We have here a kind of glossary/guide to the cultural references in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. For some reason, it makes no reference to the one that most delighted me, which was the inclusion of Seymour, a local horror movie host who was on KHJ TV and later on KTLA. I knew "Seymour" — his real name was Larry Vincent — and visited his set and even wrote some lines he used on his program.
Here's a link to an article I wrote about him back in 1999. The photo above is one I took on his set at KTLA around 1973 or so. For a long time, it was the clearest photo you could find of him on the Internet so lots of folks borrowed it for their websites and remembrances. I'm glad the guy is still remembered because he was the best I ever saw at what he did. His intros and interjections even got me to watch movies like The Mummy's Curse and Man-Made Monster which today, I wouldn't sit through if you paid me $500 and fed me Souplantation Tomato Soup throughout.