Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Anthropology David R. Pilbeam wants not more books, but the real thing. "A complete Ramapithicus skull" is his Christmas wish...
...maligning you in private; when he is not maligning you in private, he is contemplating doing so. Wherever he is, some assault against your person is being committed. Wherever he has been, your bones lie heaped. He is enormous. In your dreams his shoulders press against your skull. He himself never sleeps. There is too much mischief to be done, too many calumnies begging to be aired. And think: it is you who brought this creature into being. He lives and fumes solely...
...audience with a certain vivid super-reality. It is all so gruesome that horror turns to humor and the fun comes from the appreciation of being cleverly conned by Director Steve Miner. The way the eyeball of one of Jason's victims pops out of his skull and seems to sail out over the audience's head is alone worth buying a ticket and putting on the funny glasses...
Hamlet's frequent "O God" comes out "O Gahd," and the dramatist's "O Wonderful" has been turned into a Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
...Mondello looked and acted like a pint-size W.C. Fields. Wally's chum Lumpy Rutherford was just that. And of course there was the incomparable Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond). If Mayfield was Eden, Eddie was the serpent slyly tempting Beaver to bite the apple of mischief. A leering skull dressed in a cardigan sweater, Eddie was smarmy to his elders and sneering to his peers. "Hey, Wally, if your gunky brother comes with us, I'm gonna Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just telling Wallace how pleasant it would be for Theodore to accompany...