Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

On June 7 at 6:00 I will be fighting the crowds in Burbank to get Bruce's autograph.

Yay! Bruce!

As no one reads this, I see no point in elaborating on my entries.

What the fuck?

Great new article about Bubba Ho-Tep in FilmThreat.

An excerpt from the opening of the article (about his book tour for If Chins Could Kill):

At Baltimore’s annual Horrorfind Convention in 2001, after speaking for over an hour, signed autographs for the rest of the evening, setting up a chair next to him and allowing each fan to take as much time as he or she wanted. When the fest co-coordinators announced that it was time to close the convention hall, Campbell replied, “Well, let’s move this out to the parking lot."

Vitagraph Films are my new heroes! According to Fangoria, they are distributing Bubba Ho-Tep, and therefore enabling me to live a long and healthy life.

In Other News, Bruce is writing another book (yay!), and his movie Hatred of a Minute is premiering in Los Angeles two weeks before its DVD release. As I will be in New York and miss the premiere, I expect any readers of this blog who will be in town to show up at the Egyptian and cheer extra, for me. Bruce, who produced the movie, will be there in person, so rest assured that I hate you.

Dear Whoever Controls This Stuff,

If I am not able to see Bubba Ho-Tep soon, I will die. It will be messy and gross. Let's avoid that, shall we?

Bruce says: "he's a normal college student surrounded by bad Ju-Ju. His weapon of choice against evil creatures is a chainsaw."

I say: Ash may be the good guy, but he's no innocent. I mean - look at his hair!

My sister used to watch Seaquest DSV. I watched it with her, even though 5 minutes of Jonathan Brandis is enough for a lifetime. (Interesting sidenote: he once almost ran me over.) I had a thing for Tim, or whatever his name was - I didn't find him attractive, I just liked him. The actor's name is, of course, Ted Raimi. I was probably about 15 when Seaquest was on the air, so it took me about 6 years to find out who Ted was. After having the piss scared out of me during my first viewing of The Evil Dead, we watched Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn. There was about 10 minutes of pausing and rewinding during The Scene With The Hand, because I was laughing so hard that I kept missing stuff. When the movie ended, I noticed that Henrietta was played by someone called Ted Raimi, the director's brother, and said, "He was on Seaquest DSV!" Will was so impressed. (I hope he was, anyway. I don't actually remember.)

I would like to take this opportunity to state, for the record (if falsely), that the first of Sam Raimi's works that I saw was not The Quick and the Dead or Xena: Warrior Princess. But I will say (truthfully) that I love The Quick and the Dead, even if Bruce's scenes were cut.

I remember seeing commercials for Army of Darkness and thinking, "That movie looks really good." When I actualyl said it outloud, everyone but my brother laughed at me. We rented it when it came out on video and it opened up a whole new world of movies to us.

It was Nathan who would eventually drag The Evil Dead into our house and force my whole family to watch it and Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn as a Saturday night double feature on our 21" Magnavox. Much research followed. Much renting of "B" movies. Anyone involved with those movies became important, but none so much as Bruce. I became enamoured with him - his piercing eyes and chin. I bought horror movie magazines and cut out pictures of Bruce the way other girls were cutting out pictures of Jared Leto. When Brisco County came out, I was in heaven.

I even started doodling my name as "Katherine Campbell" on my notebooks at school. I was young enough that it was cute, now it's just creepy.

But the real turning point in my fandom with Bruce was seeing his guest bit on X-Files in the episode "Terms of Endearment." It was while watching that show that I realized he could really act. And that he was pretty good at it. At the end of that hour, Bruce Campbell had ceased to just be a beefcake for me to drool over, he was someone whose ability was worth admiring.

And he's got a cute butt, too.

Coming Soon:

Did Ash fight The Evil Dead, or was he a psychopath who created the whole thing in his mind and killed his friends?

Bruce Campbell vs. My Bookshelves. Film at eleven.

That isn't much of a list, is it? I'm tired and unfocused.