August 2006 -- Day 1 – Annabel with Robert Osborne and the Museum Members Party
The next event was a wonderful presentation of the two Annabel movies at the Reg Lenna Civic Center hosted by Robert Osborne. It was surreal – since TCM magically appeared on my cable package last October, I have become a TCM junkie. Now, here was Robert Osborne hosting the movies right before my eyes (complete with an easy chair and table lamp in the background, LOL) . Fantastic! Robert gave a complete breakdown of both the Annabel movies and the popularity of serial movies so popular in the 30s and 40s. He was also very good in relating the Annabel movies to Lucy’s later work. This man is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge and seeing him in action live was amazing! At the screening I also had a chance to catch up with Mike Elliot!
The Lucy-Desi Center presented the films in a really neat way – it was complete with vintage trailers (for the Magic Carpet, yet!) and Philip Morris commercials. Then The Affairs of Annabel started! It was great as always, but I think they used one of the original prints for the screening so sometimes the picture was a out of focus or scratchy in the occasional corner, but it was interesting watching it from the real thing! At the end of the film, Robert came out and introduced Annabel Takes A Tour and then bade us Goodnight. At the beginning, they were using one of the older prints, but it had sound problems so I think they switched to a video or DVD.
After the films I popped over to the Museum Members Party and on the way there I spotted Diane and Liane (Dliane? TomKat, Brangelina, Bennifer, eat your heart out!) and talked to them for a few minutes while they were watching Lucy Under The Stars (Lucy Gets Ricky On The Radio was on). There was a smaller crowd than usual at the museum party, but that’s good – more room to move around! Dann Cahn was showing a brief DVD on the creation of the ILL animated openings, which was good! But, before that was screened, Dann’s DVD malfunctioned so Ric had to go get another copy from the Desilu Playhouse. While Ric was down the road, the boy who John Schillner dubbed “Jimmy Sheridan Junior” entertained us with a recitation of the Vitameatavegamin sales pitch, and to a rousing rendition of New York, New York. John may have to change his nickname to “Frank Sinatra Senior Junior.” HA!
On my walk back to the Hotel, I picked up one of the new "Christmas Show" Mattel dolls which had JUST arrived at the museum gift shop. They look a lot better in person, the pictures on eBay don't do them justice. The weird thing though is that each one looks a bit different than the other; different head angles, etc.
The Lucy-Desi Center presented the films in a really neat way – it was complete with vintage trailers (for the Magic Carpet, yet!) and Philip Morris commercials. Then The Affairs of Annabel started! It was great as always, but I think they used one of the original prints for the screening so sometimes the picture was a out of focus or scratchy in the occasional corner, but it was interesting watching it from the real thing! At the end of the film, Robert came out and introduced Annabel Takes A Tour and then bade us Goodnight. At the beginning, they were using one of the older prints, but it had sound problems so I think they switched to a video or DVD.
After the films I popped over to the Museum Members Party and on the way there I spotted Diane and Liane (Dliane? TomKat, Brangelina, Bennifer, eat your heart out!) and talked to them for a few minutes while they were watching Lucy Under The Stars (Lucy Gets Ricky On The Radio was on). There was a smaller crowd than usual at the museum party, but that’s good – more room to move around! Dann Cahn was showing a brief DVD on the creation of the ILL animated openings, which was good! But, before that was screened, Dann’s DVD malfunctioned so Ric had to go get another copy from the Desilu Playhouse. While Ric was down the road, the boy who John Schillner dubbed “Jimmy Sheridan Junior” entertained us with a recitation of the Vitameatavegamin sales pitch, and to a rousing rendition of New York, New York. John may have to change his nickname to “Frank Sinatra Senior Junior.” HA!
On my walk back to the Hotel, I picked up one of the new "Christmas Show" Mattel dolls which had JUST arrived at the museum gift shop. They look a lot better in person, the pictures on eBay don't do them justice. The weird thing though is that each one looks a bit different than the other; different head angles, etc.
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