GIFTS FOR MOVIE AND TV LOVERS
Pop culture lovers are pretty easy to buy for, except for the fact that there are just so. many. darn. options. Here are six gifts that get our hearts singing — in and out of the Pittsburgh rain.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the release of “Singing in the Rain.” Led by Pittsburgh’s own Gene Kelly, the musical should be in anyone’s collection. The newly released 4K UHD version is $21.99 on amazon.com.
Moviegoers are surely excited about John Waters’ return to the director’s chair, and to fill the void until “Liarmouth” is released, they should read the book it’s based on. Waters’ first foray into writing a novel promises all the soaped-up trashiness you’d expect from the Baltimore native’s fertile mind. $26 at White Whale Bookstore in Bloomfield.
Refrigerator magnets get the best real estate, so thank the “Golden Girls” fan in your life for being a friend every time they reach for a cold beverage. Wild Card in Lawrenceville also has magnets ($5-$8) for “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” “Hocus Pocus,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
and more.
Do you know huge Weird Al fans who can’t quite bring themselves to pay for a Roku streaming device? Plunk down $29.99 for basic Roku Express and maybe they’ll invite you over to watch Roku’s recently released “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” with Daniel Radcliffe in the title role of the surrealist biopic.
Embrace your Pittsburgh pride and the fact that George Romero’s foundational zombie series launched here by browsing the “Night of the Living Dead” items in The Living Dead Museum & Gift Shop. Admission is $8 for the museum, which is located in the Monroeville Mall, where 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead” was filmed. Among the giftable merch is a T-shirt promoting WIIC-TV Channel 11’s “news, weather, zombie reports” ($24.99). Or, show you have the tastiest brains of all with tickets to The Living Dead Weekend on June 9-11. A threeday pass starts at $42.99.