Another Movie Saint gone...

From: ZONTAR JOHNSON <n@m.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2002 11:39 AM

Producer/director Sidney Pink died on Saturday October 12 in Pompano
Beach,
Florida.

The man who gave the world;
REPTILICUS (the Danish hand puppet monster seen as the swamp monster on
an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies and lots of other places)

ANGRY RED PLANET and JOURNEY TO THE 7th PLANET two of the greatest wacky
Sci-Fi Flicks of the '60s
Worked with Arch Oboler on FIVE, THE TWONKY (alien TV) and
BWANA DEVIL (starting the 3-D fad of the '50s)

He discovered Dustin Hoffman in an off-Broadway
play (Eh? that became the amazing Brit. flick WORKIS A FOUR LETTER WORD)
And suggested him for the lead in THE GRADUATE.

--
Come the Revolution we'll have other Ass-holes ruling us.
Long live the Proctocracy.
Comrade Z

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From: Modemac <modemac@modemac.com>

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:39:57 -0400, ZONTAR JOHNSON <n@m.net> wrote:
> REPTILICUS (the Danish hand puppet monster seen as the swamp monster on
>an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies and lots of other places)
>ANGRY RED PLANET and JOURNEY TO THE 7th PLANET two of the greatest wacky
>Sci-Fi Flicks of the '60s

Who can forget the great Bat-Rat-Spider monster of the Angry Red
Planet, and the giant amoeba with a spinning eye that grabbed one
hapless astronomer and ate him in front of our wondering eyes? Like
so many others, I saw this and the great REPTILICUS on the immortal
Creature Double Feature. REPTILICUS in particular was replayed at
least once a year, and it was quite a while indeed before I realized
how lousy the movie supposedly was!

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