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Earthlings, surrender to sheer silliness of ‘Plan 9’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fans of mind-bendingly bad cinema were no doubt be lined up at 11 Saturday night in front of the recently renovated and reopened Plaza Theatre on Ponce de Leon Avenue.
The venerable venue’s new owners, Jonathan and Gayle Rej, are screening “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” the 1959 Ed Wood mangled masterpiece starring Vampira and (for a few frames at least) horror legend Bela Lugosi, who had sense enough to expire before filming was completed. The evening will be hosted by Elvira “illusionist” Patterson Lundquist, the gentleman who first approached the Rejs with the idea for the big-screen tribute to Wood.
“Patterson is a big Ed Wood buff, and when he came to us about it, we thought, ‘This is exactly the kind of thing we want to do here,’ ” Jonathan Rej told Buzz on Friday.
In addition to wooden acting, cardboard tombstones that flutter on set, flaming hubcap spaceships, an aircraft cockpit outfitted with a shower curtain and an almost complete absence of continuity, “Plan 9” also boasts some of the most priceless dialogue in film history.
You require a sample, you say?
When the aliens and pistol-packing humans finally meet face to face near the finish of the film’s 1-hour-and-18-minute mess, the chief “grave robber from outer space” snarls: “I a fiend? I am only a soldier of my planet! All you of Earth are idiots. You’re stupid, stupid! “
In addition to an appearance by Nightmare Haunted House resident spook Circus Envy, the midnight movie will be supplemented with a Vampira costume contest and running commentary à la “Mystery Science Theater” by Lundquist during the film.
Explains Rej: “About 45 minutes in, ‘Plan 9’ gets kinda tough to get through. This was a way to liven it up for the audience.”
As for the obvious question regarding Lundquist’s “illusionist” skills, Rej laughed and conceded: “Yeah, I have no idea how he’s going to pull that off.”
Drama queen special delivery
Opening the mail here at Buzz Central occasionally calls for detonation robots, specially trained canines and, every once in a while, a pair of tongs. However, on Friday we nearly bruised a rib at the hilarious parcel from Lynne and Howard Halpern. Readers will recall last week we ran into the Buckhead Beef founders at a Project Open Hand benefit dinner at Spice in Midtown and shared a laugh about the T-shirts floating around town. The garments tout the couple’s generous funding of the Jewish Theatre of the South’s Lynne and Howard Halpern Drama Camp. The shirt’s front reads: “A Little Drama Never Hurt Anyone.” On Friday, one of the priceless T’s landed at Buzz with a handwritten note from the ever-inimitable Lynne Halpern. While we’ll decline to reveal the note’s entire contents, Halpern closed with “Wear this with pride!” We may never take it off …
Pitt: Marriage for all
If the October issue of Esquire is any indication, we can cease our feverish search for a Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie wedding gift. Pitt tells the men’s mag that he won’t be marrying Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.
“Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able,” the 42-year-old actor reveals in the Esquire on newsstands Sept. 19.
In the article, he reflects on “fifteen things I think everyone should know.”
Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend/Earth mother Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he “cannot imagine life” without his adopted children, Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1.
The actor, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama “Babel,” subscribes to a laid-back parenting style. “I try not to stifle them in any way,” he says. “If it’s not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they’re quite rambunctious.”
In the piece, Pitt did not immediately disclose what a Sam’s Club warehouse of Advil will run you.
Lost and found
Two nations can once again enjoy a fitful night’s sleep: Lindsay Lohan’s Hermes handbag has been found.
British police said Friday they had recovered a handbag that went missing from the star’s luggage cart at Heathrow Airport. “A member of the public contacted us to say they had found it and brought it in,” a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said, on customary condition of anonymity. “We have not yet established what, if anything, is missing.”
Lohan’s representative, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, says the orange Hermes bag contained jewelry and the actress’s asthma medicine. London’s Evening Standard newspaper on Friday ran a picture of a tearful Lohan, 20, which it said was taken just after she realized the bag was missing Thursday.
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Actor Cliff Robertson is 81. Actor Tom Wopat is 55. Actor Hugh Grant is 46. Actor-comedian Adam Sandler is 40. Actor Goran Visnjic (“ER”) is 34. Actress Michelle Williams (“Dawson’s Creek”) is 26.
Sunday: Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers is 66. Guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith is 56. Actor Colin Firth is 46. Rapper Big Daddy Kane is 38. Director Guy Ritchie is 38. Actor Ryan Phillippe is 32.
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