Word: karloff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, Mortimer's sweet old aunties, Abby and Martha, have been poisoning lonely old men as an act of charity. Mortimer's brother Teddy thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And as if those three weren't enough, Mortimer's estranged brother Jonathan, an international criminal and Boris Karloff lookalike who still bears a childhood grudge against Mortimer, comes home just in time to make more mischief. Toss in Jonathan's sniveling sidekick Dr. Einstein, a mad (of course) and incompetent plastic surgeon, and some (fortunately) clueless cops, and the chaos is complete...
...credit, though, belongs to the actors, who all overplay to the hilt. Adam Schwartz creates a perfectly blustery and "bully" Teddy Roosevelt--er, Teddy Brewster. Josh Frost is chilling as Jonathan, and thanks to Melanie Deas' make-up skills (I hope), he really does look like Boris Karloff. As the old aunts, Molly Bishop and Jennifer Donaldson find a surprisingly childish glee in their chemical activities...
...culture and use them in the brain. Whatever happens," he says, "it will be exciting." Notes New York University Neurologist Abraham Lieberman, who will assist in N.Y.U.'s first adrenal-cell transplant this week: "Five years ago, when you talked about brain transplantation, you were talking about Boris Karloff and Frankenstein. Today it's no longer science fiction...
...blearily in morning classes, peering at a white expanse of notebook, the professor's voice floating invisibly above my bowed head. Immobile hours in front of black strings of print straightjacket my nerves. I walk out of the library dazed, moaning like a dead Boris Karloff, text-book scraps and computer paper fluttering from my mummified shell...
...swine cross the finish line in 5 or 6 sec. In his best Kentucky Derby style, Holding calls the race: "Pigmalion's first out of the box, with the lead on the rail. Hamtrak settles into second, with Flying Frank third." Suddenly his voice rises excitedly: "Here comes Boaris Karloff on the outside, closing fast around the final turn!" Holding is drowned out by the shouts of the crowd as the pack pounds down the stretch to the finish, where a chocolate-cream cookie awaits the winner...