Heading to Chiller

[monsterphile]

I'll be heading for Chiller Theatre tomorrow morning (Sunday) to meet up with wise old Robert Taylor (typhooforme) at the Karloff table. 

Rob

[michblk]

Have fun Rob and take some pics!  Tell Robert I said Hello!

BK

[monsterphile]

Sorry to say that I forgot my camera and didn't realize until it was too late to go back for it.  Chiller is about 2 hours away from my home.  I arrived just before 11:00 a.m. and met up with my UMA brother Robert Taylor at the Karloff table.  Now, Robert is always one to chat up celebrities.  On one side he had his good friend Sara Karloff.  On the other side, he had made friends with Stacy Kamano formerly of Baywatch.  Here's what she looks like:

Yeah, that Robert Taylor is a charmer!

Also sharing the room with the Karloff table was Bill Hinzman from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Cortlandt Hull of the Witch's Dungeon, some women wrestlers and some scream queens from some very low budget movies.  

I didn't spend too much time tracking down celebrities although I did walk by many of them to see what they looked like today.  I did syop by to meet Jon Provost of Lassie fame and picked up a copy of the book that he and his wife co-wrote "Timmy's In The Well: The Jon Provost Story" that they signed for me.  I tried to get close to Zacherle, but there was always a crowd around him.  

I did pick some stuff for myself.  From autograph vendor Hurd's Outpost I got Yvonne Craig's autograph (last of the Batman ones that I needed).  The other one was a Bob Herron signature that was paired up with a photo from THE SLIME PEOPLE, but I wanted it to pair up with a photo from THE MOLE PEOPLE.  I managed to find some other fun toys mostly inexpensive.  I did pick up one of the new AMOK Boris Karloff figures and had Sara Karloff sign the box for me.  

Of course, the best part of the trip was spending time with my friend Robert Taylor and other members of the Karloff entourage including sculptor and UMA member Ray Santolieri.  I was once again forunate to share in the crazy sheanigans of that group.  Truly a pleasure.

[Monster Kid]

Monsterphile, was Conrad Brooks there?  He told me he was heading out to Chiller.

[Gasport]

Monsterphile, I was at Chiller too and i'm sorry that i missed you and Robert [again] at the show. My biggest reason for being MIA at these shows is because i'm usually somewhere near Zach, either helping out at his very busy autograph table or escorting him around in his wheelchair. I'm always amazed at how many people i didn't see at the end of a weekend. It all passes by SO fast! I did get to perform w/Zach Saturday when i backed him on guitar for a solo rendition of Come with me to Transylvania and then w/the band for Monster Mash. Wish i had some pics or video of this, but it was such a mob scene that my wife had no place to get a decent shot from. Here are a few candid shots i took during the weekend...first is Zach chatting with the great Basil Gogos



Zach with Elvira...



Zach showing off the light up teeth i gave him...



Back in Zach's room, he presented me with these skeleton feet [the real thing, and actual props used on Shock Theater back in the day!] to go with the skeleton hand and arm he gave me last month...he's really TOO good to me!

[gracebuster]

Chiller is such a great show! So happy that you all had a great time.

[monsterphile]

Monsterphile, was Conrad Brooks there?  He told me he was heading out to Chiller.

Yes, Conrad was there.

[michblk]

Sorry to say that I forgot my camera and didn't realize until it was too late to go back for it.  Chiller is about 2 hours away from my home.  I arrived just before 11:00 a.m. and met up with my UMA brother Robert Taylor at the Karloff table.  Now, Robert is always one to chat up celebrities.  On one side he had his good friend Sara Karloff.  On the other side, he had made friends with Stacy Kamano formerly of Baywatch.  Here's what she looks like:

Yeah, that Robert Taylor is a charmer

Master Taylor, teach me the ways of the Dark Magic so I too can have power over these beautiful women.....

Your humble apprentice
BK

[typhooforme]

Um---well, in spite of what friend Rob says, we're actually NOT running off together to live happily ever after, but--yeah, we did get along REALLY well!  She must have a grandfather back home she feels very fond of.  I told her funny stories.  And I had chocolates! 

[typhooforme]

OK, just a few odds and ends of Chiller weekend by way of memories:

We stayed very VERY busy at our table--it's always impressive to see the many many fans come up to talk to Sara Karloff, and it is always with the greatest respect and love that they speak to her of her father's influence on them.  Boris left behind a lot of happy monster-memories.  Sara's smile and warmth and the way her eyes shine when she talks to them about her dad--that is worth a million right there.  I never get tired of that.

Also in the room were Cortlandt Hull and Dennis Vincent, old friends from many years back, and it is always great to talk to them when time permits.  I gave Cortlandt a pair of antique pince-nez glasses (he had set me on a mission to find the "right ones") for his WEREWOLF OF LONDON figure to wear in the Witch's Dungeon.  I'm glad I could help with his Uncle Henry's costuming!

Across the room from me, in the Small World, Isn't It? Department, was Brinke Stevens, who was the star of the Ted V. Mikels film I had a small part in, MARK OF THE ASTRO ZOMBIES, so it was a hoot to go over and talk to her before the show opened, and have a few laughs about what an experience that movie was to be in.

I already mentioned telling funny stories to Stacy Kamona--she was a great neighbor to have at the next table to us.

Being busy so much of the time, I didn't get out and about to see other celebs often--just accompanied Sara K. a couple times when she wanted to go out to see, for instance, Richard Dreyfuss (who greeted her very respectfully and treated her like royalty), or Ali McGraw (still beautiful).  I saw Mickey Rooney toddling along in the halls a couple time.  I think he's 90 or so now, and it was amazing to see him in person.  He IS a tiny little fellow!

And maybe the best of all--having UMA brother Rob Tullo attend the show and join us for dinner that night--at Sara K's invitation--to break bread and share laughs with Sara and our other friends, another UMA brother, Ray Santoleri and his girlfriend, the always-smiling puppeteer Bill Diamond, Basil and Linda Gogos, make-up artist Norm Bryn, Sara's friend and helper Debbie, and my friend Kevin Surnear. 

It was a very good Chiller.

[michblk]

I am not worthy, I am not worthy!   Oh Master of the Dark Arts

BK

[GAKENSTEIN]

Robert, don't ever wash that Hawaiian shirt.

[typhooforme]

Only at Chiller, on Halloween--at the Karloff table, a beer can has a conversation with Frak, one of Bill Diamont's puppets:


And at the end of the weekend--we're smiling but we're sad it has to end.  I always have a great time with Sara Karloff. 


And yes, that yellow shirt of mine will long be thought of as the Stacy Kamona Shirt! 

[typhooforme]

Just for the heck of it--different people would come up to us to show Sara their Karloff tattoos.  here's a good one:

[typhooforme]

And here's another good one: