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In the Spring of 1966, I had a dream about visiting a site and the UFOs were flying 1950s cars & The Mothership was a 4 funneled ocean liner & the aliens were African-American kids in uniforms & the one who is last to board the ship was a black girl dressed in a sailor girl's uniform and does a 5 hand wave & has a smile on her face and goes inside the mother ship. Among the people they bring back were children from the 1930s and they didn't age & lost people from other stories come back. There was a blonde pony-tailed single mother & her son also & husband was one who was KIA in Vietnam. This was a far-fetched dream. But in 1977 it came back in CE3K. The first version was good & the second version was good with The Mothership Interior. The third one has been covered and I got all three series. [-] Now the next story that I can do is Close Encounters, 30 years later. In a talk show episode, Various characters would come back. Among them would be Jillian & her son, Barry & Brad Neary, the oldest of the three children & was the one who accepted his father's fate & knew the clues where his father's last where abouts was & to honor his father he has a DVD copy of Walt Disney's Pinocchio & shares if with his off spring. The other two children are not there and neither is Ronnie Neary. Brad, the oldest of Roy's children is the one who accepted his father's departure & said his father was a the right choice. As Brad got older he understood why his father was obsessed with "The Devil's Tower". It would be a good story on how the characters survived The 1977 event & return to talk show in 2007 about their roles. When the night sky is out & see the stars, Brad will tell his children that their grandfather is out there. So that's it for now. Marcus Brainard

This was a good story set in 1936. The black cupid was named "Marcus" and the object was to set up W.C. Fields with the woman in the story and they did it. However today there are various people they cannot get with their arrows among them is one like me. I've been rejected since the 1970s and frown on computer dating scams & cannot find who I want to be Mrs. Marcus Brainard. All the good ones have been taken and that's the bottom line because Markie Brainard says so. But there was a mishap with the Cupid squad in 1957 in Lincoln, NE. One cupid which we address as "Cyrus", he was behind in quotas and decided to match Charles Starkweather with Caril Ann Fugate & the results was a tragic love story with 11 people taken out when Starkweather went into "Maximum Overdrive". You wonder what happened to "Cyrus" the cupid after his stint mating Starkweather with Caril Ann Fugate? Perhaps he was banished or sent to "The Phantom Zone" for his actions. You decide the fate of "Cyrus" The Cupid. So that's the bottom line because, Marcus Brainard says so. Marcus Brainard

This is a classic movie. Both Dennis Weaver & his stunt driver & Carey Loftin did a Grade A performance. This movie was based on a real life event & Richard Matheson would have been one of the victims of "The Unfortunate Events of 1963" However he survived and did a story & it worked for him.

Duel in some circles is called "The David Mann Experience" and Dennis Weaver survived his event. But what about other subjects going thru the grind as Weaver's, David Mann?

One example is Matt Wagner, an artist & writer who did Grendel and two of three segments of his Mage series. In Mark Titan's variation of "Duel", Mr. Wagner will play Mr. Weaver's role and his "Carey Loftin" is one of his minor character, "Edsel" an African-American girl who was killed off in his first series return as "Billie Earnhardt" the driver of the black & silver tanker. Her name is a combo of tragic beings, Billie Holliday & Dale Earnhardt Sr. Unlike Loftin, she is seen and dresses like Wagner's Edsel character & looks like her & has 7 teeth necklace & for some of the tuned-in people symbolized Dale Earnhardt's Status as a 7 time champion. The truck part is black & the tanker is silver with the name "GRENDEL" on the sides & back of the Tanker. Mr. Wagner goes thru the same experience that Dennis Weaver does and drives a red 1971 Duster with front bumper guards. Then finally the final face off. The truck & '71 Duster goes over the cliff & then Mr. Wagner sees the wreckage & find out that "Billie Earnhardt" was an android & not a person at all. The big question is this? Who designed "Billie Earnhardt" & her rig? Carey Loftin portrayed an unseen psycho in "Duel", but in Titan's variation of "Duel". Some obsessed fan of "Edsel" with the wealth of a millionaire designed "Billie Earnhardt" and designed her after Mr. Wagner's "Edsel" from his first "Mage" series and decided to sic "Billie" on him. We'll never know who that person was. But in one scene, Mr. Wagner flags down a teenage couple in a 1949 Mercury Club Coupe and there known as "Red & Kitty" and they resemble Starkweather & Fugate & they get out when the tanker rolls backward & also Mark Titan is shown as "The Undertaker" at Chuck's Cafe & leaves the place in a 1959 Cadillac Hearse, other notables in The Cafe is an adult version of "Little Lotta" who is accused of being the driver of the black-silver rig & slams Mr. Wagner on the pool table & two racists, a black guy & a white guy playing a friendly game of pool & it gets canceled & the guys move on in there vehicles. The black guy has a pickup truck & the white guy has a luxury sedan. Also The School Bus scene was intact & "Billie" plays the "good girl" & takes them to safety & Mr. Wagner looks on. But there are other players who can experience what Dennis Weaver's David Mann experience. But that's it for now. Duel is always tops in movies. Also when the chase begins, "Locomotion" by Little Eva is played. Marcus Brainard

In Fairmoor's tales of terror. The Birmingham Sunday event brought a nightmare that came in the form of a black girl with a lethal, 1957 Plymouth Fury powered by Mad God Chaos. By September to November, 1963; 60 white people & 8 African-Americans was killed by this unstoppable force & met her end at Garfield's Garage. The re-enactment of the Birmingham Angel's last stand was used in King's movie, "Christine". In 1973, Jack Hill decided to have his version of Christine McKay. In the form of Coffy. And instead of going after Church Bombers, his McKay, takes after the drug trade that overdosed her 11 year old sister. Jack Hill used her sister for a stand-in for Denise McNair, one of the Sunday school girls killed on "Birmingham Sunday". Coffy did better than Vincent Price did in "Dr. Phibes" & "Theatre of Blood". In the two movies one victim survives. However the worst of the worst was played by now-gone actor named Booker Bradshaw & he gets it in the end. However Booker Bradshaw appeared in many stories & worked for Ruby-Spears outfit as voices for cartoon characters. As for Coffy & Christine McKay, they both wear white outfits & Coffy is a nurse & at her place of work she wears white. Christine McKay used a '57 Fury to run down people. Coffy used a hijacked, 1962 Chrysler to crash into the mobster's house & gets him. The actor who played the mobster was also Dr. Sidney Freud & was featured in episodes of M*A*S*H. The King George Character ended up dragged by his car & in Jasper, TX an re-enactment of the scene in 1998 is now termed as "Hate Crime". But Booker Bradshaw did a good job playing the top villains who gets it in the end. Pam Grier gets them all. And I wonder where Pam Grier was when the events of September 15, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama went down? By the way Coffy's real surname is "Coffin". And at least Coffy didn't end up like Christine McKay did at Garfield's Garage, November 8th, 1963. Coffy was a good film & as the for the guys who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church & were still free in 1973, perhaps had nightmares of Coffy coming to get them after she got the drug dealers. But we'll never find out about that. So this is Marcus Brainard, good day!

Jack Hill also did Coffy & did a good job about updating The 1963-era "Birmingham Angel" to Pam Grier. I wonder if Pam Grier remembered, "Birmingham Sunday"? The Jezebels got some reinforcement from a black girl group that followed Mao. However In life I've seen a black girl with a 1955 Packard Clipper beat up a bully in real life back in 1963. The urban assault car came from a 1955 Packard Patrician 4-Dr. Sedan so Jack Hill & I met halfway. Kitty Bruce's Donut was a thankless character, but she was loyal to the end. The Movie was unreal in some parts, but people actually think they can get away with it but in reality check, you get it in the end. If I did the screen writing, The black girl gang led by Muff would be shown as spirits & have 1950s cars with lethal death rays installed in them and poisoned black smoke & the led car would be a 1955 Packard Clipper Sedan & when the black girl gang leave the scene a mist is used and they go into the mist and vanish. And when they unleash there weapons on Crabs' Teen Patrol they would yell: "We didn't forget what happened on Birmingham Sunday, on September 15, 1963 & this one is for Denise McNair & her fellow school girls!" and they would zap The Teen Patrol with death rays & vaporized them & get most of the members. However Crabs gets it by Lace. The movie was good and Jack Hill met me halfway with the urban assault vehicle made from a 1955 Packard & didn't name the leader, "Esther Williams". I liked the movie & it's in my collection. With a girl gang like The Jezebels, they make Charles Starkweather look like Pope John Paul II. That's it for now. Marcus Brainard

John Ashley did a good job being Matt Stevens, at his High School & in the past there has been various "High School Caesars" and some were good and some were bad & there were also "High School Princesses" who did good and bad. And the worse "High School Princess" would have been a nerd girl who her peers look up to her as a goddess. Now there was another story about a white-faced version of Francios Duvalier aka "Papa Doc". And this guy was a cross between Starkweather & Papa Doc and he would rule the school as a hidden leader. Teachers and Students who oppose him are taken out by "The Tonton Macoutes" and never seen again & they appear as normal looking people, but they are bad to the bone. Then comes a brave soul who had enough of "Papa Doc Starkweather" and it's time to rid of him & they do it with a car bomb & then the High School Caesar is history. However in return for his demise The High School gets a taste of Hiroshima. Then many years later we find out that "Papa Doc Starkweather" survived & he has a son who will go to his high school & become "Baby Doc Starkweather". And thank God, John Ashley's Matt Stevens didn't go the same direction as Papa Doc Duvalier did. So that's it for this movie. Marcus Brainard

In The 1950s and 1960s there were plenty of "End Of The World" movies dealing with post-nuclear attacks and so forth. The 1983 version of the subject was used for one thing: TO DEFEAT THE RE-ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN! The movie was played on ABC-TV on a Sunday Night in November, 1983 and had to go to work on that night. I did see the movie and do have a copy of it. But there is one thing missing in the aftermath of the movie. A funeral caravan.

In the stories and comic books done by various underground writers and artists, there is a mystical, black girl who goes by the name of Mary Jo Cleveland & she is sometimes shown wearing her hair in twin braids and a curled bangs, red ribbons & granny glasses & clad in an over-sized motorcycle jacket that is black & wears a white swimsuit a combo of Marlon Brando meets Esther Williams, and wears black shiny dress shoes & white socks. Her car is a 1951-54 Henney-Packard Hearse that is a "limosuine" model and the car is black and the engine sounds like thunder. Ms. Cleveland would lead a funeral caravan and behind her is a tractor trailer with a Titanic Mural on the sides of the trailer part of the truck, the third vehicle is a transporter with a black car parked in reverse, a variation of the "riderless horse" and the car is dubbed as "Black Jack" the riderless horse used in JFK's funeral. The rest of the caravan are civilians in 1950s and 1960s cars and buses and other cars & the last car is a red VW that is "the caboose" of the funeral caravan. It's too bad the people who did "The Day After" was not hip about Mary Jo Cleveland and used someone like her to have her funeral caravan in the main street of Lawrence, KS. That would impress me for that scene in "The Day After". However if that scene was placed in the movie, Ronald Reagan would be defeated in the 1984 re-election, however no one in the script crew decided the funeral caravan of Mary Jo Cleveland was needed in the movie. So the movie did well without Ms. Cleveland. Well that's it for the underground comic book culture, see you soon. Marcus Brainard

I did see this one back in 1993 and haven't seen it on DVD yet. Tim Roth did portray Starkweather and showed him with glasses on and off. Starkweather even angered, President Eisenhower and President Eisenhower wanted to see Starkweather executed in person, however he did send a Presidential Aid as his stand-in. As I said in comments on Charles Starkweather, he is not a civil rights martyr. And as for Caril Ann Fugate, she has to live this scene over and over for the rest of her time. Some blame her for the massacre of innocent people, but she will have to live with it. However Starkweather's family live in dishonor and disgrace with the people of Lincoln, NE. If an event came down in Japan, the Starkweather Family would be banished to a banished community. And those who carry the surname of Starkweather has the surname tainted because of the misdeeds of Charles Starkweather. However there is a question? Is the country better off after the demise of Charles Starkweather? Then how come we read about "Birmingham Sunday" to "9/11".? On the 50th Anniversary of the demise of Charles Raymond Starkweather, we lose Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson. It looks like the bad elements surpassed the antics of Starkweather and it looks like Charlie Starkweather has the last laugh on us in spirit. He was the real equivalent of "Freddy Krueger" of the locals in Lincoln, NE. Signed, Marcus Brainard

Charles Starkweather is not a civil rights martyr. He killed 11 people for his "Teen Queen". I haven't seen this movie & know the story. He was so bad that even President Eisenhower wanted to see him die in the electric chair in person. However he sent an aide as his stand-in. But The Question remains this: What has happened since June 25th, 1959 when Starkweather paid for his sins in the electric chair? The evil did not die when Starkweather paid the price. We had "Birmingham Sunday" and then JFK was killed in Dallas. We heard about Richard Speck & Charles Whitman, We saw the demise of Dr. King & Senator Kennedy & then we heard about Charles Manson & his Family. And before that what about Mi Lai? At least Lt. Calley didn't ended up like Starkweather for his role in Mi Lai. We had Kent State & The Munich Olympics where The PLO terrorists killed 11 Isareli Athletes, that's how many Starkweather killed. In time we see The Jonestown Massacre, The Iran scene, The demise of John Lennon, and other events leading to "9/11". There are so many events that makes Charles Starkweather look like Fred Rogers. However I did have a nightmare that there was an event in Lincoln, NE where a plague would kill off children & teenagers or Lincoln, NE would end up like Hiroshima, Japan, 8/6/1945 & the spirit of Charles Starkweather gets the last laugh. However on the 50th Anniversary of his death we lose Farrah Fawcett to cancer and we lose "The King of Pop", Michael Jackson. At least Lincoln, NE didn't get nuked. And I'm glad my dreams are false. However there is still bad elements out there post-1959. And it seems that Charles Starkweather in spirit has the last laugh on us & Starkweather is Lincoln's answer to "Freddy Krueger". And that's it on this subject. Starkweather is no civil rights martyr. Marcus Brainard

If I was in "Cars" I would been a modified, 1953 Ford Victoria Hardtop and the vechile would have 1952 Ford Wheel Covers, a 1954 Ford decklid handle, and a brake light where the Ford Crest used to be and have backup lights & a 1954 Skyliner Roof and where "Crestline" would be on the trim it would be "Supercar". And the eyes would be in the windshield & it would be thick to show my status wearing glasses and billed as "Markie Brainard, Supercar" and the 1953 Ford Victoria hardtop would fly & serve in Radator Springs as a supporter of the town & had a son would be a 2005 Hyundai Accent. Dubbed Marcus, Jr. The color of the car would be black with a white top. Lighting McQueen started out as a brash rookie & after his visit to Radator Springs he learned about things and learned what happens to a three time Piston Cup winner named Doc Hudson, voiced by the late, Paul Newman in one of his best roles. The final race did well when Chick takes The King out & Lighting saw what happened to The King, Strip Weathers and helped him finish the race instead of winning the Piston cup and that was an act of a hero. Chick did get the cup & still got dissed by his peers. However Lighting McQueen had a status of a winner for his act pushing The King to finish the race. Markie would explain to his son, Marcus, Jr. and told him "You can win The Piston Cup like Chick did and still don't get any respect!" There was some truth about interstate highways that bypassed some communties and they ended up becoming ghost towns. US 40 was a main way for many years until I-70 arrived and some communties became ghost towns. I liked the story and I liked Lighting's Courage saving The King & The Drive-In scene was good with car versions of Pixar's Hits. I wonder what "The Boomobile" would looked like? She would been a 1974 Dodge Monaco, black sedan. Matt Wagner's characters, Kevin Matchstick & Edsel would be cars & Kevin would be a black, 1968 Mustang with a white lighting bolt on the hood & Edsel would be a red & white, 1959 Edsel Corsair Sedan and her mouth is the vertical grille. But "Cars" was good movie. Are they going to do a sequel? Marcus Brainard.

I have seen this classic movie and it's good in everything about The Martians are taking LA. However there is one question that the likes of Spike Lee & Aaron McGruder would ask? WHERE ARE THE African-Americans IN THIS MOVIE? Other groups were represented but not one African-American. I don't have the answer for it. However the scene where the people leave LA was the footage actually used in a drill to leave LA in case an event like that was going to go down. However what happened to the African-Americans in the 1953 story, The War of The Worlds. It's better to hear from me than confront the likes of Spike Lee who did "4 Little Girls" and Aaron McGruder who did "The Boondocks". I have an answer, they left some place else & no one saw them leave there communities. That's one answer. So ask yourselves, "Where were the African-Americans in the 1953 movie, The War of The Worlds?" Your answer is good guess as mine. Marcus Brainard

I saw this when i was 14, in 1970 and the "death" car was a 1959 Chevrolet Impala and the story was told what happens when kids get drinking and driving fast and Prom Night becomes a tragic event. And 28 years later the same story is done however the "death car" is now a Ford Enconline Van for the death car the same damage is similar to the damage of the 1959 Impala Convertible. The story is the same but there are different actors and what happens when you drink and drive fast. It holds a good message. But My ideal of Prom Night is pool date for two. However in 1974 in my senior year I went to a prom at my local school as an observer & did pose with girl for the photo session & I was dressed to the 9s for the photo. It seems people like Prom Events gone bad. There is "Carrie" and there is "Prom Night I thru IV" to name examples. But Prom Night ala Esther Williams is my kind of Prom Night to Remember.

Over the Edge was a good movie, but the events in New Granada was similar to the way things were in The Winter of 1971. The students of the middle school which I call "Denton Jr. High" had issues, The school was divided up with "Radical" students and junior verisons of "Bonnie & Clyde" and other group of students were marked as "The Alice & Jerry" Group because they tied with teachers and rulers of the school. They also had a problem with a former child actor who was a 15 year old male virgin and had him removed from school & there was a kid-hating cop who believed that all kids under 18 were a generation of Charles Starkweathers & Caril Ann Fugates. One day a killer cop killed a 14 year old kid from joyriding in his mother's vehicle & then there was a school strike for the James Dean Wannabe & The Vice-Principal of the school sent the police to bust any kid trying to walk out of the school & it looked like the last days of Batista ruling Cuba. Then there was a meeting with the parents and teachers and the radical students the so-called Bonnie & Clyde group managed to lock the people in the auditorium & started a riot & vandalized the school and destroyed parked cars in the parking lot. Two cars were left untouched, a 1958 Edsel Pacer Convertible and a 1963 Dodge 330, 2-Dr. Sedan. However the Home Owners Association President had his prized, 1957 Thunderbird torched by the kids & the killer cop got his dues from a kid who threw a fire bomb at his cruiser & crashed into a gas station and blew up & that person still remains hidden & hasn't been on "America's Most Wanted" list. Those who were part of the riot were sent to reform school for 6 months and came home with a hero's status. In 1971, if you were part of The Denton Riot, you were a hero. If you served in Vietnam, you had the same status as Freddy Krueger. And that was over 36 years ago. The movie "Over the Edge" had the same problems as Denton Jr. High had & as the for the former child actor who had his bad times at Denton, he walks among us today & has a steady job. And that's my view for "Over The Edge"

There is an error in the movie. Someone in The Prop Department placed a 1961 Chrysler New Yorker 4-Dr. Hardtop in what supposed to be December, 1958 Havana. However the actor who played Batista didn't look like him & the scene where Batista left was a good scene. So in all it was a good movie. Also Castro's Rebels were portrayed as Saints and there were other things that were good like an ambush at dinner scene & also Julio trying to be a hero and keeps killing the wrong people but in the end gets the guy who was messing with his sister. Sean Connery did a good job playing a guy who wondering if he's fighting for the wrong team. However The 1961 Chrysler shown in the movie was an error & shouldn't have been in the movie that is supposed to be Havana, December, 1958 to January, 1959. So that's it for now.

Revenge of The Creature was a good sequel. However we get to see Clint Eastwood as a lab tech who is looking for Rat #4 & the rat is in his pocket. Also John Lamm was an uncredited actor who did some work as "Gilbert" & when Gilbert was taken to the tank. The guy in the suit was Ricou Browning & the divers were Tom Hennsey & John Lamm who also played Gilbert. Also Ginger Stanley was used in the 2nd story also as Lori Nelson's stunt double as well as Julie Adams' stunt double. Ginger was the girl with the ball with the chain grabbed by Gilbert & the "Esther Williams" love scene between The Professer & Helen was performed by Bob Tinny & Ginger Stanley & not John Agar & Lori Nelson & When Gilbert took Helen it was done by Tom Hennesy & Ginger Stanley & Tom almost didn't survive the scene but Ginger was taken to safety by Ricoh Browning & Ricoh was also a lab tech in one scene & he's dressed as a civilian. The movie had it's ups & downs but it's worth watching now and then & Gilbert comes back for the 3rd story & the question who was the monster in "The Creature Walks Among Us"? That's it for now, Marcus Brainard

That was a classic story about Woody facing Buzz Buzzard & there were good gags when the clock bonged 12 times and the bar patrons were turning into chickens and closing up the town & The Undertaker was opened for business. One of the best parts was Buzz getting a drink from booze marked "Old Panther" and showed drunk terms on the screen & it was a good send-off on "High Noon". Walter Lantz gets an "A" on this cartoon. Also there was a good opening where there was this Mexican Hat dance and the music sounded like an Irish jig & Woody & The Card Players would take turns hollering "I". And then comes the bad news and The Sheriff turns into a chicken & all the deputies would pin there badges on Woody. The story turns out to be a good classic.