A friend of mine is a major Joan Crawford nut, so I was thrilled when I sent him the link to
this astounding film she made sometime in the ‘60s, promoting the supermarket industry, and he wrote back saying he’d never seen it before. The film’s attempt at an arty tone is jaw-dropping—it's like some unholy collaboration between Ed Wood and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Anyway…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week the nod goes to any specimen of Little Weirdo...
...the tiny rubber goblins one used to get out of the vending machines at the supermarket. I well remember them. The little girl here covets a red one; if I’d had it, I would gladly have traded it for her Green Weirdo…
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