I tell myself that I'm going to sit down and answer the over three hundred emails waiting in my inbox, but then I find myself procrastinating in all ways awful.
Examples?
I spent a good chunk of time today visiting a website about everyone's favorite "confirmed bachelor," Paul Lynde.
As Uncle Arthur, Paul Lynde was the best thing about Bewitched -- and I was reminded of this fact after watching Bye Bye Birdie (where he appears as Ann-Margaret's father) the other day
My visit to Paul Lynde world also reminded me to take the time to look up the birthdate of another Bewitched regular, Bernard Fox a.k.a Dr. Bombay. As a child, I saw Dr. Bombay as an ancient -- he seemed to be in his fifties or sixties. So, when I saw him in Titanic a couple years back, I wondered if he was immortal. It turns out he is one of the only surviving members of the cast and he's only 75.
Next step in my procrastination odyssey was a visit to IMDB to check out the ages of William Frawley and Vivian Vance -- I Love Lucy's Fred and Ethel. I've always known that there was a large age difference between those two actors but it amazes me that they cast an actor, who during their last season, was seventy. This was to Vance's forty-eight.
Fun Fact: Did you know that Vivian Vance was contractually required to remain twenty pounds overweight during filming. This clause was to guarantee that she look older than her actual age. Although I've believed this for years, I have my doubts about the legitimacy of this fact.
After this visit through TV Land past, I remembered I woke up this morning thinking about Lucille Ball -- actually thinking about one of the most traumatizing things I had ever seen on television.
It was a television movie called Stone Pillow -- and Lucille Ball played an elderly homeless woman who -- and this is the traumatizing part -- eats an alley cat!
What a day.