The Green Slime is coming, and boy is it miffed
March 24, 2008
RALEIGH --
What can it be, what is the reason? Is this the end to all that’s breathin’? Is this something in your head? Will you believe it when you’re dead? All answers will come to you in due time, when you bear witness to “The Green Slime,” this month’s First Friday feature at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, showing Friday, April 4 at 7 p.m.
“The Green Slime” (1968) is a groovy little space movie featuring a monster with his very own psychedelic theme song (originally penned and performed by Richard Delvy, drummer for the popular 1960s band The Bel Airs). When a wandering asteroid (code named ‘Flora’ for no particular reason) is on a collision course with Earth, studly astronauts Rankin and Elliott lead a rag-tag team whose goal is to land on the asteroid, strategically place atomic bombs and blow it to smithereens. (Sounds a little like a 1998 Bruce Willis movie, eh?) The team succeeds in ‘sploding Flora, but unwittingly brings back an alien fungus that soon multiplies and grows into man-sized monsters that overrun the space station. [Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk]
Astronaut Vince Elliot is played by veteran character actor Richard Jaeckel, most recognizable for his role as hard-as-nails Drill Sgt. Bowren in “The Dirty Dozen” (1967). The other half of the dynamic duo, Jack Rankin is played by Robert Horton, veteran Western actor and a popular TV program guest, including seven episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” in the ‘50s, with his last appearance on the popular mystery “Murder, She Wrote” in 1989. Space Station Doctor Lisa Benson is played by the lovely Luciana Paluzzi, who you may remember as Fiona Volpe, the unfortunate sidekick to femme fatale ‘Domino’ in the 1965 James Bond classic “Thunderball.”
The Museum stays open from 5 p.m. till 9 p.m. Arrive early and wander through eye-catching exhibits highlighting the natural beauty of North Carolina, enjoy snacks and beverages from the Acro Café, and groove to live local music. Additionally, the Museum Store offers after-hours shopping and an opening reception (7-8:30 p.m.) for Amy Chapman Braun, whose exhibit of nature-inspired batiks opens April 4 and runs through April 27 in the store’s Nature Art Gallery. All exhibited art is for sale.
The Museum of Natural Sciences is located in downtown Raleigh at 11 West Jones Street. Parking is available on the street and in surface lots along Wilmington and Edenton streets. For more information, contact Steve Popson at 919-733-7450, ext. 379.
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in downtown Raleigh, documents and interprets the natural history of the state of North Carolina through exhibits, research, collections, publications, and educational programming. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 9 am to 5 pm, and Sun., noon to 5 pm. Admission is free. Visit the Museum on the Web at naturalsciences.org. The Museum is an agency of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, William G. Ross Jr., Secretary.
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