(And personal note - Rose, Anny, and I loved Peter Pan and the Pirates and Pirates of Dark Water in the early 90's. We used to watch both shows all the time in the afternoon on Fox.)
Spent the rest of the morning working on my WENN fanfic. We begin the fantasy segment in the Misty Woods, on the road to WENN Castle in Pittsburghia. Queen Hilary Booth is attacked by half-snake, half-man creatures while on her way home from seeking the sorceress Pavla, who had forced her husband King Jeffery into an unwanted marriage. She uses the magic in her crown to enhance her sword. Her scribe, Lady Elizabeth (Betty) Roberts has a magic quill that can make anything appear, reveal objects, and acts as her conscience.
Watched On the Come Up as I worked. I go further into this coming-of-age teen rap drama at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Oh, and I changed my mind about ending Musical Dreams Reviews. I'm going to continue to update it, but I'll only post one review every Thursday. I don't have the time for three long reviews a week anymore. I'll do one last Saturday review this week before starting the new schedule.
Uber was a pain in the rear today. It took me almost 20 minutes to get a ride there, and I ended up being almost ten minutes late. The ride home took 13 minutes, and that was after waiting over 20 minutes for the prices to go down. It was raining by the time I finished, which didn't help. Before that, it was just cloudy and slightly chilly, nothing like what it's been lately.
As it turned out, things could have been a lot worse. I only had five kids at my table, and there were 16 all together. Thomas Sharp School had some kind of program today where parents could sit in on their children's classes. A lot of the kids must have gone home with their folks after that. The kids were slightly rowdy in the bathroom, nothing outrageous. The other two teachers were here today, so they had "Ghostbusters," the theme from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "Pink Pony Club," and songs from Moana, Encanto, and Trolls to dance to in the library. I worked on art for my new Legends of WENN story with two of the boys who really got into their own fantasy stories and rocket artwork.
Went straight into dinner and Match Game Syndicated when I got home. After the week with Jonnelle Allen and Bill Anderson ended, we moved on to Fred Travelena and his hundreds of voices in the male ingenue seat, Elaine Joyce as the female ingenue, and Charles insisting again that they replace Brett with Bess Myerson.
Finished the night after a shower with two episodes of Shirley Temple's Storybook Theater. "The Terrible Clockman" is among the color episodes currently on Tubi. Temple herself plays the daughter of a clock maker (Sam Jaffe) who is very proud of having been able to create a mechanism that allows clocks to all run the same precise time. He even made a clock-faced robot for the king. He regrets his hubris when an evil sorcerer demands to marry his daughter, then makes the clocks stop or run in circles, so no one, not even the king, knows what time it is. He also makes the clockman run on his own and obey him...until the creature turns against him and aids the daughter.
"The Sleeping Beauty" was a black-and-white first season episode recently posted on YouTube. This is a more-or-less straightforward retelling of the Charles Perrault version of the story...only here, the twist is, it's not a prince whom the Princess (Anne Helm) falls for, but a handsome gardener's son (Pernell Roberts). Only his ancestor can figure out how to use the magic sword to cut through the brush and kiss the princess 100 years after she falls asleep.
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