LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JERRY SEINFELD

JERRY SEINFELD

AS SEEN IN:
'NewsRadio'
"The Real Deal"

This League of Themselves showcase is dedicated to Tavie P.

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HAPPY WOLD NEWTON DAY!

Today is Wold Newton Day!

From the Introduction to Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Family by Win Scott Eckert:

The Wold Newton Family is a group of heroic and villainous literary figures that science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer postulated belonged to the same genetic family. Some of these characters are adventurers, some are detectives, some explorers and scientists, some espionage agents, and some are evil geniuses.

According to Mr. Farmer, the Wold Newton family originated when a radioactive meteor landed in Wold Newton, England, in the year 1795 (click here to see a monument to the event). The radiation caused a genetic mutation in those present, which endowed many of their descendants with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds.

Popular characters that Philip Jose Farmer concluded were members of the Wold Newton mutant family include: Solomon Kane; Captain Blood; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Harry Flashman; Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty (aka Captain Nemo); Phileas Fogg; The Time Traveler; Allan Quatermain; Tarzan and his son Korak; A.J. Raffles; Professor Challenger; Richard Hannay; Bulldog Drummond; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; The Shadow; Sam Spade; Doc Savage, his cousin Pat Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; The Spider; Nero Wolfe; Mr. Moto; The Avenger; Philip Marlowe; James Bond; Lew Archer; and Travis McGee.

As the Curator for the Toobworld Dynamic, I am a great admirer of the work done by Mr. Farmer and Mr. Eckert in detailing the lineage of these great pulp characters.  The Wold Newton Universe was an early influence on the Toobworld Dynamic.

But although there are similarities between the two shared universes, the TwD is NOT the WNU.  The main reason being that the Wold Newton meteorite is not a fixed point in the history of Earth Prime-Time.  At least, not yet.  (I have hopes one day it will be dramatized for TV.)

In the meantime, Toobworld does share many members from the original core of the Wold Newton Family listed above.  They would include:

Sherlock Holmes

Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan

Nero Wolfe

Fu Manchu

Sir Denis Nayland Smith

Bulldog Drummond

Allan Quatermain

Phileas Fogg

Professor James Moriarty

Professor George Challenger

Richard Hannay

Philip Marlowe

James Bond

Travis McGee

Lew Archer

Harry Flashman

And there are others, some perhaps within the extended family, others from the Wold Newton Universe in general, who also have counterparts in the TV Universe:

Arsene Lupin

Lord Peter Wimsey

Monsieur Lecoq

Hercule Poirot

Charlie Chan

Dracula

The Frankenstein Family

Ivanhoe

Robin Hood

Zorro

The Lone Ranger

The Saint

Father Brown

Carnacki

Dr. Thorndyke

Dr. Jeckyll

Horatio Hornblower

Miss Marple

And plenty more who sprang from the "Glass Furnace" first.

So I'd just like to take this moment to salute my comrades across the dimensional vortex with their continuing adventures on this anniversary.

Here's to that chunk of space debris that made it all possible!

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - CONNIE CHUNG

CONNE CHUNG

REFLECTING ON:
'Murphy Brown'
"TV Or Not TV"

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

AS SEEN IN:
'Gilmore Girls'
"Twenty-One Is The Loneliest Number"

SYNOPSIS:

Every year on the morning of her birthday, Rory Gilmore is awakened by her mother Lorelei to be told the story of her birth.  But on her 21st birthday, while she and her mother are in the middle of a feud, Rory dreams of being awakened by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

TV STATUS:

Dream Figure

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - RALPH LAUREN

RALPH LAUREN

AS SEEN IN:
'Friends'
"The One With Ross' Teeth"

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - MICKEY ROONEY

Jiminy Jillikers!

MICKEY ROONEY

AS SEEN IN:
'Eagleheart'
"Once In A Wattle"

TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time

AS SEEN IN:
'The Simpsons'
"Radioactive Man"

TV DIMENSION:
The Tooniverse

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - ZSA ZSA GABOR

ZSA ZSA GABOR

AS SEEN IN:

'Cybill'

"The Last Temptation Of Cybill"

Q: You guested on "Cybill" with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Did Zsa Zsa make a pass?

Kevin Sorbo: You know what? She likes her men. The scene had me sitting in a bed with little briefs on. Zsa Zsa arrives in this big white chiffon number and starts yellilng, "Where is my stud?" She gets in bed and we did two takes. The director goes, "Great. We're done." Zsa Zsa, who is really bummed, goes, "That's it?" I said, "That's what all the women say to me." Zsa Zsa kept grabbing me, but it was all in fun.

Q: Did Cybill make a pass?

Kevin Sorbo: She's a good kisser. The only bad part is that her boyfriend [musician Robert Martin] was always on the set.

(31.08.97 Chicago Sun-Times)

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JOHN LENNON

"This is John Lennon.

He's the brains of the Beatles."

Igor

JOHN LENNON

AS SEEN IN:
'The Beatles'
"If I Fell"

TV DIMENSION:
The Tooniverse

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