Halloween was a 1978 American independent horror film directed by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film is set in the fictional
Midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween, six year old Michael Myers murders his older sister. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael's intent, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent this.
Halloween was produced on a budget of $320,000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the
US, and $60 million worldwide, becoming one of the most profitable independent
films. Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Halloween had many imitators and originated several clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike many of its imitators Halloween contains little graphic violence and
gore. In 2006, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being
"culturally
significant".
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Some critics have suggested that Halloween may encourage sadism and misogyny by identifying audiences with its
villain. Other critics have suggested the film is a social critique of the immorality of youth and teenagers in 1970s America, with many of Myers's victims being sexually promiscuous substance
abusers, while the lone heroine is depicted as chaste and innocent hence her survival (the lone survivor is seen smoking marijuana in one scene). Carpenter dismisses such
analyses. Several of Halloween's techniques and plot elements, although not founded in this film, have nonetheless become a standard slasher movie trope.
HALLOWEEN CONFESSIONS
By Mike McCarty
Climbing the social ladder in grade school is tricky, because there is no one to tell you when the "in crowd" deems that it's time to stop behaving like a kid.
When Halloween rolled around in the 1950s, all the kids in the lower grades at Detroit's George Ford Elemetary always wore their trick-or-treat attire to class. But there was one year when I came in costume, and the rest of my class didn't. That was the year I was dressed in an Old West Army fort uniform. I was supposed to be Rusty,
Rin-Tin-Tin's youthful master in the TV show about a heroic dog. The rest of my class was, well, the rest of my class, in regular shirt and pants.
Sure, my clued-in classmates snickered, but I had a quick explanation. Stowing my hat with the turned up front flap in my locker, I announced, "I joined the Boy Scouts." I made it through the class day, got home and "quit" the "Scouts." It could have been worse. I could have dressed in my signature skeleton costume.
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STEVE IS THE
MOST FAMOUS MCCARTY?
After fronting the
band "SANXUARY", in the 1980's and now having his face
all over billboards as the "face" of UHY, the statement
to be made that STEVE IS THE MOST FAMOUS MCCARTY.
THIS
IS FICTION
There is a McCarty
even more famous. Current Bradric executive and voice-over man
Jerry McCarty has many more credentials to his vast in the public
eye. Sure, you may know Jerry as the hard rocking lead singer Eric
Swan of the band "Brad Savage & The Cockroaches". He
also has over 30 years of Disk Jockey experience working in
Michigan with the late Brad Savage, and now with his own company
in California. But Jerry's start in entertainment as a voice-over
man goes way before the Eric Swan days.
Jerry on stage with the Cockroaches in 1983
Not too many people know
that Jerry had other personas beside the lovable Eric Swan. He got his start
under his stage name of Gary Owens on a little show called "Rowan &
Martin's Laugh-In. He also worked on the original Jeopardy and on Saturday
Night Live under the name Don Pardo as an announcer. And of course his has
done a little acting and a little directing with 2 other stage names of Jeff
Goldblum and John Waters. Yes, Steve has the potential, but it will take a
lot knocking Jerry off the platform.
Jerry with his start
on Rowan
& Martin's Laugh In. You
bet your sweet bippy he did.
Former Jeopardy Host
Art Fleming praised Jerry's work
saying "What Is First Class?"
Jerry appeared on TV
and
movies under his stage
name of Jeff Goldblum.
Jerry dabbled in
directing
with the hit Hairspray
under the name John Waters
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Name This Comic Book Character From Past Or Present?
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Last Month's
Character
Betty Rubble
Congratulations
to: Mike M., Eric, Lance, Chiquita
Elizabeth 'Betty' Jean Rubble (née McBricker) is a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones.
She is the black-haired wife of caveman Barney Rubble and the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm. Her best friends are her next-door neighbors, Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Betty lives in the prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with barefoot
cave people and the cave people enjoy primitive versions of modern conveniences such as
phones, cars and washing machines.
Betty's personality was based on that of Trixie Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners; each of the
4 of the series' principal adult characters is an analogue of a Honeymooners character.
Like Trixie and Alice Kramden, Betty spent a lot of her time socializing with
Wilma and bailing the husbands out of hot water.
