LUST GOES BUST AND INTO DUST : CHRISTOPHER LEE AND STRIBLING IN RARE PRESS PROMO PHOTOGRAPH

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY! THE BRIDE THAT GOT AWAY! Christopher Lee and Melissa Stribling at the premier of Hammer films, 'DRACULA' / 'Horror of Dracula'... Stribling played Mina Holmwood, who falls heart and head over heels for Lee's blood sucking Count.... he almost gets her too! Peter Cushing's heroic vampire slayer, Van Helsing, dramatically pulls the rug AND castle curtains on them! Poor Lee's Dracula goes from LUST to...DUST!

THIS SHOT and pose is probably one of the most iconic images from Hamer's early films... it certainly is very impressive in the additional ADDED and restored shots included in the Hammer DRACULA blu ray from Lionsgate. Love the film, love the blu ray

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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: WARP SPEED TARKIN : THE ABBA DRACULA CONNECTION AND EERIE EYEBROWS!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY! AN AMAZING time lapse of the making of a small bust of Grand Moff Tarkin's head, as played by Peter Cushing . .. from clay. Original Video Here: HERE!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: A SPECIAL PAIR OF EYEBROWS, still around and looking just as awesome in a box, now owned by Make Up artist...and a PCAS member when he was a teenager, Dave Elsey. Dave won Best Makeup Oscar for 'The Wolfman; (2010) which he shared with Make up artist Rick Baker.

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: AS CINEMA posters for Hammer films, 1958 'Dracula / Horror of Dracula, I think this one is pretty good... The work of illustrator and artist Hans Arnold.  Among his many credits is the cover to ABBA's Greatest Hits album and the Bland tomtar och troll books!  What do you think?

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TWO TARKINS TWO SHOES TWO SLIPPERS TWO CITIES AND TWO LEIA'S : #THROWBACKTHURSDAY!

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: HEADS YOU WIN! Totally weird tale of

 attending to TARKIN!

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY:The late Carrie Fisher with Peter Cushing and George Lucas plotting and blocking their scene on the set of the Death Star at Elstree film studios in April 1976.

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: SLIPPERS OR SHOES? Of the four days days that Peter Cushing spent on set shooting his scenes as Grand Moff Tarkin for #STARWARS in April / May 1976 at Elstree film studios, I have never been able to put a time line on when exactly he changed his ill fitting boots, for those legendary slippers. ALL the behind scenes photographs that are available of him shooting his scenes, where he is without his Tarkin boots, he is wearing what appears to be his black leather day wear shoes, presumably a pair of carpet slippers, were not around to slip into? 

THE FOOT WEAR in the above photograph, can be seen to be made of leather, with a typical leather tongue. Shoes? If we are to presume that the BROWN SOFT MATERIAL slippers in the glass display case at the Cushing Whitstable Museum exhibit ARE the slippers he wore on set...I have, as yet, not in 40 years seen any photographic evidence of them in any candid photographs taken from the days of Cushing shooting . . .

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY!: PETER CUSHING'S Tarkin slippers displayed at  Whitstable  Gallery and Museum . .

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: TWO LEIA'S Carrie Fisher and her stunt double Tracey Eddon on the set of Return of the Jedi.

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#GETTHECUSHIONSUNDAY! ANOTHER STUNNING LIKENESS : A MOFF POSTER WITH A DIFFERENCE : TAKE FIVE : PETER CUSHING WITH A CHICKEN!

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHINGSUNDAY! as well as loads of 10x8 photographs, portraits and stills, this stunning artwork will also be on offer at events were Guy Henry is signing. Depicting both Peter Cushing as Tarkin from Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) it also features Guy Henry's CGI Tarkin from 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' (2016) I would love a signed one of these, what do you think???

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHINGSUNDAY! IF you were around you may well remember the stunning Peter Cushing Tarkin bust work of Phillip Thomas Robinson? Well, this weekend, ANOTHER extremely gifted sculptors work, came our way. James the Sculptor applies his spot on skills to produce, 'Custom, bespoke and "One Of A Kind" sculptures. Focusing on likenesses and caricatures...' as per quote his website. His Peter Cushing sculpt entitled, 'Dear Boy' isn't just an uncanny likeness of our man, but James has also captured that twinkle and polite smile. How do you rate this? Take a look at the other examples of James work in the thread below too. JAMES TAKES COMMISSIONS / ONE OFF'S TOO! VERY REASONABLY PRICED. You can learn more at his WEBSITE: HERE!

FACES LOOK FAMILIAR?

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHINGSUNDAY! IF YOU are on a bus, train or plane reading this, this may keep you busy for half an hour...OR maybe not? It's always fun posting something like this, because you never know what the results are going to be... so, what do you think???

 

#GETTHECHICKENITSCUSHINGSUNDAY! I toyed with posting this photograph, for no other reason than, the heading, key word search and caption, are just so weird, and without doubt the winner of the most bizarre caption of the year so far! But no. There is a better objective to posting this charmingly strange photograph of Peter Cushing. CAN YOU TELL US WHY he is posing with not ONE but TWO CHICKENS?  Not that the number of chickens is  of any importance actually. WHY is Peter Cushing posing with Chickens? You think you have the answer? THEN join us at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE and see this post there, and tell us why!

UPDATE: ANSWER TO CUSHING AND CHICKENS!

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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : TIMING, TARKIN, CARRIE FISHER AND A COOL BUST!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY Peter Cushing on VAN HELSING, vampire hunter . . . who he played FIVE times on the big screen from 1958 until 1974.

 

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Jordu Schell's bust of #PETERCUSHING up close and personal! It's a #TOOCOOL  likeness to Peter in the role of #GRANDMOFFTARKIN from #STARWARS. Schell uses uses latex for most of the monster masks and busts he makes. This bust is made of silicone, as many of his hyper-real figures are. Silicone being more translucent than latex, adds to the sense of realism. Additionally, the eyes in this piece ARE glass eyes (custom created by David Hoehn), something which Jordu typically doesn't use in his monster masks either. Each hair was individually punched by hand, and the clothing was custom made. #TOOCOOLTUESDAY 

#TOOCOOTUESDAY It's such a pity that Peter only had a few opportunities to play .... comic roles and black comedy... though he did often try to inject a little humor into his roles and work..

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Both Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing admitted to understanding little of the script and the language of film, #STARWARS while working on it. Peter often joked that he had no idea too, what a 'Moff Tarkin' could be. However, he knew a great role when he saw one, no matter what the character maybe called. Peter admitted he took the role of Grand Moff Tarkin in #STARWARS for pretty much the same reason, why he chose any role, 'I thought my audience would like to see me in that role!' ...we certainly did!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Carrie Fisher said little on record about her time working with Peter Cushing, but what she did she...was interesting. Veronica Carlson had the same problem back in 1969, in 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed'

 

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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : KELLY SHARES A NEW FIGURE

A NEW MICHAEL RIPPER sculpt is in the works from KELLY GODEL. Premièring here at the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society and and at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE too! Kelly tells us that, 'The previous Michael Ripper figure was inspired by Ripper's character in Hammer films, Scars of Dracula. This is more of a "Tom Bailey" but without the beard (yet)!

Although Kelly is still working on this figure, I could see this one already had all the signs of being just as excellent as his last Michael Ripper, and I think it will being sought after by figure collectors. I Kelly him how would someone go about ordering one?. 'I don't have any selling plans other than if anyone wants one they message contact me--and there are more to come. I can be contacted at, kgodel@show(dot)ca or they can facebook message me.'

I never really saw Michael very often after he retired. Even though when he was working, he always made time for fans and was, in all this attention, an extremely humble man. He admitted he was a little confused and enormously flattered by the interest that his work with Hammer was now receiving. I once joked and said he might be surprised yet, should they erect a statue of him in honour of his work. He smiled and actually blushed! 

During our chatting on facebook today, I mentioned to Kelly that it was great to see this figure was up to his usual excellent standard. And that I was pleased to see he had chosen to make another Michael Ripper figure! Within seconds, Kelly's reply came through on the chat box...it said, 'I haven't forgotten that you said, Michael Ripper would be "over the moon" to have had a statue made of him, so I had to do two!' 

Hmm, I think Michael would have liked that..!

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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: PETER CUSHING BRONZE BUST

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : NOW AINT THAT TOO COOL?

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : CONTACT PRINTS are ALWAYS cool!Clock-wise: Peter Cushing MADHOUSE, Onset Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Vincent Price publicity portrait for Comedy of Terrors, Peter Cushing at book signing 1986 — with Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and Hammer Films

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