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Article: FILM
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 25, 1994
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In his novelty hit song "Werewolves of London", Warren Zevon
claimed that he had seen Lon Chaney Jr - by which he clearly meant
not the actor himself but his most famous role, Larry Talbot, the
sad hero of Universal's The Wolf Man (1941) - escorting Her Majesty
the Queen. The rock star had also, he sang, been impressed by the
sight of "a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's". "His
hair", Zevon noted with a careful hint of envy, "was perfect."
Originally released in the late Seventies, Zevon's song has proved
prophetic.
Once upon a time, in the gloriously disreputable days of I Was a
Teenage Werewolf (1957) and Werewolves on Wheels (1971) and I
Married a Werewolf (aka Werewolf in ...