A shock in the entertainment industry this Saturday night, FRIENDS TV, show star Matthew Perry is dead at the age of 54.
TMZ reported that first with other news outlets following up, rumors initially have it that’s a Star died in an apparent drowning.
Just days ago that star posted a social media message about his appreciation of water with a photograph that had a haunting aura.
There is tons of speculation–as would be expected.. Police are saying no foul play as Perry was found dead in his JACUZZI..
Another select few are speculating about what he was about to “reveal”..
🚨BREAKING NEWS: ‘Friends’ Star Matthew Perry Found Dead in Jacuzzi of LA Home After Apparent “Drowning” ⚠️
POLICE SAY NO FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED BUT RUMORS ARE QUICKLY CIRCULATING THAT HE WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS ABOUT TO REVEAL THE TRUTH ABOUT PEDOWOOD❗ pic.twitter.com/sFAR7DyUwV
This is amazing! Keep spiting those reviewers who don’t matter!
Enjoy the season!
This from DEADLINE:
SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is meeting the expectations of all those crazy projections that were out there. Since yesterday midday when we saw $68M, the Emma Tammi directed feature take of the videogame, which is also co-written by the game’s creator Scott Cawthon is looking at $78M weekend. Some have this movie at near Oppenheimer‘s opening ($82.4M), not that the movie will leg out to north of $300M in the end, but it’s fun to see how Universal in its marketing, literally repeated that type of moviegoer turnout again; another title here that’s harnessed the spirit of fans.
— Read on deadline.com/2023/10/box-office-five-nights-at-freddys-1235584788/
Michael — called “The Shape” — was played by Nick Castle.. As a small boy, Michael Myers was played, in one scene, by an actor named Will Sandin in his first and last role on screen. In POV shots, the hands of young Michael were provided by co-writer and producer Debra Hill, while the unmasked Michael — who appears only briefly at the very end of the movie — was played by Tony Moran.
Vanity Fair adjusted Castle’s paycheck for inflation, saying that $525 in 1978 would be about $2,509 in 2018. By 2023, that inflation only equals $2,583.43. According to Rent.com, the average price of a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is about $2,853..
In Castle’s own words:
“I was paid $25 per day for ‘Halloween.’ That was a lot at the time! You have to remember: my interest in doing the film was being on set, so I could demystify the experience of filmmaking and directing. I expected to hang around the set for no money. But hey, $25 per day, and all I had to do was wear a rubber mask. It’s a mystery what [John Carpenter] saw in me and the way I moved. I asked John, ‘What is this character going to do?’ And he said, ‘Just walk across the street.’ I knew Michael’s movements weren’t going to be robotic. He was a real guy. He’s not rushing.”
“Caught between PG and R, as well as lost at the crossroads of inadvertent comedy and horror, the PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy’s has to go down as one of the poorest films in any genre this year.”
“A weird horror concoction, fleetingly clever in the early going before gumming up the gears down the home stretch.”
“One problem is that the title imposes a stop-and-start structure which keeps killing the momentum. One scary night would work better than five with time-outs for daytime plot about the evil auntie or a deep backstory.”
“Expanding the game’s simple, primal premise with a surfeit of character melodrama, it’s a Five Nights at Freddy’s that labors under the bizarre assumption that the loyal fanbase wants a lot of extraneous plot surrounding the fun-center horror.”
But does it matter???
We are getting word of this tonight: Five Nights at Freddy‘s is eyeing a $50 million-plus start and possibly even more. At that level, it would make it the second-best domestic box office opening of the fall behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour!!
After seeing a ‘best of Halloween’ Youtube OFFICE themed video, one particular scene was foreign. That is because it was rarely seen–cut by NBC and not on Netflix when it appeared there or Peacock now in its current home.
The scene was originally featured in the episode, “Koi Pond,” the eighth installment of season 6. You will not find it now.
“Koi Pond” was one of the most memorable episodes from The Office season 6. Jim had a meeting with an important client but it was requested that Michael come along. When the duo returned, Michael was soaking wet and it was revealed that he fell into a koi pond. After a lesson about mocking fellow employees, the office learned that Jim could have stopped Michael from falling into the pond but he purposely stepped aside to let it happen.
The episode is famous in OFFICE lore for the plot. But also famous for what vanished.
The episode aired on October 29, 2009, and opened by showing the employees of Dunder Mifflin Scranton putting together a haunted warehouse for the local kids. Darryl , who Michael referred to as “gangster pumpkin”, pushed the kids around as the rest of the employees put on less than inspired horror scenes.
The cold open-ended with Michael simulating a suicide, horrifying the children while turning it into a life lesson and referencing that Christmas is not the only season with a message and that suicide is not the answer..
It appears NBC had a backlash to the episode. Some thought it was too offensive and inappropriate causing NBC to remove the scene. Michael was dressed as Saturday Night Live‘s character, D*ck in a Box during his hanging.
You an see it here, still, in all its cut and edited glory:
The star, now 77, revealed the incident happened in her 20s, when she was living in California at a time where there were ‘a lot of UFO sightings.’
‘I went outside my door, and I sat on the little ledge, and I looked up at the dark sky. And I saw all these stars. And all I could think of was … “Are we the only planet in the whole wide universe that has life on it?”‘
She said she called out to any aliens listening, saying she knows ‘we’re not alone, and I would like to meet you one day.’
And just four months later, she was settling down for a nap in a friend’s car while working as a dancer, and heard a ‘high frequency’ in her ear.
She claims she then saw three ‘triangular-shaped heads’, silver in color with a ‘tiny little nose,’ no ears and ‘a slash for a mouth.’
The aliens ‘were pointing at me … discussing me like I was a subject.’ She says she was unable to move, but that the aliens ‘touched me and it felt like the finger of God.’ ‘It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful. It was filled with light.’
Word is –just a prediction now– if hurricane Vince materializes it will not only be strong enough to become a category 5, but could eventually cause a blizzard condition on or around the Northeast Coast..
A troubling new study shows a link between a common fungus and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists from the Baylor College of Medicine are revealing how the fungus Candida albicans enters the brain, triggers mechanisms that aid in its clearance, and generates toxic protein fragments known as amyloid beta (Ab)-like peptides — a key player in Alzheimer’s disease development.
“Our lab has years of experience studying fungi, so we embarked on the study of the connection between C. albicans and Alzheimer’s disease in animal models,” says study corresponding author Dr. David Corry, the Fulbright Endowed Chair in Pathology and a professor of pathology and immunology and medicine at Baylor, in a university release. “In 2019, we reported that C. albicans does get into the brain where it produces changes that are very similar to what is seen in Alzheimer’s disease. The current study extends that work to understand the molecular mechanisms.”
— Read on studyfinds.org/fungus-alzheimers-disease/
We were busy recollecting some nostalgia by watching this glorious VHS copy of when Halloween 4 appeared on television .. commercials galore. Edited for your TV viewing pleasure.. But when we get to the mark, we noticed something interesting. An advertisement for Halloween 5–and a 900 number.
https://youtu.be/lfcOz4epj1E?t=2890
Now 900 numbers were quite a thing when I still in single digits. If you were alive then you may recall the 900 Freddy Krueger numbers. The sex lines. The psychics.. It was a different time and era. But this number, 1-900-860-0700, produced an interesting response:
Dialing 1-900-860-0700 prompted you to guide a potential victim of Michael Myers to safety.. Michael most likely always won. The hotline itself aired directly after the end of television promos for the film. The hotline itself aired directly after the end of television promos for the film. The voice on the other end would give you a variety of places that could be found in said film, like the Tower Farm or the Children’s Clinic, to send Michael’s prey for safety.
Undoubtedly people who were alive at the time recall being in big trouble from their parents by racking up huge 900 phone bills. It was easy to do, you paid by the minute.
Too bad no one recorded the actual audio from the call–we have tried our best but cannot find anything proving someone did.
If you call it now, it is disconnected.. Which is good since in today’s dollars the call would be 5 bucks a minute..
