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Authors: Mark Wood
didn’t move.
So, bag in hand, Kasey and I moved closer. She was going to flip it into the bag with the yard stick.
The very moment she touched it, that damn thing took off like a shot and flew down an open hole in my wall where a cable switch plate was missing.
Now, imagine if you will those old Tom and Jerry cartoons where the lady sees the mouse and jumps up on a chair holding her skirt around her thighs, and begins screaming at the top of her lungs.
Yeah, sad to say, that was me!
Finally, we stuffed the hole with a plastic bag and put packing tape to cover it but all through the night, I could hear the crunching of little teeth on plastic!
That April, only a month into my new life, Kasey and I made contact with former Bewitched stars Erin Murphy, Dick Sargent, and Sandra Gould. We held an impromptu Bewitched Reunion in Kasey’s acting studio, The Hollywood Underground Network in North Hollywood, which once sat on Weddington Street, right next to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In recent years it has been demolished to make way for more apartments, condos, and a railway station.
It was a great little reunion! We played a video about Bewitched… Again! that I had made in Atlanta with me playing Adam. Afterwards, I was highly praised by all. Talk about walking on air! AND, all said they would be right in there pitching with us to get the new series idea on air! I have no photos from this BUT recently I found a video that captured a short burst of this momentous occasion, and I am so glad that I have it.
Kasey and I soon began visiting all the “touristy” places together. On our first evening in Hollywood we parked the car right next to Snow White’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. (A cartoon character received her own star, yet it took seventeen more years to get one for Elizabeth Montgomery?!)
We ventured to the Renaissance Faire, Calico Ghost Town (a manufactured town that used real buildings from the Old West), and Universal Studios. I remember on one of our many trips there, we went on the Jurassic Park ride, which was new at the time. We sat in the front as planned because on the big drop, you can duck and all the water gets splashed on the guy behind you!
Unfortunately, all that planning proved futile as Kasey froze and forgot to duck!
When I looked up, I saw that her entire face had been washed clean and her hair was drenched! But always the good sport, she just went to the ladies room and blew herself dry with the hand drier!
One passion of mine was to visit all the different cemeteries and take my photo with ALL of the famous dead people I could find.
Mark and Bette Davis
Mark and Tyrone Power
Mark and Marilyn Monroe
Mark and L. Frank Baum…
We finally made a scrapbook and called it “Mark’s Book of the Dead”!
I figured the closest I’d ever get to any of them was six feet above … unless of course, they had been interred in a vault!
Which brings me to my next story…
This was taken in the lobby of the famed Ravenswood Apartments. It was here that Mae West lived most of her adult life.
Left to right: KR as Elizabeth the First, Me as Sir Walter Raleigh, being boiled in my own bath water at Calico Ghost Town and Kasey after her Jurassic drenching!
Chapter 10
Clifton and Ina
After umpteen trips to several graveyards, we were walking in Hollywood Memorial Park (Today Hollywood Forever. For you Bewitched fans, that’s where David White has been laid to rest with his son, Jonathan.)
Kasey and I began walking down the hollow aisles of one of the mausoleums in search of Clifton Webb who has been reputed to haunt that cemetery. As I was relating this story to Kasey, our footsteps began echoing off the marbled walls, floors, ceilings, and monuments, and we quickly found it to be a very cold unsettling place. We were a bit spooked, but finally found Clifton in a wall vault about waist high. Kasey told me to hurry and stand beside the vault so she could take the picture and
So, bag in hand, Kasey and I moved closer. She was going to flip it into the bag with the yard stick.
The very moment she touched it, that damn thing took off like a shot and flew down an open hole in my wall where a cable switch plate was missing.
Now, imagine if you will those old Tom and Jerry cartoons where the lady sees the mouse and jumps up on a chair holding her skirt around her thighs, and begins screaming at the top of her lungs.
Yeah, sad to say, that was me!
Finally, we stuffed the hole with a plastic bag and put packing tape to cover it but all through the night, I could hear the crunching of little teeth on plastic!
That April, only a month into my new life, Kasey and I made contact with former Bewitched stars Erin Murphy, Dick Sargent, and Sandra Gould. We held an impromptu Bewitched Reunion in Kasey’s acting studio, The Hollywood Underground Network in North Hollywood, which once sat on Weddington Street, right next to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In recent years it has been demolished to make way for more apartments, condos, and a railway station.
It was a great little reunion! We played a video about Bewitched… Again! that I had made in Atlanta with me playing Adam. Afterwards, I was highly praised by all. Talk about walking on air! AND, all said they would be right in there pitching with us to get the new series idea on air! I have no photos from this BUT recently I found a video that captured a short burst of this momentous occasion, and I am so glad that I have it.
Kasey and I soon began visiting all the “touristy” places together. On our first evening in Hollywood we parked the car right next to Snow White’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. (A cartoon character received her own star, yet it took seventeen more years to get one for Elizabeth Montgomery?!)
We ventured to the Renaissance Faire, Calico Ghost Town (a manufactured town that used real buildings from the Old West), and Universal Studios. I remember on one of our many trips there, we went on the Jurassic Park ride, which was new at the time. We sat in the front as planned because on the big drop, you can duck and all the water gets splashed on the guy behind you!
Unfortunately, all that planning proved futile as Kasey froze and forgot to duck!
When I looked up, I saw that her entire face had been washed clean and her hair was drenched! But always the good sport, she just went to the ladies room and blew herself dry with the hand drier!
One passion of mine was to visit all the different cemeteries and take my photo with ALL of the famous dead people I could find.
Mark and Bette Davis
Mark and Tyrone Power
Mark and Marilyn Monroe
Mark and L. Frank Baum…
We finally made a scrapbook and called it “Mark’s Book of the Dead”!
I figured the closest I’d ever get to any of them was six feet above … unless of course, they had been interred in a vault!
Which brings me to my next story…
This was taken in the lobby of the famed Ravenswood Apartments. It was here that Mae West lived most of her adult life.
Left to right: KR as Elizabeth the First, Me as Sir Walter Raleigh, being boiled in my own bath water at Calico Ghost Town and Kasey after her Jurassic drenching!
Chapter 10
Clifton and Ina
After umpteen trips to several graveyards, we were walking in Hollywood Memorial Park (Today Hollywood Forever. For you Bewitched fans, that’s where David White has been laid to rest with his son, Jonathan.)
Kasey and I began walking down the hollow aisles of one of the mausoleums in search of Clifton Webb who has been reputed to haunt that cemetery. As I was relating this story to Kasey, our footsteps began echoing off the marbled walls, floors, ceilings, and monuments, and we quickly found it to be a very cold unsettling place. We were a bit spooked, but finally found Clifton in a wall vault about waist high. Kasey told me to hurry and stand beside the vault so she could take the picture and
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