Author Archives: Lou Aguilar
The Travesty Story
Pat Caroll was the comic genius behind the Langely Punks shorts. They featured himself and fellow Good Counsel High School buddies Jim Phalen and Larry Zabel as the Langley Punks, a trio of hooligans who, when not drinking beer, have encounters with different extraterrestrial menaces. In The Insurance Salesmen From Saturn, the title creatures fail in their mission to bore earthlings to death when the tables are turned on them and they end up being bored into oblivion by the Punks’ endless, detailed descriptions of their cars. Pat’s eclectic inspirations for these early films were the Three Stooges, Chaplin, Keaton, and the masked wrestler and Mexican movie star, El Santo. Continue reading
El Santo: An Appreciation (plus an audio review of Santo in the Wax Museum)
Fifty years ago, a new movie superhero entered the national consciousness. The nation was Mexico, and its hero was the masked wrestler known as El Santo. After first gaining fame in the ring and then in comic books, Santo next took on the challenge of film. It was in this medium that the wrestler would cement his legend as a larger than life action hero. Continue reading
David Carradine Remembered (plus audio clip)
In the late 80s I spent three very enjoyable journalistic hours with Carradine, and realized that his interpretive intelligence enriched every role he played. Continue reading
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The Misfits
