Tuesday, June 3, 2008

A Happy Coincidence






I found a pleasant surprise awaiting me and my big bowl of vanilla ice cream in the wee hours of last night. Just hours after my post on Batman and Robin Bondage, I turn on the SciFi Channel and see Catwoman. But, no, its Julie Newmar in white ears in an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, playing Miss Devlin in an episode called "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville." Some fat guy makes a deal with the female devil to go back in time and the only problem I see in the script is that there was no oil to be found in Indiana in the 1930s, two things the episode centers around. It got me thinking, though, how this episode, with the pointy ears, might have gotten Newmar to be the first choice as Catwoman. (I will always have a fondness for Julie Newmar, because she was the subject of my first R-rated dream as a child of seven or eight). Well, jumping from my private recollections to Batman's fetishes, I present the following, as you can see above. Adam West saw no interest in Newmar's costumed ass because he was keeping in character with the Batman of the comics, who we all know loved getting dry humped by a goat while the Joker filmed it on 8mm...