Peeping’s Tomb

08 December 2021

Mary Woronov

Mary Woronov was born on December 8th, 1943.

She has been in over 80 movies as well as stage and television.

Mary Woronov

Sugar Cookies (1973)
with Lynn Lowry

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)

Death Race 2000 (1975)

Rock n’ Roll High School (1978)

Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies (1983)

With frequent acting partner Paul Bartel -
Eating Raoul (1982) with Edie McClurg,
Roger Beltran and Ed Begley Jr.

Reprising the roles in Chopping Mall (1986)

Night of the Comet (1984) with
Kelli Maroney, Catherine Mary Stewart
and Roger Beltran

With Gerrit Graham - Terrorvision (1986)

07 December 2021

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn was born on December 7th, 1932.

Ellen Burstyn

In Jack Hill’s Pit Stop (1969)
with Beverly Washburn and Sid Haig

The Last Picture Show (1971)

William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973)

With Diane Ladd in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Requiem For a Dream (2000)

The Wicker Man (2006)

06 December 2021

Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Moorehead was born on December 6th, 1900.

Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974)

She is best known for her role as Endora on the television show, Bewitched in 1964.

Bewitched (1964-72)

With Elizabeth Montgomery

In 1965 she stated in a TV Guide interview that many of the scripts for the show were hack and the writing was often below standards.

I mean she was in Citizen Kane for Christ sake.

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941)

The Bat (1959)
with Vincent Price and Darla Hood

05 December 2021

Cat People (1942)

On December 5th, 1942, Cat People premiered in New York City at the Rialto Theater.

It was released regionally the next day and nationwide 20 days later on Christmas Day.

Starring Simone Simon, Keith Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph and Jack Holt.

Related:

The Invisible Man

Son of Dracula

The Mummy

The Wolf Man

04 December 2021

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

On December 4th, 1969, A Boy Named Charlie Brown was released in US theaters.

It is the first animated version of the Peanuts comic strip.

Related:

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

03 December 2021

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3rd, 1930.

Jean-Luc Godard

The reclusive French - Swiss director was a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960’s.

Married twice to two of his leading women, Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky.

Some of his most critically acclaimed work was done with the late Karina.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Breathless (1960)

Anna Karina in Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina in Alphaville (1965)

Anne Wiazemsky in La Chinoise (1967)

02 December 2021

Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor

On Friday December 2nd, 1977, the made for TV movie Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor premiered on ABC prime time.

Starring Lynda Day George (Mortuary), Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke, Brian Dennehy and introducing Suzanne Somers.

Lynda Day George

The scene that traumatized 7 year old me.

01 December 2021

The Sex Pistols and the Filth and the Fury

On December 1st, 1976, a very young group by the name of the Sex Pistols made their first TV appearance on the BBC Today Show hosted by Bill Grundy.

The Sex Pistols with Grundy and entourage
including Siouxsie Sioux.

The Sex Pistols had recently signed with EMI and were a last minute replacement for label mates Queen, who had to cancel. Bill Matlock had not yet been replaced by Sid Vicious.

Pre-Vicious Pistols with Matlock

The Sex Pistols did what the Sex Pistols do. Profanities were uttered and chaos ensued, some of which was egged on by Grundy.

After the show the phones lit up like phones tend to do when uptight people get offended. Someone thought it a good idea to run the calls into the green room occupied by the Pistols and the chaos continued over the phone.

Bill Grundy

Bill Grundy “retired” from television a short time later and the Sex Pistols crashed and burned their way into punk rock history with future antics and chaos. The media labeled this event as “The Filth and the Fury”.