She sings! She dances! She hides!

[captainsblog]

I'll get to my main point about that header in a minute, but it applies equally to one of my dearest Friends here, who just celebrated her ::koff::-ty-somethingth birthday yesterday and didn't post about it until afterward.

Happy belateds, miss_katelynne, and wishes for much happiness, success and even karaoke nights to come:)

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Even before finding out about that, though, I knew of another noted theatrical impresaria who'd been hiding things from me.

Jim Henson's Labyrinth has been one of our favorite films of AllTimeEva since Eleanor and I saw it early in our dating days.  We've had the VHS video of it for years, but only just got round to scoring the DVD of it. As older films go, it's light on the quantity of special features, but it does have a wonderful extended "Making Of" documentary, more than an hour of technical Muppet geekery and Terry Jones monologues (he wrote the script), but expecially an excessive dose of both funny and sad which comes from watching Jim on camera for almost an hour. Damn I miss that man.

Toward the end of the bit, he shows some choreography work being done with one of the film's primary choreographers, Cheryl McFadden. And we're a-lookin' and a-listenin' and going, "DAMN she's familiar."

Of course she was. A year or so after Labyrinth wrapped, she wandered into an audition for a new Paramount TV show and got a gig as the doctor on the show. Choosing, for reasons unknown, to be credited by her middle and last name- as Gates McFadden.

Turns out she'd done work on Henson's Muppets Take Manhattan, Dark Crystal and Dreamchild before she became Evil Wesley Die Die Die's onscreen mom.

Well duh.

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In other news:

No quiero Taco Bell.

Some say those images of rats in this West Village Taco Bell/KFC store are disturbing. I think they're kinda cute and hammy for the cammy. Which is just what you'd expect from that neighborhood.

US War-Dead Tally Omits Haliburton and Other Contract Workers

This is, of course, both sick and sad, and typical of the Bushipulation of information from this war, but after reading the story, it did give me an idea for an honorable exit strategy from Iraq that even Shrub could sell to his conservative corporate base:

BAGHDAD (MadeitUP)-- In an unprecedented but predictable move, officials from the Pentagon, Haliburton and Al-Qaida jointly announced today that the jobs of all 250,000 current United States soliders and contract workers in Iraq, along with an unspecified number of terrorists, would be transferred to India for the duration of the war.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates hailed the measure, under which critical functions in car-bombing, central operations, and IED manufacture and defense will be contracted out through third-party outsourcing firm WBS Holdings Ltd. of Bombay.

"The goal is to save money and be more efficient by using the Iraqi army for more critical and complex tasks," Gates said, but officials have not determined how much they expect to save.  "We have to be mindful of the effect of all this on the Haliburton balance sheet; Mr. Cheney's not a young man, you know."

And that's all the news that isn't.

Comments

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

Those rats absolutely freaked me OUT. I'm terrified of rodents of all sorts (which is one reason I've never have and never will have a hamster/guinea pig/etc.) When my ex-husband owned his restaurant, I'd help him take garbage out to the dumpster in the parking lot. Sometimes there'd be rats out there, and I'd run screaming like a little girl back to the building. I swear, they chased me. RATS ARE EVIL!!!!!!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Oddly, the last rat I saw was not anywhere round a restaurant but running across the drive-through at Key Bank.

Maybe the local KFC worked a deal with them to bring in the night deposit.

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

OK, they just showed that clip again on MSNBC. Everyone is standing outside the doors looking in, and the restaurant appears to be dark. So, was it closed when this film was taken, I wonder?

It almost makes me want to go to any random fast food place when they're closed, and look in at the trash cans, just to see if there are any furry visitors. Nah...I'd be afraid of what I might find.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Yes! I feel the same way about rodents, and I put hamsters, ferrets, gerbils, etc in that mix. *shudder*

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only rodent-phobe! My neighbors asked me to take care of their...something...while they were on vacation. I don't even know what it was. It looked like a small furry rat. The thing completely freaked me out. I'd just basically stick some veggies and a few pellets in its bowl and pour it in some fresh water. If I'd had to actually open the cage, I think I'd have had a heart attack.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, excuse me while I do the laughter of complete understanding! At least you tried. My cousin brought his ferret to a family gathering and kept trying to show me how "nice" it was, I totally freaked, and yes, I am in my 40s LOL

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Ok, the Taco Bell vid is going to stick with me all day. Luckily I hate Mexican and I never go to KFC. Judas Priest.

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

I remember one particularly fateful run to the border about seven years ago. It involved crutches, a really understanding cop and me trying to explain to the guy at Taco Bell "no, she doesn't want any tomatoes, no beans..."

Oh, and you just about bursting out of your skin in pain as Dr. Jeckyll twisted your foot around backwards.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

oh Good God. I had forgotten that. Now I have to go back to the hypnotist to forget it again. And that was Mr. Hyde that was twisting my foot. The cop rocked.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I have GOT to meet the two of you. My roadies to Syracuse seem utterly dull in comparison.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Kimmy and I have never had a boring road trip. Ask her about the business trip we were on when I almost died in the bathroom. Fun. Good times.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I can't say the rats at taco bell surprised me, they sure looked fat and healthy. I wonder if that's why the little chihuaha dissapeared? The rats ate it, te quiro (yes, that's totally butchered) taco bell!

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

I probably wouldn't have posted about my birthday at all if I hadn't had birthday messages from two celebrities/semi-celebrities! I had to brag, ya know? Thanks for the words though. I kinda like you too. ;)