FRANKENSTEIN IS IN

You got your Young Frankenstein musical...with Sutton Foster. You got your Frankenstein musical...with Hunter Foster. And, of course, you got your powerful metaphor for artifice taking on a life of its own...and misbehaving!

So here's a DVD triple feature:

Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein

And, if you can catch the campy X-rated, version, see Andy Warhol's Frankenstein/Flesh for Frankenstein in 3-D.

Photo of Young Frankenstein artwork: David Marc Fischer

CALVERT DEFOREST (1921-2007). Here's to the man best known as Larry "Bud" Melman. [ADDENDUM: Here's an insider's take on The Secret Origin of Larry "Bud" Melman, thanks to a tip from Anne.]

Here he introduces the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman with what I understand is a parody of the introduction to the James Whale movie Frankenstein.



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And here he welcomes arrivals to New York City at the midtown Port Authority terminal.



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