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FRIDAY: Franlenstein. 1973. A highly literate updating of the Mary Shelley classic with a script by Christopher Lsherwood and Don Bachardy. In this two part production, Dr. Frankenstein's creation is not a monster but a handsome young man who slowly deteriorates, straining the psychological bond between the doctor and his "son." CH.10. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Conclusion...
...Frankenstein. 1931. The original. With Boris Karloff. CH.5...
Alice likes to describe himself as the end product of an affluent society overfed on the sex and violence of television. "Society has created this Frankenstein, this Alice Cooper," he says Actually, he is the ultimate put-on, a shuck. He comes from a background that is more like a wholesome Andy Hardy movie than something out of Frankenstein...
...served me so loyally during my writing career." It is, perhaps, the ultimate goal of every creator to prove his creation by destroying it (thus the Great Flood). Trollope finally became fairly sick of Barsetshire. A. Conan Doyle did his best to throw Sherlock Holmes off an alpine cliff. Frankenstein's monster always ends in the swamp. Dracula is staked through the heart...
...Champions is ultra-Vonnegut-marked by melancholy and self-indulgence, most visible in the graffiti-style drawings he has scattered through it. But it is a true creation, and true creations do not die - thus Noah and his Ark, the Adventure of the Norwood Builder and Son of Frankenstein. And soon...