striking similarity with his iconic character of Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy.” In this film he plays a money-hungry curmudgeon of a landlord, much like the show. In the above photo, he appears with director Minnelli and co-star Brice. 

The horse ridden by Lucille Ball is the Lone Ranger's Silver!

Lucille Ball was actually fired by Ziegfeld from his road company production of Rio Rita in the 1930s.

In February 1956, Lucy and Desi appeared on “MGM Parade” to promote their MGM film Forever Darling. The show also included footage of Lena Horne singing from Ziegfeld Follies. 

Lucy also played a showgirl in pink in “Lucy Gets Into Pictures” (ILL S4;E19) aired on February 21, 1955. The scene was inspired by Ziegfeld’s legendary stage shows featuring beautiful women wearing elaborate costumes navigating long staircases. To solidify the comparison, Ricky says he is going to a meeting with Mr. Minnelli. Vincente Minnelli was one of the directors of Ziegfeld Follies. 

Lucy Ricardo had previously cavorted around in a lampshade in the manner of a Ziegfeld girl in both the unaired pilot and “The Audition” (S1;E6).

Ziegfeld Follies includes a sketch for Red Skelton called “When Television Comes” aka “Guzzler’s Gin” in which a (future) television spokesman gets increasingly sloshed on his product. This sketch was an obvious influence on Lucy’s Vitameatavegamin routine in “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (ILL S1;E30) aired on May 5, 1952. 

Ziegfeld Girl Eve Whitney appeared on “I Love Lucy” episode “The Charm School” (ILL S3;E15). She used her own name for the character.  

The Telegraph Boy in "A Sweepstakes Ticket" Arthur Walsh - appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined” (ILL S3;E11) as Arthur ‘King Cat’ Walsh. He teaches Lucy how to jitterbug. 

The first Judge in the “Pay the Two Dollars” James Crehan also played the Police Detective on “I Love Lucy in “The Great Train Robbery” (ILL S5;E5) first aired on October 31, 1955.

Porky, a voice on the telephone in “Number Please” Peter Lawford, played “Password” against Lucille Ball on September 24, 1964.  At the time, Lawford was married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia. On November 26, 1968, Ball was a guest on “The Tonight Show” when Peter Lawford was sitting in for Johnny Carson.

Chorus Boy Bert May appeared as a solo dancer on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford” (TLS S5;E21) in February 1967. 

In the dressing room, Lucy jokes with Fanny Brice, one of the funniest women in showbusiness.  This was the only time Ball and Brice collaborated and was Brice’s last film. 

Ziegfeld’s follies began on Broadway, so it was appropriate that the show featured past and future Broadway musical stars:

Lucille Ball ~ Wildcat (1960)

Carol Haney ~ The Pajama Game (1954)

Tommy Rall ~ Call Me Madame (1950)

Fanny Brice ~ The Ziegfeld Follies 

Marion Bell ~ Brigadoon (1947)

Victor Moore ~ Anything Goes (1934)

There was a lot of material that was not filmed, but written and cast. Some of the original skits would have added “Lucy” performers Mickey Rooney, Ann Sothern, and Van Johnson to the cast.

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San Francisco playlist

San Francisco  - my favorite city in the world! The bands, the music, the songs are all here, in this playlist I created. I threw in a bit of Sac and went south by San Jose, Monterrey and up past Sausalito. Can we make it to 250 songs? Let me know what bands/songs I left out.

Have I left out a song or a band in this San Francisco playlist? Let me know! Cheers! 

Play the songs here at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu- San Francisco

001 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/Mike Patton -  When Good Dogs Do Bad Things 002 Night flight Orchestra - California Morning 003 Quincy Jones - Call Me Mister Tibbs OST (Main Title) 004 James Taylor Quartet - Dirty Harry theme song 005 Faith No More - Seperation anxiety 006 Streets of San Francisco TV show theme song 007 Santana -  Evil Ways 008 High on Fire -  Electric Messiah 009 Metallica - Disposable Heroes 010 Hammers Of Misfortune -  Dead Revolution 011 Buddy Guy -  Hello San Francisco 012 Faith No More - Jungle 013 Isaac Hayes - Shaft 014 Orange Peels  - Back In San Francisco 015 Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - Message To My People 016 Thee Oh Sees - The Dream 017 Merle Haggard - Here In Frisco 018 Audrey Horne -  California 019 Journey -  Lights 020 Death Angel -  Hatred United / United Hate 021 Mel Tor Me - Got The Date On The Golden Gate 022 Duke Ellington -  Tourist Point Of View 023 Sons of Anarchy  - This Life (Sons of Anarchy Theme Song) 024 Larry Graham's Central Station - Earthquake 025 LARD - I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog 026 Machine Head -  California Bleeding 027 Neurosis -  The Doorway 028 KING WOMAN - Utopia 029 Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force OST  Main Title 030 Forbidden -  Adapt Or Die 031 DBUK - In San Francisco Bay 032 Jack Name - Werewolf Factory 033 John Carpenter - Theme from "The Fog" 034 Khiis - Saboor 035 Richie Havens -  San Francisco Bay Blues 036 Metallica - Battery 037 Autopsy - charred remains 038 ExTREMITY_-_Crepuscular_Crescendo 039 The Otherside -  Streetcar 040 Quincy Jones - Ironside (TV Theme) 041 Megadeth -  Back in the Day 042 Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! 043 Faith No More -  From Out of Nowhere 044 Willie Hutch-Vampin (The Mack OST 045 Orchid -  Mouths Of Madness 046 Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt OST - On The Way To San Mateo 047 Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream 048 Fantomas -  4-11-05 049 Violation Wound - Fearmonger + State of Alarm 050 Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers 051 The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go to San Francisco (Part.1-2) 052 Bosse-de-Nage - Crux 053 Rod McKuen - The Beat Generation 054 Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose 055 The Watchers - Sabbath Highway 056 Possessed - the eyes of horror 057 Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure to wear flowers) 058 Tower Of Power -  Oakland Stroke 059 Big Trouble In Little China OST - Pork chop express 060 Vio-lence -  Calling In The Coroner 061 Black Oak Arkansas - The Big Ones Still Coming 062 Mr. Bungle - Love Is a Fist 063 VUUR -  The Fire - San Francisco 064 Testament - The Haunting 065 Electronicat - Frisco Bay 066 Y&T - Mean Streak 067 Thee Oh Sees -  Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster 068 Sweet - California Nights - Promo Clip (OFFICIAL) 069 Sadus - Swallowed In Black 070 Chuck Berry - San Francisco Dues 071 Sammy Hagar - Keep on rockin' 072 Fuzz -  Sleigh Ride 073 Otis Redding - Sittin' on The Dock of the Bay 074 Pleasure Leftits - The Gate 075 BL'AST - Sometimes 076 Santana - Samba de Sausalito 077 Acephalix - Upon This Altar 078 Sun Ra    - Lady With The Golden Stockings 079 Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days 080 Pointer Sisters - How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side) 081 High On Fire -  Carcosa 082 Will Haven -  When The Walls Close In 083 The Coup -  Laugh/Love/Fuck 084 King Khan - Teeth Are Shite 085 Deafheaven -  Irresistible 086 Glitter Wizard -  Blood of the Serpent 087 Jefferson Airplane -  It's No Secret 088 Cannonball Adderley - This Here 089 The Warlocks -  Can't Come Down 090 Squirmy Sax Man - I Still Believe 091 Acid King - Coming Down from Outer Space 092 George Duke - Sausalito 093 The Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys OST) 094 Betty Davis - [They Say I'm Different] He Was a Big Freak 095 Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls 096 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton -  Pig Latin 097 Build Them to Break - Lucky Strike 098 Montrose - Rock Candy 099 PRIMUS - THE TOYS GO WINDING DOWN 100 Joe Satriani - Big Bad Moon 101 Sleater Kinney - Jumpers 102 GRUESOME - Dimensions Of Horror 103 Sly & the Family Stone - Everday People 104 Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time 105 Hammers Of Misfortune - 2 17th Street 106 Jerry Fielding - Prologue _ Main Title (The Enforcer OST) 107 Metal Church - The Dark 108 Deftones - Ohms 109  John Lee Hooker - Frisco Blues 110 DRI - Go Die 111 16th & Valencia Roxy Music- Devendra Banhart, What We Will Be 112 MC Hammer - Too Legit to Quit 113 Dead Kennedys-Police Truck 114 Rancid - Adina 115 San Francisco's Shiver - Up My Sleeve 116 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo OST - The Bay 117 Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow 118 Blackburn & Snow -  Stranger In a Strange Land 119 The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes 120 The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 121 Cab Calloway - San Francisco Fan 122 The Charlatans - codine 123 Buck Owens - Want To Live In San Francisco 124 Sleep - Dragonaut 125 Death Angel - 5 Steps Of Freedom 126 Neil Young - Heart of Gold 127 Vastum -  Reveries in Autophagia 128 Dead Kennedys -  Moon Over Marin 129 EchoBrain -  Colder World 130 Riz Ortolani    - Lombard Street   131 Waylon Jennings - San Francisco Mabel Joy   132 Con Funk Shun - Confunkshunizeya 133 Chic - Hes the Greatest Dancer 134 Peace Creep - Radio Free Alcatraz   135 ABBA - Santa Rosa 136 Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - San Fransisco 137 Together Band - California Curl California Girl 138 The Hellers - It's 74 In San Francisco 139 Pat Todd - No Place Like Home 140 Nancy Wilson - I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco (And I Don't Drink At All) 141 Anathema -  San Francisco 142 Blue Cheer -  Fool 143 Exhumed - Gravewalker 144 Darondo - Let My People Go 145 Exodus -  Blood In Blood Out 146 Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry OST - Scorpios Theme   147 Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 148 Wild Light - California on my mid 149 Herbie Hancock - Man-child -  Hang Up Your Hang Ups 150 Fantomas -  Spider Baby 151 The Lord Weird Slough Feg -  Headhunter 152 The Animals - San Franciscan Nights 153 Twilight - Dance with Me 154 THE POINTER SISTERS - Yes We Can Can 155 Residents - Hello Skinny 156 CCR HEADCLEANER - Eat This Riff 157 LEON WARE  - Thats Why I Came To California 158 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You 159 Comorant - The First Man 160 Bosse-de-Nage  - The Trench 161 Hell Fire - Free Again   162 Riz Ortolani  - Golden Gate Bridge 163 Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun 164 Uther Pendragon - San Francisco Earthquake 165 Melvins - Zodiac 166 La Luz - California Finally 167 The Wyatt Act - Push 168 Santana - Soul Sacrifice 169 Cheap Trick - On the Radio 170 Electric Wizard -  Venus In Furs 171 Led Zeppelin -  Misty Mountain Hop 172 Tommy Castro - Callin' San Francisco 173 Viscious Rumors - Digital Dictator 174 Ghoul-Off With Their Heads 175 Diesel - Sausalito Summernight (Single Version) 176 Sheila E - A Love Bizarre 177 Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now 178 Jeffry Osboune - I Really Don't Need No Light 179 Nazareth -  Alcatraz 180 Freak of Nature - Rescue Me 181 Metallica - Crash Course In Brain Surgery 182 10000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac 183 Faith No More -  Get Out 184  URSA -  Wizard's Path 185 Jefferson Airplane - Aerie (Gang of Eagles) 186 Tower of Power - Just Enough and Too Much 187 Fred Hughes - san francisco is a lonely town 188 Mamaleek - Eating Unblessed Meat 189 Moby Grape - Naked If I Want To 190 Exodus - Metal Command 191 Pig Destroyer - Alcatraz Metaphors 192 the Donnas - You Make Me Hot 193 Hot Tuna - True Religion 194 Heathen - Opiate of the Masses 195 Fanny - Come and Hold Me 196 Sadus - Hands Of Fate 197 Negative Trend - Meathouse 198 Forbidden - Forbidden Evil 199 Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy 200 Testament - The Preacher 201 HEXX - Morbid Reality 202 Vio-Lence - Phobophobia 203 Dead Kennedys - One Way Ticket To Pluto 204 Tom Waits - Get Behind The Mule 205 CRETIN - It 206 RAMONES - Judy Is A Punk 207 Full House - Intro 208 Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band - Kerouac 209 Primus - Dirty Drowning Man 210 Wooden Shjips -  Motorbike 211 The Tony Williams Lifetime Ego - Clap City 212 Middle of the Road - Sacramento (A Wonderful Town) 213 Green Day - At the Library 214 Slayer -  Gemini 215 Tetema - Cutlass Eye 216 Defiance - Death Machine 217 Brisco County Jr theme 218 Doug McKechnie - Crazy Ray 219 Ulthar - Furnace Hibernation 220 Mr. Bungle -  ANARCHY UP YOUR ANUS 221 Dirty Ghosts  - Let It Pretend 222 They Might Be Giants - San Francisco (In Situ) 223 Metallica - The Shortest Straw 224 OM - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead 225 Laaz Rockit - City's Gonna Burn 226 Autopsy - Skullptures 227 Mordred - Spectacle of Fear 228 Sly & the Family Stone - Luv N' Haight 229 Possessed - Seven Churches 230 Machine Head - The Rage to Overcome 231 Thelonius Monk - San Francisco Holiday 232 The Units - The Mission Is Bitchin 233 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina 234 Arnocorps - Dead lift 235 The Grateful Dead - The Golden Road 236 DRI - All for nothing 237 Jim Martin - Disco dust 238 Thee Oh Sees - I come from the mountain 239 Death Angel - Discontinued 240 Starship - We Built This City 241 Captured! by Robots - Endless Circle of Bullshit 242 Pins Of Light - My revenge 243 Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways 244 Faith No More - caffeine 245 David Lee Roth - Just like paradise 246 San Francisco Fog Horns by Golden Gate Bridge 247 Abscess - Tormented 248 Mortuous - Bitterness 249 Dead Kennedy's - California uber alles 250 Twitch Angry - San Francisco 666 Neurosis - Water Is Not Enough

So, hop on a cable car, grab ice cream at Swenson’s or bark back at the seals down by Pier 39. Catch a Bear’s game at Berkeley and do some squirmy sax moves in the Haight after you down some beers at the Toronado and play my San Fran playlist! Here are the songs in the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu-

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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He is considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute" or "Frog", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with growls), yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment. He was indebted to alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, who, he said, taught him to play his instrument.

Early life and career

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, he studied violin in elementary and taught himself piano with the help of his neighbor Pete Johnson, who taught him the blues. In 1927-1928 he played for silent movies in Kansas City and in Amarillo, Texas.

Once Budd Johnson showed him some basics on the saxophone, Webster began to focus on that instrument, playing in the Young Family Band (which at the time included Lester Young), although he did return to the piano from time to time, even recording on the instrument occasionally.

In his first biography (‘Ben Webster / In A mellow Tone’, Van Gennep/The Netherlands, 1992, published as ‘Ben Webster / His Life and Music’ with Berkeley Hills Books/USA in 2001), author Jeroen de Valk (assisted by Ben’s cousin Harley W. Robinson) traces back his ancestry to his great-great grandmother, a woman from Guinea who reportedly was brought to America as a slave in the early 19th century. Her son managed to escape from slavery. Ben’s father, who worked as a porter on Pullman trains, separated from his mother before his son was born. Ben was raised by his grand-aunt, Agnes Johnson, to whom he referred as his ‘grandmother’. His mother Mayme worked as a school teacher. He had to play the violin as a kid but hated the instrument, as other kids called him ‘sissy with the violin’. He had his first piano lessons by his second cousin, Joyce Cockrell. He changed to the tenor saxophone after hearing Frankie Trumbauer’s solo on the C-Melody saxophone in 'Singing The Blues', but soon Coleman Hawkins became a major influence. Webster was married for a couple of years in the early 40s to Eudora Williams. He never had a family of his own and lived with his mother and grand-aunt off and on until their passing in 1963.

Kansas City was a melting pot from which emerged some of the biggest names in 1930s jazz. Webster joined Bennie Moten's band in 1932, a grouping which also included Count Basie, Hot Lips and Walter Page. This era was recreated in Robert Altman's film Kansas City.

Webster spent time with quite a few orchestras in the 1930s, including Andy Kirk, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1934, then Benny Carter, Willie Bryant, Cab Calloway, and the short-lived Teddy Wilson big band.

With Ellington

Ben Webster played with Duke Ellington's orchestra for the first time in 1935, and by 1940 was performing with it full-time as the band's first major tenor soloist. He credited Johnny Hodges, Ellington's alto soloist, as a major influence on his playing. During the next three years, he played on many recordings, including "Cotton Tail" and "All Too Soon"; his contributions (together with that of bassist Jimmy Blanton) were so important that Ellington's orchestra during that period is known as the Blanton–Webster band. Webster left the band in 1943 after an angry altercation during which he allegedly cut up one of Ellington's suits. Another version of Webster's leaving Ellington came from Clark Terry, a longtime Ellington player, who said that, in a dispute, Webster slapped Ellington, upon which the latter gave him two weeks notice.

After Ellington

After leaving Ellington in 1943, Webster worked on 52nd Street in New York City, where he recorded frequently as both a leader and a sideman. During this time he had short periods with Raymond Scott, John Kirby, Bill DeArango, and Sid Catlett, as well as with Jay McShann's band, which also featured blues shouter Jimmy Witherspoon. For a few months in 1948, he returned briefly to Ellington's orchestra.

In 1953, he recorded King of the Tenors with pianist Oscar Peterson, who would be an important collaborator with Webster throughout the decade in his recordings for the various labels of Norman Granz. Along with Peterson, trumpeter Harry 'Sweets' Edison and others, he was touring and recording with Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic package. In 1956, he recorded a classic set with pianist Art Tatum, supported by bassist Red Callender and drummer Bill Douglass. Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins was recorded on December 16, 1957, along with Peterson, Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), and Alvin Stoller (drums). The Hawkins and Webster recording is a jazz classic, the coming together of two giants of the tenor saxophone, who had first met back in Kansas City.

In the late 1950s, he formed a quintet with Gerry Mulligan and played frequently at a Los Angeles club called Renaissance. It was there that the Webster-Mulligan group backed up blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon on an album recorded live for Hi-Fi Jazz Records. That same year, 1959, the quintet, with pianist Jimmy Rowles, bassist Leroy Vinnegar, and drummer Mel Lewis, also recorded "Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster" for Verve Records (MG V-8343).

In Europe

Webster generally worked steadily, but in late 1964 he moved permanently to Europe, working with other American jazz musicians based there as well as local musicians. He played when he pleased during his last decade. He lived in London and several locations in Scandinavia for one year, followed by three years in Amsterdam and made his last home in Copenhagen in 1969. Webster appeared as a sax player in a low-rent cabaret club in the 1970 Danish blue film titled Quiet Days in Clichy. In 1971, Webster reunited with Duke Ellington and his orchestra for a couple of shows at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen; he also recorded "live" in France with Earl Hines. He also recorded or performed with Buck Clayton, Bill Coleman and Teddy Wilson.

Webster suffered a cerebral bleed in Amsterdam in September 1973, following a performance at the Twee Spieghels in Leiden, and died on 20 September. His body was cremated in Copenhagen and his ashes were buried in the Assistens Cemetery in the Nørrebro section of the city.

Legacy

After Webster's death, Billy Moore Jr., together with the trustee of Webster's estate, created the Ben Webster Foundation. Since Webster's only legal heir, Harley Robinson of Los Angeles, gladly assigned his rights to the foundation, the Ben Webster Foundation was confirmed by the Queen of Denmark's Seal in 1976. In the Foundation's trust deed, one of the initial paragraphs reads: "to support the dissemination of jazz in Denmark". The trust is a beneficial foundation which channels Webster's annual royalties to musicians in both Denmark and the U.S. An annual Ben Webster Prize is awarded to a young outstanding musician. The prize is not large, but is considered highly prestigious. Over the years, several American musicians have visited Denmark with the help of the Foundation, and concerts, a few recordings, and other jazz-related events have been supported.

Webster's private collection of jazz recordings and memorabilia is archived in the jazz collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Ben Webster used the same Saxophone from 1938 until his death in 1973. Ben left instructions that the horn was never to be played again. It is on display in the Jazz Institute at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

Ben Webster has a street named after him in southern Copenhagen, "Ben Websters Vej".

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Ben Webster among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Discography

As leader / co-leader

King of the Tenors [AKA The Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster] (Norgran, MGN-1001, 1953)

1953: An Exceptional Encounter [live] (The Jazz Factory, 1953) – with Modern Jazz Quartet

Music for Loving (Norgran MGN-1018, 1954) AKA Sophisticated Lady (Verve, 1956), and Music With Feeling (Norgran MGN-1039, 1955) – reissued as a 2-CD set: Ben Webster With Strings (Verve 527774, 1995; which also includes as a bonus: Harry Carney With Strings, Clef MGC-640, 1954)

The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet (Verve, 1956 [1958]) – with Art Tatum

Soulville (Verve, 1957)

The Soul of Ben Webster (Verve, 1958)

Ben Webster and Associates (Verve, 1959)

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Verve, 1959)

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (Verve, 1959)

Ben Webster at the Renaissance (Contemporary, 1960)

The Warm Moods (Reprise, 1961)

Wanted to Do One Together (Columbia, 1962) – with Harry Edison

Soulmates (Riverside, 1963) – with Joe Zawinul

See You at the Fair (Impulse!, 1964)

Stormy Weather (Black Lion, 1965) – recorded at The Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen

Gone With The Wind (Black Lion, 1965) – recorded at The Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen

Meets Bill Coleman (Black Lion, 1967)

Big Ben Time (Ben Webster in London 1967) (Philips, 1968)

Webster's Dictionary (Philips, 1970)

No Fool, No Fun [The Rehearsal Sessions, 1970 with The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra] (Storyville Records STCD 8304, 1999)

Ben Webster Plays Ballads [recordings from Danish Radio 1967–1971] (Storyville SLP-4118, 1988)

Autumn Leaves (with Georges Arvanitas trio) (Futura Swing 05, 1972)

Gentle Ben (with Tete Montoliu Trio) (Ensayo, 1973)

My Man: Live at Montmartre 1973 (Steeplechase, 1973)

Ballads by Ben Webster (Verve, Recorded 1953-1959, released 1974, 2xLP)

As a sideman

With Count Basie

String Along with Basie (Roulette, 1960)

With Buddy Bregman

Swinging Kicks (Verve, 1957)

With Benny Carter

Jazz Giant (Contemporary, 1958)

BBB & Co. (Swingville, 1962) with Barney Bigard

With Harry Edison

Sweets (Clef, 1956)

Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Verve, 1957)

With Duke Ellington

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (RCA, 1940–1942 [rel. 2003])

With Dizzy Gillespie

The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird, 1937–1949 [rel. 1995])

With Lionel Hampton

You Better Know It!!! (Impulse, 1965)

With Coleman Hawkins

Rainbow Mist (Delmark, 1944 [1992]) compilation of Apollo recordings

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Verve, 1957)

Coleman Hawkins and Confrères (Verve, 1958)

With Woody Herman

Songs for Hip Lovers (Verve, 1957)

With Johnny Hodges

The Blues (Norgran, 1952–1954, [rel. 1955])

Blues-a-Plenty (Verve, 1958)

Not So Dukish (Verve, 1958)

With Richard "Groove" Holmes

"Groove" (Pacific Jazz, 1961) – with Les McCann

Tell It Like It Tis (Pacific Jazz, 1961 [rel. 1966])

With Illinois Jacquet

The Kid and the Brute (Clef, 1955)

With Barney Kessel

Let's Cook! (Contemporary, 1957 [rel. 1962])

With Mundell Lowe

Porgy & Bess (RCA Camden, 1958)

With Les McCann

Les McCann Sings (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

With Carmen McRae

Birds of a Feather (Decca, 1958)

With Oliver Nelson

More Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1964)

With Buddy Rich

The Wailing Buddy Rich (Norgran, 1955)

With Art Tatum

The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight (Pablo, 1956)

With Clark Terry

The Happy Horns of Clark Terry (Impulse!, 1964)

With Joe Williams

At Newport '63 (RCA Victor, 1963)

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The Hollywood Reporter, October 2

Cover: BTS -- billion-dollar boy band 

Page 2: Contents, BTS -- J-Hope, Jungkook, V, Jin, RM, Jimin and Suga 

Page 4: Contents 

Page 6: New show Quizzed will feature a musical artist being asked trivia questions by a star of their favorite TV show or movie. The first episode features Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech quizzing singer Josh Groban 

Page 11: The Report -- Ari Emanuel’s IPO dreams fade, but what now for Endeavor? 

Page 14: Terminated? Iconic ‘80s franchise may be up for auction, Why did the Emmys fall so far this year? 

Page 16: What should television news do with Team Trump’s ‘lies’?, Fall TV’s barely there returns 

Page 18: Box Office -- Abominable, Judy, Friends 25th Anniversary, Broadcast TV -- America’s Got Talent, Cable TV -- AHS: 1984, One to Watch -- The Masked Singer, Billboard -- No Guidance, Billboard 200 -- Post Malone 

Page 20: 7 Days of Deals -- How Kevin Feige won back Spider-Man with help from Spidey himself Tom Holland, Elisabeth Murdock forms a new sister-hood, Rights Available -- The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott, The Runaway by Hollie Overton, Film -- Jodie Comer joins The Last Duel, Jason Bateman in talks to direct Ryan Reynolds in Clue, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern and Sam Neill will return to Jurassic World 3, Finn Wittrock will star in Long Weekend 

Page 21: Travis Knight will direct Tom Holland in Uncharted, David Strathairn has joined Nightmare Alley, Kirby Howell-Baptiste joins Cruella, Jordan Peele, Television -- Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon will star in The Gilded Age, Andrew Scott will play the Talented Mr. Ripley, Amy Landecker has joined Your Honor, Nick Cannon to host a talk show, Digital -- Will Smith to star in The Council, Matt and Ross Duffer, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray Romano joins Made for Love, Judah Lewis, Deborah Chow will direct Obi-Wan Kenobi, John Malkovich joins Space Force, Real Estate -- Elon Musk, Rep Sheet -- Josh Hartnett, Magical Elves, Woody Norman, Jordan Fisher, Next Big Thing -- Jeremy Pope

Page 23: About Town -- Can a Western town rise from the ashes? Destroyed in November’s Woolsey fire, the Paramount Ranch hopes to rebuild 

Page 24: What Mayor Pete Buttigieg watches, What was Hitler’s favorite film? 

Page 26: Yes, I Did Say That! -- Oprah Winfrey, Kathryn Murdoch, Mark Hamill, Shepard Smith, Mark Zuckerberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Cryer, Robert De Niro 

Page 28: The Red Carpet -- The Irishman -- Ray Romano and Bobby Cannavale, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, John Turturro and Spike Lee, Sebastian Maniscalco, Scott Stuber and Molly Sims, JR and Juliana Hatkoff and Jane Rosenthal, The Joker -- Glenn Fleshler and Josh Pais and Brett Cullen and Frances Conroy and Joaquin Phoenix and Zazie Beetz and Leigh Gill and Marc Maron, Ann Sarnoff and Todd Phillips and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, LaKeith Stanfield, Rooney Mara, Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet

Page 30: Dolemite Is My Name -- Ted Sarandos and Eddie Murphy and Craig Brewer, Tracy Morgan, Keegan-Michael Key and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Samuel L. Jackson, Mike Epps and Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Luenell and Don “Magic” Juan, Lucy in the Sky -- Natalie Portman, Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi and Jon Hamm, Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley and Matthew Greenfield and Alan Horn and David Greenbaum, Pearl Amanda Dickson and Noah Hawley, Jeremiah Birkett, Party Crasher -- Wesley Snipes, Snoop Dogg

Page 32: Rambling Reporter -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge smoking, Bob Greenblatt and Stephen Loguidice are not married, Jason Blum goes eco-friendly, Brad Pitt on his sculpting, Power Dining -- Jeffrey Katzenberg, Solange Knowles, Tyga, George Hamilton, Zach Woods, Sherry Lansing, Justin Bieber, Pierce Brosnan, Laverne Cox, Allison Kaye, Alan Nierob, Evan Hainey, Susan Sarandon 

Page 34: Hitched, Hatched, Hired 

Page 36: The Business -- Sam Esmail 

Page 38: Joker proves no laughing matter for Warner Bros. marketing 

Page 42: Hollywood opens the door for TikTok 

Page 46: Veneers that look real are taking over as dentists to the stars revise the shiny white Chiclets of yore -- Ben Foster, Christy Turlington, Liev Schreiber, Johnny Depp, Amy Poehler, Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johansson, Justin Theroux, Emma Stone, Justin Bieber, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Joaquin Phoenix, Cher 

Page 48: Style -- transforming Eddie Murphy into a ‘pimp on steroids’ for Dolemite Is My Name 

Page 50: BTS 

Page 59: Peak TV’s Power Center -- THR’s top 50 showrunners 

Page 67: Resident Evil -- a most dangerous franchise 

Page 70: Reviews -- Is Joker’s punchline problematic? 

Page 74: The Irishman 

Page 76: Social Climbers -- Actors -- Sylvester Stallone, Peyton List, Scripted TV -- The Good Doctor, TV Personalities -- Jonathan Van Ness 

Page 79: Toronto International Film Festival -- Taika Waititi and Chris Evans and Robert Pattinson 

Page 80: 90 Years of THR -- 1977 -- Menudo was a boy band poised for global stardom 

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Hypothetical Pokemon region based on the Midwest

Unova is based on the East Coast, and the channel Mr. Buddy already did a video on a hypothetical region based on the Western United States, so I figured I’d write up one for a region based on the Midwest. If someone else wants to take a stab at this, be my guest. [IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, & WI]

It gets a bit rambly and isn’t entirely complete as I had trouble placing some of the gym types and there’s just so many choices for who to base the gym leaders and Elite Four on. But, I do throw out some suggestions here and there.

Terrain: There's shortgrass and tallgrass plains, mountains, semi-arid areas, lakes and rivers.

Starters: Region starters would be based on a tiger salamander, American badger, and the Eastern red bat (water, grass & fire respectively).

As to what the starters would end up as type wise; flying-fire for the bat is pretty obvious, but what about either a grass-ground or a grass-fight typing for the badger? I figured the water starter would more resemble a Hellbender in its final form and would have either the counter-intuitive typing of rock-water or dark-water from the Hellbender’s preferred habitat.

Other new Pokemon: New animal pokemon would likely be based around the alligator snapping turtle, American bison, copperhead or cottonmouth, coyote, either golden or bald eagle (we've got both), an egret or a heron, a hawk, mastodon (fossil), mudskipper, red and grey wolves, river otter or beaver, porcupine, prairie dog, pronghorn, sandpiper, stinkpot (a type of turtle), a toad, and warbler. There's so many possible bug types I made a separate list: arrowhead orbweaver, arrow-shaped micrathena, at least 2 beetles (probably a borer, water beetle, or tortoise beetle), a centipede, katydid, luna moth, a rodent or two (several to choose from), a jumping spider (probably Sassacus papenhoei or Phidippus audax) prairie walkingstick,  sweat bee, tolype or other woolly moth, a tortoise beetle, a weevil, and the white-lined sphinx moth.

If we were to get a new deer pokemon, a grass-ghost or ground-ghost typing would be interesting to see.

New plant-based pokemon would be based on boneset (Eupatorium), corn, soy, cottonwood tree, snakeroot (Asarum canadense), snakeroot (Polygala senega), wheat, and some of the various wildflowers.

New object-based pokemon would be based on scarecrow (ghost-grass), and American Civil War era cannons and mortars (ghost-steel), and a microphone.

Legendaries: Legendaries would probably be based on the Thunderbird (flying-electric), the The Water Panther (water-dragon) and a giant horned serpent (dark-dragon or dark-water).

Places and Cities: Major cities would be based on Branson, Chicago, Clevand, Detroit, Indianopolis, Kansas City, Milwauke, St. Louis, and Wichita. The notable sites would likely be be based on both Native American and Civil War sites in the region. With both the Mississipian culture (with emphasis on Cahokia) and the various Civil War battle sites and forts throughout the region. It would be interesting to see the St. Louis as something of a reconstruction of Cahokia in its heyday. Mount Rushmore would also likely be referenced in some way (both the presidents and Crazy Horse monuments). Being that Kansas has one of the world's largest salt deposits under it, the salt mine in Hutchison would also make a good spot to visit. Areas based on Nebraska and Iowa would likely get mashed together, same for the Dakotas. Kansas would be spared getting mashed in with Iowa and Nebraska due to the sheer number of ghosttowns the state has.

There'd be no getting around the regions history with both the Wild West and Prohibition. So, activities could include something based around either. Maybe a cattle drive sidequest, or a quickdraw event. Though, both would work as basis for the plot as well.

Routes: Special routes would include extreme hot-cold shifts, tornadoes, and prairie fires.

Gyms and Gym leaders: Considering the vast amount of history in the region, there's all manner of historical figures to draw from for the basis of gym leaders. Several writers, musicians, actors and artists, as well as notable inventors, atheletes and outlaws. Thirteen presidents were elected from the region, as well 11 US presidents having been born in the region. Plus, Eisenhower was raised in and retired in Kansas.

Just listing writers alone: Ray Bradbury, Gordon Parks, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, William Allen White, Ernest Hemmingway, Mark Twain, Betty Friedan, Charles Schulz, Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Philips), David Mamet, Carl Sandburg, Ann Landers (Esther Lederer), (James) Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Garrison Keller, Standing Bear, Erma Bombeck, Zane Grey, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Michigan would have the water and steel gyms, Wisconsin the poison and ice gyms (Milwaukee breweries), Kansas the flying and ghost gyms (Air Capital of the World), Nebraska-Iowa would have the grass and normal gyms, the Dakotas would have the ground and fighting gyms. Missouri would have the rock gym for certain (the Ozarks) and something else. I wasn't really too sure about what all the other states would have. Maybe fairy and normal type gyms for Ohio? Anybody have any other suggestions for the rest?

The only gym leader I could really peg down would be for the Wichita gym. She'd be based on Amelia Earhart and two of the other trainers in the gym should be based on Clyde Cessna and Bill Lear. Though, I was thinking maybe John Brown (the dude was f---ing nuts) as basis for the ghost gym leader.

Elite Four: Again, tons of historical figures and artisans to choose from. If we went with entertainers, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and the Ringling Brothers. If singers, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Bob Dylan. If inventors; The Wright brothers, Thomas Edison, John Deere, and John Atanasoff (inventor of the digital computer).

You get the idea.

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BGO Staff Picks 2018

The fine folks who put in the work behind the counters at Beat Goes On stores all over the world have humbly submitted for you their lists of their most favourite albums, movies, TV shows, games, concerts and other miscellany for your approval.  Enjoy responsibly.

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Aiden

Albums

1. Foxing - Nearer My God

2. mewithoutYou - Untitled

3. boygenius - boygenius ep

4. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

5. Thrice - Palms

Concerts

1. The XX

2. Foxing

3. Toe

4. mewithoutYou

5. Tokyo Police Club

Chris

Albums

1. Jim James - Unified Distortion

2. Voidz - Virtue

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

5. Gorillaz - Not Now

6. Greta Van Fleet - Album Of The Peaceful Army

7. Roger Daltrey - As Long As I Have You

8. Iggy Pop & Underworld - Tea Time Dub Encounters

9. Mudhoney - Digital Garbage

10. Neil Young - Songs For Judy

Television

1. GLOW

2. Dark Tourist

3. Kominsky Method

4. Final Space

5. Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Films

1. Sherlock Gnomes

2. Incredibles 2

3. Peter Rabbit

4. The Grinch

5. Hotel Transylvania 3

Justin

Albums

1. Neil Young - Songs For Judy

2. Alice In Chains - Rainer Fog

3. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

4. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Black Panther

3. Mission Impossible: Fallout

Concerts

1. Dinosaur Jr. at Danforth Music Hall, Toronto

2. Jack White at Budweiser Gardens, London

Karen

Albums

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

2. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

3. Leon Bridges - Good Thing

4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

5. MGMT - Little Dark Age

Rob

Albums

1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

2. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

3. Dan Mangan - Love Is Magic

4. MGMT - Little Dark Age

Films

1. A Quiet Place

2. Upgrade

3. Annihilation

4. Mario

5. Black Panther

Games

1. Spider-Man

2. Starlink: Battle For Atlas

3. Hitman 2

4. A Way Out

5. Donut Country

Concerts

1. Broken Social Scene at Supercrawl, Hamilton

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Julie

Albums

1. Gorillaz - The Now Now

2. Beach House - 7

3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

5. Cat Power - Wanderer

Films

1. The Meg

2. Black Panther

3. Coco

4. Avengers: Infinity War

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Katelyn

Albums

1. Mother Mother - Dance & Cry

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. Gorillaz - The Now Now

4. Metric - Art Of Doubt

5. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Films

1. Deadpool 2

2. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

3. Black Panther

4. Coco

5. Incredibles 2

Games

1. Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

2. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

3. Detroit: Become Human

4. Spider-Man

5. The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Lana

Albums

1. Metric - Art Of Doubt

2. Mother Mother - Dance & Cry

3. Muse - Simulation Theory

4. Gorillaz - The Now Now

5. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Deadpool 2

3. Ocean’s 8

4. Annihilation

5. The Spy Who Dumped Me

Mike

Albums

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

4. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Games

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Sean

Albums

1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

2. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake

3. Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place

4. Brockhampton - Iridescence

5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Films

1. Hereditary

2. Annihilation

3. Suspiria

4. Mandy

5. Eighth Grade

Games

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Steph

Albums

1. Dear Rouge - Phases

2. Metric - Art Of Doubt

3. Now Now - Saved

4. Frank Turner - Be More Kind

5. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Films

1. Crazy Rich Asians

2. Black Panther

3. Love, Simon

4. A Simple Favor

5. Widows

Games

1. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

2. Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

3. Detroit: Become Human

4. Spider-Man

5. The Walking Dead: The Final Season

CAMBRIDGE

Alex

Albums

1. Tesseract - Sonder

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaezoic

4. Judas Priest - Firepower

5. Between The Buried & Me - Automata II

Films

1. Solo: A Star Wars Story

2. Ready Player One

3. Avengers: Infinity War

4. Annihilation

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Games

1. Red Dead Redemption II

2. Sea Of Thieves

3. God Of War

4. Detroit: Become Human

5. A Way Out

Angela

Albums

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2. Muse - Simulation Theory

3. Twenty-One Pilots - Trench

4. Sleep - The Science

Films

1. Bohemian Rhapsody

2. Venom

3. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

4. Deadpool 2

5. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Josh

Albums

1. Kurt Vile - Bottle It Up

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

4. Harm’s Way - Post Human

5. Judas Priest - Firepower

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Venom

3. Halloween

4. Deadpool 2

5. Ready Player One

Kayla

Albums

1. Moby - Everything Was Beautiful & Nothing Hurt

2. The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl

3. Sleep - The Sciences

4. Jonathan Davis - Labyrinth

5. 30STM - America

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Venom

5. Ant-Man & The Wasp

Games

1. World Of Warcraft: Batle for Azeroth

Shane

Albums

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

3. Oh Sees - Smote Reverser

4. Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

5. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Hon. Mentions: Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch, Black Panther OST

Television

1. Disenchantment

2. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

3. Final Space

4. Haunting Of Hill House

5. Hilda

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

3. A Quiet Place

4. Avengers: Infinity War

5. Isle Of Dogs

Hon. Mentions: Aquaman, Bumblebee, Happytime Murders

Vinyl

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST (1990)(Orange & Green Vinyl)

2. Fritz The Cat (Picture Disc)

3. Chris Cornell - When Bad Does Good (7″ w/Mother Love Bone Cover B-Side)

4. Primus reissues

5. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live At The Twist & Shout

GUELPH

Jake

Albums

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. Sumac - Love In Shadow

3. High On Fire - Electric Messiah

4. YOB - Our Raw Heart

5. Baptists - Beacon Of Faith

Joel

Albums

1. mewithoutYou - Untitled LP & Untitled EP

2. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream

3. Slow Machete - Ola Mala

4. Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek

5. My Epic - Ultraviolet

Albums Discovered While Reading Year End Lists

1. Typhoon - Offerings

2. The Magic Lantern - To The Islands

3. Barbarossa - Lier

4. Valley Maker - Rhodedendron

5. Bas Jan - Yes I Jan

Films

1. Transit

2. Annihilation

3. An Elephant Sitting Still

4. State Kitchen

5. Our Time

Steve

Albums

1. Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

2. (Ph)authers - (Ph)authers

3. Smallertide - All Among The Northern Lights

4. Tim Hecker - Konoyo

5. Hifiklub & Lee Ranaldo - In Doubt Shadow Him

6. Nadia Struiwigh - WHRRu

7. Hibernis - Middle Of The Meds

8. Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu Ledesma - Limpid As The Solitudes

9. Low - Double Negative

10. Foudre! - Kami

KITCHENER

Brady

Albums

1. Neko Case - Hell-On

2. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

3. Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

4. John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album

5. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells

Films

1. A Quiet Place

2. The Mule

3. Welcome To Marwen

4. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

5. BlacKkKlansman

Used Vinyl Finds

1. Starchild - Children Of The Stars

2. The Ramones - The Ramones

3. The Clash - Combat Rock

4. Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

5. Paul Horn - Inside The Great Pyramid

6. The The - Infected

7. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

8. Freddie Hubbard - First Light

9. Straight To Hell OST

10. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

BGO Used CD/DVD/Blu-ray Finds

1. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

2. Seven Samurai (1954)

3. Paper Moon (1973)

4. Metropolis (1927)

5. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar (1974)

Ryan

Albums

1. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending

2. Riva Starr - Curveballs

3. The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours

4. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station

5. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land

Vinyl Reissues

1. Katamari Damacy OST

2. The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

3. XTC - Apple Venue Vol. 1

4. U2 - Achtung Baby

5. Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg

Games

1. Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life

2. Fire Pro Wrestling

3. Burnout Paradise Remastered

4. Soul Calibur VI

5. Far Cry 5

LONDON

Jay

Albums

1. Joe Bonamassa - Redemption

2. Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - Black Coffee

3. Joe Bonamassa - British Blues Explosion

4. Buddy Guy - Blues Is Alive And Well

5. Billy Gibbons - Big Bad Blues

Rob

Films

1. Heredity

2. A Quiet Place

3. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

4. Mandy

5. Upgrade

OAKVILLE

Antonio

Albums

1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

2. Eyedress - Sensitive G

3. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

4. Various - The Grinch OST

5. Metric - Art Of Doubt

Films

1. Roma

2. The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan

3. Museo

4. Burning

5. Gloria Bell

Cory

Albums

Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance

JPEGMafia - Veteran

Mac Miller - Swimming

Saba - Care For Me

Dan

Albums

1. Jeff Rosenstock - Post

2. Tribulation - Down Below

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland

5. Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone

Films

1. First Reformed

2. The Favourite

3. Mandy

4. Roma

5. Hereditary

Drake

Albums

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts

MGMT - Little Dark Age

Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

Jack

Films

1. Hereditary

2. Eighth Grade

3. Boy Erased

4. Bohemian Rhapsody

5. Green Book

WATERLOO

Derek

Albums

1. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

2. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

3. Low - Double Negative

4. Sleep - The Sciences

5. Kanye West - Ye

6. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited

7. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

8. Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

9. Beach House - 7

10. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Bandersnatch

3. Annihilation

4. Eighth Grade

5. A Quiet Place

Concerts

1. The Flaming Lips at Riverfest, Elora

2. Phil Collins at Scotiabank Place, Toronto

3. B.A. Johnson at Jane Bond, Waterloo

4. Father John Misty at Fort York, Toronto

5. BadBadNotGood at Maxwells, Waterloo

Favourite Things About New Waterloo Store

1. There’s room for a microwave

2. There’s an actual backroom

3. Used vinyl isn’t on the floor

4. Not fighting for space in a tiny triangle

5. The garage door

Kirk

Albums

1.Idles - Joy As An Act Of Release

2. Pusha T - Daytona // Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts // Kanye West - Ye

3. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

4. Against All Logic - 2012-2017

5. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

6. Noname - Room 25

7. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

8. JPEGMafia - Veteran

9. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Limited

10. Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place

Films

1. Burning

2. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

3. Sorry To Bother You

4. BlacKkKlansman

5. Suspiria

6. Avengers: Infinity War

7. The Favourite

8. Mandy

9. You Were Never Really Here

10. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Best Concert

Idles at Lee’s Palace, Toronto

Best Performance

Tom Waits in Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

Best Criterion Release

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Best Single

Pusha T - The Story of Adidon (Shoutout to Drake from BGO Oakville)

Kristen

Albums

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

2. VNV Nation - Noire

3. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

4. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

5. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

6. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Television

1. Final Space

2. Disenchantment

3. Killjoys

4. The Tick

5. Legion

6. Letterkenny

Films

1. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

2. Black Panther

3. Isle Of Dogs

4. A Quiet Place

5. Bumblebee

6. Teen Titans Go To The Movies

Kyle

Albums

1. Mark Lanegan - With Animals

2. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Neko Case - Hell-On

5. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

6. Ryan Bassett & The Bassett Hounds - Bitches Be Hustlin’ Da Dancin’ Shoes

Films

1. Hereditary

2. BlacKkKlansman

3. Annihilation

4. Isle Of Dogs

5. Dumpsty Scott Brings The Sausages

Ryan

Albums

1. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

2. Shad - A Short Story About War

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

5. Same Fears - Glitching

6. Lissie - Castles

7. Jeff Rosenstock - Post

8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

9. Thom Yorke - Suspiria

10. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love In The Time Of Email

Television

1. Final Space

Films

1. Mandy

2. Annihilation

3. You Were Never Really Here

4. Incredibles 2

5. Hereditary

6. Sorry To Bother You

7. Suspiria

8. Disobediance

9. Black Panther

10. Eighth Grade

Podcasts

1. “De-Louse Your House: How I Learned To Live The (Mostly) Itch-Free Live” by Kyle Robb

2. “Ditch The Itch! The Wonders Of Talcum Powder” by Kyle Robb

3. “Drywall & Me: How I Crafted A Personality” by K.R. Obb

4. “Growing Up In The 3rd Century” by Robert Kylington

5. “To Have & Have Not: A Chicken Pox Tale” by Kale Robe

Scott

Albums

1. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

2. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

3. Sleep - The Sciences

4. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

5. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

6. Kanye West - Ye

7. Kyle Robb & The Robb Kyles - It’s Itchin’ My Tickley! (EP)

8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

9. Neko Case - Hell-On

Tom

Albums

1. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

2. Beach House - 7

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

5. David Byrne - American Utopia

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE

Laura

Television

1. Pose

2. The Crown

3. Legion

4. BoJack Horseman

5. The Good Place

6. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

Films

1. Hereditary

2. A Quiet Place

3. Crazy Rich Asians

4. Sorry To Bother You

5. BlacKkKlansman

6. Eighth Grade

HEAD OFFICE

David

Television

1. The Americans

2. The Handmaid’s Tale

3. BoJack Horseman

4. Maniac

5. The Good Place

Podcasts

1. Slow Burn

2. Reply All

3. Serial

4. Stay Tuned With Preet

5. The Wilderness

Meredith

Albums

1. Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions

2. Neko Case - Hell-On

3. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

4. Great Lake Swimmers - The Waves, The Wake

5. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing At The Seams

Will

Albums

1. The Arkells - Rally Cry

2. John Butler Trio - Home

3. Buddy Guy - The Blues Is Alive & Well

Television

1. The Last Ship

2. Letterkenny

3. Ballers

[thehorrortree]

The Spooky Six with Willow Croft and Ray Van Horn, Jr.

Joining me for tea today is veteran journalist and speculative fiction writer, Ray Van Horn, Jr.! Ray Van Horn, Jr. is a veteran journalist and photographer and author of the short story collection, Coming of Rage, released in 2022 through Raw Earth Ink. He spent 16 years covering music and film for outlets such as Blabbermouth, AMP, Pit, Dee Snider’s House of Hair, Music Dish, DVD Review, Horror…

[thewolfmancometh]

That Time I Talked to Robert Englund – October 3, 2017

I’ve never been a big A Nightmare on Elm Street fan. There, I SAID IT! But, in my defense, I am 1) an idiot and 2) not a fan of any particular franchise, with Nightmare on Elm Street being no exception. I like the first movie and think A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and Freddy vs. Jason are a lot of fun, but just never made a strong connection with Freddy Krueger. New Nightmare, on the other hand, is ambitious and fascinating, and as a big fan of Scream, I appreciate the ways in which Wes Craven began toying with the more meta elements of the genre. Despite not being a huge fan, when I had the chance to speak with Robert Englund, there was no way I was going to pass that up. Not only is Englund an icon for his work as Krueger, but he has starred in dozens of other genre efforts, making him a contemporary horror icon alongside the likes of Lon Chaney Jr. or Boris Karloff. While the reason for our talk was about his film Nightworld, I managed to guide the discussion towards his more famous role.

Robert Englund – October 3, 2017

WolfMan: Thanks for speaking with me, Robert, how’s your day going so far?

Robert Englund: Pretty good. I’m doing laundry. I got to fly to Spain tomorrow. I just finished a big virtual reality project with Alexandre Aja.

WM: Oh, that’s great. I’m a big fan of his work.

RE: I’m going to be a guest at a film festival in Barcelona with Guillermo del Toro and Alexandre, and I’m really looking forward to seeing The Shape of Things, Guillermo’s new movie that everybody’s talking about, because I’m a huge fan of his.

So I’m looking forward to some red wine, some tapas, and seeing Guillermo’s new movie. But I’ve got 10 days worth of underwear I’ve got to wash, because I’ve just gotten back from somewhere else. So I’m packing today, but I made time for you.

WM: I appreciate it, sir. And I’m a fan of Aja so I look forward to what you two are cooking up.

RE: Oh, he’s so good. I love the actors in his movie Horns. There’s just some terrific new talent in that movie.

WM: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple…

RE: Yeah, and he was mentored by Wes Craven a bit, you know, and approved for the remake of Wes’s film. Gosh, I think he’s even worked second unit with Alexander Cuaron. I’m not sure but I think I heard that somewhere. Don’t quote me on that.

WM: Too late.

RE: But I mean, I think he did, and Cuaron is a genius too, you know. I love all those guys. It’s just there’s such a great interpretation of new cinema coming from a certain Latin perspective that I really love. I mean, Robert Rodriguez, I just did his new animated show Spy Kids and I had to turn down his TV show From Dusk till Dawn because of a conflict. But I just really love his work and I love Guillermo’s work. I think Devil’s Backbone is one of my favorite movies.

It’s easy to love Pan’s Labyrinth but Devil’s Backbone is like one of the best ghost stories ever, and it’s political, and Eduardo Noriega fucks a girl with a wooden leg. I mean, what’s not to like, you know? That should be a double bill, you know. That and Romeo is Bleeding. “Amputee Fucking” starring Gary Oldman and Eduardo Noriega.

WM: You mention you’re doing laundry, so will that be part of the immersive virtual reality project you’re working on with Aja?

RE: No, doing laundry will not. But I’ll tell you, it’s like another world working with virtual reality. Oh my god. It’s crazy because there’s 10 cameras and each one of them, you have to check the memory card, you have to check the electrical impulse, you have to clean it. And for the first time ever, Alexandre had invented, well his people did, they’re called Future Lighthouse, but what they had invented, playback for virtual reality after every take. But you have to watch 10 playbacks because there’s 10 versions.

So you have to watch every one of them. So if you’re cooking in a scene and you really got something going, after every time they say cut, it’s like 45 minutes. So you really have to get into that. You have to re-pace yourself and sort of surrender to the camera because it’s really god on a virtual reality project.

WM: Well I know how why you have to wash so much underwear, that process sounds terrifying and exhausting.

RE: It was awful hot and we were in the woods and everything.

WM: To call you a genre icon feels like a bit of an understatement, as not only are many of your roles iconic, but also your own personality has a legacy all its own.

RE: Well I like to think of myself as, and this is what I want in my obituary, a veteran character actor, because veteran really implies you’ve done a lot, and I think I’m coming up here, I think I’m between 75 and 80 films now. Now, I don’t brag about that because I get drunk with Lance Henriksen, and he’s done 150 movies.

We were doing our toast to Bill Paxton a while back and I realized just how many movies Lance has been in. God almighty, and he calls some of them alimony movies. But still, that’s the life of a working actor. That’s what we are. We’re players, we’re troubadours. I spent the entire ’70s as an A-list sidekick and best friend. I worked with everybody from Henry Fonda to Barbara Streisand to Susan Sarandon to Jeff Bridges, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sally Field. I think I just quoted six Oscars right there.

I was starring with them. I was starring with those people in movies and doing nude scenes with them and fighting with them and shooting pool with them and playing their best friends. But that’s like a chapter. Then I became this TV star from a science fiction show that elevated special effects. That’s a chapter.

But during that time, I did this little independent horror movie for New Line Cinema, and I did it to work with Wes Craven because I really was curious. I really thought he was a talented guy, and then that made me international. That’s the great, happy accident that I got from being a genre actor. Wes taught me how to respect the genre. Then the world respected me. So that just like a natural volition after that. From then on, I just went wherever people wanted me and didn’t worry about career or image or anything like that.

I think somewhere along the line, I became a road company Vincent Price. When I got out of the makeup in 2003, I’d aged and I got this craggy, Scottish face, and my beard came in white when I grew it in. It had been a little bit of red and brown before that. With my weird dirty blonde hair, now my beard came in really nice and gray with some white streaks in it, and I looked sort of like Max von Sydow. I looked a little bit like old George C. Scott. I looked a little bit like Trevor Howard, the old English actor. A combination of all that, and it really served me well. As an older actor, I began playing the professor and the scientist and the stepfather and the old poacher. And the psychoanalyst. So I never would’ve probably been offered those roles because I’ve been this happy-go-lucky sidekick. Nerd, best friend.

In the ’70s, I did a lot of comedy in the theater, and because of my face, and because of my dues in fantasy and science fiction and horror, I’m allowed these roles now. I’m asked to play these parts. Like, the one we’re calling about, Nightworld is an example of that. It’s my fussy little Eastern European contemporary Van Helsing character.

It’s fun for me, at my age and I’ve got three movies coming out. It’s just fun to still be wanted.

WM: You might be most well-known for Freddy Krueger, but you have dozens of roles people love. Personally, I’m fond of your role in Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer.

RE: Well you know, it’s strange because there’s a bigger fan base for retro horror than I realized, and practical horror. I get a lot of feedback on that one. But what’s great about Jack Brooks is kids can watch it. It’s real kid-proof. I do tons and tons of cartoon voiceovers all the time. I just finished doing the new animated Spy Kids for Robert Rodriguez. But I’m always giving a picture of me with all my cartoon characters to the kids if I’m at a convention or a film festival. But I feel very safe about telling them to watch that. Also, I think, on early mornings now, sometimes on SYFY channel, and on Robert Rodriguez’s El Ray channel, they run V, and V‘s great for kids. Kids love V.

And it’s nice for them because it sort of stretches their attention spans because it’s a miniseries. Then a series. So I finally have things I can recommend kids to see, other than my cartoons. But yeah, Jack Brooks was fun to do. I did the old Goat, what do they call it? You know, they put the kind of goat bladder skin on you, and then they fill it with air, and they did it off of a makeup of my own face. They did pieces, I think it was on my temples and my jowls and my wattles on my neck. I don’t think it was in the middle of my forehead, but they brought the seam of the piece up like on a diagonal above my eye. So when they expanded my head, it really worked. It’s a really great practical effect. That was fun to do.

WM: Everyone loves Freddy Krueger and obviously that’s your most famous role, but is there another character you’ve played, whether it was from a horror, comedy, or drama film, that you wish got more attention?

RE: The thing is, with the new paradigm of streaming and cable and Netflix and … I’ve got on-demand, among other things, and I can go every Friday to the movie section: New Releases, Sundance, Independent. I can click on Horror and I can watch trailers for a half-hour for free of all the new horror movies that come out. Then on another site on on-demand, they’re all listed alphabetically. So people are finding this stuff. This is what’s great. I have one, when I do my homage to Donald Pleasence, I have one called, “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.”

I’m really proud of it and it has some terrific acting in it. Scott Wilson, Zelda Rubinstein, the lead boy, Nathan Baesel. And, by the way, it has a great sequel script, but I think that the producers want to see if they can peddle it as a limited series. But it’s a terrific, terrific movie within a movie. Just a great sequel script with doppelgangers and everything going on. Hollywood doppelgangers. So that movie, now, is actually probably achieved official cult status and gotten discovered.

My business manager had a movie, a little gem called “Suicide Kings”. It didn’t do any business when it came out, but it was on Cinemax every Saturday night for a year. Quentin Tarantino saw it, and then he put it in a box set with Jackie Brown, a movie I love, and Reservoir Dogs. So now, it’s a full-established cult classic. So that happens a lot with films and you can’t really predict it.

I did films in the ’70s that I’m really proud of that just didn’t quite click. I did one called “Stay Hungry” that’s about the new south of Jimmy Carter, and it’s that shift in change. It’s also the first movie that addresses the vanity of the fitness craze and whether it’s a good thing or not, the whole going to the gym rat thing. But it also deals with exploitation and real estate and gentrification. Also roots, it really deals with your roots.

I was hanging out on that movie with Scatman Crothers and talking about The Shining and I was getting my back massaged with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I was getting drunk with Sally Field while she sang AM rock n’ roll hits like karaoke. So it was just this great chapter of my life. But that movie never clicked, even though the guy that directed it had just directed Five Easy Pieces. So you never know.

I’ve had projects that we didn’t fully finance. I spent a year in Italy scouting for a great Russian horror fable, and I had Christopher Lee promised and Donald Sutherland, and I had Amanda Plummer and maybe Lance Henriksen, and maybe the guy from Under the Tuscan Sun and maybe Jessica Lowndes. I had all feelers out to all these people, and some promises that I’d used up a lot of my capital and a lot of friendship on it. Then the recession hit, and the European financing fell down.

But that’s one that is gone with the wind. But for every one that’s gone with the wind, there’s something new in the hopper and something new on the back burner, and something new coming out. I did a movie with giant puppets last year. I know it takes long because it’s animation. But I’m waiting to see what that’s going to look like. Chris McDonald’s in that. A lot of good people. So it’ll be interesting to see how that comes out.

WM: You mentioned Donald Pleasence earlier and, with a new Halloween on the way, petitions sprang up to get you to play Dr. Loomis in the new film. Is that something that interests you at all?

RE: Well I hear this stuff, but you know the internet is so crazy. You know it. I mean, we know now that every time on the internet you saw the word Benghazi or the time you saw the words “emails about Hillary Clinton,” we know now that’s a plant. That wasn’t your friend. That wasn’t your buddy, that wasn’t your mother. That wasn’t somebody that you know saying, “Did you hear?” It was like a plant by Russians in a troll farm in Macedonia in an industrial center. A bunch of poor students in crappy turtlenecks doing that. I mean that’s unbelievable to me.

The same thing happens with fake projects because people get that energy going out there and it looks real, and then sometimes they get lucky and get financing because they get a lot of hits. But no one has ever talked to my agent. Now, I love that guy that’s producing it from Eastbound and Down.

WM: Danny McBride and David Gordon Green.

RE: I love Danny McBride. I love Danny McBride, and I think he loves horror, just like Jordan Peele, and I think he’s probably going to do a great job with it. Because this is a guy that can do anything he wanted, and knows Robert Downey, you know, the richest man since God, and he can probably do anything he wants and he chose Halloween, which he’s got a lot of pressure on him and he’s got a lot of burden to do it right. But he’s got Jamie Lee Curtis, it sounds like. He’s going to figure it out right.

But I can think of English actors that are probably better than me for that role. There’s a couple I can think of. One or two are in Game of Thrones. One or two were in Harry Potter, just actors I love. But the thing is, I’ve already done my salute to Donald Pleasence, who I loved all my life.

Since the ’60s when I was in college, I’ve loved his movies. I discovered him in a weird little Roman Polanski movie. I’ve always been a fan of his. Then he was a big Pinter star, and we were all in love with Sam Shepard and Harold Pinter back in the day, and Edward Albee. So I loved that stuff, yeah. But I’ve sort of done that role now in Behind the Mask. I don’t really need to do it again.

And I also, because of the baggage I bring, as a genre actor, I could possibly throw it out of balance. Although I do understand the quest. But if I was casting, I could probably improve on Robert Englund. I look like him, and if I shave my head it would be very interesting and shaved it would be very interesting. I do a very good English accent because I went to school over there. But I don’t think that’s in the cards. But I do appreciate the fan love.

WM: Well speaking of fan speculation and the return of iconic figures, you’ve said that you’ve moved on from the role of Freddy Krueger, but support someone like Kevin Bacon taking on the character if there was a new movie.

RE: Well, Kevin did a great horror movie called “Stir of Echoes.” Kevin was in Friday the 13th. I know way down deep, Kevin has a respect for horror. He’s not one of those guys that goes on the talk show and says, “This isn’t a horror movie. It’s a psychological drama.” There’s a lot of people that still put down the genre.

Wes taught me to respect it. We used to all have to sit by the kitchen door in the commissary at the studios. Well now we’re top 10 every week, and now the horror, science fiction, and fantasy people are running the town. Every week, we have a top 10 movie and I’m really proud of that. Kevin, I really think of Kev, even though he’s a good-looking, rock n’ roll guy, I think he’s really a true character actor. I think he might have fun with it.

And he’s the right size and weight. I think it would be interesting. But it all comes down to the script, and I hope they don’t remake the original again. I hope they jump forward after the Jackie Earle Haley one. Maybe do part two, or maybe go and combine part three and four. God, I hope they don’t remake part one again. I don’t think that’s a good idea.

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[waywardsistersfunding-blog]

432 Democratic Candidates for the US House of Representatives.

1 Robert Kennedy Jr (AL-01)

2 Tabitha Isner (AL-02)

3 Mallory Hagan (AL-03)

4 Lee Auman (AL-04)

5 Peter Joffrion (AL-05)

6 Danner Kline (AL-06)

7 Terri Sewell (AL-07) (Incumbent)

8 Alyse Galvin (AK at Large)

9 Tom O’Halleran (AZ-01) (Incumbent)

10 Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-02)

11 Raul Grijalva (AZ-03) (Incumbent)

12 David Brill (AZ-04)

13 Joan Greene (AZ-05)

14 Anita Malik (AZ-06)

15 Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) (Incumbent)

16 Hiral Tipirneni (AZ-08)

17 Greg Stanton (AZ-09)

18 Chintan Desai (AR-01)

19 Clarke Tucker (AR-02)

20 Joshua Mahony (AR-3)

21 Hayden Shamel (AR-04)

22 Audrey Denney (CA-01)

23 Jared Huffman (CA-02) (Incumbent)

24 John Garamendi (CA-03) (Incumbent)

25 Jessica Morse (CA-04)

26 Mike Thompson (CA-05) (Incumbent)

27 Doris Matsui (CA-06) (Incumbent)

28 Ami Bera (CA-07) (Incumbent)

29 Jerry McNerney (CA-09) (Incumbent)

30 Josh Harder (CA-10)

31 Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) (Incumbent)

32 Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) (Incumbent)

33 Barbara Lee (CA-13) (Incumbent)

34 Jackie Speier (CA-14) (Incumbent)

35 Eric Swalwell (CA-15) (Incumbent)

36 Jim Costa (CA-16) (Incumbent)

37 Ro Khanna (CA-17) (Incumbent)

38 Anna Eshoo (CA-18) (Incumbent)

39 Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) (Incumbent)

40 Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) (Incumbent)

41 TJ Cox (CA-21)

42 Andrew Janz (CA-22)

43 Tatiana Matta (CA-23)

44 Salud Carbajal (CA-24) (Incumbent)

45 Katie Hill (CA-25)

46 Julia Brownley (CA-26) (Incumbent)

47 Judy Chu (CA-27) (Incumbent)

48 Adam Schiff (CA-28) (Incumbent)

49 Tony Cardenas (CA-29) (Incumbent)

50 Brad Sherman (CA-30) (Incumbent)

51 Pete Aguilar (CA-31) (Incumbent)

52 Grace Napolitano (CA-32) (Incumbent)

53 Ted Lieu (CA-33) (Incumbent)

54 Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) (Incumbent)

55 Norma Torres (CA-35) (Incumbent)

56 Raul Ruiz (CA-36) (Incumbent)

57 Karen Bass (CA-37) (Incumbent)

58 Linda Sanchez (CA-38) (Incumbent)

59 Gil Cisneros (CA-39)

60 Lucille Royal-Allard (CA-40) (Incumbent)

61 Mark Takano (CA-41) (Incumbent)

62 Julia Peacock (CA-42) 

63 Maxine Waters (CA-43) (Incumbent)

64 Nanette Barragan (CA-44) (Incumbent)

65 Katie Porter (CA-45) (Incumbent)

66 Lou Correa (CA-46) (Incumbent)

67 Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) (Incumbent)

68 Harley Rouda (CA-48) 

69 Mike Levin (CA-49) 

70 Ammar Campa-Najjar (CA-50)

71 Juan Vargas (CA-51) (Incumbent)

72 Scott Peters (CA-52) (Incumbent)

73 Susan Davis (CA-53) (Incumbent)

74 Diana DeGette (CO-01) (Incumbent)

75 Joe Neguse (CO-02)

76 Diane Matsch Bush (CO-03)

77 Karen McCormick (CO-04)

78 Stephany Rose Spaulding (CO-05) 

79 Jason Crow (CO-06)

80 Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) (Incumbent)

81 John Larson (CT-01) (Incumbent)

82 Joe Courtney (CT-02) (Incumbent)

83 Rose L. DeLauro (CT-03) (Incumbent)

84 Jim Himes (CT-04) (Incumbent)

85 Jahana Hayes (CT-05) 

86 Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE At Large)

87 Jennifer Zimmerman (FL-01)

88 Bob Rackleff (FL-02)

89 Yvonne Hayes Hinson (FL-03)

90 Ges Belmont (FL-04)

91 Alfred Lawson (FL-05) (Incumbent)

92 Nancy Soderberg (FL-06) 

93 Stephanie Murphy (FL-07) (Incumbent)

94 Sanjay Patel (FL-08)

95 Darren Soto (FL-09) (Incumbent)

96 Val Demings (FL-10) (Incumbent)

97 Dana Cottrell (FL-11)

98 Chris Hunter (FL-12)

99 Charlie Crist (FL-13) (Incumbent)

100 Kathy Castor (FL-14) (Incumbent)

101 Kristen Carlson (FL-15)

102 David Shapiro (FL-16)

103 April Freeman (FL-17)

104 Lauren Baer (FL-18)

105 David Holden (FL-19)

106 Alcee L. Hastings (FL-20) (Incumbent)

107 Lois Frankel (FL-21) (Incumbent)

108 Theodore E. Deutch (FL-22) (Incumbent)

109 Debbie Wassermann Schultz (Fl-23) (Incumbent)

110 Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24) (Incumbent)

111 Mary Barzee Flores (Fl-25) 

112 Debbie Murcarsel-Powell (FL-26)

113 Donna Shalala (FL-27)

114 Lisa Ring (GA-01)

115 Sanford Bishop Jr (GA-02)

116 Chuck Enderlin (GA-03)

117 Hank Johnson (GA-04) (Incumbent)

118 John Lewis (GA-05) (Incumbent)

119 Lucy McBath (GA-06)

120 Carolyn Bourdeaux (GA-07)

121 Josh McCall (GA-09)

122 Tabitha Johnson-Green (GA-10)

123 Flynn Broady Jr (GA-11)

124 Francys Johnson (GA-12)

125 David Scott (GA-13) (Incumbent)

126 Steven Foster (GA-14) 

127 Ed Case (HI-01)

128 Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02)

129 Cristina McNeil (ID-01)

130 Aaron Swisher (ID-02)

131 Bobby Rush (IL-01) (Incumbent)

132 Robin Kelly (IL-02) (Incumbent)

133 Daniel Lipinski (IL-03) (Incumbent)

134 Jesus Garcia (IL-04) 

135 Tom Hanson (IL-05)

136 Sean Casten (IL-06)

137 Danny K. Davis (IL-07) (Incumbent)

138 Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) (Incumbent)

139 Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) (Incumbent)

140 Brad Schneider (IL-10) (Incumbent)

141 Bill Foster (IL-11) (Incumbent)

142 Brendan Kelly (IL-12)

143 Betsy Londrigan (IL-13)

144 Lauren Underwood (IL-14)

145 Kevin Gaither (IL-15)

146 Sara Dady (IL-16)

147 Cheri Bustos (IL-17) (Incumbent)

148 Junius Rodriguez (IL-18)

149 Peter Visclosky (IN-01) (Incumbent)

150 Mel Hall (IN-02)

151 Courtney Tritch (IN-03)

152 Tobi Beck (IN-04)

153 Dee Thornton (IN-05)

154 Jeannine Lee Lake (IN-06)

155 Andre Carlson (IN-07) (Incumbent)

156 William Tanoos (IN-08)

157 Liz Watson (IN-09)

158 Abby Finkenauer (IA-01)

159 Dave Loebsack (IA-02) (Incumbent)

160 Cindy Axne (IA-03)

161 J.D. Scholten (IA-04)

162 Alan LaPolice (KS-01)

163 Paul Davis (KS-02)

164 Sharice Davids (KS-03)

165 James Thompson (KS-04)

166 Paul Walker (KY-01)

167 Hank Linderman (KY-02)

168 John Yarmuth (KY-03) (Incumbent)

169 Seth Hall (KY-04)

170 Kenneth Stepp (KY-05)

171 Amy McGrath (KY-06)

172 Tammy Savoie (LA-01)

173 Cedric Richmond (LA-02) (Incumbent)

174 Mildred “Mimi” Methvin (LA-03)

175 Ryan Trundle (LA-04)

176 Jessee Carlton Fleenor (LA-05)

177 Andie Saizan (LA-06)

178 Chellie Pingree (ME-01) (Incumbent)

179 Jared Golden (ME-02)

180 Jesse Colvin (MD-01)

181 Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02) (Incumbent)

182 John Sarbanes (MD-03) (Incumbent)

183 Anthony Brown (MD-04) (Incumbent)

184 Steny Hoyer (MD-05) (Incumbent)

185 David Trone (MD-06)

186 Elijah Cummings (MD-07) (Incumbent)

187 Jamie Raskin (MD-08) (Incumbent)

188 Richard Neal (MA-01) (Incumbent)

189 Jim McGovern (MA-02) (Incumbent)

190 Lori Trahan (MA-03) 

191 Joseph Kennedy III (MA-04) (Incumbent)

192 Katherine Clark (MA-05) (Incumbent)

193 Seth Moulton (MA-06) (Incumbent)

194 Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) 

195 Stephen Lynch (MA-08) (Incumbent)

196 Bill Keating (MA-09) (Incumbent)

197 Matthew Morgan (MI-01)

198 Rob Davidson (MI-02)

199 Cathy Albro (MI-03)

200 Jerry Hilliard (MI-04)

201 Dan Kildee (MI-05)

202 Matt Longjohn (MI-06)

203 Gretchen Driskell (MI-07)

204 Elissa Slotkin (MI-08)

205 Andy Levin (MI-09)

206 Kimberly Bizon (MI-10)

207 Haley Stevens (MI-11)

208 Debbie Dinkel (MI-12) (Incumbent)

209 Rashida Tlaib (MI-13)

210 Brenda Lawrence (MI-14) (Incumbent)

211 Dan Feehan (MN-01)

212 Angie Craig (MN-02)

213 Dean Phillips (MN-03)

214 Betty McCollum (MN-04) (Incumbent)

215 Ilhan Omar (MN-05)

216 Ian Todd (MN-06)

217 Collin Peterson (MN-07) (Incumbent)

218 Joe Radinovich (MN-08)

219 Randy Wadkins (MS-01)

220 Bernie Thompson (MS-02) (Incumbent)

221 Michael Evans (MS-03)

222 Jeramey Anderson (MS-04)

223 William Lacy Clay (MO-01) (Incumbent)

224 Cort VanOstran (MO-02)

225 Katy Geppert (MO-03)

226 Renee Hoagenson (MO-04)

227 Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05) (Incumbent)

228 Henry Martin (MO-06)

229 Jamie Schoolcraft (MO-07)

230 Kathy Ellis (MO-08)

231 Kathleen Williams (MT At Large)

232 Jessica McClure (NE-01)

233 Kara Eastman (NE-02)

234 Paul Theobald (NE-03)

235 Dina Titus (NV-01) (Incumbent)

236 Clint Koble (NV-02)

237 Susie Lee (NV-03)

238 Steven Horsford (NV-04)

239 Chris Pappas (NH-01)

240 Annie Kuster (NH-02) (Incumbent)

241 Donald Norcross (NJ-01) (Incumbent)

242 Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02)

243 Andrew Kim (NJ-03)

244 Josh Welle (NJ-04)

245 Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) (Incumbent)

246 Frank Pallone (NJ-06) (Incumbent)

247 Tom Malinowski (NJ-07) 

248 Albio Sires (NJ-08) (Incumbent)

249 Bill Pascrell (NJ-09) (Incumbent)

250 Donald Payne Jr (NJ-10) (Incumbent)

251 Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11)

252 Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) (incumbent)

253 Debra Haland (NM-01)

254 Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02)

255 Ben Ray Lujan (NM-03) (Incumbent)

256 Perry Gershon (NY-01)

257 Liuba Greggen Shirley (NY-02)

258 Tom Suozzi (NY-03) (Incumbent)

259 Kathleen Rice (NY-04) (Incumbent)

260 Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05) (Incumbent)

261 Grace Meng (NY-06) (Incumbent)

262 Nydia Velazquez (NY-07) (Incumbent)

263 Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) (Incumbent)

264 Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) (Incumbent)

265 Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) (Incumbent)

266 Max Rose (NY-11)

267 Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) (Incumbent)

268 Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) (Incumbent)

269 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) 

270 Jose Serrano (NY-15) (Incumbent)

271 Eliot Engel (NY-16) (Incumbent)

272 Nita Lowey (NY-17) (Incumbent)

273 Sean Maloney (NY-18) (Incumbent)

274 Antonio Delgado (NY-19)

275 Paul Tonko (NY-20) (Incumbent)

276 Tedra Cobb (NY-21)

277 Anthony Brindisi (NY-22)

278 Tracy Mitrano (NY-23)

279 Dana Balter (NY-24) 

280 Joseph Morelle (NY-25)

281 Brian Higgins (NY-26) (Incumbent)

282 Nate McMurray (NY-27) 

283 G.K. Butterfield (NC-01)

284 Linda Coleman (NC-02)

285 David Price (NC-04) (Incumbent)

286 Denise Adams (NC-05)

287 Ryan Watts (NC-06)

288 Kyle Horton (NC-07)

289 Frank McNeill (NC-08)

290 Dan McCready (NC-09)

291 David Wilson Brown (NC-10)

292 Phillip Price (NC-11)

293 Alma Adams (NC-12) (Incumbent)

294 Kathy Manning (NC-13)

295 Mac Schneider (ND At Large)

296 Aftab Pureval (OH-01)

297 Jill Schiller (OH-02)

298 Joyce Beatty (OH-03) (Incumbent)

299 Janet Garrett (OH-04)

300 John Michael Galbraith (OH-05)

301 Shawna Roberts (OH-06)

302 Ken Harbaugh (OH-07)

303 Vanessa Enoch (OH-08)

304 Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) (Incumbent)

305 Theresa Gasper (OH-10)

306 Marcia Fudge (OH-11) (Incumbent)

307 Danny O’Connor (OH-12)

308 Tim Ryan (OH-13) (Incumbent)

309 Betsy Rader (OH-14) 

310 Rick Neal (OH-15)

311 Susan Moran Palmer (OH-16)

312 Tim Gilpin (OK-01)

313 Jason Nichols (OK-02)

314 Frankie Robbins (OK-03)

315 Mary Brannon (OK-04)

316 Kendra Horn (OK-05)

317 Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) (Incumbent)

318 Jamie McLeod Skinner (OR-02)

319 Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) (Incumbent)

320 Peter DeFazio (OR-04) (Incumbent)

321 Kurt Schrader (OR-05) (Incumbent)

322 Scott Wallace (PA-01)

323 Brendan Doyle (PA-02) (Incumbent)

324 Dwight Evans (PA-03) (Incumbent)

325 Madeleine Dean (PA-04) 

326 Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05)

327 Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06)

328 Susan Wild (PA-07)

329 Matt Cartwright (PA-08) (Incumbent)

330 Denny Wolff (PA-09)

331 George Scott (PA-10) 

332 Jessica King (PA-11)

333 Marc Friedenberg (PA-12)

334 Brent Ottaway (PA-13)

335 Bibiana Berio (PA-14)

336 Susan Boser (PA-15)

337 Ronald DiNicola (PA-16)

338 Conor Lamb (PA-17)

339 Michael Doyle (PA-18) (Incumbent)

340 David N. Cicilline (RI-01) (Incumbent)

341 Jim Langevin (RI-02) (Incumbent)

342 Joe Cunningham (SC-01)

343 Sean Carrigan (SC-02)

344 Mary Geren (SC-03)

345 Brandon Brown (SC-04)

346 Archie Parnell (SC-05)

347 James Clyburn (SC-06) (Incumbent)

348 Robert Williams (SC-07)

349 Timothy Bjorkman (SD At Large)

350 Marty Olsen (TN-01)

351 Renee Hoyos (TN-02)

352 Danielle Mitchell (TN-03)

353 Mariah Phillips (TN-04)

354 Jim Cooper (TN-05) (Incumbent)

355 Dawn Barlow (TN-06)

356 Justin Kanew (TN-07)

357 Erika Stotts Pearson (TN-08)

358 Steve Cohen (TN-09) (Incumbent)

359 Shirley McKellar (TX-01)

360 Todd Litton (TX-02)

361 Lorie Burch (TX-03)

362 Catherine Krantz (TX-04)

363 Dan Wood (TX-05)

364 Jana Lynne Sanchez (TX-06)

365 Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (TX-07)

366 Steven David (TX-08)

367 Al Green (TX-09) (Incumbent)

368 Mike Siegel (TX-10) 

369 Jennie Lou Leeder (TX-11) 

370 Vanessa Adia (TX-12)

371 Greg Sagan (TX-13)

372 Adrienne Bell (TX-14)

373 Vincente Gonzalez (TX-15)

374 Veronica Escobar (TX-16)

375 Rick Kennedy (TX-17)

376 Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)

377 Miguel Levario (TX-19)

378 Joaquin Castro (TX-20) (Incumbent)

379 Joseph Kopser (TX-21) 

380 Sri Preston Kulkarni (TX-22)

381 Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23)

382 Jan McDowell (TX-24)

383 Julie Oliver (TX-25)

384 Linsey Fagan (TX-26)

385 Eric Holguin (TX-27)

386 Henry Cuellar (TX-28) (Incumbent)

387 Sylvia Garcia (TX-29)

388 Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) (Incumbent)

389 Mary Jennings “MJ” Hegar (TX-31)

390 Colin Allred (TX-32)

391 Marc Veasey (TX-33) (Incumbent)

392 Filemon Vela (TX-34) (Incumbent)

393 Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) (Incumbent)

394 Dayna Steele (TX-36)

395 Lee Castillo (UT-01)

396 Shireen Ghorbani (UT-02)

397 James Singer (UT-03)

398 Ben McAdams (UT-04)

399 Peter Welch (VT At Large) (Incumbent)

400 Vangie Williams (VA-01)

401 Elaine Luria (VA-02)

402 Bobby Scott (VA-03) (Incumbent)

403 Aston Donald McEachin (VA-04)

404 Leslie Cockburn (VA-05)

405 Jennifer Lewis (VA-06)

406 Abigail Spanberger (VA-07)

407 Don Beyer (VA-08) (Incumbent)

408 Anthony Flaccavento (VA-09)

409 Jennifer Wexton (VA-10)

410 Gerald Connolly (VA-11) (Incumbent))

411 Suzan DelBene (WA-01) (Incumbent)

412 Rick Larsen (WA-02) (Incumbent)

413 Carolyn Long (WA-03) 

414 Christine Brown (WA-04)

415 Lisa Brown (WA-05)

416 Derek Kilmer (WA-06) (Incumbent)

417 Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) (Incumbent)

418 Kim Schrier (WA-08) 

419 Sarah Smith (WA-09)

420 Denny Heck (WA-10) (Incumbent)

421 Kendra Fershee (WV-01)

422 Talley Sergent (WV-02)

423 Richard Ojeda (WV-03)

424 Randy Bryce (WI-01)

425 Mark Pocan (WI-02) (Incumbent)

426 Ronald ”Ron” Kind (WI-03) (Incumbent)

427 Gwen Moore (WI-04) (Incumbent)

428 Tom Palzewicz (WI-05)

429 Dan Kohl (WI-06)

430 Margaret Engebretson (WI-07)

431 Beau Liegeois (WI-08)

432 Greg Hunter (WY At Large)

(There are 435 seats in the US House of Representatives. Three seats this cycle (CA-08, GA-08 and NC-03) do not have a Democratic candidate on the ballot.)

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Hurricane cleanup: How to stay safe when returning home

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Hurricane cleanup: How to stay safe when returning home

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Rescue personnel help people evacuate in Spring Lake, North Carolina, on Monday, September 17.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Floodwaters surround a trailer in Pollocksville, North Carolina.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Willie Schubert cradles his dog Lucky atop a stranded van in Pollocksville, North Carolina, as he waits for help from US Coast Guard rescue swimmer Samuel Knoeppel, center, and Randy Haba on September 17.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Floodwaters are seen on Emerald Isle in North Carolina on Sunday, September 16.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Panicked dogs left caged by an owner who fled rising floodwaters are rescued by volunteer Ryan Nichols in Leland, North Carolina.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A church stands partially submerged in floodwaters in Richlands, North Carolina.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Coast Guard member Blake Gwinn helps Josephine Horne escape her flooded home in Columbus County, North Carolina.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A large tree lies on top of a home in the Evergreen mobile home park in Newport, North Carolina.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

John Hendren leads his horses to safety after members of the US Coast Guard helped cut up a fallen tree that had trapped the horses in a flooded field on in Lumberton, North Carolina.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Tony Thompson stands in the wreckage of his mobile home, which he says “exploded around him” on Friday night as Hurricane Florence moved inland over Newport, North Carolina, on Sunday, September 16.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A woman and a young girl walk down a road flooded by Hurricane Florence in Pollocksville, North Carolina, on Sunday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence inundate the town of Trenton, North Carolina, on Sunday, September 16.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Members of the Coast Guard help a stranded motorist in the floodwaters caused by Florence in Lumberton, North Carolina, on Sunday, September 16.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A man peers from his home in Lumberton, North Carolina, on Sunday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Members of a search-and-rescue team help an elderly resident onto a bus as they evacuate an assisted living facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A member of the US Coast Guard checks on homes after Florence hit Newport, North Carolina, on Saturday, September 15 .

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A neighbor takes photos of a boat smashed against a car garage near the Neuse River in New Bern on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A truck is submerged in floodwaters in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Joseph Eudi surveys debris and storm damage at a home in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 15.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A woman calls for help at her flooded residence as Florence brought large amounts of rain and floodwaters to Lumberton, North Carolina, on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

People wait in line to fill gas cans at a gas station that was damaged when Florence hit Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A baseball field on Mill Creek Road is filled with floodwater after Florence hit Newport, North Carolina, on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Mike Pollack searches for a drain in the yard of his flooded waterfront home in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Floodwaters from Florence inundate the town of Engelhard, North Carolina, on Saturday.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Ray Baca of Wilmington, North Carolina, checks his phone as he sits on a bench.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A sailboat lifted by storm surge leans against a building at Bridgepointe Marina in New Bern, North Carolina, on Saturday, a day after Florence’s landfall.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Kim Adams wades through floodwaters surrounding her home in Southport, North Carolina, on September 15.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Volunteers help rescue three children from a flooded home in James City, North Carolina, on Friday, September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Russ Lewis covers his eyes from wind and sand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Volunteers help rescue people from their flooded homes in New Bern on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Waves crash into the Second Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

The storm leaves a tree toppled in New Bern on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard reinforce a low-lying area with sandbags in Lumberton, North Carolina, on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Robert Simmons Jr. and his kitten are rescued from floodwaters in New Bern on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Teddie Davis checks on one of the New Bern’s signature bear statues toppled by the storm on September 14. Another one of the bears, in the background, ended up in the middle of a downtown street.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Rising waters threaten downtown Washington, North Carolina, as the Pamlico River overruns its banks on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

An abandoned van sits on a flooded road near New Bern on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A boat sits wedged in trees in Oriental, North Carolina, near New Bern, on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Members of a Federal Emergency Management Agency team from California search a flooded neighborhood in Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina, on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Rescue workers attempt to remove a giant tree that fell onto a house in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 14. Two people died when the tree collapsed — among the first storm-related deaths due to Hurricane Florence.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Electric poles that snapped in half sway from their wires in Wilmington on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Lee Casteen, left, and Try Hinton use a chainsaw to clear a tree blocking a road in Wilmington on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Rescue workers help a woman and her dog from a flooded house in James City on September 14.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Michael Nelson floats in a boat fashioned from a metal tub and fishing floats after the Neuse River flooded September 13 in New Bern.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Powerful winds and waves destroy portions of a boat dock and boardwalk in Atlantic Beach on September 13.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Residents wade through streets flooded by the Neuse River in New Bern on September 13.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Evacuees take refuge at Burgaw Middle School in Burgaw, North Carolina, on September 12.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Marge Brown says goodbye to her father, George Brown, before his evacuation from a health care home in Morehead City, North Carolina, on September 12.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Workers take boats out of the water in Wanchese Harbor in Wanchese, North Carolina, on September 12 as the Outer Banks prepares for Florence.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Jeff Bryant, left, and James Evans board the windows of a business in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Tuesday, September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

People fill sandbags in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Both lanes of Interstate 26 flow westbound in North Charleston, South Carolina, toward Columbia as people evacuate inland on September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Laura Gretch holds Frances, a Chihuahua mix, as she helps unload cats and dogs arriving at the Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington from Norfolk, Virginia, on September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Veronica Gallardo and Robert Kelly place a plastic tarp over an American flag inside the Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, on September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

A man eyes a store’s bare bread shelves as people stock up on food in Myrtle Beach on September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Chuck Ledford, left, watches cartoons on a phone with his daughter Misty as they seek shelter at Emma B. Trask Middle School in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday, September 11.

In pictures: Florence drenches the Carolinas

Scott Fleenor, bottom, and Jeremiah Trendell board over the windows of a business in Myrtle Beach.

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Chuck Berry's Backing Bands: Tales From the Circle Jerks, Uptown Horns & More

Chuck Berry's Backing Bands: Tales From the Circle Jerks, Uptown Horns & More

When he took the stage, Chuck Berry could strike terror into the hearts of backup musicians who were booked to play behind the father of rock’n’roll.

“We were in a state of total panic…trying to find out what song we were playing and what key it was in,” Bruce Springsteen recalls in the film Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, describing when the then-unknown E Street Band backed Berry at a show at the University of Maryland in 1973.

Scores of journeyman musicians have tales of playing one-off or small numbers of gigs through the decades with Berry who infamously traveled alone, got paid upfront (cash only), never bothered with soundchecks, expected his sidemen to play his classics — and sometimes fired them mid-show if they could not.

Here are some of their stories.

Guitarist Ned Nelter and his band, Jr. Cadillac, from Seattle, backed Berry for more than a dozen dates in the Pacific Nortwest. “No entourage. No rehearsal. No set list. No soundcheck. In fact, he’d often do the same song in a different key. He never called keys, or counted off. We just found the key and fell in. My best memory was at Boise State University. He was in fine form, a good mood. He asked two couples to join us on stage and dance. Suddenly, we have 40 revelers dancing all around us. Chuck went to our piano player, and started playing the right hand, while our piano player maintained the left. Then he switched around to the left hand. A natural showman. His sense of pitch was like a laser on the note — even though his guitar was rarely in tune.”

Danny Benair was the drummer in a Los Angeles band called the Falcons booked to play with Berry in March 1980 at the Hollywood Palladium. “The band rehearsed his songs for a couple of weeks, with no idea what he would play,” recalls Benair. The night of the show, Berry arrived with his own bass player, Jimmy Marsala, but otherwise relied on Benair and his bandmates. “During the second song, our piano player, Mickey Mariano, was not seeing that Chuck wanted to bring the sound down. His head was staring into the grand piano. After the song, Chuck’s bass player went up to him and said, ‘Chuck, would like you to leave the stage.’ But Chuck did invite him back for the encore.”

In 1995, Greg Hetson was playing with the Circle Jerks at the club Mississippi Nights in Berry’s hometown of St. Louis. “About halfway through the show, the stage manager hands me a note saying, ‘Chuck Berry is here and he wants to play with you. Is that okay?’ I say, ‘Yes, of course! Bring him up!’ So I unplugged one of my amps and gave him my spare guitar.” Berry calls out for “Roll Over Beethoven” and Hetson turns to bandmate Zander Schloss: “Oh shit, what key? Then I remembered from watching Keith Richards in Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll that most of his songs were in C, so I yell “C!” And we followed his lead. He left before we finished our set so we didn’t get to meet him. Our singer, Keith Morris, heard from the club manager that he thought we were one of the best rock bands he’d ever seen. Who would have thunk?”

A festival called Summit on the Hudson in 2003 in Westchester County gave Brian O’Callaghan his “one opportunity to play with Mr. Berry — or Chuck, as he asked us to call him.” O’Callaghan was hired to play bass, with Nate Wilson on piano and Eric Kalb on drums. “After getting the gig, I proceeded to the record store and purchased two double CDs of Chuck Berry music. I listened to nothing else for the next six weeks” before the show.  “Show time. Chuck comes wailing onto the concert site in the Lincoln Town Car the promoters rented for him, per his rider. He said, ‘I start every song. That’s where you get the key and the tempo. Let’s rock it!’ We rocked it for 60 minutes and we were done.  It felt like five minutes had passed. Unlike those horror stories, he treated us like professionals, equals and seemed to be having just as much fun as we were.”

In recent years, Ray Andersen has recorded 11 albums that have climbed the Top Kid Albums chart as Mr. Ray. But in 1996, playing in a band called Blue Van Gogh, Andersen had one of the more unusual encounters with Berry. He recalls a hot, muggy, August night when Berry drove up, alone, in his rented black Cadillac to play a show in South Dakota, at a concert site overrun by a late-summer infestation of grasshoppers. Stepping out of his car, a handkerchief in hand, the father of rock’n’roll proceeded to wipe the grasshoppers off his windshield — taking care of business himself, as usual. “We all watched like it’s the bottom of the 9th in a World Series game—it was surreal,” recalls Andersen, who sat in on piano behind Berry that night at the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. When Andersen asked Berry the key to a song, the rocker said he was “whining like Keith Richards. What a freaking honor.”

When it came to getting paid, Berry didn’t mess around. Steve Fossen, of the band Heart By Heart and a founding original bassist with Heart, was backstage at the Seattle Coliseum in 1981 when Berry faced down a promoter, demanding an additional $10,000. “But we have a contract,” the promoter countered. “Fuck the contract,” Fossen remembers Berry saying. “I ain’t playing unless you pay me another $10,000.” The promoter insisted, “But our deal was for $50,000.” Berry stated: “Look man, you got two choices. Either go on stage and tell 15,000 people that I ain’t playing – or find another $10,000. Cause I’m not going out there until you do.”  Berry got his extra cash and took the stage, backed by members of Heart.

Tom Hambridge played some 30 Northeast shows with Berry from the mid ’80s through the mid ’90s, and recalls a night the singer’s cash temporarily went astray. At an amphitheater show in Mansfield, Mass., Berry received his performance pay in cash, as usual, and put it in a suitcase in the trunk of his rented Cadillac. “After the show, he realized he had put the car keys in the suitcase and locked them in the trunk. He desperately needed to get that suitcase out, filled with $20,000 or $30,000. Stagehands at the venue worked on getting into that car for about an hour. They finally pried open the trunk and we were all standing there. Chuck opened the suitcase and took out one $20 bill, signed it and handed to the guys, said thanks, and drove off. The stage hands ended up framing the twenty backstage.”

Saxophonist Arno Hecht, co-founder of the Uptown Horns, which backed the J. Geils Band, the Rolling Stones and others, recalls when Berry first played The Ritz (now Webster Hall) in New York City in the early `80s. “He apparently fired the bass player after a couple of songs, right off the stage. And then he fired the drummer a few more songs later, and finished the set with just him and the piano player.” 

For Berry’s return to The Ritz, Hecht was asked to recruit a new set of players and tapped guitarist Jon Paris, bassist Charles Torres, drummer Ray Agcaoili, fellow saxophonist Crispin Cioe and keyboardist Charlie Giordano, now a member of the E Street band. “Chuck’s attitude was, if you’re going to take a Chuck Berry gig, you should know Chuck Berry material,” says Hecht. The Ritz sidemen knew Berry’s repertoire so well “he would do songs which he generally never did” in concert.  They played with Berry throughout the New York area. “It came to a point,” says Hecht, “where Chuck would know we were the guys on the gig and he actually — and uncharacteristically — showed up for soundcheck, just to jam, just for the fun of it. It was thrilling. We loved the guy.” 

This article originally appeared on: Billboard

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