I've always had a soft spot for Elvira -- no, that came out wrong. Whoops, so did that. Damn, but the horror-hostess's penchant for double-entendre gets into your blood quicker than a T-virus. Suffice to say that Cassandra Peterson's 1980s horror hostess brought so much innocent fun to the phrase 'buxom charm' as to nearly pass the CBS 'family-friendly' sitcom-test in 1993, when the comedy pilot The Elvira Show was made, with Peterson and Soap star Katherine Helmond vamping it up in dark domesticity - with the aid of a talking cat that will be very familiar to fans of the CBS-distributed Sabrina The Teenage Witch (which came into existence three years later). The Elvira Show wasn't the first time that the marketing folks tried to leverage the 'Elvira' charm only to chicken out; Peterson's ad-campaign appearances in the 1980s for Coors beer showed her image in a...
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