LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rich Koz continues the grandiosely eccentric tradition of the horror-movie host on MeTV’s “Svengoolie,” and can count Mark Hamill, Joe Mantegna and, perhaps, Lady Gaga among his fans.
But it’s a compliment he received from seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker for special makeup effects that gratifies him the most. Koz played the wise, adorably nerdy, old-school horror-loving Svengoolie for nearly three decades,
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