Elvira, the gal in the wig whose talents are big– is hard to kill. After 35 years, she’s still going strong with her sold out show, Elvira’s Danse Macabre at Knotts Scary Farm, and she has a new coffee table book, titled simply ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK: A Photographic Retrospective of theQueen of Halloween.
Today, Cassandra Peterson, the ghoulish gal best known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark joins us to talk about the curse of her bouffant wig, her early years as a Las Vegas showgirl and her extraordinary circle of fabulous friends: Pee Wee Herman, RuPaul, Jackie Beat, Joey Arias, Edie McClurg and her writing partner of many years, John Parragon the man who created Jambi the Genie on Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
Don’t miss this boob-tacular special podcast, it’s a Hallo-scream!
Cassandra Peterson – ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK: A Photographic Retrospective of the
Queen of Halloween: http://tweeterhead.com/publishing/elvira-mistress-of-the-dark/
{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as "FOF #2412 - 35 Years of Being Elvira"}
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