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| Karen Black Dies at 74 The star battled cancer for almost three years By Associated Press and K.c. Blumm Published on August 8, 2013  Oscar-nominated actress Karen Black died Thursday at the age of 74 after a long battle with cancer. The Easy Rider star’s husband, Stephen Eckelberry, announced her death on his Facebook page, saying, “It is with great sadness that I have to report that my wife and best friend Karen Black has just passed away, only a few minutes ago. Thank you all for all your prayers and love, they meant so much to her as they did to me.” Black was diagnosed with ampullary cancer in November 2010 and had a third of her pancreas removed. She was declared cancer-free in 2011, but in March of this year, a fundraising page was set up to help raise public donations for experimental treatment in Europe that was not covered by insurance. On Aug. 7, just a day before she passed, Eckelberry posted an update saying that Black had become bed-bound as the cancer had spread to her spine and back and they were unable to go to Europe. But he said he had “given up predicting what is going to happen to Karen.” “You look at the scans, they tell you one thing, then you meet Karen, and what you are left with is how amazingly alive she is,” he wrote. “She can’t help but take life head-on and be completely engaged in the moment, always interested, always curious, always present.” Award-Winning Roles Known for her full lips and thick, wavy hair that seemed to change color from film to film, Black often portrayed women who were quirky, troubled or threatened. Her breakthrough was as a prostitute who takes LSD with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969’s Easy Rider, the hippie classic that helped get her the role of Rayette Dipesto, a waitress who dates – and is mistreated by – an upper-class dropout played by Jack Nicholson in 1970’s Five Easy Pieces. Cited by The New York Times as a “pathetically appealing vulgarian,” Black’s performance won her an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Award. She would recall that playing Rayette really was acting: The well-read, cerebral Black, raised in a comfortable Chicago suburb, had little in common with her relatively simple-minded character. PHOTOS: Tributes: The Stars We’ve Lost in 2013 “If you look through the eyes of Rayette, it looks nice, really beautiful, light, not heavy, not serious. A very affectionate woman who would look upon things with love, and longing,” Black told Venice Magazine in 2007. “A completely uncritical person, and in that sense, a beautiful person. When [director] Bob Rafelson called me to his office to discuss the part he said, ‘Karen, I’m worried you can’t play this role because you’re too smart.’ I said ‘Bob, when you call “action,” I will stop thinking,’ because that’s how Rayette is.'” In 1971, Black starred with Nicholson again in Drive, He Said which Nicholson also directed. Over the next few years, she worked with such top actors and directors as Richard Benjamin (Portnoy’s Complaint), Robert Redford and Mia Farrow (The Great Gatsby) and Charlton Heston (Airport 1975). She was nominated for a Grammy Award after writing and performing songs for Nashville, in which she played a country singer in Robert Altman’s 1975 ensemble epic. Black also starred as a jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock’s last movie, Family Plot, released in 1976. “We used to read each other poems and limericks and tried to catch me on my vocabulary,” she later said of Hitchcock. “He once said, ‘You seem very perspicacious today, Miss Black.’ I said, ‘Oh, you mean “keenly perceptive?” ‘Yes.’ So I got him this huge, gold-embossed dictionary that said ‘Diction-Harry,’ at the end of the shoot.” Black was married four times. She is survived by Eckelberry, a son and a daughter. |
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| Today on Svengoolie! It! The Terror from Beyond Space (trailer) |
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I just posted this on the METV Svengoolie forum  Hopefully, we'll get some new groupies lol!  |
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 "$50,000 Guaranteed! The Revelation Shocker of Things to Come!" Original 1958 United Artists theatrical poster art with the “Insurance” gimmick/disclaimer tie-in for “It! The Terror from Beyond Space.” Sidebar: The “It! The Terror From Beyond Space” insurance policy gimmick was not connected to one of United Artists’ future owners, Transamerica! –C.H. |
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| Later today on Svengoolie! The Tingler (1959) |
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| Man. I sure wish I was around back in the day when Bill Castle was releasing his movies. It must have been really cool to feel the Tingler vibrate your chair or see a skeleton moving through the theater while watching "House on Haunted Hill." | ||
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| Five minutes!! Get your popcorn ready!! | ||
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| I missed the first 20 minutes, I hope I didn't miss anything. | ||
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| Hate missing out on a Svengoolie, but I can't stand Vincent Price. So I'm gonna pass on tonight's feature. | ||
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| What fun this must have been back in 1959! | ||
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| Just about five hours away!!! A true classic!!!! |
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| Ten minutes!!! | ||
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| I'm late. Been gone all day to a veterans appreciation day event. But, I'm here now! | ||
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| Like @OGJackster I just got here. Small local comic con today, then dinner then just watched the Astros go up 3-0 on the Yankees. | ||
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 I thought I'd share a little more. It was a fun event. I even won a raffle for a $90 Tequila set! Who wants a shot? |
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| Later today on Svengoolie! Bride of Frankenstein Official Trailer #1 - (1935) HD  |
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| @OGJackster I'm pretty sure that Bride was last week and that Count Yorga is on tonight. |
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| @Jesse_O My bad! I think I was looking at an old email. I'm kind of all over the place. We're leaving for almost a month on vacation to Cabo. I'm still trying to think of what else I need to pack. |
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@Jesse_O You're correct! PREPARE FOR HALLOWEEN WITH “COUNT YORGA- VAMPIRE”-TONIGHT! Posted on October 29, 2021 With Halloween just a couple days away, we thought we’d give you a warm-up for it- with some cold chills from the 1970s! It’s the network premiere of an American International fright film starring the man the studio hoped would replace Vincent Price in the hearts ( without stakes driven through them) of horror fans- Robert Quarry- in “Count Yorga- Vampire”! The story begins with a coffin being delivered to America (didn’t another vampire flick start that way- except with the destination being England?)- and then shifts to a séance, attended by a group including some skeptics about the legitimacy of the paranormal. With the aid of Bulgarian mystic Count Yorga, one of the attendees, Donna, is hoping to contact her late mother, who passed away recently. At one point, it appears that her spirit has been contacted- but Donna freaks out, and the séance ends with Yorga using hypnosis to calm her- and also perhaps place some instructions in her subconscious. Since it appears the evening is over, two members of the group- Paul and his gorgeous girlfriend Erica- volunteer to take the Count to the remote manor he has rented. After dropping him off, the couple’s van gets hopelessly stuck in the mud on the road (which had been perfectly dry previously)- and they decide to spend the night in the van. Not the best idea- because someone comes calling, leaving Paul unconscious and Erica attacked! When morning comes, they finally return home, with no clue about who it was- in fact, Erica does not remember anything – including where she got those bite marks on her neck! She goes to one of the friends who was at the séance, who happens to be a doctor. Dr. Hayes finds that she has suffered a major loss of blood- but has no idea why. Soon, Paul and another friend Michael notice that Erica has been behaving very strangely- and return to the apartment to find the poor woman having committed an unspeakable act! They call on Dr. Hayes to treat her. The three men try to make sense of what is going on- with the idea of vampirism brought up, but barely accepted. Meanwhile, Erica has a late night visit from Count Yorga-resulting in her disappearance, and Paul’s heading for Yorga’s estate- with tragic consequences. Still lacking explanations, and still suspecting that a vampire is involved, Dr. Hayes, Michael and Donna pay a visit to Yorga’s mansion- where his brutish servant Brudah is always lurking in the background. They attempt to keep Yorga up until sunrise to prove he is a vampire, but fail and are sent away- but not before Yorga manages to intensify his hypnotic control of Donna. It becomes apparent that the only solution would be for Yorga to be killed- and the doctor and Michael set out to do just that- while Yorga uses his hypnotic control to draw Donna to his lair! Much more than just the Count await them-will they succeed or perish in the attempt? Warning- this 1970 film has some very upsetting scenes of violence and adult content, which we have toned down somewhat- but it may still be too strong for some of our viewers so PLEASE- use discretion about who should watch. We’ll introduce you to the cast, give you some background on what this film was originally supposed to be, if not for the intervention of Robert Quarry, and deliver some other trivia about the movie. Plus, we’ll try to come up with a way to liven up some early scenes of the film, as well as bringing you a new song. “Count Yorga- Vampire” starts at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central time on MeTV. Twitter users can join in the live-Tweeting during the film- just make sure to use the hashtag #svengoolie -which results in our trending high among the most popular topics most Saturday nights. Chicago area viewers can enjoy one more look at the classic “Bride of Frankenstein” this morning at 11 am on our local station CW26. Also, if you missed the showing of the special “Svengoolie: Uncrypted”- you get a second chance when MeTV runs an encore performance tomorrow at noon eastern/pacific, 11 am central time. You can then stay tuned for the final “Svengoolie’s Halloween BOO-nanza” Sunday block of scary TV- featuring the beloved “Kolchak: the Night Stalker” series! We had a fantastic time last weekend at Elgin’s “Nightmare on Chicago Street” event-back and bigger than ever- and, today, we make our return to the Volo Museum in Volo, IL! I will be signing from noon to 2 pm- and there is so much to see and do there, it’s a place at which you can spend the whole day! Again let us repeat- there will be scenes of a nature disturbing to some tonight in “Count Yorga- Vampire”- but most will find this more modern vampire film a perfect warm-up (as your blood runs cold) for Halloween! |
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“Svengoolie” to present his big broadcast of “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” (1948); plus “Sventoonie;” this Sat. on Me-TV! |
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| Just a reminder. I think I will pass this week. |
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| @Jesse_O I love the movie and have a blu-ray copy of it but we're passing in favor of the World Series Game 6 tonight. Go Astros!! | ||
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I won't watch either, I'm still in Cabo and we don't get that channel here  |
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I'm still in Cabo  But, later today on Svengoolie... X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963) Official Trailer |
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