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Whether on the Late, Late Show or in real life, monsters have always held a peculiar fascination for humans. Believers have fruitlessly scoured the mountains of the Pacific Northwest for Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, a giant, manlike creature who supposedly lives there; climbers and explorers have tried, with a similar lack of success to establish the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. But no creature has been sought so assiduously as "Nessie," the Loch Ness Monster, a mysterious beast first reported in Scotland's Loch Ness in 565 by St. Columba. Now a monster maven from...
...Rines' most consuming interests has been the Loch Ness Monster. In 1972 he set up an array of underwater cameras in the loch and obtained a picture that showed a large mass with what some experts identified as a flipper-like appendage. Last summer Rines' cameras took thousands more shots beneath the murky loch's surface and produced two more photographic equivalents of a Rorschach test...
...even Hockey Stars Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito and their fellow Chicago Blackhawks could cramp the style of Ernie, Bert, Grover, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street regulars (played by Shipstads & Johnson's Ice Follies skaters) showed up in Chicago last week for a strictly fun hockey match against the Blackhawks-all for the sake of the team's annual Christmas party. While 80 of the players' wives, children and friends looked on, the Hawks lost the match when Big Bird grabbed the puck in his beak and tossed it in for the winning goal...
...novel is a brilliant philosophical thriller about the arrogance of science and the revenge of nature. Seventy years later, in 1886, the point of the Frankenstein story was sharpened by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By combining the scientist and the monster in the same personality, a typical Victorian, Stevenson forced his readers to identify and to ponder...
...Space were foreseen by H.G. 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...