Six Degrees of ZombieStoogeration…

https://d2rights.blogspot.com/2012/04/three-stooges-vs-zombies-well-zombie.html

Welp, never let it be said that great minds don’t think alike (and weaken nations)! While perusing one of my favorite sites, I’d noticed an article I KNOW I’ve never read before, “The Three Stooges versus Zombies.” Now, whenever I hear the word “zombie,” I cannot help but think of the fab five from Hertsfordshire (also known as one of the more innovative British Invasion bands).

But how can I link my favorite comedy team to my favorite musical group? Let’s see,,,The Zombies were featured in a pretty damn good movie Bunny Lake Is Missing directed by one Otto Preminger. Their appearance consisted of a TV performance that was playing in a bar whilst Laurence Olivier (yeah, THAT guy) is trying to figure things out about the titular Bunny Lake and what the deal is between her mother and brother. (I may be a bit off on the details–I saw it on VIDEOTAPE! Why haven’t I come into the 21st century and Amazon Prime’d it?!)

So how can we connect The Zombies to The Three Stooges? (Besides the fact that The Zombies are still touring at the grand ages of 79-80! (I would’ve KILLED to have the Stooges last that long…I would’ve been around to see them on various talk shows, instead of begging my parents to recall what it was like to see them on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Steve Allen Show {one of those appearances was with none other than Lenny Bruce…the only way that could’ve made for a more mis-matched pairing would be if Richard Pryor dropped by.})

Okay…where was I? Who’s the best actor to use as a connection? We have Laurence Olivier, who was married to Vivien Leigh, who starred in Gone With the Wind, which also featured Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, who’s brother Sam McDaniel starred in Heavenly Daze (1947) as a butler that thought Shemp had risen from the dead and was haunting Moe and Larry due to the fact that they were going to scam investors with a fountain pen that writes under whipped cream (needless to say, it doesn’t work.)

Looks like I could connect Laurence Olivier to the Three Stooges at least! That makes me wonder how many ways I can connect John and David Carradine to the Stooges…I’m thinking it’s pretty damned easy!

OTD in 1966…

Imagine if you will, a time where turntables and dinosaurs ruled the earth (yet the Technics SL-2000 hadn’t yet been invented); the Zombies were on their way to creating THE BEST ALBUM OF 1967 (yes, I can and will fight over this one!); and best of all, the Three Stooges were still appearing every week via their popular Saturday morning cartoons.

It’s a ways off from Saturday morning, however, but there IS this new TV show you’ve read about in the newspaper…”Wagon Train in Space” or somesuch, which looks a little more cerebral than the usual kiddie fare SF junk that populated the screens (big and small) at the time.

Yep, this little show that those in the “know” didn’t put much stock in debuted FIFTY-DAMN-SEVEN YEARS AGO! (this means that my favorite song ever “Tell Her No” by the Zombies was written FIFTY-NINE years ago…) But back to the subject at hand, why did this show stick so well in the public consciousness? What has made generation after generation give the hammiest of Shatner imitations (yet never mentioning that behind all that ham, our young Shatner was definitely a kosher actor!)

I’m not going to go over the many “firsts” the show created–y’all have Google and whatnot for all that. I just wanted to pay yet another tribute to a show that was truly of another age.

Now go out and live long and prosper and whatnot…

Ten Years After…

I thought it would be interesting to use another great British group to pay tribute to the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death. I remember exactly where I was (I sound like those people who remember where they were when JFK/MLK/RFK/January 6, 2021 happened.) I had the headache of all headaches, but suddenly I had one of those flashes that never means anything good’s going to happen. Sure enough, my mother came in with a sad look on her face and I didn’t even need to KNOW what had happened. Maybe it was because it was all of the YouTube bingeing my mother and I did (the video in the police station was so sad…)

I didn’t even hear of her the usual way others did (either the radio or through the tabloids), it was just hearing a snatch of “Rehab” on something (can’t even remember what it was from and what was the context) and from then I was HOOKED! I hadn’t been hooked that fast since one Colin Edward Michael Blunstone when I was three or four. And like the Zombies, her career ended too early (but unlike the Zombies, she’ll never get to begin again with an even stronger sound.)

Here’s the “Tell Her No” of Amy Winehouse tracks “Fool’s Gold.”

300,000,000 to 1? I like those odds!

If you’ve been under a rock, then you don’t know this:

THE POWERBALL DRAWING IS HUUUUUUGGGGE!

There. Now you know.

Anyhoo, after Wednesday’s debacle of not getting ONE number, I’ve decided to let someone else win my millions. Besides, there are lots of other things I have a better chance at doing:

• Getting struck by lightning.
• Being hit by a falling piano.
• Being struck by lightning AND hit by a falling piano.
• Getting The Zombies to come to St. Louis for a concert.
• Meeting Larry Fine (the Larry Fine, not the piano guy!) when I return my books to the library during lunch.