10/17/2006
Do YOU have your Halloween costume yet? Planning on buying one? Here’s a Sven tip- GO GET ONE NOW!!! The store-bought costumes will be flying off the shelves by this weekend, and, if you wait until NEXT weekend, you’ll be buying a box of aluminum foil and going as a baked potato.
Okay- where was I in our Sven history lesson? Ah, yes- Jerry G. (the first Sven) was about to go to San Diego- I had been working with radio great Dick Orkin, working on syndicated features like “ChickenMan returns for the Last Time Again” and commercials- and Dick was moving his company to L.A. Jerry asked what my plans were, and I said I might try to pitch some local station on a show. Jerry generously offered “if you want to try to do ‘Son of Svengoolie’ like we talked about- you have my blessing.” How kind and flattering it was to have him basically pass the character on to me! So- I called tv stations. One program director, when I told him what I wanted to do, laughed and HUNG UP on me! Finally, I talked to WFLD- presented them with the complete show, format, etc. they said “Hmmm- we’ve talked about doing something like this- but- let’s make-it a bake-off, and let anybody who wants to audition doing whatever they want.” Gee, thanks. Well, others auditioned, and, to make a long story short (although it took about a year)-I finally got the job. Maybe someday I’ll write a book, and tell the complete story. I premiered on WFLD, the same station as the original Sven did, in June of 1979.And the rest, as they say- is hysteria…no, wait, history.
Quick- let’s get in today’s scary movie pick. Grab your popcorn, because its’ the 1984 feature “Children of the Corn.” Based on a Stephen King story, we find a young couple (Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton of “Terminator” fame) in a farm country- where they drive through the corn-lined scenery- only to have a guy with his throat slashed stumble out onto the road! They head to a small town, which looks deserted- but is actually controlled by an evil young religious leader who has commanded all the town’s kids to kill all the adults! The pint-sized preacher wants our travelers to be his next sacrifice- to a strange thing that lives behind the rows of corn. This film is a corn-fed chiller that will “stalk” (get it? Corn? Stalk?) your dreams!
Well, enough of this corn- I’m out of here. Write to me at svengoolie@wciu.com check out the webisodes in the video room- and come back tomorrow! (“Stalk” your dreams…heh-heh-I kill myself!)
Okay- where was I in our Sven history lesson? Ah, yes- Jerry G. (the first Sven) was about to go to San Diego- I had been working with radio great Dick Orkin, working on syndicated features like “ChickenMan returns for the Last Time Again” and commercials- and Dick was moving his company to L.A. Jerry asked what my plans were, and I said I might try to pitch some local station on a show. Jerry generously offered “if you want to try to do ‘Son of Svengoolie’ like we talked about- you have my blessing.” How kind and flattering it was to have him basically pass the character on to me! So- I called tv stations. One program director, when I told him what I wanted to do, laughed and HUNG UP on me! Finally, I talked to WFLD- presented them with the complete show, format, etc. they said “Hmmm- we’ve talked about doing something like this- but- let’s make-it a bake-off, and let anybody who wants to audition doing whatever they want.” Gee, thanks. Well, others auditioned, and, to make a long story short (although it took about a year)-I finally got the job. Maybe someday I’ll write a book, and tell the complete story. I premiered on WFLD, the same station as the original Sven did, in June of 1979.And the rest, as they say- is hysteria…no, wait, history.
Quick- let’s get in today’s scary movie pick. Grab your popcorn, because its’ the 1984 feature “Children of the Corn.” Based on a Stephen King story, we find a young couple (Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton of “Terminator” fame) in a farm country- where they drive through the corn-lined scenery- only to have a guy with his throat slashed stumble out onto the road! They head to a small town, which looks deserted- but is actually controlled by an evil young religious leader who has commanded all the town’s kids to kill all the adults! The pint-sized preacher wants our travelers to be his next sacrifice- to a strange thing that lives behind the rows of corn. This film is a corn-fed chiller that will “stalk” (get it? Corn? Stalk?) your dreams!
Well, enough of this corn- I’m out of here. Write to me at svengoolie@wciu.com check out the webisodes in the video room- and come back tomorrow! (“Stalk” your dreams…heh-heh-I kill myself!)
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