David F. Friedman

The Playhouse closed in the 60s, but the location is still a theater to this day.

After the dissolution of his marriage to portrait artist Betty Warren and the closing of the theater, Lancaster moved to Los Angeles and took up with the exploitation film crowd, starring in a half-dozen films for Meyer, as well as a number of films from exploitation kingpin David F. Friedman.

His most high-profile films were those he made at the end of his career with Tim Burton, but he'll always be best remembered as the old man in Myers' faster pussycat Kill Kill.

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Did we invite Robin on the show to talk about producer David Friedman's in-house watercolorist Rudy Escalera? Or the intriguing history behind sexploitation poster art? No, he's here to talk about Renee Bond.

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After Suni's death in 1949, McCurdy was placed in the storage in Los Angeles, in a Los Angeles warehouse.

And in 1964, Suni's son Dan lent him, uh, to filmmaker David F. Friedman for a brief appearance in the show, uh, the film She Freak! in 1967.

So four years later, Dan, uh, Suni sold McCurdy together with several f- wax figures for $10,000 to Spoony Sig, uh, owner of the Hollywood Wax Museum.

And Sig loaned him to two Canadian showmen for an exhibition near Mount Rushmore, where a windstorm damaged the body.

And I, uh, uh, yeah, I can't wait to see it.

But I got to see The Devil Ant, um- Oh, yeah ... which is, uh, written, directed, and starring in many roles, uh, David "The Rock" Nelson.

Um, this one is from volume two of his work in Saturn's Core, um, in their, their thus three-volume series.

Um, have you, have you watched any of these, by the way? Like, have you opened any of these discs? Did you watch them? Probably like three or four from each set.

Did you watch, like, Conrad Brooks versus the Werewolf or- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, okay.

So, uh, Conrad Brooks is in this and he's really contentious, uh- Oh, yeah [chuckles] ... with, with, uh, David "The Rock" Nelson.

But, um, you know, The Devil Ant in particular is one of the...