DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
What do Dick Cavett, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Freddy Krueger have in common? Nothing, you say? Wrong, Starchhead! All three appear in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the latest horror sequel and a film with the longest title since 1969’s Anthony Newley/Milton Berle starrer, Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe And Find True Happiness?
DRIVE•INSTATURDAY
HUNGARIAN GOULASH
Edouard Dauphin
What do Dick Cavett, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Freddy Krueger have in common? Nothing, you say? Wrong, Starchhead! All three appear in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the latest horror sequel and a film with the longest title since 1969’s Anthony Newley/Milton Berle starrer, Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe And Find True Happiness? (The answer to that title, by the way, was: “Just say no.”).
Cavett and Zsa (those of us who know Ms. Gabor well like to call her that) are depicted in Nightmare 3 as participants in a television talk show which is suddenly interrupted when an uninvited Freddy—everybody’s favorite dream monster, if you don’t count Bob Eubanks—bursts forth from Cavett’s body to pounce upon the Hungarian Shrew-lash, wheezing obscenities and seemingly undaunted by her redfeathered outfit which resembles some long forgotten drag from David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust days. It’s a cinematic moment you won’t soon forget, unless you’re taking those prescription “memory sponging” capsules The Dauph has relied on for years and are part of his probation.