CALL MI-GO MAYBE

Off, I hope, to a truly deluxe apartment in the sky is Sherman Hemsley, who brought bounce and swagger and a slightly mean-spirited joie de vivre to the role of George Jefferson on All in the Family and The Jeffersons, passed on at 74.

RIP also to Dog Day Afternoon screenwriter Frank Pierson, passed on at 87, and, at 75, to Medical Center leading man Chad Everett—“Chaddy Baby,” as an old girlfriend of mine, veteran of a girlhood crush on Everett, used to refer to him...

Luckily for her, in me she found someone at least equally handsome. Despite our similarities, I’ve been wise enough never to refer to my wife as “my property,” as Chaddy Baby notoriously did on The Dick Cavett Show in 1972.

Next Tuesday is the DVD release of The Whisperer in Darkness, a movie version of the H.P. Lovecraft tale. More about that film soon, but in the meantime…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod this week to any specimen of the Mi-Go, the sentient lobster-clawed flying fungus-people featured in that yarn. Here’s the movie’s version: