Two wonderful backstage tales via KT.
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A young Kurt Russell starred with Charles Bronson in “The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.”Russell liked Bronson and gave him a gift once. Bronson took it and walked straight to his trailer without a word. Russell was worried and the crew told him that Bronson was just “an… pic.twitter.com/fMNSCZEUuc
— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy)
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A little while later, Russell was called to Bronson’s trailer. Russell was worried that he’d done something wrong.Russell knocked. Bronson opened the door, looked at him, and said, “Um, nobody’s ever given me a present before, so thanks.”
Then he shut the door. pic.twitter.com/vfD4XQUvVF
— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy)
The story continues from there, to wind up in a place you probably wouldn’t expect: Bronson and Russell skateboarding together all over the studio lot, in open defiance of insurance regs against it. Good, good stuff. Next up: how Bugs Bunny saved Mel Blanc’s life.
He was the king of screams in the catoons.
And his scream has literally the power to take anyone out of comapic.twitter.com/VeMt4A4GLP
— MissFacto (@missfacto)
The follow-on dialogue is priceless.
“You mean to tell me you could have come out of that coma at any time?”
“No, only when it was funny.”
— L Y D O N 🦁 (@Shayor19)
Heh. I can think of but one way to respond to that.
Ehhhhh, he don’t know me too well, do he?
Bugs Bunny, and Mel Blanc, is an American Treasure.
As is Charles Bronson. Paul Kersey too, but for a different, darker reason these days.