Fanny Friday!

  

Wonder Woman Wednesday!

Wonder Woman is taking some time to relax this summer, so here are a few portraits of her lounging around.

 

Vincent Price is at the 'Crossroads'

Crossroads: God's Healing (1956)
Starring: Vincent Price, Marcia Henderson, Frieda Inescort, and Adam Kennedy

Director: Nathan Juran

Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

While counseling an elderly woman with a failing heart (Inescort), the pastor of a healing ministry (Price) attempts to rebuild her broken family and restore her relationship with her daughter (Henderson).

"Crossroads" was a dramatic anthology show that began the ABC Network and moved onto syndication. Every week, it presented a tale of a clergyman overcoming challenges, righting lives, and saving souls while being a sterling example of what a truly good man should be, regardless of his religious affiliation.

The episode "God's Healing" is well written and populated by believable characters portrayed by good actors. The way the story unfolds and way the characters interact with each other actually manages to make what could have been boring and predictable into a story where the outcome remains in doubt almost until the very end.

It's also a nice reminder that Vincent Price could actually play likeable characters and didn't always go over the top in his performances. The gentle, compassionate demeanor he presents in this role shows that he had a far greater range as an actor than one gets from just watching his work from the mid-1960s onward where he was almost all-camp and comedic all the time.

Whether you're a Vincent Price fan, or interested in some light, uplifting entertainment, I think you'll find "God's Healing" to be worth half an hour of your time. Click below to check it out.

It's a Mohammed Monday!

 
THIS WEEK WITH JESUS & MO

Musical Monday with Brenda Lee

 

On this Monday, we present a song in honor of those being celebrated on August 10, International Prisoner Remembrance Day. Maybe if some of them found in jails and prisons here in the U.S. felt sentiments along the lines of those expressed by Brenda Lee in this week's offering, there would be fewer of them locked up and less repeat offenders.

Sunday Comics with Milton Knight

Here's a tale of manslaughter and mystery from the pen of an underappreciated artist and story-teller, Milton Knight. This was adapted from a short story by the equally great Arthur Conan Doyle, and we hope you find it as enjoyable and impressive as we did! (Click on the pages to see larger, more easily read versions.)

 

 If you enjoyed the story, we encourage you to support Milton and his work by becoming a subscriber to his Patreon Page by clicking here.
 
 

Fanny Friday

 



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Behold: The Sorceress of Zoom!

The Sorceress of Zoom is an enigmatic, supremely powerful woman who travels the floating city of Zoom. She is a able to bend any aspect of reality to her will... except the human heart. For all her personal power, for all her vast wealth and collection of magical artifacts, she remains alone and unable to find love (or even a man that can satisfy her lust).

No living being knows her name, nor how she came to be the all-powerful ruler of the flying city; the Sorceress of Zoom keeps her secrets and all who seek to learn them come to horrible ends. She has been featured in two books from NUELOW Games so far ("The Sorceress of Zoom" and "The Sorceress of Zoom: Down to Earth". A third volume has been planned, but since it reveals some of the Sorceress's secrets, the people at NUELOW Games may not dare publish it.

Although several artists have portrayed the Sorceress of Zoom (prime among these being Don Rico and Bradley K. McDevitt, no one has published photos of her.

Until now.

During her visit to our Reality and Earth, the Sorceress commanded a photographer to capture her true appearance and essence. It is unknown if she was happy with the results, as the photographer was never heard from again. We have recently come across some extremely rare prints that came from the photo-session of the Sorceress, and we are proud to bring them to you on this, the first Picture Perfect Wednesday of August 2024!

(In seriousness, those aren't photos of the Sorceress of Zoom. They are publicity stills featuring actress and model Joyzelle Joyner, promoting the 1930 sci-fi comedy "Just Imagine". But if the Sorceress WAS to pose for pictures, we think THAT is exactly how she's look. And we're also serious about hoping to see that third "Sorceress of Zoom" book from NUELOW Games. If you want to see it, too, leave a comment below!)

Musical Monday with Bond Street

Bond Street is U.K.-based that performs "vintage" arrangements of popular music from the past 30-40 years. Here they are in 2017, performing an excellent swing version of Coolio's hit "Gangsta's Paradise"!

 

In as similar vein, here's the ghost of Frank Sinatra also performing an arrangement of "Gangsta's Paradise"! We hope you enjoy this special bonus tune (on this bonus fifth July Musical Monday!)

Just a bit of muscial nuttiness from Van Beuren

Nursery Scandal (1932)
Starring: Anonymous Singers and Voice Actors
Directors: John Foster and Harry Bailey

Rating: Five of Ten Stars

Magic gnomes cause characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes to emerge from a discarded book, and they all proceed to have a Rave Party 1930s style. Meanwhile, Mother Goose gets romantic with a scarecrow.

"Nursery Scandal" is a innocuous bit of nonsense for all ages. Adults and children alike will find the most entertainment here from identifying all the fairy tales and nursery rhymes that emerge for the big party. The only thing scandalous here might be Mother Goose making time with a scarecrow... but as scandals go, it's a pretty minor one.

There is no plot to get in the way of the story here: Gnomes find the book of rhymes and fairy tales; gnomes cause various characters to come to life; gnomes host a dance party. If Modest Mussorgsky had based "Night on Bald Mountain" on a book of fairy tales instead of folklore about witches and demons, events similar to what we have in "Nursery Scandal" would have formed its storyline.

If you have a few minutes to spare and are in the mood for something strange, then you should click below. I suspect you won't come across anything weirder today.