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He married Helen Griffin on March 7, 1969. He and his wife fostered seven children, [6] and he helped found the Travis County Foster Parents Association. He also served on the board of directors of the Deborah Hay Dance Company.
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The way Hooper remembers it now, the inspiration for Chainsawoccurred at Montgomery Ward during the frenzied Christmas shopping rush in December of 1972: “There were these big Christmas crowds, I was frustrated, and I found myself near a display rack of chain saws. I just kind of zoned in on it. I did a rack focus to the saws, and I thought, ‘I kno...
Bill Parsley always made it clear that he was nota lobbyist, because that would be a violation of state law. But as the vice president of financial affairs for Texas Tech University, he spoke like a lobbyist, acted like a lobbyist, and had both the paunch and the pate of the species. Parsley was from West Texas and had raised a family in Lubbock, w...
A 21-year-old drama student at the University of Texas, Marilyn Burns—who would become the greatest screamer in movie history—was the only actress serving on the Texas Film Commission. A petite blond stunner, she made herself useful to Skaaren by volunteering for office work, but in reality she just wanted to find out who was making the next movie ...
Under a blazing, white-hot Texas sun, principal photography for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre began in July 1973. The house where most of the filming took place was southwest of Round Rock on Quick Hill Road, which was not so much a road as a caliche path dead-ending in a mesquite break. It was the original home of the Quick family, owners of pharmac...
Five young people, traveling in a van, winding down strange country roads, encountering increasing levels of hostile gothic weirdness as they move farther into the wilderness—it would be a cliché were it not for the fact that it was the first real youth horror film. Before Chainsaw, horror films were about adults dealing with the terrors of modern ...
Legend has it that, on a certain evening in October 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was sneak-previewed at a theater in San Francisco, where half the audience got sick and others pelted the screen, yelled obscenities, and demanded their money back. Fistfights broke out in the lobby, and the film became famous. The reality is probably less dramati...
After all this commotion, it was natural that the actors and crew members—many of whom had waived their salaries in exchange for a percentage of the movie—would say, “When do the first checks come in?” Calls were placed—first to Hooper, then to Henkel, then to anyone who would listen. “Three months, no check,” says Ed Neal. “Six months, no check. N...
For Hooper and Henkel at least, the financial mess of Chainsaw had seemed far, far away, especially since their talents were in such demand immediately after the film’s release. In late 1976 they moved into an office on the back lot of Universal Pictures, where they had salaries and a writing-directing-producing contract for their next three pictur...
Of all the convoluted academic articles on Chainsaw—and there are many—one that caught my attention was written by a woman named Mikita Brottman, who teaches language and literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore. One reason I took her seriously is that she is the only critic who understood Chainsaw as a version of Hansel an...
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Dec 31, 1990 · Mr. Skaaren is survived by his wife, Helen, and his parents, Morris and Pearl Skaaren of Rochester.
Warren Skaaren was born on March 9, 1946 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Batman (1989), Beetlejuice (1988) and Top Gun (1986). He was married to Helen H. Griffin. He died on December 28, 1990 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- March 9, 1946
- December 28, 1990
May 2, 2017 · Producing partners Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson hired Skaaren over the phone after he wowed them with his treatment, which humanized Cruise’s character, Maverick, and ditched Maverick’s bimbo gymnast girlfriend in favor of a sexy rocket scientist.
Dec 31, 1990 · Mr. Skaaren is survived by his wife, Helen, and his parents, Morris and Pearl Skaaren of Rochester, Minn.
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Jan 3, 1991 · He is survived by his wife, Helen, with whom he cared for seven foster children and helped found the Travis County Foster Parent Assn.
