Bewitched and Beyond: The Fan Who Came to Dinner by Mark Wood Read Free Book Online Page A

feathers, and a pair of black leggings! The poor valet stood there mortified, having just seen this gracious lady drop her dress in public!
    After picking it up and stuffing it in the trunk, I tipped the valet and off we drove, laughing the whole way home.

Could it be that McMann and Tate were romancing an account from NASA? Why else would the agency owner’s wife, Louise be with Majors Nelson and Healey on a tarmac?

Kasey’s gown had 52 handmade dark pink lamé roses across the top and front and over 100 green lamé leaves. Each flower and leaf was “dotted” with several sequins in the same colors. Matching feather headdress and hot pink boa completed the look! I’m just a devil. HA! 27 years after it was first made, I gave it to my dear friend Roberta.

The St. Nicholas Ball acting like mannequins with our friend Julia!

Chapter 12
    Son of a Witch
     
    1993 was a fun year! My sister was married on the 30th of January, 1993, and I was asked to sing at her wedding (I had been a night club singer for years back in Georgia). I remember the day was cold and rainy and there were a billion crows on the lawn of the church. Odd the things you remember… But Kate, my sister, looked beautiful!
    During that time, I also began training to be a tour guide at Universal Studios. It was such a kick getting to play in the back-lot on all those famous exteriors and sets — The Munster’s House, The Psycho House and the Bates Motel, The Chicken Ranch, and the New York Street where The Sting was filmed.
    But that situation didn’t last long when I found out that in order to get you to work there, they lure you with the possibilities of getting to meet the big names in show business, and then after graduating (I was one of only nine that made it out of thirty) it really doesn’t pan out that way. They never intended to give us a chance to work with the big names. They used that as a come-on. It’s as if they train you and then say, “Just kidding!”
    I did have a fun time doing my first musical in California that year. The show was Carousel and I played Enoch Snow. Actually I played him the way I thought Jim Carry would. (Isn’t that what musical comedy is for?!) The audience laughed but the director didn’t… sigh, why does genius always go un-rewarded?! HA!
    Kasey and I also attended her 50th High School reunion that year in Burbank. Looking back, it was kind of funny. Kasey, being the only one in her class to go into show business, showed up with her “boy-toy” on her arm! We never thought anything about it, but we found out during the course of the evening that’s exactly what everyone was thinking!
    We also visited the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles that year. Kasey and I walked over to where a bunch of kids had gathered. They were looking at the remains of a 4000 year old mummy that was on display and partially unwrapped.
    “I remember this from when I was a kid,” she said. I immediately quipped, “Don’t be silly, he wasn’t dead yet!” If it hadn’t been so funny she may have killed me on the spot!
    While there we were scouting locations for our new witch story this time around called Son of a Witch!
    With all the copyright troubles we were having with the Bewitched franchise, we decided to write a brand new story about America’s first boy-witch and take it completely out of the copy-written world of Samantha Stephens.
    The story was a good one too, if I do say so myself. A combination of Superman meets Cinderella meets Bewitched. Son of a Witch is the story of Sam Haines (anyone get that joke?), a baby who is sent to the future from the persecuted 1690s of Salem, Massachusetts by his doomed-to-die witch parents, and grows up in a Catholic orphanage totally unaware of his “heretical heritage.”
    Enter three elderly witches from his past; Edna, Mrs. Gladstone, and Tituba, who witnessed his transport to the future, and who have been trying to find him for centuries. As they soon find out,