Saturday 9

 

Spooky Scary Skeletons

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Saturday 9: Spooky Scary Skeletons (1996)

Unfamiliar with this week's featured song? Hear it here.

 

1) In this song, Andrew Gold sings that these skeletons send shivers down his spine. Do you often involuntarily shudder or shiver?

No.  

 

2) While they appear frightening, these skeletons are harmless and only want to socialize with us mortals. Can you think of something -- or someone -- that intimidated you at first but that you were more comfortable with as you became more familiar?

I’ll have to think about that …

3) The video for this song was originally created in 1929. Skeleton Dance was a short movie produced and directed by Walt Disney himself. In 2006, Disney Studios paired Gold's song with this animation for a Halloween DVD. Do you have any DVDs that you watch seasonally (every Halloween, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, etc.)? 

Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2 are current Halloween favorites.

For Christmas I have to see It’s a Wonderful Life.

 
4) You may not realize it, but you likely already know one of Andrew Gold's songs. He wrote "Thank You for Being a Friend," the theme to TV's Golden Girls. Blanche, Dorothy, Rose or Sophia: Which is your favorite?

Dorothy.  She’s smart and sassy.

These questions will help us get into the Halloween spirit ....

5) Introduced in the 1880s, candy corn was originally called Chicken Feed. It was developed by a candy manufacturer who gave it the orange/white color and special name to differentiate it from jelly beans. Do you like candy corn (a) all year around or (b) at Halloween only or (c) never?

I actually prefer what they’re now calling “harvest corn”, that’s candy corn with a cocoa-flavored layer. It’s just for Halloween.

6) What candy will trick-or-treaters get when they show up at your front door?

Snickers, Milky Way, Baby Ruth…all fun sized.

 
7) Halloween was a 1978 movie by John Carpenter about Michael Myers, who kills while wearing a ghostly mask. In the original movie, the mask used was a $2 Captain Kirk mask, painted white. Both Halloween and Star Trek are successful franchises of more than a dozen movies. Have you seen more of Michael Myers or Captain Kirk?

I’ve never seen any of the Halloween movies, but I am a huge Star Trek fan.

8) In 2022, a survey of California schoolchildren revealed that Buzz Lightyear was the top pick of Halloween costume. When you were little, did you prefer to dress up for Halloween as a hero, like Buzz, or a scary monster?

I remember dressing up as a hippie and as a geisha when I was a kid.  One year in college I dressed as a medieval princess.  These days I have my favorite witch hat and black cape.

But my favorite costume?  I was in college and invited to a Halloween party off campus.  I was a space traveler.  I wore black leggings, a black shirt and black boots.  I found an old dance skirt — sheer fabric with bands of gold lame at the waist and hem — which I wore as a poncho.  I found a headband with glittery gold antennas.  And I painted my face green.  Wish I had a photo …

  

9) Some long-time White House employees claim they have seen Abraham Lincoln's ghost wandering the halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Have you ever seen a ghost?

 

No.  I firmly believe that there is energy in this world that we cannot explain, but I have never encountered it.

 

 

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