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RE: BlobFest

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A mob for 'The Blob'
In Chester County in the summer of 1957, Steve McQueen was insufferable.

"He was an absolute horror, but I loved everything he did for us" - producer Jack Harris.

That was the summer that Harris gave the 27-year-old McQueen his first starring role, in the sci-fi classic The Blob.
For the 50th anniversary of the film's shooting in Chester County, the producer - a 1936 graduate of Central High in Philadelphia and now 88 - returned from Beverly Hills, Calif., for the first time since that horrible summer.

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'Blob' fans enjoy ooze and ahs
This July, as they have for the past seven, fright freaks will swarm into Phoenixville, Pa., a flyspeck steel town at the junction of French Creek and the Schuylkill River. It was here in a nearby field that a movie legend was born. After oozing from a meteorite, an amorphous alien - looking like the love child of a lava lamp and a Gummy Bear - attached itself to dogs, hermits and groping teenagers, literally sucking the life out of them.
Bloated with the blood of its victims, the mass grew larger and larger, and redder and redder. It crawled it crept it ate you alive! Or so said the taglines for The Blob, the creature classic from 1958 that chronicled the adventures of film's most notorious slime ball.
On July 13 - a Friday, no less - the Blob makes a homecoming of sorts at BlobFest, a two-day rolling carnival of horror in downtown Phoenixville, where part of the movie was filmed.

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