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Why Celebs Walk Red Carpets?

Why do celebrities walk down red carpets at special events like the Oscars or the Golden Globes? Here, Today I Found Out gives us a conventional history of royalty and celebrities walking red carpets.

Aeschylus (525 BC – 455 BC), the Greek “father of tragedy,” wrote various plays where his heroes fell from grace due to a combination of unwinnable circumstances, arrogance and/or simply stepping on the gods’ toes. One of those heroes, Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, walked to his death along a red carpet.

Hollywood picked up the trail in 1922 when a red carpet was laid at the entrance to Sid Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre for the premiere of Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks.

Today I Found Out bypasses this point, but we wonder why Hollywood embraced these red carpets? Did the stars want to feel like royalty? Was it all for show, or did the carpets symbolize a deeper secret?

We note: Pay attention in the months ahead as more news leaks of the necrophilia and cannibalistic practices indulged by royals, Deep State officials and, yes, lots of the trash that washes ashore around Hollywood.

 

Kingdom Of The Spiders

After Jaws made a huge splash in 1977, Hollywood rushed to release a slew of movies that copied Jaws‘ formula for success — deadly animals running amok and terrorizing entire towns. Today’s Trillion Dollar Movie was one of the first, and best, of these Jaws wannabes. Set in the parched deserts of Arizona, Kingdom of the Spiders stars William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling and Woody Strode, but the real attraction: More than 5,000 live, creepy, crawling tarantulas unleashed to attack cows, dogs and humans by spider wrangler Jim Brockett.

Shatner portrays cowboy veterinarian Rack Hansen, working in concert with entomologist Diane Ashley (Bolling), to exterminate the threat posed by the super-venomous, eco-freak spiders. Shatner fits the role to a tee. He gets to ride a horse, lasso a lady and, in a hair-raising display of bravado, endure an eight-legged arachnid scampering on his cheeks. Bolling, the sexy blonde from the drive-in hit Candy Snatchers, demonstrates even more resolve.

The suspense builds to a fever-pitch as the story progresses, ending on a truly chilling note. This is a B-movie, but a well-made one, directed by John “Bud” Carlos, whose father ran Grauman’s Egyptian and Chinese theaters. Come back next Friday for another Trillion ($) Movie.

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