Much like Woody Allen's joke about falling in love with the evil witch, rather than the more obvious choice of Snow White, when he first saw the Disney version of "Snow White And The Seven Dwarves", I too fell for the evil witch queen, Zenobia (played by Margaret Whiting) when I first saw the film, "Sinbad and The Eye Of The Tiger".
This Ray Harryhausen effects-driven film was a favorite of mine as a kid, as were all of Harryhausen's films. But this one I favored for a different reason than usual. Zenobia gave me a special feeling in the velvet shorts I wore as a boy...back in the Victorian age...when my nanny dressed me like Buster Brown...with my long flowing curls and frilled collar...I was quite a playful scamp, skipping about with my over-sized lollipop and my dog Scraps at my side...wait...what the fuck was I yammering on about this time? Oh yes...my witch boner. This woman was a total evil bitch and I loved her for it! But then I'm the type who was sad when Lena Olin had her intestines blown into bullet-ridden spaghetti sauce in "Romeo Is Bleeding"...but that's just how I roll, baby!
The Lena Olin thing could be because she reminds me of my ex-girlfriend..who also gives me a special feeling in my velvet Buster Brown shorts....the one's I wear to appear a creepy man-child, like Sid Haig in "Spider Baby", or Michael Jackson.
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