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Thursday, February 20, 2014

OUR FEATURELESS ATTRACTION

With Pompeii—or, as it’s pronounced by Mayor Shinn in The Music Man, “Pompee-eye”—opening tomorrow…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to Quintillius Aurelis, title character of 1958’s Curse of the Faceless Man. His moniker doesn’t refer to cipher-like anonymity; the poor fellow literally has no face…


He’s a petrified gladiator found in the ruins of the town regrettably at the foot of Vesuvius, but the petrifaction doesn’t extend to his libido. As the poster says: “ENTOMBED FOR EONS…TURNED TO STONE…SEEKING WOMEN—WOMEN—WOMEN!”



Well, after all, 79 A.D. to 1958 is a pretty long time between, you know, eruptions…