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...enough? Now try switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel...
...Flaherty knows bad movies too; as Count Floyd, the seedy late-night host on the old SCTV comedy show, he used to introduce dreck like Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses. Playing the incompetent mad scientist in Maniac Mansion, Flaherty again shows a flair for sweet dimwittedness. Another SCTV veteran, Eugene Levy, is co-creator of this twisted update of The Addams Family, which was inspired by, of all things, a computer game...
...attractive, petite brunets with shoulder-length hair -- has touched off fears that a serial killer might be on the loose. Nearly 200 local, state and FBI investigators have poured into Gainesville to provide security and hunt for a suspect described by Police Chief Wayland Clifton as a "methodical maniac." Among the visiting sleuths: John Douglas, who helped track such serial killers as Charles Manson, New York's "Son of Sam" in the 1970s and Florida's own Ted Bundy, who was executed last year...
...impaled on the handle of a hay rake by a wolflike demon that had risen from hell at the behest of a satanic cult. A couple visiting an art gallery wondered why the sculptures of terrified people looked so unnervingly lifelike. (Any guesses?) And Freddy Krueger, the razor-clawed maniac from the Nightmare on Elm Street films, was back to his old tricks, scaring the wits out of people in their sleep. His latest victim: a dream expert who, convinced Freddy was after him, went berserk on a talk show and was shot to death in front of a live...
...mingle with the hard-drinking sailors and as a result got "razzed" a bit. Kubicina similarly denied that her brother was homosexual or had ever shown signs of any suicidal despair. Said she: "My brother died a hero. Now they're making him out to be a homicidal, suicidal maniac. It's incredible, these bizarre tales...