89: Sleeping for the Job
Jul04
As a way to partially make up for last week’s lack of a page, here’s the adorable pic of teen Mary and Lazarra (a.k.a. Elizabeth Anning), in full resolution.
In addition, we also have a special treat for everyone! The original creator of The Melvin Chronicles has resurfaced, and left us this:
Click to see in full size. You can visit BACH-mann’s new comic, Star Fodder, at this URL: http://starfodder.thecomicseries.com
Is . . . is Anning Verónica’s mom? They look awfully similar.
I made a similar observation while editing this page. Carlos’s response was… vague.
If so does anyone else find it weird that she calls her daughter “lady”?
That would appear to be the case, just like the younger Mary look like Tiffany does today. So this is kind of a memory flash back to when Mary was going to school there and kind of filling us in on what has already happened. It also kind of explains why Mary was so happy that her son was turned into her daughter too. It kind of twisted type of thinking on Mary part, but, I can kind of follow it.
Note: I didn’t say that Carlos told me anything about Veronica’s heritage. Please don’t jump to conclusions.
For “Lady”, it may be that not only the matriarch of a Witch family, but also her heiress, is addressed as “Lady” once she has come into her own as a Witch.
Might be getting too into the dream.
That text in the background is all Greek to me – anyone know what it says?
I have a couple of things to say about “Hello, Melvinauts”
First, it’s a callback to Star Trek. In the original pilot, Christopher Pike was the captain of the Enterprise, and he was played by Jeffrey Hunter. But the pilot wasn’t picked up, and when the series got the go-ahead after all, Hunter turned down “That science fiction junk” thanks to the advice of his wife. Hunter had been in a couple of very big movies: The Searchers with John Wayne (!) and King of Kings playing Jesus Christ (!!). But he never really made the A-list or even the B-list. So, thanks to his (second) wife, Hunter blew his last chance for lasting sucess. He died in 1969. But he was still alive when Star Trek recut the first pilot into a two-part episode, and asked Hunter to return for some new scenes. He didn’t. So, they got a different actor, covered his face with fake scarring, and put him inside the same kind of contraption that Bach-man has put himself in, with the explanation that after a horrible accident he could no longer move or speak (and, of course, Roddenberry didn’t have to pay the actor as much since he had no lines.)
The second thing is Bell’s palsy. I know little about it, and I’ve never known someone who had it, but I do know of someone who did. Have any of you heard of General Curtis LeMay? He was a legendary Air Force general during World War II and the Cold War. He always seemed to have a cigar in his mouth. When someone out of his earshot questioned that while Lemay was inspecting a refueling bomber “Isn’t he afraid of setting that plane on fire?” a wiser head replied, “It wouldn’t dare!”
The reason LeMay always had a cigar was to hide his facial paralysis. Very few people, including several Presidents, dared question him about much of anything.
You know Sherwood Schwartz wanted Jeffrey Hunter to play Mike Brady on “The Brady Bunch?” In this case, it was the network that turned that down.