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Heads up, Angels. While our podcast is suitable for all ages, keep in mind these episodes were produced in a different era and may include scenes of danger, crime, or themes some listeners may find sensitive or outdated. When doing our rewatch, we do our very best to discuss everything with care, context, and compassion, and always with a love for the show and respect for our listeners. My name's Arthur, and I live in the bungalow behind the hotel.

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And coming up.

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Hi, everybody. It is Colby. Thank you for joining us again. How are you doing, Chris?

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I just had a big adventure at the grocery store. And I need to I need to process it. I hate going to the grocery store. I don't know what anything in there is. I don't know what it's for. This this happened today. I was leaving the parking lot of the grocery store completely undone and sweaty and hot. And this guy in the parking lot, like there are no cars. I've driven past where all the cars are parked, is just staring at me like he's going one mile an hour, looking at me like I have the head of a bagel. I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. Nobody recognizes me.

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Look, um, suppose I ever had my breakfast with onion rolls.

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Now all of a sudden, one morning in and off a bagel. I mean, you take a look at it, you say, What is that? I'm gonna try it. That's my trouble. I'm a bagel, I'm a plate full of onion rolls.

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Nobody recognizes me, listen.

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That's from funny girl. We can see each other, and I I'm doing this what do you well I don't know, like gesture with my hands up in the air. What do you want? I don't know.

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Were you like headed towards each other?

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Yes, we're headed toward each other.

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Like a game of chicken?

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Yes. And and I finally go around him, and I'm thinking, that was just wow, people are crazy.

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And then I realized then with a long sigh, she's back.

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When um Bob was teaching Tina how to drive, and they're like slowly going towards then with a long sigh, the uh the light bulb or something, and he's trying to get her to turn. She's back.

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I was crescendoing to a day new mall. So I'm going to go back and crescendo to my day new mall.

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Okay.

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As we approach each other, and I finally go around and making my what do you want? No, uh, I realize I'm in the wrong lane. I'm headed in the completely wrong direction. Oh. It is all my fault.

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I felt so bad. I felt so bad.

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Completely what I expected. However, for context, everyone, Chris pretty much blithely goes through life doing everything wrong, just not knowing it.

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I'm the world's worst driver. I am self-aware in that area. I'm a terrible driver.

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We've been in the car together. I don't remember a time where I was like, I'm gonna die.

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Well, you should have been. Should have been scared. What's new with you?

SPEAKER_10 4:07

What is new with me?

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You're going to see Masters of the Universe tonight with your pals.

SPEAKER_10 4:13

I am going to see Masters of the Universe tonight. And my only expectation is that it be fun. I want to be entertained. I want it to be fun. That is it. I don't need it to be like accurate to the you know 200 some odd episodes back in 19, you know, 81. Uh, you know, do we get to see Fisto? I don't know. Um, well, you know, all I need is pure dumb enjoyment.

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I've already seen it twice.

SPEAKER_10 4:50

Oh Lord.

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It's everything you want it to be.

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And somebody told me that you may have acquired a sort of power sippy cup, essentially.

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I have a power sword sippy cup, and I'm just gonna walk through the office with my power sword sippy cup.

SPEAKER_10 5:07

I absolutely think you should. Does it like lie? It makes noise, right?

SPEAKER_12 5:10

When you like No, no, it doesn't make noise.

SPEAKER_10 5:14

Oh, I thought it did when you like um shook it or like hit it a little.

SPEAKER_12 5:19

No. That's what you do when you are shaken. I have the power sword, I have the castle gray skull popcorn bucket, and then I have the.

SPEAKER_10 5:27

How much was the castle popcorn bucket?

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And then I have the Was it a hundred dollars? And then I have the Snake Mountain popcorn bucket where He-Man is going up the steps and the flames flicker.

SPEAKER_10 5:38

Snake Mountain's pretty cool too.

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Here's what it does.

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It might be a cooler castle than Price Skull, but whatever.

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This is not a He-Man, the movie breakdown, but I wish it were, because I've got something to say. This is a Charlie's Angels Rewatch podcast, and today's assignment is I Will Be Remembered.

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He is so wonderful. Yes.

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It's season one, episode 20.

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And here's your case briefing. Actress and friend of Charlie Townsend, Gloria Gibson, is preparing to reinvigorate her acting career after taking a hiatus due to the death of her husband, Nikki Loewen. Gloria has her sights set on a remake of the film that won her Hollywood acclaim called The Heart of New York. As productions starts, so do a series of nightmarish visions and near-death accidents for Gloria, who calls on the Townsend Agency to help get to the bottom of these strange and life-threatening events.

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Now it's time for your super secret intel. First of all, I've yet to have a single night not full of nightmarish visions. I would like to experience that one time in my life. The original air date for I Will Be Remembered, March ninth, nineteen seventy-seven. Written by our big buddy Edward Lasco, and Melvin Levy. Now, Melvin Levy, we've not talked too, too, too much about. He's a writer of a lot of westerns, known for buckskin, tombstone territory, bonanza, Daniel Boone with Fess Parker. It was also written by a third person, Richard Powell. He wrote for all the things we've talked about, just all of them. It was directed by Nicholas Escaro. Escaro is known as the assistant director for the French Connection in 1971, Ditto for Ditto for a Love Story in 1970, and Ditto for Marathon Man in 1976. We are going to have one guest star alert right now and then sprinkle some through. Because that's how we roll. Ida Lepino! I love me some Ida Lepino. 1918 she passed in 1995. Not only was she an actress, she was also a writer and director. She won 17 awards for acting. So have I, like when I act like I'm happy to be awake. Three of which are primetime Emmys. She's one of only a handful of actors to both act in and direct an episode of The Twilight Zone. And if I remember correctly, she's the only female director of a Twilight Zone episode. She did a lot of directing for super popular television, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, Untouchables, we already mentioned Alfred Hitchcock, The Donna Reed Show, 77, Sunset Strip, and The Angels Aaron Spelling Connection we talked about in the very first episode, our very first podcast episode, Honey West. She's been on screen with Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Mod Squad, Columbo, Batman, Wild Wild West, Bonanza, you name her Kramer. I remember her from when I was little and watched Food of the Gods, which isn't not a great movie to watch when you're little. And it freaks me out now because it freaked me out so bad when I was little. It was insect? Food of the Gods is that one with all the giant rats and stuff like that. Rat.

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I thought it was giant creatures.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 10:19

I really love this information about Ida Lupino. I really love when we have a guest star that has such a rich history and uh really sort of clues us into people who were really making their mark at the time. A female director and actor uh directing an episode or however many of the Donna Reed show. The Donna Reed show, one of the first shows uh that had a female producer and showrunner, uh, which at the time was unheard of. Uh so really incredible to me that uh they also made way for a female director in that show. Uh I just think it's really cool, just like learning about Theodore Bickle. Um, it's really great when we get uh sort of a view into what was happening at the time.

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I have two more things to say. It's Theodore Bickel. We were mispronouncing it in our podcast.

SPEAKER_09 11:23

Yes, we were.

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You know what? You learn and you do better. I also remember her from 1939's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone. I do believe she got second billing, and I bring that up specifically for one of our Patreon followers. She knows who she is, and she's a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

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And now on to the breakdown. Lightning and thunder open this episode as a haunting voice chants the name Gloria. Shots around the exterior of a grand estate eventually lead us inside to meet Gloria, who is shocked to discover a man hanging from a tree on the grounds, lit only by the storm. Gloria screams and curls up on the floor frantically, dialing the number of her friend Charlie Townsend.

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I have enough about John. Charlie, I need your help.

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Lightning, thunder, uh, you know, a a sparsely decorated room, a woman on the edge. I really enjoy the opening of this episode.

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Again, you're describing my every single night.

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Pretty much.

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I have a lot to say. This is the settiest set that ever setted. She's wearing the wiggi- Grown-ups are talking. She's wearing the wiggiest wig that ever wigged. She's wearing the floor-lengthiest dressing gown that ever lengthiest.

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It looks like a dripping hazard.

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How many times will he interrupt me?

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Yes, I did it. I killed it.

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Colby.

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I hated her so much.

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Which reminds me of that floor-length nightgown Laura Klusak had in that hotel bungalow when she met the Harry Harry Henchman. I don't know if you noticed this. She's wearing the exact same silver slippers. How about that? And wait, it is the sound effectiest sound effect for that thunder used all the time. That's a studio stock sound, and that was driving me crazy. And it's the stock footiest of stock footage. Those fake rain scenes that combined with real rain. I just couldn't take it. That was exhausting. I'm worn out now. Back to you, Colby.

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That was exhausting. So we're gonna take a break.

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Because you kept interrupting me. We should only be five minutes into this podcast. We will be right back, everybody. Bye, everyone. I'm gonna go take a comitive. We'll be right back. I just took a shower with ferro faucet.

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Welcome back, everyone. We've set the stage. Let's see where we go next. Coco.

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It is now a bright morning at the agency, and Charlie is discussing his friendship with Gloria and her current predicament. The angels are familiar with Gloria's acting work enough to know that her film The Sodbusters had a scene where the character saw their husband hanging from a tree, and wonder if perhaps Gloria is seeing things, or if someone wants Gloria to think she is seeing things. But who would want to do such a thing and why? The angels arrive at the estate to meet Gloria, again, Ida Lupino. Gloria is very pensive, but warms up to the angels quickly and shares details of her home and late husband Nikki, paying particular attention to a botticelli fresco, one of Nikki's finest reproductions. The conversation is cut short from Gloria's agent, Frank Ross, to discuss auditioning for The Heart of New York. Gloria reveals there have been two other incidents of elements from previous films which have been used to frighten Gloria: a snarling dog and a severed hand. Gloria insists these are threats from someone in Hollywood and assumes it is someone who knows that she is broke and is close to losing her home. Sabrina's responsibility is to keep a close eye on Gloria while Jill and Kelly try to find out more about those close to her. It is nighttime now, and Sabrina is wandering the estate and makes her way to the late husband's office and is admiring the Botticelli. Gloria is preparing a bath, and as she goes to check the water level, Gloria sees a man drowning in the tub and cries out for Sabrina.

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Sabrina! Sabrina! Sabrina! God damn it, please! Gloria! What do you mean? A man. I'm dead.

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Who runs into comfort Gloria, but unfortunately, does not see the dead man in the tub. Is Gloria um Dululu, as the kids say? Uh, I'm gonna go with yes, because carpet in the bathroom is a wonderful litmus test for crazy.

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I remember carpeted bathrooms, Colby, even as a child.

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You mean you remember mold? That's that's lovely.

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I does everyone see how he just can't stop?

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It flame, flames, flames on the side of my face.

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I remember thinking, even as a child, this is unsanitary. Even as a six-year-old, I was thinking that but your feet are wet when you get over the carpet when you stop. Does everyone hear he can't stop?

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Flames on the side of my face.

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I remember thinking, mold. I bet you pull up this fluffy, shaggy, fuzzy stuff, and there's just the other thing is we all know it's it's a big old hoax. And when you're pulling off a big old hoax, how can a full grown man sneak into the tub, submerge himself, then get out of this tub fully wet, and not make a giant mess and sneak off without making noise? You would have to go through the primary bedroom where Ida Lapino is is she's fallen out on the floor by the bed, and not bump into Kate Jackson's character, Sabrina. Also, we're seeing the same shot of running water in the bathtub. If the water had been going on that long, it would already be overflowing into the carpet, making mold, breathing it in. Everyone has black lung and now we're dead. And on that note, everyone No, what would you guys say?

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Not a drop of water like around the bathtub on the carpet. No noise is made whatsoever, being soaking wet and then exiting the bathtub. She's back.

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Does everyone hear how Colby essentially just interrupted me and repeated everything I said?

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Yes, they do hear it.

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We're gonna take a break because I've got to go get another milligram, and we'll be right back after this important message.

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Thanks for hanging in there with us, everyone. We're back to our breakdown of I Will Be Remembered.

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Jill is at the studio where they're going to be filming The Heart of New York and strikes up a conversation with a very sweet man who has been working for the studio for 40 years. He confirms knowing Gloria and agrees to meet Jill for lunch to share more. This exchange is being watched by a mustachioed man who is the art director named Barkley working on the set. This man immediately runs over to report the questions about Gloria to another gentleman named Gilbraith, who was the prop master, and they both agree this is worth keeping an eye on.

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We may have a problem. What? What do you mean? Who's she? I don't know. She's been asking questions about Gloria. What kind of questions? The kind that make me nervous.

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Kelly knocks on the door of the International Theatrical Agency and meets a very odd acting duo who also run the Extras casting. Kelly is aiming for a union card in order to work on the set of The Heart of New York. And the scene ends before we really learn whether or not she's successful at all. But now we're with Sabrina and Gloria as they arrive at the studio for the meeting with the producer, Mr. Jardin, and the director of the film, Joseph Ulan. Gloria's agent, Frank Ross, greets the two and escorts them into the meeting. Gloria then gives a monologue about how film acting is different than acting. For the theater and this somehow cements her place in the remake.

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Well, what I mean is a stage director, a stage actress, both making their first film. And they are playing to the balcony with big gestures, big voice. There is no balcony in films. We play in whispers with our eyes.

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Because the next thing we know, we are on set with Gloria.

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It's very Sunset Boulevard. It's very Gloria Swanson. Very of that. Guest Star Alert. Director Yulin is played by Aharon Ipale. He was born in 1941 and passed away not too long ago in 2016. He appeared on stage and on screen, studied theater in London. We briefly mentioned this actor during our rewatch of Dancing in the Dark. I think Colby brought it up. Due to a connection with another guest star alert we were doing. And I believe the connection was too hot to handle with John Van Drielen. Is that right, Colby?

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That is right.

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Yes. Oh, God, my memory. 57. Still got it. Sharp as attack. Driving down the wrong lane in a parking lot of a grocery store. Uh he appears in tons of pod faves shows like Wonder Woman, Vegas, Murder She sat down, and she wrote. And in musical Faves, we who knew Fiddler on the Roof was going to work itself into essentially mentioning it. Every other episode.

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It had a heyday in the 70s, apparently.

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Much like the million dollar duck, and you refuse to acknowledge that. He also has some wild credits. All things that get me whipped up and stirred up. Xanadu, and then The Mummy and the Mummy Returns. This gentleman has over 100 credits to his name. And much like a lot of the actors we do guest star alerts on, he worked right up to the year he passed away. In this case, as I mentioned, 2016, he was 74. But let us never forget, Colby never forget. He was in an episode of It's a Living. Life's Not the French Riviera. Believe me, life's not a charity ball. I won't stop singing. I won't stop. I'll keep going.

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Very exciting.

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The one time I want Colby to interrupt me so I don't sing an entire theme song. He he sits there stonefaced, his mouth hanging open like a codfish.

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The two older men who were anxious over questions being asked about Gloria are now even more so due to Gloria's arrival. Kelly and Sabrina catch up on case details, and only minutes later is Gloria's dressing room on fire and filling up with smoke. Luckily, Gloria is saved after the door is pried open. Jill pokes around the crime scene and manages to spot some what I assume are bent nails. I couldn't really tell, uh, in the latch of the door, but not without being noticed by the uh mustachioed man. This is the first incident the angels were around to notice, which helps verify the threats to Gloria were not delusion, and she is in real danger.

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A couple quick things about this particular scene, and these are all consequences of having to produce an hour-long drama in six days. I'm not throwing shade. They're just fun little things to notice. I picked up on a shot of Gloria, a a close-up of her hands grabbing and shaking the doorknob of her trailer to try to get out. They flipped that around a couple of times so the hands would be angled the right way. And also, her trailer is one of the smaller ones they put for movie stars inside the soundstage, not outside like many of them are. This dressing trailer caught on fire. It should have filled the entire soundstage with smoke and everyone should have cleared out. But suddenly it's out, no smoke, no debris, and Jill is in there just pokey pokey pokey poke while they film. They've gone right on filming.

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Not only that, but it is feet away from you know the set they've created to film. This place is littered with however many people making this movie. No one sees anyone start a fire. No one sees smoke.

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Do you know why, Colby?

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I'm gonna tell you why. No, but I'd love for you to tell us.

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In the 70s, we were resilient folk. We had mold underneath our carpet in our bathrooms. We could breathe in a burning trailer, fumes everywhere.

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We grew up with asbestos just mixed into everything and lead. So I I agree.

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And in our hairdryers. I was just talking about this with my stylus. I was telling her about my Ferra Fawcett hairdryer I have, and she's 40, but did not realize there was a time when asbestos was in hairdryers. And I remember insane. My mother having to send one back. They decided had too much asbestos. There was a recall.

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Oh, too much asbestos.

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It had too much asbestos.

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Not the right amount, but it was a simpler time. Uh it was something.

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We crocheted doll babies and put them over our toilet paper rolls on the back of the toilet. Left was right, up was down.

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Now Gloria is resting at home and is visited by her agent, Frank Ross. And due to the circumstances, Frank urges Gloria to quit the picture. Gloria argues financially she can't afford to make that decision and refuses. Frank then tries to extend his generosity, assuring her he would be willing to buy her home for what it is worth, so she could have money now and would be willing to sell it back to her when she wanted to buy it back. Way to tip your hand, idiot.

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While we're talking about him, let's talk about the actor who portrayed him, Peter McLean. He was born in 1936, passed in 2003. He too, like past guest stars in this episode, was a star of stage and screen. He's known for playing the title role in many Shakespeare festivals.

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What? First of all, stop saying Othello, it sounds pretentious.

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Julius Caesar and a Disney connection. You know I'm gonna bring up a Disney connection. This has to do with Disneyland Paris. He directed their Wild West show, the full name Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and he starred in it as Buffalo Bill. He in fact holds the record for being uh the actor holding the role of Buffalo Bill the longest. And I have a picture of that of him performing that show at Disneyland Paris, and we'll be sure to post that. He's also in pod faves like Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Falcon Crest. He was on 13 years of days of our lives, which is how I know him. And if that's not enough, he was in everyone stop screaming. I need everyone to take their seats. Ma'am, ma'am, calm down. Break into electric boogaloo. I don't know what more you need on a resume. To be able to uh uh do Shakespeare, you can be Macbeth, Buffalo Bill, Days of Our Lives, or Break Into Electric Boogaloo.

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Jill is back on set and for some reason is inquisitive of the two men that have been keeping an eye on her. They are just as inquisitive of her. Her press credentials were verified. However, none of the editors that Barclay knows have ever heard of her. And this encourages them to decide that Jill needs to be dealt with. These two are the absolute worst. They could not be more conspicuous. All they do is stare daggers at her, and then they're like, oh, she's looking at us. She's watching us. Quit staring.

SPEAKER_14 31:11

What the devil is she up to?

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I don't know.

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But I do know that there's too much at stake to risk having her around. So what do we do? Only one thing we can do. Remove the risk.

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When they decide to remove the risk, as Berkeley suggested, uh, filming starts, and this is the distraction that Barclay needs to climb up the scaffolding to the lighting rig and drop a spotlight on Jill. However, this is a dismal failure because Barkley's foot is caught in the spotlight's rope. And as Jill jumps out of the way, Barkley crashes down along with the spotlight, and the fall kills him. While director Yulin is warning the cast and crew not to touch Barkley, Sabrina and Kelly check on Jill as she points out the prop master and exclaims she believes that they were working together. I don't know how she could have pieced that together considering all they did was stare at her and never look away.

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The character of Barkley was played by Alfred Ryder. He was born in New York and began acting at eight years of age. Amazing. His Broadway debut was when he was only 13, and he played a lost boy in Peter Pan. He, like a guest star from a prior episode, studied acting with Lee Strasberg. He performed on stage in shows like Our Town, uh Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar. He went on to be a director. Tons of film credits. True Grit, I believe it's the version with John Wayne. And something we brought up before, it too comes back like a million dollar duck. Escape to Witch Mountain. And tons of pod faves. We are not even going to go into them all. He is a World War II Air Force veteran, and he passed away at the age of 79. Oh, Colby, also, you'll be interested to know he appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I almost left that out.

SPEAKER_10 33:19

Mm-hmm. He sure did.

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Are you excited about that?

SPEAKER_10 33:22

I am always excited about a Hitchcock connection. The Angels convene at Gloria's to recap what they know and determine that Kilbraith hasn't seen Kelly with Jill. So Kelly will go back to the studio and keep an eye on the props man since shooting is running late into the night. Sabrina discovers an old photo from a newspaper of Gloria that just so happens to picture both Barclay and Gilbraith. I will say, I mean, they do a close-up on this picture. I'm not sure how they did it in the 70s, but the picture does look pretty decent for 70s TV. I mean, I'm watching it on like a Blu-ray, uh, so the transfer is a little cleaner. And this really is not a bad-looking picture. Uh except for the fact that the heads are like just a smidge too large than they should be.

SPEAKER_12 34:24

You're talking about me, aren't you? How dare you?

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No comment. After some prodding, Gloria remembers it was during uh the filming in Italy when her late husband Nikki asked Barclay and Gilbraith to remain behind after filming to ship the Botticelli fresco to America. Something dawns on Sabrina and she goes to the office to look at the fresco again. Jill asks what she's up to.

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Your smile. I've got it. By George, I think I've got it.

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Come on.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

You gotta tell me? Oh, yeah.

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And then we check on Kelly at the studio. It appears the set is being wrapped for the night. Kelly is keeping her distance to watch Gilbraith, and who should run up to him but Frank Ross? The two start chatting about Barclay and his death, and Ross wants to know what happened and why they panicked. The conversation between Ross and Gilbraith prompts Kelly to call Gloria for Jill and Sabrina. But Gloria informs Kelly that the angels are on their way to her. Kelly calls Sabrina's car phone, but they are one step ahead. And when Kelly attempts to tell them Ross is at the set with Gilbraith, Ross then holds Kelly at gunpoint. And when Jill doesn't receive an answer, she tells Sabrina to step on it. Kelly tries to bluff her way out of being caught, but Ross is very quick to shoot as Kelly bolts into the darkness of the set. Kelly manages to climb up the scaffolding to get away from being pursued by a gunwielding Ross. Sabrina and Jill screech to a stop at the set and split up. Jill takes down Gilbraith with a flying kick while Sabrina maneuvers to subdue Ross and manages to be successful. Kelly is out of breath and would like an explanation as to why Ross has suddenly turned. Sabrina finally lets everyone else in on what she has concluded.

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Would you think I was pushy if I asked why you were shooting at me? I've got a theory, you want to hear it? Oh, I'd love to. You know the Botticelli reproduction in Nicki's room? What about it? It isn't. Isn't there? It isn't a reproduction.

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Reproduction.

SPEAKER_10 37:02

And is in fact the original stolen from Italy by Barclay and Gilbraith. And question mark, Nikki, Gloria's ex-husband, back at the agency, we learn that three separate Renaissance experts have verified that the art is not a reproduction and is worth millions. Nikki's death was the opportunity to seize the art and make some real money off of it. Gloria dying would have put the house in probate, but if Ross and the team could manage to scare her out of her house, then Ross could have purchased it from her, what he offered earlier, and it would be smooth sailing to remove the fresco. Charlie teases the angels about seeing them at the premiere of the heart of New York, as the angels say their goodbyes.

SPEAKER_12 37:59

Let's do a final guest star alert and talk about the actor who played Gilbraith. Jan Peters, born in 1927, passed in 2013, born in New York. He was on all the faves, all the things we love. We'll point out an errand spelling connection. He was on an episode of The Love Boat. Now let's talk about this fresco. Colby, may we talk about this fresco?

SPEAKER_10 38:27

Are we gonna talk about the Botticelli or are we gonna talk about the fresca?

SPEAKER_12 38:32

Neither yet. I want to point out there are, well, there are several many types of frescoes, but there are three main types of frescoes. They've been around since forever, even before ancient Egypt, but they're famously associated with the Italian Renaissance. Famous examples include Michelangelo's The Sistine Chapel Ceiling. I don't know if you knew that. And Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Did you know that? The art featured in this episode is this is the Sermon on the Mount by Cosimo Rosselli. And the show was able to use this piece of art, or a reproduction of this piece of art, because it's considered public domain. Rosselli and Botticelli were contemporaries. They both even worked in the Vatican, which I just mentioned a moment ago. They've been commissioned to do a lot of work by the Pope.

SPEAKER_13 39:31

Who lives there? The Pope?

SPEAKER_12 39:33

For the Sistine Chapel. My question is, was this simply a goof and no one caught it? Can you believe that?

SPEAKER_10 39:42

I I mean, I really cannot believe it, no. Uh, having either an art director or a set director having to comb through public domain art that you would decide to use, uh, it is a pretty big omission to uh attribute it to a different artist. Now, I mean, granted, the similarities are striking, uh, being, you know, alive at the same time, doing the same type of works, literally in the same locations. Uh, I mean, you know, I can give them some credit to see how it would happen. Uh, but to have said Botticelli in the episode about a hundred times.

SPEAKER_12 40:29

I just looked something up. All of Botticelli's original paintings and drawings are in the public domain, but I cannot find a date for when that happened. So I guess it was a goof.

SPEAKER_10 40:40

Yeah, I mean it must have been.

SPEAKER_12 40:42

Uh Rosselli did a lot of things people will have heard of. He contributed to a lot of the large frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. I did not mention that earlier, but some of his other well-known pieces are the Nativity, handing over the tablets of law. Not to be confused with my fresco handing over the tablets of Pyrrhon. Because if it weren't for the Pyrrhon, I don't think I could go on.

SPEAKER_06 41:08

If it wasn't for the Pyrrhon tablets, uh, I don't think I could go on.

SPEAKER_12 41:12

And Madonna and the Child with Angels Vogue, which is currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

SPEAKER_10 41:19

Well, since we've mentioned his name a couple of times.

SPEAKER_12 41:22

Just a couple of times.

SPEAKER_10 41:24

I'm gonna talk about Botticelli.

SPEAKER_12 41:26

Great, because I talked about the other dude. So I was heavy on the Rosselli. You be you be heavy on the Ernest and Giulio Gallo.

SPEAKER_10 41:35

Uh-huh. His name is Sandro Botticelli. He lived between 1445 and 1510. His art is representative of late Gothic art and early Italian Renaissance. His most well-known art is uh I'm many people, I'm sure, do know this. The Birth of Venus, uh very popular well-known piece, the Primavera, and the Mystical Nativity. Botticelli is known for mythological paintings as well as religious paintings, such as his many renditions of The Madonna and the Child, the Divine Comedy. I thought this was particularly interesting. There are only 93 pages of surviving illustrations of the Divine Comedy. These are housed between two locations. One, the Vatican Library. They have eight sheets, and another place in Berlin. Uh uh Botticelli's works can be seen in Florence, while he uh where he lived his entire life. And the mystical nativity is currently in London.

SPEAKER_12 42:50

Not the mystical nativity. I hope it comes with Bobtails. I'm surprised you didn't bring this up. You know how I love connections with certain things, and you love connections with certain things, but here is a connection we both love. Are you ready?

SPEAKER_05 43:08

I don't know.

SPEAKER_12 43:10

I can't believe. And you know, I can't believe it's not I can't believe it's not you didn't bring up the connection of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus with Kylie Minogue's album Aphrodite and the Aphrodite tour, where she was dressed in that garb and came up on the half shell. Because a lot of people call the birth of Venus Venus on the half shell. That does it, ladies and gentlemen, for episode 20 of season one. I will be remembered.

SPEAKER_10 43:45

What did you think of this episode?

SPEAKER_12 43:48

It was neat re-watching it and remembering I saw it as a child. I would have been eight-ish and the dead body the hanging in the tree at in the open. I remember it scary me. And now I'm like, eh. Another dead body.

SPEAKER_10 44:07

Sweet relief.

SPEAKER_12 44:08

When I call 911 and they cut down that body hanging in my backyard, they better not let it land in my hosts. Because if my hosters are damaged, there will be hell to pay. Is what I think now. What about you, Cody?

SPEAKER_10 44:23

I uh I really enjoyed this episode. I will say to me.

SPEAKER_05 44:32

To me, goons.

SPEAKER_10 44:35

I like this wig on Ida Lapino. Interesting. It frames her face really well. Um I think it's um the right choice for uh the age that she's portraying as an actress. Um was the episode difficult to figure out? Absolutely not. They really kind of hand everything to us and uh in a very straightforward way. Um but I I enjoy it. Uh I think it's really pretty tight. Uh so yeah, I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_12 45:08

Thanks again for joining us for season one, episode 20. I will be remembered. We hope you follow us on our socials. We work really hard to put some interesting things up there. Colby on our Facebook and Instagram. We'll do trivia once a week. If you go to our Patreon, we've got skills from the episode. Little fun facts we don't have time to include. And then at certain levels, you get bonus videos like a Friday dossier. And we're gonna really start building up the Patreon with some member exclusives, unedited bits and pieces, and things we have to cut out for time. Much like we're going to do a lot of this podcast today. Colby, thank you for the stellar breakdown.

SPEAKER_10 45:48

Thank you all for joining us, and until next time, Angels.

SPEAKER_12 45:52

Bye.

SPEAKER_04 45:53

Bye, Angels.

SPEAKER_10 46:00

That successfully wraps up another mission. Good morning, Charlie, is produced by Chris Berryman and me, Colby Smith. Editing provided by Ohia. Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts, and click subscribe so you never miss a call from Charlie. Drop a review while you're there, because we love hearing from our angels in the field. Want more undercover fun? Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for extras, and see even more top secret content on our Patreon. A special thank you to Laurel and Kevin, our Charlie's Inner Circle subscribers. Don't hang up that phone, Angels, because we will be back.

SPEAKER_06 46:38

Don't look at me! I'm hideous! Hideous! Fat and hideous Agador, I'm in such pain!

SPEAKER_11 46:46

I know, honey, it's gonna pass.

SPEAKER_06 46:48

No, it'll never pass! I hate my life! There is a packed house okay. That's all I am to you, isn't it? A meal ticket. Never mind about my feelings, never mind about my suffering. It's just about your show. Not even our show, your show. I want a palimony agreement, and I want one now.

SPEAKER_08 47:09

Well, I don't have a palimony agreement on me right now. Is tomorrow all right?

SPEAKER_06 47:12

Don't use that tone to me. What tone? That sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know everything because you're a man and I know nothing because I'm a woman. You're not a woman. Oh, you bastard. Whatever I am, he made me. I was adorable once, young and full of hope. And now, look at me. I'm this short, fat, insecure, middle-aged thing.

SPEAKER_08 47:43

I made you short? What do I do? The number's nearly over. Do I send Carmen on for Starina? We have no choice. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 47:54

No, not Carmen. How dare you? Do it! No! Yes, no! Go, please! I will go on. The people have come to see Starina. And Starina will not disappoint them, even in this state. All right, put on the mambo number, tell Beatrice and Dante to get the staircase ready. Now go. Oh, I can't just shake it. Agador, I need some peer and tablets quickly. What do you take? Nothing.

SPEAKER_11 48:19

But just one, okay? One before the show and one for after. No more, so don't ask me.

SPEAKER_06 48:26

Thank you. Thank you, my darling, Agador. Okay.