These interviews & articles by TERRY PACE were published in the FLORENCE TIMES-DAILY;
some were reprinted in affiliated NEW YORK TIMES Co. newspapers all over the country.

"Ackerman taking it with him" — FORREST J ACKERMAN defiantly claimed "If I can't take it with me, I'm not going to go!" But his disastrous legal expenses and age-related health problems forced him to auction off thousands of the books, artworks, movie still and posters, props and other priceless mementos he had preserved for many decades in his legendary 18-room ACKERMANSION in Hollywood, keeping only the relatively few treasures that meant most to him, and moving into a modest nearby bungalow he dubbed the MINI-ACKERMANSION. This article provides brief details on Forry's new home and his situation at the time.

"A look beyond that giant ape" — A week after FAY WRAY passed away at age 96 (September 15, 1907 - August 8, 2004), Terry Pace assessed her entire 80-year cinema career to briefly discuss many other fine films she made in addition to her most famous one, "King Kong":  Erich von Stroheim silent classic "The Wedding March" (her favorite film); Cooper & Schoedsack's silent origiinal version of "The Four Feathers"; "Cooper & Schoedsack's pre-Kong thriller "The Most Dangerous Game"; "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" / "Doctor X" (both in Technicolor!) and "The Vampire Bath" (all three with Lionel Atwill); "The Bowery" and "Viva Villa!" ("grade-A period pieces" with Wallace Beery); "The Clairvoyant" (British thriller with Claude Rains); "Bulldog Jack" (British mystery); "It Happened in Hollywood"; "Queen Bee" with Joan Crawford; "The Cobweb" with Lillian Gish; "Gideon's Trumpet" with Henry Fonda; and "Broadway, the Golden Age" ("Wray recalls her years on the Great White Way in this affectionate, all-star documentary").

"An axe to grind" — In 2005 Terry Pace interviewed writer RICHARD MATHESON, best known for his novels that were made into very popular and profitable films "I Am Legend" ("The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price and "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston) and "The Shrinking Man" ("The Increidble Shrinking Man"), 16 unforgettable episoes of "The Twilight Zone" series, and numerous classic movie scripts (e.g., Roger Corman's "The Pit and the Pendulum," Steven Spielberg's "Duel" and the "The Night Stalker" television films. The focus of the interview and this article was Matheson's latest novel "Woman," a provocative thriller published by Gauntlet Press, exploring "the tense and potentially terrifying ramifications of the present-day battle of the sexes." During the course of the interview, Matheson discussed the mysterious origins of this book, some of his memorable works from his past, and a few upcoming projects.

"'Big Julie" influenced two worlds" — Terry's obituary for "first fandom" and comic industry legend JULIUS SCHWARTZ began with an account of their first meeting in 1993 at the Famous Monsters of Filmland Convention in Crystal City, Virginia. "Big Julie" was nearly 80, "a spunky little human dynamo" wearing a baseball cap that read "LIVING LEGEND." The claim was true: he was the scientifiction fan who founded the first "fanzine" with Forrest J Ackerman, and the agent who represented H.P. LOVECRAFT and sold RAY BRADBURY's first short story, and the DC Comics edditor who revived the careers of Batman and Superman and brought other "Golden Age" superheroes back to life in the "Silver Age" of comics. Terry was 30, attending his first convention, and meeting his idol Ray Bradbury for the first time. He was excited and nervous, and didn't know if he should risk gushing his reverence or just play it safe and shut up – but Julie broke the ice with "So, kid, you gonna live it up today?" That was Terry's initiation to the world of fandom, and the beginning of a beautiful friendship. He grew closer to Julius Schwartz at the same time he did to Ray Bradbury and Forry Ackerman. They corresponded, Terry reviewed Julies book "Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics," and they reunited every year at Dragon Con in Atlanta, where the "Julie Award" is presented for lifetime achievement. At the San Diego Comic Con in 2001, Julie shared the stage with Ray Bradbury, and Julie wore the T-shirt from Terry's stage production of "The World of Ray Bradbury." He told Terry "I wanted thousands of people to see it, and I wanted Ray Bradbury to know how thrilled I was to wear it." Julius Schwartz died of pneumonia earlier in the week Terry wrote his obituary. He noted that Julie's signed DC Comics business card sat on his keyboard as a constant reminder to "live it up," like Julie did every day for 88 years.

"Fantasy in action" — Terry Pace provides a basic introduction to the life and fantasy film work of stop motion animation wizard RAY HARRYHAUSEN, concluding with an interview conducted via phone from his home in England. Though he hadn't made a feature film since "Clash of the Titans" in 1981 and considered himself retired, he stayed as busy as ever because the films he made 50 years ago were more popular than ever, thanks to their availability and affordability on DVDs. Harryhausen grew up in Los Angeles, and his family lived near the LaBrea Tar Pits, and he was always wild about dinosaurs, so he modeled them in clay and displayed them in dioramas he built in the family garage. When he saw and fell in love with "King Kong" at age 13, finally found a way to make his homemade diinosaurs move via the stop motion animation techniques used by Willis O'Brian in that film. A few years later he made a lifelong friend when he met Forrest J Ackerman, who loaned him rare Kong stills he could copy and invited him to a meeing of the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, where he met another lifelong friend and dinosaur lover, Ray Bradbury. They all stayed in touch and always loved dinosaurs for the rest of their lives.When Harryhausen was in high school, he phoned Willis O'Brien, who invited Ray to MGM to see the work he was coing on a project called "War Eagles" and later hired him asa an assistant. His first major film project was "Mighty Joe Young," which led to other fantasy fan favorites like "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," "20 Million Miles to Earth," "Jason and the Argonauts," and three exotic "Sinbad adventures – "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad," "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" and "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, among others. In 1972 he produced the first edition of a very popular book called "Film Fantasy Scrapbook," about all his filmwork to the date of publication. After he retired, Harryhausen won a special Oscar in 1992, and his star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003. That same year a much more comprehensive and detailed book about his lifework was published, "Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life." Terry's article covers all these high points in Harryhausen's career and many more, and includes many of his comments, opinions and answers to Terry's questions from the long-distance phone interview.

"Frightfully fun" — Terry Pace raved about the wonderful advent of digital videodiscs (DVDs) and the many advantages they delivered to serious movie fans like him, including clean, sharp prints remastered with state-of-the-art digital technology, longer shelf life, fantastic "bonus features" (documentaries, audio commentaries, etc.), a more compact and less easily damaged medium, and more affordable DVDs and playing equipment. As a special Halloween treat, he included his personal recommendtions for 10 excellent horror films (or film sets) from eight decades of cinema history that he guaranteed to deliver shivers, shocks and shudders to the most discerning connoisseurs of classic Halloween horror films. For each selection, he provided enough information about each film's history, lead actors, notable crew members, theme, and other pertinent details to set the stage, along with comments about the DVD packaging, bonus features, etc.
Here's Terry's list "The Ghoul" – a creepy English film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger & Ralph Richardson. Long lost, now rediscovered and restored in a beautiful print. "The Haunting" – a gripping haunted-house ghost story directed by Robert Wise, starring Richard Johnson, Julie Harris, Claire Bloom & Russ Tamblyn. "Horror of Dracula" – one of the best of Hammer's blood-and-thunder Technicolor horrors, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with great music by James Bernard. "House of Wax" / "Mystery of the Wax Museum" – "House" is director Andre de Toth's thriller that established Vincent Price as a horror icon, restored to its original WarnerColor grandeur (but not its original 3D format); "Wax Museum" is the original 1933 Technicolor chiller starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray that was remade as the Price film in 1953; both are equally grim and shocking. "The House That Dripped Blood" – one of the best of the long series of well-acted, smartly written horror anthologies produced by Hammer's chief British rival Amicus Films, scripted by Robert "e;Psycho" Bloch and starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Joh Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt. "The Howling" – Director Joe Dante's affectionate, satirical tribute to the werewolf film, starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, John Carradine, Kevin McCarthy, Slim Pickens, Dick Miller and Rober Picardo, with cameos by Roger Corman and Forrest J Ackerman. "The Lon Chaney Collection" – Three silent films starring Chaney: his early lead role in the politiical melodrama "The Ace of Hearts," his tragic circus clown in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" with leading lady Loretta Young, and his grotesque role as the tragic one-armed circus knife thrower in Tod Browning's twisted masterpiece "The Unknown." The set includes two great "extras": a reconstuction of Chaney's long-lost vampire thriller "London After Midnight," assembled scene by scene from hundreds of still photos, title cards and the original shooting script, and the TCM documentary "Lon Chaney: A Thousand Face." "The Man Who Laughs" – German-born director Paul Leni and German silent star Conrad Veidt worked together on Veidt's first major Universal film, based on Victor Hugo's novel about another physically deformed leading character, an ill-fated nobleman's son whose face was permanently disfigured into a grotesque grin – unforgettably realized by the makeup artistry of Jack Pierce. The DVD extras include a behind-the-scenes documentary, a gallery of rare photos and artwork, and more. "The Raven" / "The Comedy of Terrors" – A double feature of star-packed American-International Pictures horror hits from the '60s, when producer-director Roger Corman and screenwriter Richard Matheson created a popular series of Edgar Allan Poe chillers starring Vincent Price. When Matheson got bored with the formula restrictions, he began to spoof Poe and the Gothic-horror genre, starting with "The Raven," a horror comedy that teamed Price with his fellow bogeymen Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. The next year the same trio was joined by Basil Rathbone for "The Comedy of Terrors,&qupt' directed by Jacques Tourneur. "The Thing from Another World" – Hollywood legend Howard Hawks produced and secretly directed (crediting his assistant Christian Nyby) this relentless horror chiller, about an alien spacecraft landing in the Arctic ice near an isolated scientific outpost, and the ship's monstrous occupant (played by pre-"Gunsmoke" James Arness) launching a murderous assault on a team of military officers and researchers (led by Kenneth Tobey) sent to investigate the crash and contain the danger. It's an old-fashioned monster movie with nail-biting suspense, documentary-style storytelling, an eerie Dimitri Tiomkin score by Dimitri Tiomkin and the final warning, "Keep watching the skies!"

"'Hound' back on the moors" — Terry Pace gave a rave review to the latest (and final) release of MPI Home Video DVD editions of beautiful remastered prints of films in the "Sherlock Holmes" mystery series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Dr. Watson. Saving the best for last, MPI had finally issued Rathbone and Bruce's earliest appearances in these roles – lavish 20th Century Fox productions of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," based on immortal characters and unforgettable stories created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike the 12 later films in the Rathbone/Bruce series produced between 1942 and 1946 by Universal Pictures, which sacrificed period flavor for lower budgets and higher levels of patriotic propaganda, transplanting Holmes out of his era and into the war-torn modern world, these two higher-budgeted Fox films were set in the fog-shrouded world of Victorian England.This made them them especially popular among Holmes purists, who prefered their mysteries to be presented in the proper period setting. And while Universal often borrowed plot devices from the Holmes canon, "Hound" was the only Rathbone-Bruce adventure to be completely based on one of the original Conan Doyle tales, and it introduced Rathbone and Bruce in the roles they were perfectly matched to play on screen thirteen more times over the next seven years. From the opening shot of his pipe-smoking profile, Rathbone delivered the definitive portrayal of fiction's foremost detective. though Bruce's blustery portrayal of Watson is a controversial issue among Holmes devotees, who insist that Conan Doyle's shrewd, stalwart physician was never meant to be a comic foil. Still, Rathbone and Bruce had terrific chemistry, and played the roles for many years, not only in the film series but also in long-running radio shows, The new Fox film releases, sold as separate DVDs, include liner notes by "Scarlet Street" editor/publisher Richard Valley, who also contributed a witty, well-researched commentary track to "Adventures." Holmes scholar David Stuart Davies, editor/publisher of "Sherlock Magazine," offered his commentary remarks on the strange and ghostly "Hound."

"'Kong' remains groundbreaking chapter in American cinema" — In 2004, Terry Pace called on many of his friends and fellow "King Kong" fans to put together this collection of comments about the Great Ape and his cinematic legacy, leading off with:  [In the public consciousness, Fay Wrays name remains forever linked with the larger-than-life image of her most famous co-star – the roaring, chest-pounding 50-foot gorilla called 'King Kong.']
Veteran sci-fi / fantasy / horror collector and gorilla suit actor BOB BURNS, who owns the original steel armature of the King Kong animation model, said "If you think of 'King Kong,' you immediately think of Fay Wray, and vice versa. It's the classic 'Beauty and the Beast' story, and Fay sure is a beauty."
[TP: "Kong" producer MERIAN C. COOPER originally conceived a fantastic story about monstrous dragon lizards wreaking havoc on Manhattan and seizing the Chrysler Building. Working with stop-motion animator WILLIS O'BRIEN, they opted instead for a giant ape attacking the Empire State Building.]
Genre legend FORREST J ACKERMAN recalled: "I first saw 'King Kong' on the day it opened in 1933 at a theater in San Francisco that no longer exists, I was stunned. I was just overwhelmed by it – the special effects alone changed fantastic films forever."
[TP; More than 70 years after it first mesmerized movie audiences, "King Kong" remains one of the cornerstones of American cinema and the granddaddy of all giant monster movies.]
Screen historian DANNY PEARY ranks Cooper's visionary masterpiece as "the greatest, most popular, most intriguing horror-fantasy film ever made."
Fantasy and science-fiction author RAY BRADBURY, who was 13 when he saw the film in 1933, remembered "When Kong fell off the Empire State Building, he landed on me. I crawled out from under Kong and began a mad love affair with that 50-foot ape."
[TP: The mythic story was especially popular with young boys, who found themselves equally captivated by Kong's brute strength and the feminine charms and courage of his leading lady, Fay Wray.]
Film critic and movie historian MICHAEL H. PRICE maintained " 'King Kong' endures largely because of the qualities Fay brought to it, that rare mixture of vulnerability and determination, and because of its makers' belief in the adventurous truth underlying a fantastic story, Such qualities infused Kong with an undeniable life, and the feat has proved induplicable, even in the digital age."
[TP: Hollywood producer Dino de Laurentiis attempted – and miserably failed – to recapture the glory and grandeur of "King Kong" with a disastrous 1976 remake.]
Master stop-motion animator RAY HARRYHAUSEN recalled "When I first saw the original 'King Kong,' I couldn't get it out of my mind, As soon as I learned about the techniques that helped Willis O'Brien bring Kong to life, I decided I wanted to do stop-motion animation. Thank God I didn't see the remake then."
[TP: Oscar-winning director PETER JACKSON, a lifelong fan of the 1933 classic, now plans to mount a second remake of the majestic "Kong."]
FAY WRAY remarked in a recent interview at her Manhattan apartment, where a 10-foot-tall "King Kong" poster hangs near her front door, "If they don't have it in their hearts, they shouldn't be doing it. But if they do, they just need to feel their way through it – just like we did so long ago. I have come to believe over the years that Kong is my friend.d. He's been around a long time, hasn't he?"

"'Lady Fay" as ageless as 'Kong'" — Awestruck FAY WRAY fan Terry Pace writes about his lifelong love for "the heroine of his all-time favorite film," and how he earned the wpmderful opportunity to meet and conduct an interview with her (which turned out to be her final one), and what the experience meant to him: "She had just turned 96, but her sparkling eyes and her warm, luminous smile made her seem as ageless as her films.... The memory of my happy encounter with 'Lady Fay' is sure to last a lifetime."

"Lights dim, tears fall for Fay Wray" — Terry Pace's bittersweet obituary for FAY WRAY, written a few days after her death at age 96, and far too short a time after she gave him her final full-length interview. She died quietly and peacefully at home in her high-rise apartment on the 53rd floor of Trump Tower. Two nights later, the lights dimmed for 15 minutes at the Empire State Building, the iconic setting of the climax of her most famous film. " 'King Kong' has reached millions of people of all ages, all over the world, and audiences are still fascinated by it today," she told Terry. "When we did it, I just thought how lucky I was to be in the movies, where something like this was possible." For Terry, meeting and interviewing Fay Wray was a long-cherished dream. He first saw "King Kong" on a tiny TV set in 1974, when he was ll, starving for fantasy and adventure. His idol RAY BRADBURY had the same epiphany at age 13, when he saw it during its original release in 1933: "When Kong fell off the Empire State Building, he landed on me, and I haven't been the same since." The giant gorilla became Terry's cinematic hero, and his leading lady was the object of his eternal affection–a sentiment shared by Kong connoisseurs ever since. The world's foremost Kong fan, stop motion animator RAY HARRYHAUSEN, says "I fell head over heels in love with Fay Wray – she was my first pinup – my pinup girl of 1933." Fay Wray tried at first to escape from Kong and her image as Hollywood's original scream queen, but she finally embraced the movie's everlasting appeal to all ages. Her 1989 autobiography, "On the Other Hand," includes her dedication to &qupt'all the young-at-heart who have liked''King Kong.' " "When my youngest daughter first saw the film as a child," Wray recalled, "she said, 'Kong wasn't trying to hurt you at all. He just liked you, and he was trying to protect you.' And she was right. When we would pass the Empire State Building, I always said a little prayer and told her, ''A good friend of mine died there.' " "King Kong" remained Terry Pace's favorite film of all time, and his evening with Fay Wray was one of the highlights of his personal and professional life. "Fay Wray's life on earth will never end as long as the young-at-heart continue to be captivated by 'King Kong,' " he wrote. " I've seen it more than 50 times, including a memorial viewing the night after Fay's death, seated beside my 10-week-old son, Forrest. When the majestic ape first roared and the ravishing heroine first screamed, my little boy's eyes widened with instant, irresistible wonder. I'd say he's off to a fine start, and that 'King Kong&a[ps' will one day have him staring into Fay Wray's eyes and falling hopelessly in love with the Beauty that killed the Beast."

" 'Maria' looks to the future" — In 2002, Terry Pace interviewed his close friend FORREST J ACKERMAN and wrote this article initially focused on Forry's lifelong love for his favorite film, the 1926 German silent fantasy "Metropolis," directed by Fritz Lang, who made many of the greatest German silent and early sound films, and escaped Hitler to make many more great English-language talkies in Hollywood. Young Forry first saw the film at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles in 1927, when he was 10 years old., and was utterly overwhelmed by it. In 2001, Ackerman was thrilled again when a restored, reconstructed version of Lang's grim, harrowing, metaphorical masterpiece retturned to theaters and was made available on DVD on its 75th anniversary. For many years Ackerman was close friends with Lang, who often told interviewers, "Anything you want to know about 'Metropolis,' ask my friend Forry Ackerman." The article continued with details about Ackerman's recent activities and then-current plans. He had visited the Shoals in 2000 and 2001 to participate in two of Terry Pace's stage productions based on the work of his longtime friends Ray Bradbury and Curt Siodmak, and he was returning to the South as a guest of honor at Dragon Con in Atlanta, where he wouldl unveil a new "Martianthology" volume and present a program called "My Life in a Time Machine," talking about his encounters with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. Wells. Ackerman would also honor a fellow citizen of the "Imagi-Nation" by presenting the first "Futura" Award, a statuette modeled after the "False Maria," the female robotrix from "Metropolis." The first recipient would be his great friend Ray Bradbury, who credits Ackerman as his first editor and publisher. "So much has changed since I first met that rambunctious young writer in 1937," Ackerman mused. "Much of what we called science fiction in those days, including some of what we saw in 'Metropolis,' has become scientific fact. I guess we were ahead of our time."

"Miraculous week to remember" — Terry Pace waxing rhapsodic about the week he was spending as a house guest of FORREST J ACKERMAN in "the Fort Knox of science fiction," his legendary, treasure-filled "ACKERMANSION" in the Hollywood Hills.

"Renaissance lecture focuses on Dracula" — Providing details on the "Renaissance Month" schedule of events on the theme of Bram Stoker's DRACULA.. Times-Daily entertainment editor Terry Pace presented a lecture ("The Blood is the Life: Cinematic Shadows of Dracula") at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, while a live radio-drama revival based on ORSON WELLES' 1938 "Mercury Theater" broadcast "Dracula" was staged at the Ritz Theater in Sheffield, preceded by a program presented by visiting classic horror scholar DAVID J. SKAL (author of "Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen"), and a new radio adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short vampire story "The Man Upstairs." The final event, following the conclusion of the radio-drama productions, will be an auction of items related to the Dracula theme, including books signed by Ray Bradbury, David J. Skal, and Carla Laemmle (the last surviving member of the original 1931 Lugosi film), action figures created by Sideshow Toys, signed photos and other items featuring James Marsters ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Carla Laemmle ("Dracula"), Christopher Lee ("Horror of Dracula"), Bela Lugosi Jr., William Marshall ("Blacula"), Traci Lords ("Blade"), Carroll Borland ("Mark of the Vampire"), Ingrid Pitt ("The Vampire Lovers"), Barbara Leigh ("Vampirella"), Forrest J Ackerman (signed "Dr. Acula") and many more .

"Siodmak's work arose from ideas" — Writer CURT SIODMAK worked on "A" silent & early sound films in Germany but is best known for his science fictions stories and the Universal "B" movies he wrote screenplays or original stories for in America, including well-known horror thrillers starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price. Terry Pace interviewed Siodmak in 1993, seven years before he died in September 2000 (age 98), and wrote this article in October 2001, just before the single live performance Terry directed of the revival of a famous Old Time Radio drama based on Siodmak’s creepy sci-fi novel "DONOVAN'S BRAIN" staged at the historic Ritz Theater in Sheffield, Alabama. ORSON WELLES wrote, directed and starred in the original radio adaptation of Siodmak's novel as an episode of SUSPENSE in 1944. Siodmak's most famous original film story, "THE WOLF MAN" is also discussed, and the author's wit and wisdom is well represented by quotes from Terry's interview.

"The keeper of the flame" — Terry began this article "Forrest J Ackerman deserves to be called much more than a mere living legend" and then quoted some serious accolades to support that claim; RAY BRADBURY believing "Forrest Ackerman is the most important fan-collector-human being in the history of science-fantasy fiction"; STEPHEN KING asserting that "Forry was the best, and he is the best"; STEVEN SPIELBERG claiming "I credit Forry with much-needed inspiration. He is the keeper of the flame." Terry then noted that Forry was visiting the area that week to perform on stage in the sci-fi thriller "Donovan's Brain" and attend the premiere of the locally produced supernatural chiller "SadoMannequin," to which he contributed his 92nd movie cameo. Both were being presented at the Ritz Theater in Sheffield, "where fans can meet 'Mr. Sci-Fi' and experience and glow of his unique, life-affirming spiirit." The article ended with another Bradbury quote, "The best thing we can wish is that Forry outlives us all," to which Terry' added "standing in the presence of this ageless 84-year-old, with his radiant smile and that warm twinkle in his eyes, it's easy to imagine that he will."

"Set shows many faces of Chaney" — Terry's rave review from 2003 of the then newly-released boxed DVD set of three silent LON CHANEY films that were previously unavailable on DVD, and a great bonus feature: Kevin Brownlow's Turner Classic Movies documentary from 2000, "Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces." The three silent films in the set are the thriller "Ace of Hearts," Tod Browning's twisted chiller "The Unknown," and the circus drama "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." The bonus documentary, narrated by actor Kenneth Branagh, presents Chaney's life, movie career and legacy through film clips, reflections and archival footage featuring Chaney's silent film co-stars Jackie Coogan and Patsy Ruth Miller, his great-grandson Ron Chaney, biographer Michael F. Blake, and his lifelong admirers Orson Welles, Forrest J Ackerman and Ray Bradbury. The article includes a brief overview of Chaney's special talents and abilities, highlights of his life and career, his impact on movie history, and his tragic death at age 47 of lung cance in 1930, after making his first and only sound film, a reamke of his 1925 box office hit, "The Unholy Three," in which Chaney repeated his role as Professor Echo, a sideshow ventriloquist and con man, with the added feature of proving that the actor's vocal talents could be the equal of his makeup skills and physical contortion abilities.

"Well, hellllooooo." — Terry Pace's followup to Tom Weaver's first interview with actor DONNIE DUNAGAN, published months earlier in VIDEO WATCHDOG shortly after.the child star of "Son of Frankenstein," Disney's "Bambi" (voice), and a few other films was rediscovered after many "whatever became of.." years. Pace explores the 4-year-old actor's pleasant memories of working with director ROWLAND V. LEE, BASIL RATHBONE (his father in the film) and BORIS KARLOFF, and his controversial unpleasant memories of LIONEL ATWILL's behavior, but didn't recall anything about BELA LUGOSI in his famous role as Ygor since he didn't have any scenes with him. He worked again with director Lee and actors Rathbone and Karloff, and for the only time with VINCENT PRICE, later in 1939 in "TOWER OF LONDON," igniting his lifelong admiration for that actor: "I always thought he was the most pleasant intellectual snob on this earth, He played that part so beautifully – and you loved him for it."

These Interviews & articles by TERRY PACE were published in the following magazines:

CULT MOVIES #35 (2001): A NEW FACE FOR "EVIL" – article about the reissue of Orson Welles "Touch of Evil."

CULT MOVIES #36 (2002): ONE SIZE FITS ALL – article about the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit."

CULT MOVIES #39 (2003): SHEDDING SKIN – Traci Lords bares her soul in a candid, moving memoir, "Underneath It All," interviewed by Terry Pace.

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #257 (Sep/Oct 2011): BILLY BOB THORNTON: What Do Frankenstein and Sling Blade Have in Common?

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #265 (Jan/Feb 2013): RAY BRADBURY -- The FM Tribute: A Life Bigger Than the Cosmos – a 21-page memorial tribute prepared by Ray's longtime friend and collaborator Terry Pace, including his own salute "Witness and Celebrate: Ray Bradbury Spent a Lifetime Inspiring Generations of Readers," a 1993 Bradbury interview by Forrest J Ackerman, Ray's 2002 "Ackerman Forever!" salute, and two excerpts from lectures Bradbury gave at Terry's alma mater, University of North Alabama.

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #268 (Jul/Aug 2013): A BRADBURY HOMECOMING – exploring the relationship between Ray Bradbury and cartoonist Charles Addams (Rondo Award for "Best Article" in 2013).

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #271 (Jan/Feb 2014): A CERTAIN KIND OF MAGIC – How a Passion for Dinosaurs Bound Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury.

FANGORIA #52 (March 1986): ACTOR, VILLAIN AND LIVING LEGEND – interview with legendary actor John Carradine about his genre films

LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #27 (2011): SARAH DANCED WITH THE VAMPIRES – The career of doomed actress Sharon Tate, in her own words and those who knew her, in an issue focused on Roman Polanski's "Fearless Vampire Killers."

MONDO CULT #1 (2007): WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FAY WRAY? – in her final interview, conducted by Terry Pace, the original Scream Queen reveals her long love affair with KING KONG.

MONSTER BASH #4 (2005): KING KONG – A DATE WITH FAY WRAY — a brief account of the interview Terry Pace conducted with his lifelong idol, originally published in the Florence (Alabama) Times-Daily when he was working for the New York Times Co., and subsequently reprinted in MONDO CUT #1.

MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT #16 (Spring 2012): RAY BRADBURY'S EARLIEST INFLUENCES – In a career-spanning interview, Bradbury remembers how early fantasy films, and especially Lon Chaney, inspired his writing.

SCARLET STREET #39 (2000) – three interviews in the same issue: MAN OF STEEL: GENE EVANS – the veteran character actor's final interview, THE MAN WITH THREE BRAINS – (co-written with Kevin Shinnick) Part 1 of an interview with legendary sci/fi/horror writer Curt Siodmak, and THE MAN WITH THE BRAINS – (co-written with John Brunas) interview with genre star John Agar.

SCARLET STREET #41 (2001) – Part 2 (conclusion) of the Curt Siodmak interview THE MAN WITH THE BRAINS that began in issue #39 (co-written with Kevin Shinnick) .

SCARLET STREET #44 (2002) – Part 1 of THE ELUSIVE HARRY: HARRY ALAN TOWERS, Terry Pace's extensive nterview with producer/writer Towers, who brought Orson Welles' "The Third Man" back to life for radio's "The Many Lives of Harry Lime" and produced Fu Manchu, Dracula and Sherlock Holmes films starring Christopher Lee, Robert Englund's Phantom, sexy versions of SHE and Dorian Gray, and many other entertaining films.

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