Godspeed Yvonne DeCarlo
Lily Munster died this week. Of course I mean the actress, Yvonne De Carlo who played that role died. Though, for my generation, the distinction is a mute point, she will always be Herman Munster's wife, Lily, to us. I respectfully hope that she doesn't mind the association. And, my sympathies to her family and friends.
I normally wouldn't make mention of her passing here, but, the circumstances of my hearing that she died seem too funny not to share. And, given that she must have had a sense of humor, I hope she gets the internet up there and gets a chuckle too.
So here goes. It was a regular enough radio news cast; Bush to speak, Democrats to denounce Bush, Democrats not waiting until the speech to denounce Bush, rinse and repeat. And then, just before the weather guy's turn, the man reading the wire gives us the story that De Carlo has died. He finished the story by saying, "Miss De Carlo was 84 degrees". He did not acknowledge his oops, and I got a big laugh. He obviously had the weather in his mind and switched 'years old' to "degrees".But, then I started thinking, what if he wasn't wrong. If she was 84º three strong possibilites came to mind:
1) Given that the human body is normally maintaining a temperature near 98.6º, a temperature of 84º would explain her demise.
2) If her temperature was 84º, then she was cooling off rapidly. Though I am at a loss to understand why anyone was keeping track of such a thing.
3) And, lastly, it occurred to me, that if she was 84º, and if that was not an aberation; then her role of Lily the Vampiress may have been a case of type casting.
Godspeed, with a smile, Miss De Carlo.
