Right now, Forry is having a marvelous roundtable discussion with
Karloff, the Chaneys Sr. and Jr., Lugosi, James Whale, Elsa
Lanchester, Todd Browning and many others..all having a good ol' time!!
Jeff
On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:49 PM, jbirddouglass wrote:
Reading FAMOUS MONSTERS for the first time was a rite of passage
for legions of Fifties kids who had no other outlet for their love
for these wonderful movies. It ranks right up there with seeing
your first MAD, or finding your dad's Playboy. Forry was a huge
influence on me, with his wacky sense of humor, his awful puns, and
his unabashed fan-boy sensibilities. Forry made being a geek cool,
and he never talked down to his young audience. One of my proudest
moments was getting my letter printed in FM (when I was an adult,
yet!). Even cooler was meeting FJA in 1996 at a convention in
Pasadena. I was wearing an Ed Wood shirt. I was tongue tied as I
walked up my hero. "Ed Wood!", he exclaimed. "I was his ill-
literary agent. Talk about a guy who'll do anything." I giggled
like a 12 year old, and sat down for a 30 minute chat with this
wonderful man to shoot the poop about ...what else?...monsters, and
to thank him for all the joy he had brought into my life. It was a
beautiful moment for me, and a good one for him, I hope, although
I'm sure he got that sort of fawning adulation all the time.
Forry got ripped off by uncaring opportunists...he should have been
wealthy from his collection...but he kept his head high. He was a
class act all the way to the end. I was going to go visit him a few
weeks ago, but my ride called and had spoken with Mr. Ackerman's
assistant, who said Forry was gravely ill. News of his death comes
not unexpectedly, but I shed tears nonetheless, both for this
marvelous human being and for a part of my childhood that has
passed on with him. Your spirit lives on out here, FJA. You were
like the coolest uncle ever. Wherever you are...thanks and love to
you always.
Greg Douglass
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