From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:33:24 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu  writes:
> In article <1992Sep24.003215.21623@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
> >
> >In article <1992Sep23.172108.229@colorado.edu>, 
> >  fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden) writes...
> >
> >>However there was another UL associated with that album. The cover shows
> >>a nude woman eating honey and the inside shows her coated with honey from
> >>head to toe. The rumor was that it caused some sort of skin problems and 
> >>she sued and won a large amount of money as compensation. 
> >
> >No, I think you must have this confused with the woman who played Honey West
> >on TV.  Rumor has it she died during the filming of an episode in which she
> >was covered with honey, effectively clogging all her pores.  Or maybe it was
> >Buddy Ebsen . . .
> >
> > - snopes
> 
> How was Buddy Ebsen clogged because Anne Francis (who played Honey West) was
> covered with honey?
> 
> (At least it wasn't Churchill, Disraeli, or Gladstone, and it likely wasn't
> a snuff-honey film.)
> 
> Anne Francis was one of the stars of Forbidden Planet, along with Jeffrey
> Hunter who was to be Captain Pike of the Enterprise for more than just
> the original pilot episode and the recycled two-parter the Menagerie.  The
> doctor in FP was played by Warren Stevens, who later guest starred on ST:TOS
> as the leader of the Kelvins.  Jeff Hunter died in a freak accident before
> William Shatner was picked to replace him as NBC picked up the series.  Jeff's
> last movie was Brainstorm, not to be confused with Natalie Wood's last movie
> with the same title.  Curiously enough, Shatner had starred in the Outer Limits
> episode "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" and played an astronaut who worked for
> Project Vulcan, and had a doctor as a personal friend who figured in the
> storyline about his body temperature being quite a bit different from 98.6.
> Said doctor was played by Malachi Throne, who played Noah Bain on It takes a
> Thief starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood's husband, and also playing
> Commodore J. R. Mendes on the ST:TOS double-length episode the Menagerie
> mentioned above.  The star of FP is Walter Pidgeon, who also starred as the
> Admiral in the movie version of Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
> which later became a TV series with Richard Basehart as the Admiral.  Irwin
> Allen also made another undersea movie called City Beneath the Sea starring
> Robert Wagner, which has many parallels, including a similar role of an
> authority figure played by Richard Basehart and some obviously ripped-off
> special effects.
> 
> In any case, Buddy Ebsen was originally a dancer, which he eventually
> demonstrated in at least one episode of Barnaby Jones, costarring Lee
> Meriweather, who guest-starred on ST:TOS as Osira's images (I am for Kirk,
> etc).  The Buddy Ebsen story most circulated is that he was to play the
> Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, but was allergic to the metallic makeup he
> would have to wear, so turned down the role.  Eventually, he went to
> Disney and costarred in Davey Crockett as Davey's compadre George.  Davey
> Crockett was a major hit in the '50's, and led to the ever-popular
> Davey Crockett song, which was originally recorded by Bill Hayes, who
> later was to become a Soap Star on Days of Our Lives.  Eventually, Ebsen
> scored as Jeb Clampett on the Beverly Hillbillies, with Max Baer Jr. as
> Jethro.  Max Baer played a crazed redneck Sheriff in Macon County Line.  The
> sequel, Return to Macon County starred Nick Nolte and Don Johnson.  Johnson
> has appeared with his wife Melanie Griffith in various films.  Melanie
> Griffith's mother is Tippi Hedren, whose most famous role is in Alfred
> Hitchcock's The Birds.  Recently Melanie Griffith starred in Shining Through
> with Michael Douglas.  Michael Douglass is remembered for his role in The
> Streets of San Francisco costarring with Karl Malden.  Karl Malden was the
> star of the movie Bombers B-52 with Natalie Wood and Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.
> Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith starred in 77 Sunset Strip with Edd
> "Kooky" Byrnes inspiring the song "Kooky, Kooky, lend me your comb" sung
> by Connie Stevens and featuring Edd Byrnes.  Roger Smith today mostly
> manages his wife Ann-Margret who appeared in Bye Bye Birdie with Dick Van Dyke
> and Janet Leigh, mother of Jamie Leigh Curtis and wife of Tony Curtis.  Tony
> Curtis and Janet Leigh appeared in The Vikings, with Kirk Douglas, Michael
> Douglas' father.
> 
> cj "who needs a cascade?" l

	Interesting.  If you took out the punctuation, and made everything
lowercase, you'd have a Joyce novel!  :)

	Torsten at Omaha

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