Joel mentioned in a thread that as great as Mitchell is for a send-off episode, it was randomly selected. I had always thought that they put extra effort into the riffs for that episode as they did the movie…but when i asked him, he said no.
Scratch one of my bucket list questions off. Anyone else carry those around in your head?
Yeah:
Gene Hackman – what happened to the 30 or so seconds of Rev Scott’s speech at the end of, “Poseidon Adventure”?
When Monsters Inc. came out, the local library had to “life-size” statues of the main characters, Sully (the fuzzy blue one) and Mike (the one-eyed green one.) In front of Sully was a sign: PLEASE BE GENTLE! I saw a little boy tell his younger sister what the sign said. He added, “That means we can’t hurt him.” Turning to Mike, he said, “But he doesn’t have a sign.” And he kicked and hit the Mike statue.
Billy Crystal voices Mike in that movie, and I’d love to tell him that story. It totally seems like something that would happen to that character.
I actually got the opportunity to talk to Adam Savage at a “meet and greet” type event back when Mythbusters was still on the air. I wanted to suggest a myth that I thought they should revisit on the show. Remember the one from one of the early seasons where they tested whether steel toe caps would actually cut off your toes if something heavy fell on them? As I recall they did all their testing with the highest rated toe caps. But what would happen if someone was wearing “light duty” toe caps in a situation where they really should have been wearing stronger ones?
But when I actually spoke to him, the actual words that came out of my mouth were something more like “Uhh, hi. Can I take a picture with you? Uhh… ok, bye.”
I was at a luncheon with Orion Samuelson, the legendary broadcaster at WGN Radio, who was on the air when the first bulletins of the JFK assassination came in. I asked him whether the impact of the event hit him while he was on the air. He replied basically that he was just trying not to screw up until the actual newscasters got there.
Okay, now I’m hoping heaven includes some time to “wander around the open bar/buffet and ask dead people questions”. I’ve got lots of these (mostly in the “too late now” category, for dead public figures).
In the meantime, I’ll try to come up with less shallow, less confrontational questions. Mine all end with same line…
(example: “Sir Paul, you had a chance to record with Michael Jackson, and the best you could do was “The Girl Is Mine”?
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?”)
Once two weeks before my I was to be married I saw Corey Feldman in “Bordello of Blood”. Now the movie is crappy but I was taken by Corey’s humor and sense of comedic timing, and I said to myself, “If I ever run into him I’ll tell him he was really good in that movie.”
Two weeks later on my honeymoon IN TAHITI…we saw him. Then he was everywhere we went. On a boat to a different island, at the same motel, SITTING BEHIND US AT A RESTAURANT miles from where we were staying…on all the connecting flights back to California…
I never got up the courage to tell him. I didn’t want to bother him. It’s one of my great regrets. I know…I’ve had a good life if THAT is one of my great regrets.
At least I got to tell Ben Folds that his appearance with Shatner on the Jay Leno show was one of the most electric performances I’ve ever seen.