European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse up the sex drugs and Rock n Roll image ,A Jinil in Cru ujo1 i that nov 9 close by Sandy Adzgery associated Pressl ast july. The flamboyant Rocker boy George announced he was a heroin addict he started taking treatment and was lined s375 of Possession. A month Laler. An american musician named Michael rude sky was found dead from a drug overdose in the Star s Home. Those episodes came As no Surprise in an Industry which has Long been haunted by the Credo sex and drugs and Rock n however some British musicians Are beginning to Light that image like their american Rook counterparts who Are cracking Down on crack British rockers have launched an anti drug Campaign. In september. Or 40 pop groups assembled Al the lamed Abbey Road studios in London to record the single live in world As part of an anti heroin Campaign the Thompson twins Nik Kershaw. Me icicle works and Holly Johnson Lead Singer of Frankie goes to Hollywood were among those who contributed. However the song did t get much airplay and has died a quiet death according to its record company Emi. A double album Hal includes the single though is Selling Well in Britain on the continent and in new zealand. Some of Iho material is to be released in Tho United Stales in january and will include material by Paul Mccartney dire Straits Elvis costello and others Emi spokeswoman Roz Graham said profits from the record will go to existing rehabilitation centers in the countries where 1he disc is sold. In Britain me Money is to go to Phoenix House and the organizers Hope to help centers that Aid pregnant heroin users who give birth to addicted babies i normally stay Clear of the save this Campaign Johnson said but the heroin problem is particularly bad Johnson admitted in an interview that he had used drugs bul does t anymore. I gave it up about two years ago. I could t keep my head together and Rio boy a org hit to trod taking fmay tent for heroin addiction. Drugs at the same time. You have to Slop when it s saturday night and you Teel the Only Way to have a Good time is to take something he said. Ironically Rudetsky was working with boy George on an anti drugs record called Dort l do it when he died in August alter taking a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin. The music Industry is pretty disgusting where drugs Are concerned said Johnson. It s quite sad. But drugs Are a status Symbol. If you re Rich you do producer Mark Berry was Rudetsky s close Friend and manager. Alter his death Berry wrote an editorial for billboard Magazine encouraging other musicians producers and Industry personnel to take a stand against drugs. A drug Laking producer is More Likely to work with a drug taking artist who was Likely to be signed by a drug taking record company Man Berry wrote that Atli Lude needs to change. Drugs Don t belong in the office. They Don t belong with the Guy who drives a taxi. Why should they belong in the pop world the popular belief that drugs Are glamorous reflecting life lived to the Hilt is rubbish to Chris Layhe Bass player with the band icicle works. It s untrue just like people saying that drugs make you More creative. They re All lies that addicts use to justify their drug Laking making it seem Cool. It s a lorm of escapism he said. If they be achieved everything they set out to they feel there s nothing else to bring hem happiness. That s when they turn to something to give them a the big Money Rock stars earn contributes to drug problems. Most come from Humble backgrounds and. Overwhelmed by sudden wealth splurge on expensive drugs along with other costly items. Still that s no Layhe said. You Don t have to spend it on drugs Elton John bought a football team he said the musicians involved in the anti heroin Campaign were sincere but it was possible that some were trying to further their careers by jumping on the new Ami drugs bandwagon As others did with Relief for the starving in Africa. A lot of them Are really Busy but they look the time to come Down and sing on the record so they must have Ell it was a worthwhile cause Layhe said. However can a song change teen agers attitudes toward drugs and help an Industry clean up its Imago you be got to try Layhe said. Ii More people coma out against it. I Don t see Why not. People Are saying i Don l do drugs and i m against other people doing drugs. I m nol unzip because of it some people think if you Don t do drugs you re some kind of wimp. Now we re saying that s wrong you be got nothing to be proud of if you take history s worst movies big business in video Market by Vernon Scott United press International terrible paintings Are never Hung i museums atrocious novels Aren t Prinle miserable songs go really awful movies have become cherished As Camp or cull films sometimes known As junk movies and Are shown at special retrospectives on television and Are sold or rented on videotape cassettes. Of All the arts Only movies very special ones indeed Are prize for their Lack of table abominable subject matter and Artles Ness True cult addicts eschew the Harvard Lampoon awards established in 1940 in those awards the College boys take Joy in knocking disappointing films by big Lime actors directors and producers. Genuine Lansol terrible films Are a compassionate Bunch who Revere such directors As Roger Corman Russ Meyer and Edward 0. Wood jr., masters of schlock who determinedly set about making what they Houghl and hoped would be Quality films. Cult movies have become big business in the videocassette Market. Many remain hits in Midnight showings in Heaters among them the All time hit the Flo Efry horror picture show and such others As phantom of the Paradise terror of tiny town and they saved Hitler s brain. Nol All cult films Are Sci to or horror licks. One of the. Moot successful cult movies around today is bedtime Tor Bonzo for obvious reasons. Connoisseurs of appallingly bad films unlike the Harvard boys have no intellectual pretentious. For instance. They Don t rap meryl Streep for a bad performance or look on Burl Reynolds with dismay it he stars in a Turkey. No. Lovers of terrible films have soft spots in their hearts Tor such stars a Mamie Van Doren George Nader Pia Zadora Bela Lugosi and Jayne Mansfield. A growing Star among current cult favourites is Paul Marco Best known for his role As Kelton the cop in three of what Are generally conceded to be the worst movies in the entire history of Mankind. Marco a Man of indeterminate years and nol about to divulge his age starred in a trilogy of films produced and directed by Edward d. Wood or in the 1950s. Each picture was singularly horrible in every respect writing. Directing acting special Elf Ecla. You name it. None had a single redeeming virtue. The dialogue is so bad it tempts audiences to suspect it was written purposely Lor laughs. Nothing could be Lurther from the truth. Marco introduced Kelton the cop in Bride of the monster a 1954 horror ilk starring Bela Lugosi in which Kelton was a minor character a tumbling bungling minion of the Law. Kellyn was promoted to a featured role in plan 9 from outer space a movie most cult authorities acclaim As the single worst picture Ever made. Indeed it won the 1980 Golden Turkey award As the Nadir of filmmaking. This landmark film again starred the aging drug ravaged Lugosi Vampire and Tor Johnson the remarkable swedish Angel of wrestling infamy who did t have a word of dialogue. So bad was plan 9 that it was sold to to in the Early 1960s and played every three weeks in new York City or 1d years. It has been shown Ever since by revival Heaters and on Midnight showings to packed houses. Kelton the cop s final appearance was in a starring role in night of the ghouls a picture so bereft of Merit in every department Hal it was never released As a theatrical feature. Marco did not fully emerge As a Culi Star until vide Casselles of Bride of the monster plan 9 and night of the ghouls became available a year and a half too. The cassettes have been renting and Selling Briary to Tho tune of k Mllton making Somel Hino. Of an underground Star of Marco. Marco a graduate of Hollywood High school thinks of himself in legendary terms the Only living survivor of three of the Industry s very worst films. He is not one to draw Fine distinctions. A embraces the Camp accolades suggesting that a claim to Fame no Mailer How dubious is not easily dismissed. He was a Long time Friend of the late Criswell a local to savant seer and psychic who predicted More than 25 years ago that Marco would become a ser. Marco now considers Criswell s forecast fulfilled albeit somewhat tardily. An intense bespectacled Man with receding dark hair Marco has pounced on his new found lame by producing to shirts emblazoned with Kelton the cop s name and likeness balloons key rings bumper stickers buttons and contemporary b x 10 glossies in Kelton s uniform. We Are not talking major merchandising Here but in could grow. Kellon the cop fan clubs Are springing up around the country Marco said. I m a real cull Star for about 25 clubs. They write and ask Lor autographed pictures. They have parties and rent the trilogy of Wood films. Tie important thing about Bride of the monster is that it was Lugosi s last major speaking role. He was in a bad Way in 195s so we held a Benefit premiere at the Hollywood Paramount theater to raise Money for him. His last picture was plan it some people say he died in the Middle of the film bul that s not True. He died before Iha picture that took some explanation. Lugosi was seen As the Ghoul Man bul i entire performance consisted of a few minutes of silent footage made during the last two Days of his life Lor a movie hued grave of the Vampire. Which was never completed. Because there was t enough film on Lugosi to make an entire picture director Wood called on his personal Chloro Proclor a Man named Tom Mason who was a loot taller than the late Lugosi. To double for the dead hungarian Star. For much of the picture Mason Tooma around holding a Cape in front of his face to mask the lad thai he looked nothing whatever tuft Luff Tim. Monday december 15, 1986 the stars and stripes Pifle 17
