Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think Gars and Goyles, this season's Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid show, is just a mispronounciation of the title of a story you have heard somewhere before, then you are only partly wrong. Writer-Jirector Andy Borowitz says that his new musical comedy based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a "a Fred Astaire-Ginger-Rogers musical except the leading man doesn't have good posture." "America has been begging for a good family musical about a hunchback for a long time," Borowitz said jokingly. With its big brassy production numbers, Gars and Goyles will not let America...
...diorama showing the burning of Moscow. But Maelzel's star attraction was a hoax: a chess automaton nicknamed the Turk that took on all comers-and was every bit as talented as the human player cleverly concealed within it. That role was filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback who, until hitching up with Maelzel, was the second best chess player at the Café de la Régence in Paris. The machine might have conned its way across the country save for a brilliant detective named Edgar Allan Poe, who exposed the secret in 1836. Maelzel...
...didn't know what the hell was going on," Wald said later. "He looked like Lon Chaney in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Phantom of the Opera at 7 and 10:15; Hunchback of Notre Dame...
...Wells and others. What has changed is the technology that transmits the frisson. The shudders that came in books now emanate from screens. But the stories are essentially Victorian or gothic. Lon Chancy dominated the horror market of the '20s playing 19th century monsters like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, the superstars of horror in the '30s, won their fame as Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula. King Kong was in effect Frankenstein's monster in a body...