T,” the only live-action fantasy film written by Dr. He found a 1907 silent film adaptation of Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” And he also came across a 1953 copy of “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. Williams found VHS cassette tapes of Yoko Ono and John Lennon when they were co-hosts on “The Mike Douglas Show” in 1972. He had stumbled upon Scarecrow, a video emporium founded by a Greek immigrant named George Latsios, who had amassed a collection of cultural ephemera and hard-to-find films. One day, he passed a small storefront plastered with brightly lit posters.
He sniffed at the local Blockbuster, which mainly stocked mainstream fare. He was thrilled to find a store called Taboo, then realized it offered only adult movies. Williams, a Seattle computer game executive, was searching for a place to rent vintage films. There is a story Russell Williams likes to tell about his favorite video store.
