Monster of the Day #1389
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Monster of the Day #1389

Yesterday I stumbled across a Half Price Books (sparse on the ground up here) and foolishly went in. I knew I was in trouble when I saw a graphic novel display right in front of the door. My eye was immediately drawn to six or seven or eight hardcover volumes of reprints of old…
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 1)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 1)

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2006 – Disney Channel, Salty Pictures, First Street Films Directed by Kenny Ortega Written by Peter Barsocchini NOTE: Comments are closed for the first four parts of this piece, just to keep them together. Please jump ahead to Part 5 if you wish to comment. Thanks! PROLOGUE I suppose that at…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 2)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 2)

ACT TWO We return to East High the next day, only to find that Sharpay has decided to start her morning by digging her karmic grave even deeper.  She and her brother are still unopposed for the leads in the musical.  Yet she’s brownnosing Ms. Darbus with the gift of a scented candle, as…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 3)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 3)

ACT THREE We return from our commercial break to find Chad harassing Troy in the library.  Like Coach Bolton before him, he has decided to skip the best point he could possibly make -- that Troy needs to live up to his role as team captain -- and instead blame Gabriella for Troy’s bizarre…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 4)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 4)

ACT FIVE The next morning, Kelsi is staring glumly at the callback sheet, which has a new announcement to the effect that callbacks have been rescheduled as Sharpay requested.  All our non-Evans main characters walk in a nearby door.  When Troy and Gabriella notice the expression on their petite pianist’s face, they look at…
High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 5)
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High School Musical A GUEST DISSERTATION (Part 5)

FIXING IT IN POST Admittedly, High School Musical is not exactly the normal fare round these parts.  If you’re one of Ken’s regular readers, you probably haven’t watched the movie.  But just from the clips scattered throughout this review, you can see it has halfway-decent pr`oduction values -- for TV, anyway -- and some…
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Monster of the Day #1386 (Update)
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Monster of the Day #1386 (Update)

One of the reasons Universal reigned supreme with horror was that while the larger majors all wanted a piece of that sweet horror box office, they were clearly embarrassed to be making such fare. Hell, even in the '50s Jack Warner went out of his way to attempt to sabotage Them!, which despite his…
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Monster of the Day #1385
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Monster of the Day #1385

Let's try more obscure '40s films. I'm sure I'll do some repeats. Again, I have to whip up a records of these things one day. Anyhoo, these are generally cheaper films, and so the monsters will usually be inexpensive, briefly seen and mostly just guys in make-up. This first one is a deviation from…
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