When it was all over I felt like things were going to rupture out of me too. Success this time - I was in!!! Forgot to pee, however, but there was no way I was going out to the restroom and risk not getting back in. Then I took a bus back to the Lincoln Mall cinemas, bought a ticket to some lame "Benji" sequel and took another stab at sneaking into Alien. Backed into a corner, I defended my falsehoods by accusing them of covering their eyes cause they were chicken or that they were in the bathroom barfing during the scenes in question. Naturally this all led to puzzled looks and accusations that I hadn't seen Alien at all.
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Which also meant I referenced "scenes" which kids who had actually seen the movie didn't remember. Which meant that it had events and dialog which didn't actually occur in the film. Of course, the book was a fleshed out, literary realization of Dan O'Bannon's, et al, screenplay. I gorged on the novel in a weekend and I pawed through the picture book in the store so many times I had a pretty good visual of Alien in my head when I decided to start lying to my sixth grade classmates and claim to have seen the movie.
Those last two got me as close as I ever was going to get to the movie until it came out on VHS (which would be contingent on ma getting us a VCR.) Action figures, trading cards, playing cards, comic books, posters, pop-up books, place mats, picture books and one novel (written after the fact). Walden's had the next best thing to a 16mm reel of Alien: a whole section devoted to print paraphernalia of Alien.* They had one hell of a licensing juggernaut for a movie kids weren't supposed to see on their own. Not too far down the hall from the cinemas was Walden Books, one of my favorite loitering spots even got locked in the store one night while sitting on my ass reading stuff. When some hair-lipped usher nabbed me trying to sneak into a matinee showing at the Lincoln Mall I still refused to accept defeat. I couldn't fathom such a cruel existence - a Monster-Movie junkie being denied access to the latest, and possibly greatest, creature flick of all time. My mom wouldn't let me see R-rated flicks at the time and most older friends & cousins were afraid of my mother so they wouldn't take me either. Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out. When some hair- Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review.)
Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review.) Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out.
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