The Queen of the Grade B Westerns is Gone

You may know her as Lily Munster, the vampirical, graceful MILF with the distinctive white streak through her long black hair on The Munsters TV series, but us older guys knew her as the only thing worth watching in a whole string of B movies, mostly westerns. Yvonne De Carlo passed away today at the age of 84.

IMDB lists 122 acting credits for Ms. De Carlo, starting in 1941 and spanning 6 decades. Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, BC, her early roles paint a picture:

Bathing Girl
Kitty O'Hara
Showgirl at Neptune Club
Student
Handmaiden
Secretary
Girl in Singing Quartette
Chorus Girl
Princess Wah-Tah

And so on. While she never landed a significant movie role aside from the Munster movies, she did show what a trouper she was by creating the role of Carlotta Campion in the original Broadway cast of Follies, which ran for more than a year in 1971-72.

Auditions

Just emailed Palo Alto Players asking for an audition spot for Jekyll & Hyde, tryouts are the last 3 days of the month.

Losing

I was thinking I need to lose weight.
Then I thought how that's about the same as saying how I needed to gain height, which is patently ridiculous.
And I followed that by noting I might be more attractive if I could lose eye roundness, or gain skin blackness, or somehow reduce the girth of my penis.

Because one's weight is primarily a function of one's genes