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Karen Black Coming To Toronto!

Posted by Todd Brown at 1:04pm.

Posted in Random Geek Talk .

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The press release says it better than I will:

Film legend KAREN BLACK to make rare appearance at Toronto horror film expo

TORONTO, CANADA – Rue Morgue Magazine, in conjunction with Daniloff Productions, are thrilled to announce the addition of legendary film actor KAREN BLACK as a very special guest for the 2006 RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR National Horror Expo (Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the weekend of September 1-3, 2006).

“Obviously this is a huge coup for us, and I am extremely happy to be able to bring an actor of the calibre of KAREN BLACK to this year’s Festival of Fear” commented Rodrigo Gudino of Rue Morgue.

“I’m beside myself, and on behalf of Daniloff Productions I would like to share my elation associated with the Toronto appearance of film legend KAREN BLACK,” added David Daniloff of Daniloff Productions.

KAREN BLACK started studying under Lee Strasberg in New York City and has worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. Her first big film role was in “You’re a Big Boy Now” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. But the film that made her a star was “Easy Rider”, where she worked with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, and a supporting actor named Jack Nicholson. She appeared with Nicholson again the next year when they starred in the seminal classic film “Five Easy Pieces”, which garnered an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win for Karen. Her roles have mainly consisted of waitresses, hookers and women on the edge of sanity, and her talent received another Golden Globe for “The Great Gatsby”. Another role for which she is well remembered is that of the jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock’s last film, “Family Plot”. Karen was also praised as a woman terrorized by a murderous Zuni doll that comes to life in the TV cult horror movie “Trilogy of Terror”. She again won rave reviews for her roles in “Come Back to the Five and Dine Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean”, and the epic horror film “Burnt Offerings”, co-starring the late Betty Davis, Oliver Reed, and Burgess Meredith. Recently, Karen has appeared in Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses”, “Firecracker”, with co-star and acclaimed musician Mike Patton, and most recently “Suffering Man’s Charity” from actor-director Alan Cumming.

EXCLUSIVE! Rue Morgue and Daniloff Productions are also very proud to present an exclusive intimate and interactive film career retrospective, Sunday September 3rd, 2006, aptly titled SHADES OF BLACK: An Intimate Evening With Karen Black. It will take place at Toronto’s historic Bloor Cinema. This unique event will reveal various layers of Karen Black’s film career through big-screen film montages, an on-stage interview with Karen by Richard Crouse from the popular Reel to Reel TV program and a distinctive live-from-the-floor Q & A assembly with fans. Doors open at 9:00pm, advance tickets are $20 and will be available at various Downtown Toronto retail locations. Karen will be selling and autographing the new Special Edition DVD of TRILOGY OF TERROR which includes filmed interviews with Karen and Richard Matheson.

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More info on the Daniloff Productions, Festival of Fear and Toronto Fan Expo sites.

 

Reader Comments

  1. Mike 08/22/2006 @ 1:38pm

    Whoever goes to this has to ask her about playing the singing Mormon alien bee queen in Trent Harris’ surreal epic Plan 10 From Outer Space!

  2. Caterpillar 08/22/2006 @ 4:10pm

    I hate Karen Black. Not so much the films she has been in or the roles she has played but her real life persona.

  3. Daniloff 08/22/2006 @ 5:25pm

    Caterpillar,

    What an ignorant thing to say. You obviously have no clue what Karen is like in real life. Have you met her? Interviewed her? Why not elaborate seeing as you know so much about her?

    David Daniloff

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  4. Maya 08/22/2006 @ 6:18pm

    Karen Black appeared on stage at the Castro here in San Francisco some years back in conjunction with a screening of “Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.” I found her down-to-earth and charming, full of anecdotes about Hitchcock, Altman, Cher. I regret that I’m just going to miss her as I would gladly welcome the opportunity to experience her again.

  5. rek 08/23/2006 @ 2:54pm

    Daniloff - What if Caterpillar *has* met Karen Black in real life and doesn’t like her? Is that still “ignorant” of him/her?

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