If you want to see a 19th-century version of the Peach and his complexion, refer to Angelo in Mark Twain’s Those Extraordinary Twins, the original of Pudd’nhead Wilson. Sadly, you can’t also see the incredible illustrations that – to borrow Twain’s voice – litter the borders of every page in the original. Only a few of those illustrations survive in the better-known and final novel.
If you’d like to see the non-farce but still humorous version of the story, check out Stuck On You. Get the dvd, so you can check out the details. The fictional version of life as conjoined twins is nowhere as amazing as some of the truths it’s based on. One of the sets of twins mentioned on the dvd are sisters joined at the forehead. What will blow your limited Singlet mind is that one is a country western singer — and one is a nurse. The movie only hints at the kind of things humans can adapt to.
Twain spoke in the original how the twins would have been hurt if they were ever split up. Greg Kinnear’s misery once he is away from his brother is heart-breaking.
Neat note: I was wondering how they’d handle the fact that Kinnear is older than Damon. In a perfect throw-away moment, Kinnear complains he got “less of the liver” and is just aging faster. Clinically possible? Don’t know. Comments appreciated.
Cher hilariously plays and sends up herself, in a way that makes you wonder if anybody else would ever have the guts like that.
Caution: most of the dvd commentary is taken up with the director naming all the locals he used as extras.
Oh, and forgot what kind of plane that was. I research like Thomas Mann: find, use, forget. What IS that thing?
*flips through the piles of Luftwaffe books*
Looks like either a JU-88 or a HE-111…*scans* Glass forward canopy…. it’s a He-111.
(for future ref – an 88 http://flyingscalemodels.co.uk/ju88-b.jpg and an ‘111 http://www.kilroywashere.org/09-Images/Woody/He111.jpg)
Yup. But don’t expect me to hang onto those links, because they will get lost before the next time I need them. Most likely I’ll ruthlessly exploit my Supergeek readers and ask them what plane they’d love to see in black — or pink. And ask them for the research to plug it in. With credits.
When it comes to the Luftwaffe, just ask Red! I wanted to make a baby quilt and put planes associated with Walter Oeseau in the quilting. She supplied the info, and I quilted. Of course, it WAS for her kid!
By the way, “Red” is being listed as “Red” in one of the Ka-Blam books because I couldn’t find the name! So if you want to send the name for future issues….
Red’s fine for the book, though my real name is one of those massively annoying names with a von in it. XD
My first name’s huge too, but I hate it, so I either go by Red or Cori, my nickname.