Saturday, June 21, 2008
Yet Another Reason I Love The Seventies:
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Ex-cellent! I've still got my Mission Control Center and most of the stuff that came with it (lots and lots of thin black plastic tubes with little plugs on the ends, so you could imagine Steve Austin was filling in for Ernestine the Telephone Operator or something). It was an awesome toy, one of my all-time faves when I was a kid, at least until the Kenner Star Wars stuff came along.
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