Brock Brower, author of The Late Great Creature
Brock Brower died April 16, 2014, Santa Barbara, California, aged 82. Brower is the author of The Late Great Creature (1972, reissued 2011), a marvelous satire about the making and publicizing of a...
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Sorry to hear this. THE LATE GREAT CREATURE really is a wonderful book. Not just a fun read, but a well-written piece of literature. I've been hoping for nearly 40 years that somebody -- somebody...
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I remember reading this with great interest in the early seventies when it came out in mass market paperback. Never saw anything else by Mr. Bower, unfortunately.
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When the paperback first came out, it said "soon to be a major motion picture." I think fifteen or twenty years later screenwriter Peter Stone was still working on it. I have mixed feeling about the...
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Brock was a great guy who loved to chat on the phone...I was one of the last journalists he talked with about THE LATE GREAT CREATURE...I had sent him my last book SIX REELS UNDER and he had promised...
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I knew as I was reading it Quincy Adams was vaguely reminiscent of Vincent Price. But I must say, for someone who was rumored to be gay, I never heard much specifics and he was involved with several...
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I remember reading the book decades ago, and would love to read it again. Looks like I'll have another title request for good old Interlibrary Loan. (Sometimes I think I keep them in business...
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Brower's impression of Karloff only proves that NO one (except Peter Cushing, of course!) can be Mr. Nice Guy ALL the time, despite his overall reputation.
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I just finished rereading the book. I wonder just how much of it I could have understood back in 1971, when I was only twelve? Probably not very much. Being rather sheltered (AND young!), the...
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Without looking it up, I don't remember who wrote the ALFRED HITCHCOK PRESENTS episode that "will" mentions above. However, it was called "The Greatest Monster of Them All." Richard Hale played the...
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http://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2011/12/robert-bloch-on-tv-part-five-alfred.html
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It was adapted by Robert Bloch from a story by SF and mystery writer Bryce Walton.
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I wonder what's on the website, lategreatcreature.com? The computers at the Free Library of Philadelphia refuse to access it! Is it THAT rough?
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They don't want anybody to see it. My computer is in my house and I can't access it either. Says it is forbidden on my computer.
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