Ordinarily, I would post something snarky...but...given the events of Londonistan today...mebbe the Zombies are getting an early start.
(By the way...I am related to Zombies. Of the movie kind. Some of my peeps (relations) were ‘extras’ in George Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ filmed in suburban Pittsburgh a hundred years ago.)
Not just anyone can make THAT claim!
I thought you were going to say something about how the Pitt Pathers played in NCAA or the Stillers in the Super Bowl. ;)
“but...given the events of Londonistan today”
What happened?
I’m just getting out of solitary :)
It’s funny you should mention “Night of the Living Dead”.....I live in Maine, and Maine Public Television aired this movie tonight at 9:00 PM.
I had seen parts of the movie many years ago, and now for the first time got to see the whole film. A cult classic!
I think the movie was released in 1969.
As I watched a large group of zombies try to break into a farmhouse, I thought, “The extras must have had a good time making this movie!”
Tufts is responsible for the invasion of the Gypsy Moths, aka tent caterpillars. (~1880s for a silk worm substitute)
“Chilly Billy”, Bill Cardille from Pittsburgh’s Channel 11 was the reporter. I believe he was the host of Friday night horror movies, also the TV weatherman at Ch.11?
(Pittsburghers will remember TV’s Nick Perry from Bowling for dollars, I rode the elevator with him, and he invited me to have a coffee when we got to the fourth floor, I believe he was part owner of a vending machine services company.. That coffee must have cost him a dime, but I am sure that somehow it got back into his pocket!)
When ‘Night of the Living Dead’ was made, I was working in Pittsburgh as an engineering clerk (my first job out of H.S.) in the Piping department at engineering firm Swindell-Dressler located at the corner of Smithfield & 5th. for minimum wage of $300/mth.
“Wish I could turn back the clock, those were fun days for me..!”
LVD