Went to the dentist yesterday. I'll spare you the gory details, but lemme just say this:
Even a man who is pure at heart
And flosses and brushes each night
Can grow snaggle-toothed as a werewolf
When the exam light is full and bright ...
Aahhooo -- !
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Saw a werewolf buying pina colada mix at Trader Joe's...
--Werewolves of Portland
And his hair was ... ?
perfect
perfekt!
Stop it! You're killing meeeeee......!
I saw a werewolf walking down 82d in the rain/with a Chinese menu in his hand/He was looking for the place called Hung Far Low...
This could go on for a while...
Henry Hull, Werewolf Of London, Universal, 135. Very nice.
Henry Hull, Werewolf of London, Universal, 1935. Good choice.
"KA-BLAM!"
*Sound of Bobbe ending it all before this travesty goes any further*
"Huh...Lookit...Not much brain splatter. Why d'ya suppose that is?"
...Ack-Chully, That WAS a good movie, Mike.
Actually, the picture, if you look really close, is of a rubber mask of Henry Hull, who, for the younger among us, was the first werewolf of London in cinema.
I'd argue he was the best movie werewolf ever, very understated, more like Jekyll and Hyde than the more recent gore-festers. (Lon Chaney, Jr. owned the role in the 40's and 50's, until he did the Abbott and Costello farce. One of my favorite movie dialog exhanges ever: Chaney, in the role of Larry Talbot, says, You don't understand. When the full moon rises, I turn into a wolf! to which Lou Costello, as Wilbur Gray says, "Yeah, you and twenty million other guys ..."
Check out Hull's filmography -- he was in a slew of classic movies, ranging from "Great Expectations" and "Boys Town" to "High Sierra" and "Lifeboat." Even "The Return of the Cisco Kid ..."
Born in the 1890's, he worked as an actor, writer, and gold prospector. Did movies, stage, and televsion, and kept action until the mid 1960's, surviving to the late 70's.
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