For a quick shot of fresh-to-me VIC AND SADE goodness, I went to PaulRhymer.net's scripts page and happened across this 1935 script, in which 10-year-old Mr. Rush Gook of Virginia Avenue [Bloomington, IL] prognosticated his entire high-class lifetime up to his death at age 87 in 2012. Things like this scare me far more than that Mayan-calender bullshit.
[Bill Idelson, the child actor who played Rush, beat his character's lifespan prediction by a year, actually did take at least one year off to vacation in Europe, and eschewed medicine and politics for a career as an A-list TV-comedy writer/producer and part-time actor [THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, GET SMART, THE ODD COUPLE, HAPPY DAYS, THE BOB NEWHART SHOW] and an autumn-years side-career as the greatest writing teacher the world has ever known.]
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Milo George may one day be the CFO of an industrial chemical company or the dictator of a small island nation, but he will always be known in my household as the man who introduced me to VIC & SADE and the especial eclat of Paul Rhymer. I've been spreading the good word since then, brother. Some people are HOOKED.
I noticed on Amazon a while back that Idelson also wrote a book about his days on V&S...
Amen, Mr. D. I've been meaning to get a new copy of Bill's V&S book, especially if it covers the entire series; the copy I had only covered about half the series' run. Did you notice that there are no cheap used copies for sale? There never are. I would kill to have had Billy record an audiobook of it before he died; he never lost that endearingly flat mid-Western cadence.
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