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10/31/2024

It's Halloween! So what better movie to highlight for SCREAM Your Enthusiasm than John Carptenter's horror classic, which kickstarted the slasher genre and also Jamie Lee Curtis. Kathy Biehl on this and adventures in babysitting for HiLobrow. https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/31/scream-9/

10/31/2024

We went to see Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig's graves on Sunday - they're buried across the street from each other. You can see the difference in the two men just by this. The last time I went to Ruth's grave it smelled like stale beer and dive bar. Now it's been a lot more cleaned up and also no more Red Sox caps. Also, Lou Gehrig's birth date is wrong.

10/28/2024

Here's Tony Pacitti's ode to Alex Kintner, the boy who lost to those evil JAWS in the latest SCREAM Your Enthusiasm for HiLobrow. Read it or you'll have a panic on your hands on the 4th of July. https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/25/scream-7/

10/23/2024

The Exorcist arrived in 1973 with tales of audience members puking and fainting, though teen Michele Carlo was laughing when she saw that head-turning horror with her friends. Find out why in the latest SCREAM Your Enthusiasm for HiLobrow. https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/22/scream-6/

10/20/2024

Our latest SCREAM is The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum in his iconic role as a fake preacher with "LOVE" and "HATE" knuckles, in pursuit of his young step-children who know where a fortune is hidden. This Southern Gothic Horror draws on Brothers Grimm tales and has Mitchum up against a worthy foe in badass Lillian Gish, as revealed by Adam McGovern for HiLobrow. https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/18/scream-5/

10/16/2024

I wrote this about St Patrick's Cemetery in Hibernia, NJ - high up (way high) on a hill, it's the final resting place of iron miners in a town that had been mostly Irish (hence Hibernia) to then Slovak. I even did some research as to who all is buried there.

(Yes that’s Scottish but there was a cemetery. And a Heather!)

10/11/2024

I'm turning 50 tomorrow and I was wondering: What ad defines me? And it's clearly Charlie because I'm in kinda young kinda wow like Bobby Short and Shelly Hack. And I know saying that makes me sound young and wow.

"There's a fragrance that's here today and they call it… Charlie!". This is the well-known fragrance commercial with one of Charlie's Angels appearing as it'...

10/05/2024

Come to Queens Theatre tomorrow for WQXR's Classical Kids Fair. A great way to get kids involved with music, and I'll be volunteering, so to all my Queens pals who haven't seen me in ages come on by! Their price: free! (With registration.)

Join WQXR at the Queens Theatre for a Classical Kids Fair! Experience crafts, live performances and an instrument petting zoo. Admission is free!

10/05/2024

Chuck Connors--Brooklyn Dodger, Boston Celtic, The Rifleman, and star of one of the most terrifying horror movies I've ever loved, TOURIST TRAP, covered here in all its gory glory by Dean Haspiel for SCREAM Your Enthusiasm on HiLobrow. https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/05/scream-2/

10/02/2024

It's been quite a week of ups and downs and it's only Wednesday. So relax with our first SCREAM article on THE SHINING, written by Crockett Doob. I told him he could just write "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over, but he actually wrote a great piece instead. https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/02/scream-1/

10/01/2024

Children of the night, it's time for another CREEPY Enthusiasm series courtesy of yours ghoulie and HiLobrow. For the next several weeks enjoy SPOOKY entries from your favorite writers about FRIGHTENING films. From The Night of the Hunter to Dawn of the Dead to M3GAN, the true terror on Facebook won't be happy family photos and political posts, but zombies, sharks and werewolves. So enjoy this most wonderful time of the year! https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/10/01/scream-intro/

09/27/2024

Thank you Staten Island Advance for doing such a prompt and thorough article about Cherry Lane and the proposed Benjamin Prine Act.

The bill is named after Benjamin Prine, the last person born into slavery in New York City.