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PeoPle & Arts Saturday 12 auguSt 2017

Metallica guitarist’s monster movie posters go on display

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH, found in the boarded up
Associated Press projection room of an old
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Kirk movie theater. There also
Hammett may be known is one of the only surviving
best as the guitarist whose standing cardboard cut-
deafening solos have outs for the 1933 flick “King
come to define the band Kong.”
Metallica. But a new ex- “These posters are part of
hibit is showcasing a differ- our cultural history, and
ent side of the rocker, his they play to many of the
passion for sci-fi and horror same fears and anxieties
films. we still have today as a so-
The exhibit which opens ciety,” Finamore said.
Saturday at the Peabody The works generally were
Essex Museum features 135 commissioned by the mov-
works owned by the heavy ie studios and created by
metal musician, including anonymous artists. They
some Hammett says have were mostly produced from
inspired his music. It runs the 1930s into the 1970s, but
through Nov. 26. people didn’t focus on sav-
“My collection takes me ing — or collecting — them
to a place where I need until recently.
to be,” Hammett said in a In this Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017 photo, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett appears in a recorded For those like Hammett
statement. “Among the video beside three of his guitars at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. who got into the game,
monsters, where I’m most Associated Press it’s been pretty lucrative.
comfortable and creative.” Alive: Classic Horror and undead and unnatural, in the 1968 film Barbarella. The most expensive movie
“That’s where the magic Sci-fi art from the Kirk Ham- including ones from the In the poster, Fonda is seen poster — was purchased in
has happened for me all mett Collection,” said al- 1931 film “Dracula” and the grasping weapons, stand- 2016 by a private collector
these years and it’s some- though the posters may 1932 film “The Mummy,” ing on a planet with space for nearly $700,000. It was
thing I’ve come to trust,” have played a supporting which depicts the monster aliens in the backdrop. for director Fritz Lang’s 1927
he said. “From the moment role to the films, they give with arms crossed over his The exhibit also features film “Metropolis.”
I first encountered these the mummies and zombies chest as he casts a preda- some collectible electric “He tapped into a pas-
characters, I could see top billing and “deliver on tory gaze toward a wom- guitars, monster masks and sion and used it to fuel his
that these guys had just as the promise of fear.” an wearing a sleek, floor- sculptures. professional life in a posi-
much difficulty in coping as “These are rare works of art, length red dress. Some One of the stars of the show tive way,” Finamore said of
I did.” but they’re under-recog- three decades later, anoth- is the lone-surviving, three- Hammett. “If that’s a take-
Daniel Finamore, who cu- nized as such,” he said. er poster shows a young, sheet poster for the 1931 away from this exhibit, then
rated the show titled “It’s There are posters of the scantily-clad Jane Fonda film “Frankenstein.” It was I’d say it was a success.”q

Paisley hopes to land punchlines

with first comedy special

By JOHN CARUCCI nier than I probably am,” Cash goofing around. He
Associated Press he said with a smile. doesn’t care if the joke
NEW YORK (AP) — Country The special came about af- lands or not,” he said.
singer Brad Paisley can car- ter Netflix reps saw Paisley Paisley is also aware that
ry a tune, but can he land host the annual Nashville playing music to large
a punchline? Wild West Comedy festival. crowds is his comfort zone,
On Tuesday, audiences will “It’s the strangest name but making jokes poses its
find out when the Grammy- for one because it’s east,” own challenges.
winning recording artist Paisley joked. “It’s sort of all or nothing
hosts his first Netflix special, Paisley sees a natural con- with a joke. You either get
the “Brad Paisley Comedy nection between comedy laughs or you don’t. There’s In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Country music recording artist Brad
Rodeo.” But Paisley isn’t and country music, from a threshold you reach you Paisley performs at the graduation for Barrington High School, at
worried. the songs to the stage ban- realize that it worked. Then Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill.
“You know for me it’s not ter. there’s a threshold of sort Associated Press
that big a leap because He also cites the old long- of polite chuckling where it sing the song with Winfield. to comedy.
I write comedic songs running variety series “Hee just didn’t work and that’s Paisley will tell jokes and “The CMAs was prepara-
anyway. I have for years Haw” as an inspiration. terrifying.” He handpicked perform some comedy tion in every way for some-
goofed around onstage Country music stars Buck the five comedians who songs, including “Selfie.” thing like this. I definitely
and tried to tell some Owens and Roy Clark host- will appear on the show, “It deals with our obsession wouldn’t be doing it if I
jokes,” Paisley recently told ed the show and traded including Mike E. Winfield, with this ridiculous taking a hadn’t learned alongside
The Associated Press. barbs with each other and who does a bit making fun picture of ourselves, which Carrie every year doing
Paisley admits he enjoys their weekly guests. of Paisley’s “I’m Gonna Miss is so often a bad idea.” that,” Paisley said.
making people laugh, and “(There was) this sort of Her,” calling Paisley “gang- Paisley credits his hosting This November, Paisley will
cites his toughest critic. playful self-effacing nature sta” for writing a song about duties with Carrie Under- host the CMAs with Under-
“My wife will tell you I think of everyone willing to go leaving your girl to go fish- wood on the Country Mu- wood for the tenth straight
I’m funny, and think I’m fun- on there. You see Johnny ing. Paisley will come out to sic Awards as his gateway year.q