I used to throw Oscar parties in L.A. and before that in NJ. Though it's only one guest, I'll have enough food for a dozen people. It's what you do when you're Jewish. Here are pics from the 1988 Disney Studios Oscars Party. It amazes me how I was thinner & prettier than I felt.

and maybe his scariest aberration of all — tremendous-sized teenagers.

Bert I. Gordon’s memoirs, “The Amazing Colossal Worlds of Mr. B.I.G.: An Autobiographical Journey”, was published in 2010. - Chuck Halley /end

But mammoth monsters were the real stars of Gordon’s features, as the over 25 films he made included a chilling cyclops, paltry puppet people, dreadful dinosaurs, massive mealworms, rotund rats, spectacular spiders, gigantic grasshoppers, /12

help to keep this sci-fi genre alive today. The Kenosha, Wisconsin, native’s sci-fi works displayed eye-catching titles like “The Cyclops” (1957), “The Amazing Colossal Man” (1957), “Attack of the Puppet People” (1958), “War of the Colossal Beast” (1958), /9

Many times AIP paired his monster movie with another scary show, making popular “double features” and then promoting them with creepy, can’t-miss movie posters and lobby cards. Some of Gordon’s cult classics are still seen on a few remaining late-night hosted horror TV shows /7

of a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Many times the director’s shooting schedule was hurried to only a couple of weeks or less to accommodate the meager production budgets he chose to work with, in an attempt to save every dollar possible. /4