A reason to go on living: Just...
A reason to go on living: Just when you’ve given up all hope for the world, you hear about the work done by a man named Steve Brio. He has found a cure for one of the most baffling problems of our times--hair loss in G.I. Joe dolls. Brio will appear at the G.I. Joe Convention at the Pasadena Hilton this weekend to explain how Joes’ chrome domes can be covered, thereby alleviating the need for them to wear military headgear indoors.
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Horrors for Hollywood: Just a few days after the Getty Museum’s purchase of that Michelangelo drawing for $6.27 million, there’s more big news on the cultural scene. The Weird Museum has reopened on Cahuenga Boulevard, almost a decade after its contents were damaged by a fire of suspicious origins.
The Weird (as its followers call it) charges $3 admission for adults and is located in back of the Panpipes Magikal Marketplace, an occult goods store. Founded by the late D.R. (Don) Blyth, the museum advertises these artifacts:
* The “Hand of Glory,” the mummified left hand of an executed murderer. “It’s one of only three known in the world, and it’s considered a powerful occult tool,” said Seti, the professional name of the Weird’s current owner. What type of tool? “It has the power to grant invisibility,” Seti explained.
* The head of a warlock “burned at the stake in Salem.”
* The head of Henri Landru, the French “Bluebeard.” “We have a fake beard on him to make him look more like his picture in the (history) books on display,” Seti said.
* Senbi, an Egyptian mummy, believed to be about 3,300 years old. “Don (Blyth) got him while he was in medical school,” Seti said. “His (Senbi’s) coffin is in Cleveland.”
Senbi, by the way, was not considered a suspect in the museum’s fire.
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Weird spelling: Nancy Lieberman of Agoura snapped a photo of a sign that seems to be a letter short. Which letter, we’re not quite sure.
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Witches’ brood: The Weird Museum would have been a fitting location for the news conference held Monday by “representatives of the Los Angeles Wiccan Religious Community (i.e. Witches),” as a press release from Aguilar & Associates Public Relations termed the group. Yes, in L.A., even witches have PR people.
Anyway, the group is upset over the Disney film “Hocus Pocus,” a comedy about some 300-year-old witches who vault into the present. The film, the Wiccan community says, “promotes the erroneous image of witches as dangerous.”
Actually, according to critics, the film promotes the images of witches as silly and boring.
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Customers of professional face-painter Val Warner have their pick of about 50 designs at the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa. Most requested: The rainbow swirl, the cheetah and the tiger. Among the least popular: the intertwined letters “L.A.”