Came across an interview with director Joe Dante (PIRANHA, GREMLINS) in a blog called Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule.
Joe spoke of 4E's immortal Famous Monsters Of Filmland magazine, and he really nailed what it was like to be a monster-loving kid back in those days (50s and 60s for him, 70s for me):
"The appearance of that magazine made a lot of kids realize they weren’t alone. There was a network of people who were interested in all the things they were interested in that no one else around them was. You can look back on it and say, well, it wasn’t much of a magazine, which it really wasn’t. But the transformative effect, the unifying effect that it had on an entire generation was amazing."
You can read the whole thing at:
http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/2008/04/joe-dante-your-movie-orgy-mc.html
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Well, for what it's worth, I'm still out here chasin' the movies too, buying too many import DVDs and haunting the revival houses in NYC. Some people hang it up, but the diehards hang in there. Glad you're still one of us!
(I may still have a couple of those tapes you dubbed down for me from laserdisc in a trunk somewhere, and I definitely still have copies of the LASER MARQUEE issues with my reviews in 'em.)
Stephen Bowie
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