“Two Minutes to Go!”: Catching Up with Joan Del Mar
Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Back in 2003 when I was in the throes of creativity in regards to producing one of the best and most thorough newsletters in the history of the Sons of the Desert (that’s my opinion anyway, and I know it is held by many others), I was working on issue 27 of Dante’s Info, which was a full 32 pages bursting at the seams with fun research and info. Encompassing four of those pages was an article I did based on a phone interview I conducted with Joan Del Mar. Joan had had a speaking role in Laurel and Hardy’s 1944 M-G-M film Nothing but Trouble. I titled the article the exact same thing that I titled this posting. Read the rest of this entry »
If you saw him in The Hottie & the Nottie, or the episodes of Criminal Minds or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you’d probably want to pick him up and hold him and tell him that life will be okay young man. But of course if you were to watch the re-tooled 2009 version of Friday the 13th, you might have a little bit of a different opinion, knowing that this character Jason Voorhees would grow up to slaughter and mutilate dozens upon dozens of teenage campers, innocent bystanders, and Manhattan residents. 
The only question I had about titling this post was how many letter “o’s” to use in the word “Woooooooooo!!” Because not only is that Ric Flair’s most famous catchphrase, but it is exactly how I felt when I finally got the chance to meet him on June 27, 2015 at the HorrorHound event in Indianapolis, Indiana. His appearances were not that common, and although he had been to the Hollywood Show one time, it was a time when I wasn’t there.