Update on the "Straight-Jacket" screening: There was rain, but most people didn't mind. And just in case anyone was overcome with fright, there were "nurses" on hand, just like producer William Castle used to provide back in the '50s and '60s as a way to reassure (or dare) moviegoers.
The nurses were Film Festival volunteers dressed in the retro white dresses that 99 percent of nurses have traded in for scrubs. They were having fun playing the part -- both of the volunteers I talked to are full-time college students: Christine Carter, a film and English major at Towson University, and Jessica Taylor, a theater major at Essex Community College. They were having fun and NOT doing anything to sully the image of real nurses. Even Christine's red platform sandals were on the tasteful side.
The nurses were fake, but if you saw the ambulance and fire truck earlier this evening, that was for real. A festival-goer fell and hit her head. An ambulance arrived, but the word was that she was not seriously hurt.
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Thanks for doing this blog. I won't have a chance to attend the festival this year, but your posts make me feel like I'm almost there.
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