Author: Lawrence C. Connolly
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Mail-Order Monkeys?
Comic Book & Magazine Merch of the 60s Kids Today Are Missing Out Sure, they have tablets, iPhones, TikTok, and YouTube. They can stream anything they want when they want. They can even get a bot to do their homework. But X-ray vision? Asiatic insects? Live monkeys? Nope, nope, and double nope! It was different…
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Deleted Movie Scenes
Kill your darlings … spare the dog. In a recent installment of The Town, podcaster Matthew Belloni shares a list of deleted or added scenes that would have dramatically changed some popular films. In Pretty in Pink, Molly Ringwald originally ended up with John Cryer, not Andrew McCarthy. Loki initially died in Thor: The Dark…
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Deleted Darlings
Newsletter Challenge #2 In a previous post, I shared details and images of a deleted scene from the anthology film Nightmare Cinema. Produced by Mick Garris and featuring the critically acclaimed segment This Way to Egress (directed by David Slade and based on my short story Traumatic Descent), the film had a scene that never…