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fflo ([personal profile] fflo) wrote2022-02-13 01:51 pm

Looks like Starnes isn't dead.

I tried to call her today, years since we've talked, but got a robo-machine.  So took my heart in my hands and looked online to see if she's alive.  She seems to be.

I also found her IMDb page, and found a couple of movies she was in, that I'd never known about.  Sure enough, one is on YouTube, and one is streamable.

After I saw her turn in the first one, as a comestology teacher with a southern accent, I decided I'd see if I could raise a couple of my old buds who also knew her, and one of whom, like me, was in a movie (of mine) with her.  Cuz we're 2 degrees of separation from a bunch of movie people, including James Earl Jones, and almost surely a mere Kevin Bacon 3.  Sure nuff, I talked to each of them on the phone for a good bit.

They're so familiar to me.  It was good.

Somewhere I have a videocassette version of my old movie, made by projecting the film and playing the cassette-tape soundtrack at the same time.  I must still have the film itself & the old cassette, too.  Shouldn't be that hard to get a digital version from the videotape, anyway.  For that matter, I have a bunch of video of a trip several of us made to South of the Border, to buy "good" fireworks, one year.  Turned out that Virginia and North Carolina also had good fireworks, so the following-through all the way to our planned destination was maybe a little silly.  But it'd be interesting to see that footage again.  Maybe make something of it.