Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bucky Dent at short, with his trademark black shadow under his eyes. Everybody loved Bucky. The girls dropped dead at the mention of his name and wore their "I Love Bucky" T-shirts all around town. I loved him for his rare but timely shot over the Green Monster in Fenway which destroyed Boston's pennant dreams...
...place he knew as an entry-level scenarist. He calls it A Graveyard for Lunatics; the more familiar name is Hollywood. The narrator is hired to write a wide-scream horror movie. To his delight, he learns that a boyhood friend has been signed to create the most dreadful monster in film history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that begins to haunt the Brown Derby restaurant? And the performer...
...recalls Woodbury. "There was no way to argue, and so, as the wind whipped off Lake Erie, I was harnessed into the front seat of a soaking, nearly empty train." But fear soon gave way to excitement. With the coaster careering ever faster around the rain-slicked course, the monster outperformed itself. Says Woodbury: "The 20-story plunge, sharp turns and tunnels were real ripsnorters. So good, in fact, that I stayed on for three more rides...
Nineteen-seventy-eight. What an appropriate year to become a Red Sox fan. Fourteen and a half games ahead of the dreaded Yankees in July, deadlocked on October 2. And after weakling Bucky Dent belted a Mike Torrez pitch over the Green Monster, the '78 Sox were history...
Like it or not, the most influential actors in today's movie-making business are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. The monster these two movie hulks are responsible for creating is by now very familiar to every American man, woman, and child. It is the technoblitz motion picture...