Melinda Officially-Old
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Melinda Officially-Old
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Author of old-style adventure COUNTERFEIT PRINCESS & paranormal CAPTIVE SOULS. Casual font nerd. Should be writing, not posting.
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Historical note: This shared smile is the moment I fell in love with #StarTrek when I was a kid. This wasn't just an away mission with a leader and crew member - the Enterprise crew genuinely liked each other. Eleven-year-old me wanted to be a part of that. #AllStarTrek #TomorrowIsYesterday
I should've known #Svengoolie fans would be well-versed in the ways of Warner Brothers cartoons.
Ball of Fire is definitely two hours well spent. Gary Cooper doing comedy. Barbara Stanwyck singing and dancing. A passel of character actors having a ridiculous amount of fun. And a drummer playing boogie on a pair of matches!
Actually, no. Too-little sleep has made me irony-deficient.
That oversight needs to be fixed ASAP!
25 or so years earlier, Richard Haydn played one of the fussbudget professors in Ball of Fire, a screwball comedy parody of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (He's the one looking at Barbara Stanwyck who isn't Gary Cooper.)
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
I'm happy to say no one ever tried to nickname me Egg Foo. (Or Manchu's evil niece Fu Rotten Egg.)
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
Shouldn't it be storming when the rioters get to the castle? It's storming here!
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
For a very good reason - it's absurd to the power of 10!
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
You're a trivia maven if you know the name of this classic monster.
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
I feel like dancing for some reason.... I may bust a move.
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
Or did I miss it? The kitchen sometimes beckons at awkward times.
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein
Wasn't he going to talk about the espresso line? (I'm guessing it was an ad lib.)
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein