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Author Topic: Forrest J. Ackerman has passed away Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-05-2008 05:42 PM                     Forrest J. Ackerman the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and discoving author Ray Bradbury and the man mostly credited for the term "Sci-Fi" has passed away in Los Angeles. He was 92 years old.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2008 06:14 PM                     If you were a monster movie fan growing up in the 1960s, THE magazine that you had to have was Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters of Filmland”. Whenever I was ill as a child, my wonderful mother used to drive down to our local newsstand to buy me the latest issue of FMF, along with “MAD”, “Cracked” and a bunch of comics. When my first pre-teen girlfriend got her picture in an issue (“Needed! More fans like . . . “) she became a celebrity among my circle of pals. Many years later, when I started spending a lot of professional time in L.A., one of my first stops was the original Ackermansion, on Glendower Ave. in Los Feliz. He had accumulated a huge collection of science fiction paraphernalia and movie props, and whenever he was home on a Saturday he held open houses for anyone who wanted to drop by. I remember the first time I toured the house I was beside myself at what I was seeing. There in one corner, the original Creature From the Black Lagoon costume, opposite that, the robot Maria from Metropolis, on a shelf on the wall, one of the original spaceships from War of The Worlds, in a display case on the desk, the original brontosaurus and pterodactyl models from King Kong, on an opposite shelf, some of his friend Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion puppets (including the original Talos from Jason and the Argonauts), all over the house, masks, props and costumes from all the great movies that I had grown up with. And walls and walls of sci-fi books and one-sheets. Damn, another piece of my youth gone.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-06-2008 09:40 AM                       I got dibs on Robotrix.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-05-2009 10:25 AM                     For the California area members. A Tribute to Forrest J. Ackerman will be at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday March 8th. 2009 at 4pm. A reception starts at 3pm, Free Admission. Forrest J. Ackerman Tribute Double Feature on Sunday March 8th at 7pm. "Famous Monster: Forrest J. Ackerman" (2007) 48mins. "The Time Travelers" (1964) MGM 82mins.  |  IP: Logged

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