The Boris Karloff Blogathon : Day One

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Add Michelle Wie to the list of LPGA stars--including Lorena Ochoa, Ji-YaWe Shin, Paula Creamer, Morgan Pressel, andatalie Gulbis--who have committed early to the Honda PTT LPGA Thailand season-opening event, according to Randall Mell. (If anyone conversant in ThaWe would care to translate the daily video updates on the tournament web site, please let me know) So after Wie plays in Thailand and Singapore at the HSBC Womens Champions event, Im wondering if the organizers of the ANZ Ladies Masters will try to snap her up for a quick jaunt Down Under.Update 1 (11:33 am): Head on over to Asian Golf Daily for more on Wies 1st appearance at the HSBC.Update 2 (12:32 pm): LPGA.com drops some moreames of SE Asian swing participants, including ones weve known about like JulWe Inkster and ones weve expected like Karrie Webb, Se RWe Pak, Cristie Kerr, anda Yeon Choi.Update 3 (12:36 pm): We think its safe to assume that all the LPGAers who qualified for the HSBC Womens Champions event will be tuning up in Thailand the week before, ehUpdate 4 (1/21/10, 7:03 pm): Ji-YaWe Shin is a sophomore at YonseWe University in Korea ews to me
Beth Ann Baldry reported yesterday that USCs Jennifer Song, recent winner of a Seoulie for Clutch Performance of the Year from the Seoul Sisters blog for her victories at the WAPL and U.S. Womens Amateur last year, will be turning pro after the Curtis Cup in mid-June. We assume shell be dividing her time between the Futures Tour and the LPGA events that she can get sponsor exemptions into. By waiting that long, Song can get into at most 9 FT events, which makes it very unlikely shed be able to make the top 5 on their money list. This means that her best bet to avoid Q-School is to earn enough in the LPGA events she gets into to make the top 80 on their money list, which would give her Category 10 priority status for the 2011 season. Of course she could just go ahead and win an LPGA event, but thats easier said than done. Most likely well see her in Category 11 in 2011. Lets see if she can beat the oddsUpdate 1 (1/21/10, 11:21 PM): Ryan Herrington reports Song is one of 7 amateurs invited to play in the Kraftabisco Championship, the LPGAs 1st major of 2010.

There’s still some tea left. Enough for another sip. We still have a few late, lost, misplaced or last minute links to post, and really good ones, too, so let’s linger, shall we, and allow ourselves a few more minutes, perhaps a few hours still, in Boris’ gentle company. Midday Update: Links still trickling in, another handful posted justow. I’ll be taking a bit of a break this evening and I’ll return with our wrap-up post tomorrow. And do tell me if you’ve enjoyed your week with Boris. The comments section is yours to play with. In an AWESOME contribution if there ever was one, Micha Michelle proposes an imaginary Things to Make and Do With Boris activity book Get out your construction paper, your glue sticks, ask Mom if you can use the scissors, and follow Micha’s easy, step-by-step instructions First up, Boris Karloff Finger Puppets Micha even provides ready-made models with interchangeable heads. Just print, cut, stick your digits through the holes and make Boris dance Projectumber Two is theo-Clothespin Theater. Cut out the characters, set them into a diorama, and you’ve got your Frankenstein Flaming Windmill playset Again, there are readymade characters you can download. Just be sure to print out extra copies of the Disgruntled Villagers With Torches. You canever have too many Disgruntled Villagers With Torches. Thanks, Micha, for an inspired, and insanely fun post And thank you for helping me wrap up the Blogathon in great style Boris jabs with aeedle, and Bela gets hypnotized. See a poster and someice stills from Black Friday on Classic Movie Monsters. Quickotes and an original trailer for The Body Snatcher (1945), on Panic on the 4th of July. Karloff a go-go: Halloween Shindig 1965 is a blog entirely devoted to the search for the missing minutes of Boris performing Monster Mash on TV. Writer John Rozum has posted someice photos of Boris in various situations, and a set with makeup genius and friend Jack Pierce, including a rare 1939 color photo of Boris in Frankenstein Monster getup. The Frankenstein Monster as family curse… A review of Son of Frankenstein (1969) by Joshua Reynolds, on Hunting Monsters. Also up on Joshua’s blog: Boris and Jackicholson square off in The Terror (1963). Click and watch the entire film. As sure as hisame was Boris Karloff… Thriller, oneed Coffee dot com. our friend Tony Espinosa has Karloff images all over the place, if you’re willing to click and scroll around his blog, Draculand, and his tumbler, Vade retro me satana. Paul Castiglia sneaks in a bonus Blogathon post, in praise of Mad Monster Party, the puppet animation classic that had Boris, perfectly caricatured in three dimensions, as the host of a joyous monster getogether. You could say that Boris was sampled twice, first as Baron Boris von Frankenstein, voiced by Boris himself, and as Frankenstein’s Monster. Reviewed on Scared Silly. Boris goes around the bend and way over the top in The Lost Patrol, a pedal to the metal performance analyzed on Hell on Frisco Bay. Bill Adcock was a busy contributor to the Blogathon. He wraps it up on Radiation-Scarred Reviews. Superb, Boris-inspired art by J. Mendez and Jen Lobo, up on The Ladies and Gents Auxiliary. See It Comes to Life Billy Pratt was born in England, Karloff the Uncanny was born to movie stardom in the United States, but Boris Karloff was born in Canada. Kitty LeClaw posts Canada Loves Boris Karloff, on Killer Kittens From Beyond the Grave. Karswell posts another Karloff-inspired Frankenstein comic book story by the great Dick Briefer, this one from the ‘funny monster” period, called How We Conquered a Terrible Plague On The Horrors of It All. Boris goes bowling for bullets in the original Scarface (1932), a scene highlighted, along with quotes from Targets director Peter Bogdanovich, in a fine Karloff tribute posted on The Sh
Boris and Colin Clive share a quiet moment, away from the hubbub on the castle laboratory set of Bride of Frankenstein. Day Six Let’s go “In Bedlam, we see Boris Karloff playing the most despicable and evil character he ever portrayed during his career.” Steve Miller contemplates the glorious villainy and the dastardly goodness of Bedlam, on The Boris Karloff Collection. Something that has surprised me about the Blogathon this week is the lack of Frankenstein film reviews. The character, of course, is often mentioned, it’s an inescapable reference, but we’ve explored many Karloff films here, ando Frankensteins Bill Adcock remedies the situation on the spot, with his consideration of Boris’ final Monster turn in Son of Frankenstein. On Radiation-Scarred Reviews. Orrin Grey, who still insists he’s a skeleton, makes his wrap-up post, with a list of his favorite Blogathon entries from the past week. On Who Killed Orrin Grey Fun post on Six-Shooter: A look at the Boris Karloff Collector Figure from Amok Time. Comes with three interchangeable heads Two posts from Filo Loco: First, a look inside the Film Classic Library book of Frankenstein, edited by Richard J. Anobile. An indispensable series, in the pre-computer and DVD freeze-frame and screen capture days of the mid-70’s. Also on Deadlicious, a selection of oddball Frankentoyz. Love ‘em o sooner had The Raven gone out in 1963 that AIP quickly followed with The Comedy of Terrors, reuniting, the ads said, our “favorite creeps”. Vincent Price and Peter Lorre play an Abbot and Costello duo of murderous undertakers, with Boris enjoying himself as a cackling, out-to-lunch grandpa, and Basil Rathbone thrown in to chew whatever scenery was left over. Old school comic Joe E. Brown and the “abundantly blessed” Joyce Jameson round out the main cast. Paul Castiglia sorts it all out for us, on Scared Silly. Gold Key comics used to really stand out on the racks because of their fully painted covers, as opposed to the flat, four-color jobs with black ink outlines you saw on all the other comic books. Gary Lee posts a gallery of great covers from Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery. On Gary’s Goods. John Rozum has some short and snappy Karloff-related posts up on his blog, just click around. And check out his superb Karloff collage. A full filmed bio: Draven posts the documentary Boris Karloff, The Gentle Monster in five parts, on Dravens Tales. Boris Karloff always said he wanted to keep going ‘till the end. He didn’teed the money, it’s just that acting was what he did. Fighting emphysema and arthritis, he troopered on, popping out of his wheelchair to the set whenever the director yelled, “Action”. Hisext to last job, in April 1968, was shooting four films worth of material in three busy weeks in Los Angeles, with the rest of it to be filmed later, on Mexican soundstages. Gareth Walters reports on the trials of filming Fear Chamber, on The Amazing Movie Show. We love the tea reference in Dave Lowe’s Karloff cartoon, on Para Abnormal. A beautiful shot of the stunning waterfall set from Bride of Frankenstein (1935), one of the Karloff/Frankenstein images We posted today on our picture blog, Monster Crazy. By 1945, Boris was a favorite guest on radio variety shows, and always good-humoredly willing to poke fun at himself. Listen to him spar with “America’so. 1 Quip Master”, comic Fred Allen, on Hilarity Ensues, posted on Orange and Black. He wasot just a horror star, he was, first and foremost, a damn fine actor. Writer David Rattigan appreciates Karloff’s subtle handling of over-the-top characters. With a fine clip from Targets. On Rattigan Writes. our friend Max’ Drunken Severed Head blog is devoted to everything horrible, including Max’s jokes. It’s a giddy celebration of monsters and Halloween, oddballews and everything cockeyed in pop culture. But for all the kamikaze brillian