tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552243203583049477.post1874065484275620890..comments2024-03-24T20:44:24.613-04:00Comments on Aeolus 13 Umbra: Hot Hero Sandwich — Off-Stage with Cast Member Jarett SmithwrickG. Jack Ursohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721118287476523638noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552243203583049477.post-39438222337627693972023-04-13T21:33:48.922-04:002023-04-13T21:33:48.922-04:00The monologue is so powerful, and so relevant toda...The monologue is so powerful, and so relevant today. Marianne told me about "The Whale Sketch" and as soon as she did I burst out laughing. What a classic line! I should do an article just on the psychology behind Stanley Dipstick. The more I hear about Bruce and Carole fighting for their vision, the more I am convinced there is a streaming series idea in there somewhere.G. Jack Ursohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16721118287476523638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552243203583049477.post-42589848568739866042023-04-13T07:59:16.700-04:002023-04-13T07:59:16.700-04:00Richard Camp wrote the monologue that Jarett deliv...Richard Camp wrote the monologue that Jarett delivered so brilliantly. Bruce and Carole fought the network very hard to get it on the air, just as they fought the network and censors for every scrap of honest and relevant content we all produced. It was a constant uphill battle that we all appreciated their waging and (mostly) winning. I wrote a sketch featuring Claudette Sutherland as Miss Pinch, School Librarian, as a satiric comment on the network's over-sensitivity and the arbitrary nature of censorship. Pinch refuses to allow students to check out every book they hand her, stating her foolish objections, and tossing the offending books into a drawer. The sketch ends with Miss Pinch grabbing a book from Stanley Dipstyck and suffering a kind of fit, spraying the book with an aerosol can, and sputtering, as Stanley objects, "But it's about a whale!" That particular fight with network censor Jane Crowley was epic, and Bruce won with this quotable line: "It's a good thing CBS aired The Dick Van Dyke Show. On NBC, it would have been called The Van Show."Sherrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552243203583049477.post-12686552440078437552023-04-02T20:15:16.955-04:002023-04-02T20:15:16.955-04:00The "ridicule rap" at the end is spot on...The "ridicule rap" at the end is spot on. I'm a bit of an affcionado on the subject, and this example is all right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552243203583049477.post-15929872305352255102023-04-02T20:11:58.364-04:002023-04-02T20:11:58.364-04:00Loved this piece, Aeolus. Good job. Thanks to Ja...Loved this piece, Aeolus. Good job. Thanks to Jarett Smithwrick and the HHS crew for being the traiblazers and heros of teen tv. You guys are fondly remembered. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com