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overheard in the Castiron household while watching Phantom of the Opera
Spouse: Why hasn't Elmo ever played the Phantom?
Castiron: That's a very good question.
Spouse: He'd have to do it with Denyse Graves as Christine.
Castiron: And Telly as Raoul, and then the Phantom and Raoul can argue, and Christine can suggest that they cooperate!
***
(on television, someone sings "Christine!")
Spouse (the auto mechanic): That just makes me think of an entirely different movie.
Castiron: It'd be a great car for the Phantom to drive.
(later)
Castiron: Hey, isn't there a car called the Phantom? [Googles] Yeah, the Rolls Royce Phantom. That's what the world needs; a possessed Rolls Royce Phantom named Christine.
Spouse: Now, *there's* a crossover.
***
Spouse: You know what would really be great? If Freddy Mercury were playing the Phantom.
Castiron: That's a justification for building time machines right there.
***
Yes, it's beg week on PBS again. (Still. Pretty soon the non-beg week will be the novel and unusual thing.)
ETA: Come on, makeup artists, can't you make a Phantom with a genuinely disturbing face? A few burn ridges? Sheesh. [ETA2: Okay, it's a bit worse at the end, but still, not that disturbing.] I've seen people with more severe facial disfigurements in the grocery store or in the park, and *they* certainly aren't horrifying. Use some flipping imagination!
Castiron: That's a very good question.
Spouse: He'd have to do it with Denyse Graves as Christine.
Castiron: And Telly as Raoul, and then the Phantom and Raoul can argue, and Christine can suggest that they cooperate!
***
(on television, someone sings "Christine!")
Spouse (the auto mechanic): That just makes me think of an entirely different movie.
Castiron: It'd be a great car for the Phantom to drive.
(later)
Castiron: Hey, isn't there a car called the Phantom? [Googles] Yeah, the Rolls Royce Phantom. That's what the world needs; a possessed Rolls Royce Phantom named Christine.
Spouse: Now, *there's* a crossover.
***
Spouse: You know what would really be great? If Freddy Mercury were playing the Phantom.
Castiron: That's a justification for building time machines right there.
***
Yes, it's beg week on PBS again. (Still. Pretty soon the non-beg week will be the novel and unusual thing.)
ETA: Come on, makeup artists, can't you make a Phantom with a genuinely disturbing face? A few burn ridges? Sheesh. [ETA2: Okay, it's a bit worse at the end, but still, not that disturbing.] I've seen people with more severe facial disfigurements in the grocery store or in the park, and *they* certainly aren't horrifying. Use some flipping imagination!