Tulips in a Vase

 

I grew up watching horror movies Saturday afternoons. Back then, you couldn’t just watch what you wanted when you wanted. You had to first find it on TV Guide, and then make sure your chores were done in time. When I was a kid, horror movies weren’t Stephen King or Michael Myers. They were Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee: Dr. Frankenstein and Count Dracula. Cushing and Lee made two dozen movies together, and they became the best of friends. They frequently went to the cinema together. At one point, they were laughing so hard at Looney Tunes cartoons, they had to be asked to leave. George Lucas wrote the part of Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars movie for Peter Cushing. Christopher Lee didn’t appear as Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones until after Cushing’s death. But somehow it makes me smile to think of Tarkin and Dooku enjoying Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.