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Post by dem bones on Apr 2, 2022 9:14:54 GMT
I'll append to this thread a brief note that I just finished yet another TV tie-in authored by that magisterial storyteller, Paul W. Fairman. What's that noise--folks fleeing for the fire exits? Aaaanywayyy... That Girl was published by Popular Library in 1971, the final year of this US sitcom starring Marlo Thomas, daughter of Danny Thomas (I doubt either of them are known in the UK or Europe). The series did set a new precedent as its heroine was an independent, vivacious young actress seeking to make a life for herself whilst endlessly exasperating patient, supportive boyfriend Donald (Ted Bessell, who went on to become a director--Marlo Thomas pretty much went on to continue being Marlo Thomas). Like Fairman's entries in the Partridge Family series, That Girl (which was a one-off) crossed over into classic paperback Gothic mystery terrain. Ann Marie, the Marlo Thomas character (yes, Marie is her surname, and hence her Dad is known as Mr Marie) travels by bus to a remote, isolated, spooky area of darkest Maine, deep in the harsh terrain of Olde New England. There she discovers a madman obsessed with Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, determined to create his very own version of dysfunctional 1800 Yorkshire "just like colonial Williamsburg." Lots of fleeing through the massed heather over the moors, clambering over the Crags, distorted faces at the window, endless cups of drugged tea, hypnosis, a secret cave concealing a hideous secret, a completely deserted model Yorkshire village, and occasional exasperated exclamations of such unhelpful phrases as "You're all bonkers!" Still, it was pleasant to read on the commute so I'm not complaining. H. Thanks for the review, Hel. I'm sure if anything can get me back into novels it will be a Fairman/ Avallone/ Resnick '/ Crume' paperback featuring Osmonds/ Partridge Fam/ the Cass/ this or that teen heartthrob under threat from bogus supernatural forces. That Girl now added to wants list that knows no shame. Here's a cover scan borrowed from the Marlo Thomas f***book page.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 2, 2022 11:50:40 GMT
I'll append to this thread a brief note that I just finished yet another TV tie-in authored by that magisterial storyteller, Paul W. Fairman. What's that noise--folks fleeing for the fire exits? Aaaanywayyy... That Girl was published by Popular Library in 1971, the final year of this US sitcom starring Marlo Thomas, daughter of Danny Thomas (I doubt either of them are known in the UK or Europe). The series did set a new precedent as its heroine was an independent, vivacious young actress seeking to make a life for herself whilst endlessly exasperating patient, supportive boyfriend Donald (Ted Bessell, who went on to become a director--Marlo Thomas pretty much went on to continue being Marlo Thomas). Like Fairman's entries in the Partridge Family series, That Girl (which was a one-off) crossed over into classic paperback Gothic mystery terrain. Ann Marie, the Marlo Thomas character (yes, Marie is her surname, and hence her Dad is known as Mr Marie) travels by bus to a remote, isolated, spooky area of darkest Maine, deep in the harsh terrain of Olde New England. There she discovers a madman obsessed with Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, determined to create his very own version of dysfunctional 1800 Yorkshire "just like colonial Williamsburg." Lots of fleeing through the massed heather over the moors, clambering over the Crags, distorted faces at the window, endless cups of drugged tea, hypnosis, a secret cave concealing a hideous secret, a completely deserted model Yorkshire village, and occasional exasperated exclamations of such unhelpful phrases as "You're all bonkers!" Still, it was pleasant to read on the commute so I'm not complaining. H. As I've recently re-read it, I think that Paul W. Fairman did a very good job in novelising and rewriting about half of the script of A Study in Terror as A Study in Terror/ Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper by Ellery Queen. This is the first novel length Sherlock Holmes pastiche and, apart from a couple of anachronisms and Americanisms, the style is very close to that of the original stories and does not disrupt them in any way. vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/3494
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Post by andydecker on Apr 2, 2022 12:34:38 GMT
As I've recently re-read it, I think that Paul W. Fairman did a very good job in novelising and rewriting about half of the script of A Study in Terror as A Study in Terror/ Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper by Ellery Queen (https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/3494). This is the first novel length Sherlock Holmes pastiche and, apart from a couple of anachronisms and Americanisms, the style is very close to that of the original stories. [/quote] I also like this a lot. Fairman was quite a good writer. I am very fond of his Frankenstein novel which remains one of the best Frankenstein sequels. I seem to remember that there was a bit about this book in Nevins' well done Ellery Queen biography. I'll have to check.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 2, 2022 16:51:30 GMT
As I've recently re-read it, I think that Paul W. Fairman did a very good job in novelising and rewriting about half of the script of A Study in Terror as A Study in Terror/ Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper by Ellery Queen. This is the first novel length Sherlock Holmes pastiche and, apart from a couple of anachronisms and Americanisms, the style is very close to that of the original stories and does not disrupt them in any way. vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/3494Here is was Francis M. Nevins had to say about it in his Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection (2013): "When John Dickson Carr turned down the assignment on grounds of poor health, the contract was offered to Queen. Unlike every other paperback original discussed in this chapter, Fred and Manny actually wrote some to this one – to be precise the framing chapters in which Ellery receives an anonymous package containing a manuscript piurportedly by Dr. Watson. Racing to meet a deadline, Ellery manages to squeeze in time to read the material […] The inner story, supposedly by Watson and describing Holmes' duel with the Ripper, was written by science-fiction specialist Paul W. Fairman (1916-1977). It differs significantly from the screenplay and, as Erik Routley pointed out in The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story (1972), both narrative and dialogue suffer from Americanisms. [...] The plot is plagued by numerous loose ends and unplugged holes and allows Holmes far too much lucky guesswork."
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Post by helrunar on Apr 2, 2022 17:03:33 GMT
Thanks for the nice scan, Dem. I've tried to figure out how to do images on here but nothing I've attempted works. My copy of the book in any event is marred with this ugly white barcode that wouldn't peel off. It's right in the middle of Marlo's pretty hippie-fayre cape.
The That Girl book is pretty insubstantial. I'd describe the writing as workmanlike, with intermittent good moments. I actually was moved to pick it up via an online vendor because of this passage, which I still remembered around half a century after my initial reading of the book (my original copy long ago went the way of all flesh). The scene is an encounter between an out of work actor given the role of Heathcliff in the story's putative production of Wuthering Heights, while Ann is role-playing Cathy:
He reached for her. Ann laughed impishly and scrambled to the ledge above. "You think a great deal of yourself, don't you?"
"Stop plaguing me!"
"Why shouldn't I plague you? You have no ambition! You let Hindley flog you. You sleep in the stable with the animals. You smell of dung!"
"But you love me! And I love you!"
"Ridiculous! How could a girl love an oaf without twopence to buy her a hair-ribbon?"
That line, her spitting at him that he "smelled of dung," somehow or other stuck with me across the decades. Unfortunately the book doesn't live up to the promise, if that's the word, of that spirited insult.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 2, 2022 19:34:31 GMT
Thanks for the nice scan, Dem. I've tried to figure out how to do images on here but nothing I've attempted works. My copy of the book in any event is marred with this ugly white barcode that wouldn't peel off. H.
Here is how I do images here.
You choose your jpeg. See that it is not too big both in the file size and the image size. I normally re-size scans to 400 in widths and 600 in height. You see the size if you move your mouse on the jpeg in the Windows explorer. Choose some host for uploading. There are a few where you don't have to register for uploading. Take for instance Imagebam. Open Imagebam. They will ask you to download. The website will open a folder on your PC, you will have to find the right one, choose the jpeg and click. Next the website will show you a thumbnail of your jpeg and will ask you to upload it. On hosts like Imagebam you will have to confirm what kind of jpeg you want to upload. Adult or Family Safe Content. After you click upload, the website will present you a couple of links next. Choose the BB-Code and copy it. Imagebam for instance offers you a removal-link. If you don't register and want to remove your picture later from the host, you will need this and safe it somewhere. In the other case you never will get to your uploaded picture again on the host. Now on the Vault you open your reply or new thread. Use the BBCode button at the bottom. It makes things easier. Ignore the „Insert Picture“ buttom. You don't need it and it is a bit complicated. Now you paste the BB-Code from the host into the reply where you want it. If you go to the Preview page next, your picture should show up. There are other ways to post pictures. This is how I normally do it.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 2, 2022 20:03:36 GMT
Thanks, Andreas. I attempted a similar thing to that using Flickr and the image failed to display properly so I deleted it. Then I pretty much threw up my hands.
But perhaps I will try Imagebam if it is accessible to people in the US.
I am sure it is "really very simple" but I only have so much mental energy for this kind of thing.
cheers, Steve
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Post by helrunar on Apr 17, 2022 4:44:20 GMT
I wonder if this performance by "The Cass" of the song "Rock me Baby" in '72 featured in any horror novels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMcMSGkPWtMThe costume provides a soupcon of glamrock: Cass possibly hoping for a Ziggy Stardust moment--but the hairstyle and aggressively fresh-scrubbed cheeks are pure bubblegum. H.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 10, 2023 12:35:00 GMT
Michael Avallone - The Partridge Family #3: Keith The Hero (Curtis, 1970). Blurb: DOUBLE PLAY The family that plays together, stays together is the Partridge family's motto, and it's zoomed them straight to the summit of rock fame and fortune. But now, suddenly, the Partridges face a new kind of crisis — from within... When Keith, the fans' super-idol, turns out to be as dynamic at blasting home runs as he is at socking songs across, the group's future hangs in the balance. Will Keith decide to make a stab at baseball greatness — and leave the Partridge clan without its brightest star?
READ THE NOVEL BY MICHAEL AVALLONE SEE THE WILD, WONDERFUL SCREEN GEMS SERIES ON ABC-TV, STARRING SHIRLEY JONES"Coming to you direct from Meadowville cemetery, for an exclusive one night only performance, the singing Partridge Family in all their musical glory ..." Don't get your hopes up. This is just an exasperated Mom Partridge's attempt at stirring her brood from their current doldrums. Why so glum when their beloved manager, Reuben Kinkaid, has bagged them a prestige engagement at the Twilight Room with lucrative EmKo Records contact good as nailed? Incredible as it seems, one of America's big five rock groups is about to get even bigger! But all is not well aboard the family's psychedelic renovated school bus. And the problem is — Keith! It all started when Mom let the kids off the leash at Meadowville Fair, and Keith scored a home run or something in a baseball game. Watching from the sidelines, Leo Rampkin, groovy college teacher and Partridge fan who has a lot of ideas about the Generation Gap and knows a talented slugger when he sees one. Wait til he tells his ex-pro pal, Jimmy Perkins, about his natural-born wonder athlete! Much to Shirley Partridge's chagrin, Leo persuades Keith to try out for the Meadowville Hawks versus the Center Owls. Keith duly puts in a man of the match performance in a 10-0 rout. Jimmy Perkins wants to sign him for top minor league outfit, Cooperstown - but what's this nonsense about him being a guitarist in some big rock band? "A kid who can play the game like that has no business doing something else. Or being something else." So Keith is torn between loyalty to the band, or the chance to pursue his dream, achieve fame, adulation and $100, 000 a year as the biggest rounders star since Joe DiMaggio! "Keith saw himself on television, in the movies, being kissed by Raquel Welch and Elizabeth Taylor and signing autographs and being chauffeured around in a Mercedes-Benz and being showered with money and contracts. And shaking hands with President Nixon and playing a game of golf with Arnold Palmer and throwing the football with Joe Namath and having a long interview with David Frost." Meanwhile, Laurie has chosen her future husband — that "wonderful groovy MAN," Leo Rampkin, what a total dreamboat he is! Trouble is, she has a formidable rival for his affections. Bella Ballantine, 19, the banker's daughter with the infuriatingly perfect teeth, has already "picked off just about all the available males in Meadowville" - the Cass excepted, of course! Ms Ballantine has no intention of stopping until she's collected the set! Sure, Laura looks swell in her powder blue rayon miniskirt and love beads, but will they be enough to triumph over the gleaming fangs of the town vamp? "Belles of the ball and femme fatales are always pretty sure of getting any man they go after. T'was ever thus, as the poets say." On occasion, Avallone's waffle is almost worthy of R. Lionel Fanthorpe, but otherwise Keith, The Hero is maybe one for the PF/DC completist only. It's no Partridge Family #2: The Haunted Hall, that's for sure.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 6, 2023 11:56:57 GMT
50p find at this morning's market. Betty [ed] - Fabulous 208/ Rave (Fleetway, Nov 6 1971) From Janey in Hollywood; JANEY MILSTEAD reports home from the US of A! "Where else but in Hollywood would you be invited to attend the crowning of Miss Ghost America? The concert was sponsored nationwide by MGM Studios, and the winner will travel all over, promoting their film, Night of Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows was the name of a recent daily soap opera on telly, which the kids just loved so now everyone's queueing up to see the flick. Miss Ghost America. I still don't believe it .... Remember the topless postman? Well, yesterday I saw one with a ponytail! And no, I don't mean postlady ! With our post-office department hiring long-hairs these days (and why shouldn't they?), postman watching has become quite the fad, Not to mention quite fun .... BLACK SABBATH boomed into town and blew minds and broke eardrums at their latest California concert. And here's the topper. They were all decked out to the teeth in white tuxedos! ... " DAVID CASSIDY writes - Personally to you; Don't believe the rumours. He's fine! Do you wanna dance?; Let DEE DEE WILDE of Pans People teach you some steps! The OSMONDS in Disneyland; amazing photo feature! Good, Better, Best. George Best on girls — and hooliganism! Looking Cool in a Cape!; they're the big scene this autumn - with a big price tag, too. Heather Kirby shows you how to make your own. It's cheap - and easy! John's Letterbox; The Readers write! Help!; Your personal problems answered by Fab 208's resident Agony Aunt, CILLA BLACK. Boy's Eye view; Dishy bachelor TERRY EDWARDS, DONOVAN fan, gives you an insight into his mysterious male mind, as do the eleven guys who let us in on their Boy Talk. "We all talk boy talk because whatever else we're chatting about they're always a topic of conversation. Meanwhile, around the corner, you can bet when boys get together it's us girls they're discussing! So we joined in on a few conversations to find out the kind of things they say — the girls they like and the ones they don't, the clothes they like us to wear, where they like to take us and who pays! The one thing they all seemed to have in common was a liking for girls in trousers — so who says they aren't feminine? — and a strong dislike for girls who swear. So watch it!"All this, and a The Two Sue's halloween adventure.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 7, 2023 4:14:41 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 8, 2023 11:48:41 GMT
50p find at this morning's market. It's nice Anthony likes a girl's hair first and then her personality. It's also good Stephen likes to go out with girls his own age or older, as he is only 16, and nowadays he could get arrested. Is it true you plan a Boy Talk section on here called Boy Slime Beasts Talk? I'm afraid too many of them will be like the two Brians and expect a girl to actually pay, at least Nigel has the right idea, pity he doesn't have much money, but I'm sure he could save up, or borrow from relatives.
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