Wine and Cheese with the Creature - Frank Zimring, son of screenwriter Maury Zimring, sent this update regarding the retrospective on Maury’s movies, including the Creature from the Black Lagoon, set for June 19 at the Palace Theater..
”The Palace has approved our serving wine and cheese between Jeopardy (which ends at 5:20) and The Creature (which I introduce at 6:30 pm).”
For more details, see our earlier story on The Creature, posted below.
We have worked out the technical difficulties and the old http://www.bigislandpressclub.com web site now points readers directly to this site.
Google will still say .com on their pages that were previously posted and cached for awhile, however, the re-direct has happened and the old site is no more.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is coming to Hilo on Friday, June 19. The fish man is scabby, scaly, scary and politically incorrect.
But he’s free. The movie is one of three to be presented at the Palace Theater by Franklin Zimring, son of Maurice Zimring, who wrote the movies and was also a founding member of the Big Island Press Club.
The occasion is the 100th anniversary of Maury’s birth. Franklin, a University of California at Berkeley law professor, gave a synopsis of the event. “We’re set for June 19th. Tentatively, we will show Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan in A Woman in Jeopardy (MGM 1953) at 4:00 pm.
Then the evening double bill will be The Creature From the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954) at 6:30 pm, followed by Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom in The Prodigal (MGM 1955).
Admission is free and the community is invited.
June 19th, 1909 is Maury’s birthday. His Hollywood name was Maurice Zimm.” (Which is the name you should use if you want to Google him for more info.)
One present-day reviewer described Creature as “smirky,” but Maury’s fish man has enough staying power that Universal Studios Hollywood is planning a musical stage adaptation starting July 1.
A Woman in Jeopardy is tagged with the breathless line, “I’ll do anything…to save my husband.” And a helpful reviewer of The Prodigal notes that it is “adapted from the Bible.”
We need a webmaster-editor who is media aware, reliable and sophisticated in web sites.
I just read a great legal issue on Ian Lind’s blog about Gannett being taken down in Arizona for its apparently anti-trust action in that state. Their manipulations are notorious and they need to be checked.
We need a sense of history, we need contemporary issues (why is publisher Black meddling in San Diego when he is slicing Star-Bulletin to the bone?), we need personality updates and we need to include more recent prior Gleanings’ issues that Rod has done increasingly well.
Most important, we need to create an awareness the site exists, is being updated with some frequency and available. We can hitchhike, too, buy using items by others, such as Curtis Narimatsu’s piece last weekend on Doc Hill, former publisher of Hawaii Tribune-Herald (before Reynolds acquired it from Chin Ho).
