April 27-Kiss the Bride Goodbye-and Other Babbling…

It was sad to see “Bride of Frankenstein” run for its final time on our show. It really is such a classic, and even goes beyond just the horror genre, often ending up on lists of the greatest movies-in general- of all time. I know, some of you have mentioned that we’ve been showing these “Frankenstein” flicks too much- as I’ve said, it’s a schedule we have to follow- and, keep in mind that this will indeed be the final run of almost all these films on our Sven show.
In other news-I was just reminded the other day that, back in the 80s, I made a couple appearances on “Entertainment Tonight.” One was when they did a special segment about horror movie hosts- and another was in regards to the screening of the 3-D movie. One of the producers that I spoke with, Garry Grossman, turned out to be a guy who had written a couple books that I had read- one about Saturday morning cartoon shows, and another great book about Superman in film and, mainly, the 50s television show (now available on our sister Me-Too channel.)He has often worked with an old pal and former Chicagoan, Robb Weller, who used to do the morning show on channel 7 that was later taken over by Oprah, and eventually became her juggernaut program!
Which reminds me- that I appeared on the very first show that Oprah did here in Chicago! When she took over the show that was then called “AM Chicago,” the people producing the show went around to various “well-known” Chicago people to get them to record greetings, and a couple other things that appeared on the show (I can’t get too excited that they used me- they also went to the Empire Carpet Man…) …I have never met her, nor had her acknowledge me in any way. She never even sent a thank you, though the people producing the stuff for her were very nice and very grateful. As far as ever getting any contact with her, long ago I made a move that parodies her “Big Give”- I did “Sven’s Big Give Up.”