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Custer provides interesting comments on a popular TV show and two classic sci-fi movies, one of which features this young lady.





I read somewhere that she dated Elvis for a while after appearing with him in Blue Hawaii.
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TBBT: The Big Bang Theory

The source I found for episodes actually had a British-made, episode-length behind the scenes look at season five, tagged as S05E00, with interviews with cast members and a set visit. A friend recommended the series to me, and I'm glad he did, as it's usually laugh-out-loud funny.

How about the time all the guys happened to choose to go to a costume party as The Flash... and the suggestion was that is they were all in line, they could be one person moving really fast?


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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Richard Matheson's contribution to science fiction and fantasy, in books, movies, and television, really has been immense.

As Wikipedia notes, he may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, the 1954 horror novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, but six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The (Incredible) Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes and Button, Button.

And don't forget that he also wrote quite a few television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". And he later adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay, which was directed by a young Steven Spielberg, getting his career off to a roaring start. It was inspired by a real-life experience in which Matheson was tailgated by a trucker while on his way home from a golfing match with his friend Jerry Sohl on November 22, 1963, the same day as the John F. Kennedy assassination.

The short story, in Playboy, was shown to Spielberg by his secretary, who apparently read the magazine for the stories... unlike most people, who read it for the interviews, yes?
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Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

In its way, this is a very interesting science fiction movie; it may have been shot over only ten days in Texas (or so Wikipedia says), with its producer as its star — but in 1960 it must be very near the end of an era. 1960 was different from 1952, or 1956, or the other years when black & white science fiction films were so popular. Heck, we are only six years away from the first episodes of Star Trek...

In a way, we are in a state of transition from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Star Trek, with shadows of both — and I don't just mean the short-skirted uniforms of the future here!

The print on this 4-in-1 dvd is great — I've not tried the other three yet.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)