Ellie Cornell | Horror Actress

November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Ellie Cornell [13:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rachel Carruthers from “Halloween,” horror icon on the show. More about her from wikipedia:

Ellie Cornell (born December 15, 1963) is an American actress and movie producer, known primarily for her roles in horror films. After her marriage to producer Mark Gottwald, she is sometimes credited as Ellie Gottwald.

Cornell graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 1986. Cornell has also made small guest (non-recurring) appearances on two television series: Gabriel’s Fire and Thirtysomething and in made-for-TV movies. She starred in the 1988 comedy film Married to the Mob, but her most famous role came shortly afterwards in the horror film hits Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Rachel Carruthers. Cornell has become something of an icon among fans of the Halloween series. Fans writing to various web sites have called her the best heroine in a Michael Myers film. Many have said they even liked her character better than the one Jamie Lee Curtis played in the original.^{[citation needed]} This is the greatest compliment that can be given to an actress in a Halloween film.^{[citation needed]}

After her initial success in the late 1980s, Cornell disappeared from films. She eventually rejoined the industry by being the executive producer of 1998’s Free Enterprise and 2000’s The Specials. (She also had acting roles in each of those films.) Her disappearance was so complete that she was even featured in a VH1 “Where Are They Now?” special. In 2003, she returned to her horror roots by appearing in House of the Dead and as of 2005 is slated to appear in four more horror films through 2006.

She nearly broke out of her horror film typecasting by appearing in 1992’s A League of Their Own, but she had to drop out of the film when she became pregnant.

She and her husband, Mark Gottwald, have two daughters named Grace and Rose. She is also co-founder of Mindfire Entertainment. She and her husband also own Ship’s Inn, a restaurant in Massachusetts.

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Marilyn Yalom | American Cemetaries

November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Marilyn Yalom [16:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Great Halloween conversation about America’s history and cemetaries…

Marilyn Yalom grew up in Washington D.C. and was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been married to the psychiatrist Irvin Yalom for fifty years and is the mother of four children and the grandmother of five. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director of an institute for research on women, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, and the author of numerous books and articles on literature and women’s history.

Her books have been translated into 20 languages. In 1991 she was decorated as an Officier des Palmes Académiques by the French Government.

Books by Marilyn Yalom include Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness (out of print), Blood Sisters : The French Revolution in Women’s Memory (1993), A History of the Breast (1997), A History of the Wife (2001), Birth of the Chess Queen (2004) and The American Resting Place (2008).

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Halloween | Eddie & Jeff

November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Eddie Munster and Jeffrey Hickey | Halloween Interview [11:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Special Guests Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) and Jeffrey Hickey joined us this week for our Halloween episode. Jeffrey is known for his spooky stories for children (Bats and Bones), and for his most recent novel, released this week as an unabridged audio book on 9 CDs.

They discuss what Halloween means to them, and how the Munsters used to celebrate! Find out what Eddie Munster did on Halloween this year! His new biography is now available in a limited edition from www.bloomingtwigbooks.com/shop

Find out more about Butch Patrick at his book’s website: www.themunsters.tv, and find out more about Jeffrey Hickey at his website: www.jeffreyhickey.com

And Happy Halloween!

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Nikki Cobb | Clairvoyant

November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Clairvoyant Nikki Cobb [11:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As part of our Halloween show, we also wanted to bring in the ‘good’ side of the spirits that we talk about on this odd holiday! Usually we only talk about goblins, ghouls, ghosts and other scary creatures, and we delight in scaring one another, and in children collecting their candies from all over the neighborhood. Our guest Nikki Cobb speaks with us about the spirits of love, and how she works with people on discovering their own destinies…

Nikki Cobb is a clairvoyant, life architect, and author of Your Divine Heritage. She has helped thousands of people internationally for over 17 years to awaken the power of their Authentic Blueprint and has been interviewed on numerous media outlets for her clairvoyant gift, including CNN Headline News for her extraordinary abilities as a healer and clairvoyant. She received her Doctorate of Divinity from the International Order of the Universal Brotherhood in 1992, where she accepted her official title to perform ordinations and spiritual ceremonies. Nikki currently resides in central Texas where she offers phone consultations, tele-courses and presents workshops and vision quests internationally.

Find out more about Nikki and purchase her book at www.nikkicobb.com

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John Stanley | Horror Host

November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Halloween Horror Host John Stanley [14:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It was our pleasure this week to host John Stanley, everyone’s favorite television Horror Host. His new book is called “I Was a Television Horror Host” and is chock full of fascinating details about a side to Hollywood that we seldom discover in the mainstream media! Listen in to hear him talk about Ray Bradbury and other characters he ran into on his show in California.

From the author’s website:

Never before has a TV horror host described in print what it was like to be part of that cult movement of the 20th Century, in which packages of science-fiction, horror and fantasy movies were introduced by colorful characters who often emulated supernatural beings. These media entitities, garbed as vampires, werewolves, ghouls and other grotesqueries inspired by the cinema, espoused graveyard humor in a spoofery of the very movie material being presented. Generations grew up on these new-fanged beings, and thousands of young viewers were shaped and changed forever by the humor and tomfoolery of the hosts who came into their living rooms or bedrooms on Saturday night, often after the Witching Hour. In my case I never wore a costume or assumed the guise of a fictional being - rather, I was my ordinary self, often dressed mundanely in suit and tie, describing the movies from my perspective as a “human” and interviewing those who did choose to wear a costume, or who were part of the 20th Century world of genre entertainment.

For six years (1979-84) I hosted “Creature Features” at KTVU, Channel 2, in Oakland, CA, and it is those fascinating times I have tried to resurrect in I WAS A TV HORROR HOST. I was preceded by Bob Wilkins, one of the most popular TV personalities in the San Francisco-Bay Area from 1971-78, and his story is told along with mine.

But more importantly, I WAS A TV HORROR HOST offers my exclusive interviews with the best of the genre stars and those who rose up in the ranks to become icons: Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and Gene Roddenberry of “Star Trek” fame. Read about the betrayal of Roddenberry behind the scenes, and how Nimoy almost walked out on me the day of a two-hour TV special that highlighted all the important aspects of his career. Christopher Lee, star of the “Dracula” films from Britain’s Hammer Studios. He also started to walk out on me but paused at the last moment and reconsidered, and lived not to regret it.

Vincent Price, the star of the Edgar Allan Poe series from American-International. He tried to deny his heritage of horror, but finally came around when spooning with his wife Coral Browne prevailed.

Roger Corman, the man who helped to raise the low-budget movie into cult status, and who helped to make Vincent Price a horror star, and who gave a boost to the career of Francis Ford Coppola. Always open and friendly to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, from a time early in his career when he vowed “I’ll be back,” prophesizing the coming of “Conan the Barbarian.” And read about the curvaceous cocktail waitress who couldn’t come to his hotel room, and why . . . and what Arnie suggested to solve the problem.

I also present profiles on four other TV horror hosts, all of whom I consider major contributors to the dark “art form.” Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who brought sophisticated voluptuousness and a certain soft-fleshed and shapely intellectualism to the art form at a TV station in Los Angeles . . . Ghoulardi, the one-time horror king of Cleveland, Ohio, who went on to become network TV’s greatest voice, especially when it came to opening each episode of “The Love Boat” . . . Zacherley, one of the very first during the 1950s to shape and refine the very essence of what a good monstrous horror host consisted of . . . and Joe Bob Briggs, the Drive-In Movie Critic who has brought a new level of respect to the low-budget movies of the past with such deep-felt and well-written books as “Profoundly Disturbing.”

He also describes meetings with Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy), Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, William Castle, and more! It’s an intriguing read, and this was a fun interview!

Happy Halloween!

For more about John Stanley and all of his books and work, visit his website at: www.stanleybooks.net

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