So one of the steady readers here has informed me
that MeTV will already be doing another week of Perry movies next week!
Starting with May 4th (Star Wars day), there will be another
mixture of early-era and later-era Perry movies after the nighttime
showing of Perry.
That is really neat, although I wonder why
they’re doing another week so soon after the large gap between the first and
second weeks of Perry movies. It makes me wonder all the more if they’re
not going to keep the Mystery Movie feature come summer and perhaps they’re
hurrying to show all the Perry movies before then. It seems like with
this upcoming week, combined with the past weeks and the times they showed Perry
movies on Friday nights, they will have practically shown them all.
And for months I’ve been pondering on one of the
curiosities about this blog. I think the post that has the largest number of
comments that still continue to come in from time to time is the very first
tribute post I made for Wesley Lau. I’m not sure why that particular Wesley
post is so popular; perhaps it comes up higher than other Wesley posts if the
posts appear in Google searches.
In any case, it certainly goes to show how loved
Wesley is by much of the fanbase. I think that’s awesome, especially since he
wasn’t one of the original cast members. Oftentimes the cast members who come
in later aren’t so well-accepted by longtime fans.
A lot of the comments that come in are from
people wanting to know more about Wesley. I really wish I could provide more
information. Wesley seems to have been a very private person who rarely gave
interviews. And naturally I want to respect his privacy, if that is what he
wished and his family is keeping quiet for that reason. However, some of the
comments coming in are even from extended family members or other people who
knew him or knew someone who knew him. Some of them are looking for information
too.
I think it’s important for family members to know
about each other. Although I would love to know more information about Wesley
for myself and for the other fans, I would love even more to help these
extended family members learn more about him and give them a resource to go to where they can.
Two of my newest projects are a website and a
blog, both connected, to celebrate many of the character actors I love. The
blog is open and available at http://thepathofthestars.blogspot.com
and will focus largely on character musings and episode reviews. The website
will focus largely on interviews from the actors and from people who knew or worked
with them. It isn’t open yet, but I am in the process of preparing it and it’s
perhaps halfway ready to completion.
Most of the interviews, naturally, are dug up
from old newspaper archives and linked to. It is very cool to find these gems
and be able to read what the actors actually thought and felt back in the day. I
imagine a lot of people won’t have ever seen these interviews, so I’m happy to
bring them all together on the website via links. And then every now and then I
run across a really awesome person who wants to further the information on one
of the people and is willing to give an interview to me. I am really excited to
open the website and share those interviews especially.
So
I’m putting this out there in the hopes that someone connected with Wesley who
has information to give will see it. Would any such people be willing to
conduct an interview about Wesley for the website? Please note that my
preference is email or private message interviews, because I have a lot of
trouble with my phone and I’m afraid a telephone interview wouldn’t go over so
well. I want to make sure that any interviews I do get are captured properly
and not misheard or mis-transcribed on my part. Thank you in advance for any help you can
give!
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