One of my resolutions this year is to follow through on the writerly exhortations from Ray Bradbury et al. to, if I wish to be a writer, Read and Write every day.
Speaking of Ray Bradbury, an episode of the Twilight Zone that he wrote (“I sing the body electric”) appeared in the midst of the overnight TZ marathon on SciFi (of which we watched a bunch; so cool). Based on his short story of the same name, naturally, and even if I hadn’t seen the credits at the beginning, I suspect I would have figured out the connection soon enough — it had all the trappings, and finding the soul in the machine as its main focus.
The actress who played the younger Anne was Veronica Cartwright, who went on to a long career (still going), including a roles in The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the original Alien. Bit more trivia: Cartwright was originally brought on to play Ellen Ripley, but Ridley Scott switched her with Sigourney Weaver.
Last night, Denyse thought it was the girl who played the daughter on Lost In Space, but that was actually Veronica’s sister, Angela Cartwright, who was also in Sound of Music.
Small world all around. :)
Oh, and Angela has a blog: Said & Done. She mentions having done an interview last month along with Bill Mumy (the boy on Lost in Space) about being on television in the black and white years. She also links to Mumy’s website in her sidebar.
Mumy has been in a ton of television shows over the years, a lot of them in the SF vein. And on his bio page, near the bottom, he mentions that he “has recently completed co-writing a fantasy novel with Angela Cartwright.”
So the post comes full circle: Read and Write. Repeat.
