{"id":8906,"date":"2009-01-29T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2022-10-16T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T17:39:28","slug":"sheila-telephone-call-its-skyward-christmas-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8906","title":{"rendered":"Sheila, telephone call! It\u2019s Skyward Christmas on the line."},"content":{"rendered":"

You might recall my story of going to see The Wrestler<\/i> at Keith and Dan’s house – and how Suzy Gilstrap, paraplegic actress, hijacked our evening<\/a>. You’ll have to read that to understand what’s going on here. No desire to re-cap.<\/p>\n

Something rather extraordinary has happened.<\/p>\n

A gentleman named Glenn left a comment on that post – saying that he is a pilot, loves aviation – and so, years ago, he taped not only Skyward<\/i> but ALSO the mythical Skyward Christmas<\/i> that Dan was so obsessed by. What??? Tapes exist?<\/p>\n

I emailed Glenn and basically said, “Dude, can you send me copies, bro?”<\/p>\n

Glenn is a very nice man, friendly and humorous, and also encyclopedic on the planes used in the TV movies – which was his “way in”, and why he taped the damn things in the first place. So anyway, the most amazing thing has happened in the middle of this, a surreal and awful month.<\/p>\n

Glenn has made copies of the movies for me, and is sending them on.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I emailed Keith and Dan immediately with this amazing news. It is hard to explain how much I am looking forward to getting together and watching Skyward<\/i> AND Skyward Christmas<\/i> with these fine gentlemen.<\/p>\n

But the best thing is: Glenn sent me some publicity shots (look like), of the films in question – and there’s good ol’ Bette Davis in her red lipstick and mechanics’ overalls, and Howard Hesseman being all crotchety and full of tough love with the paraplegic pilot-in-training … and words can’t express how excited I am to see these two movies.<\/p>\n

Dan, Keith and I dreamt of this moment, but we considered it a dim possibility. The glory of the internet is: it only took little over a month for this bizarre dream to come true.<\/p>\n

It’s been a real gift this month. People are good. Thank you, Glenn.<\/p>\n

Images from Glenn below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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