Please join me in admiring the set design for wwdits. My greatest comfort recently has been looking at these pictures and imagining that I get to just hang out there, sit on one of the couches, and flip through books...
Also, to take it to the next level, have a look at Sam Ogden's portfolio, there's a whole blueprint for the house in the pilot!
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redux au! sorry for not making it clear🫣 oops
Oh! Okay okay... I see what you meant now.
In short: Mario ended up landing directly in the center of Evershade Valley after he and Luigi got separated in the warp pipe. He tried taking shelter in Gloomy Manor after getting attacked by malicious ghosts, but after he discovered the "portrait room" he himself got caught by Boolosus, slapped into a painting, and hung up on the wall.
No journey involved. King Boo keeps close tabs on all his new portraits and what they look like through word of mouth, but he hadn't actually seen Mario face-to-face until part 3.
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I think that Guillermo, at the end of Laszlo's 'Roast' party in episode 7, will reveal his secret.
The party will most certainly devolve into a roast of him instead, because of course it will. Because Nandor won't be able to make clever jokes or get anyone to laugh and in order to save his ego he'll do what he always does in those situations and sacrifice Guillermo in its place. He'll say unnecessarily cruel things because he thinks no one person can be more important to him than the fear of his own weakness. He'll pile it on too. One thing after the other. Maybe the other vampires invited to the roast will laugh along because familiars are easy marks. And the heat will build. There's only so many lashes Guillermo can take on behalf of Nandor's pride. And Laszlo, Nadja, and Colin are starting to grimace and wince.
And that's when Guillermo will do it.
He will stand up, with the chair he was sitting in making a horrible noise across the wood floor like a record scratch. To let you know that the party has been violently cut short.
And Laszlo will do a panicked head shake, maybe try to salvage the situation from the precipice that Nandor has unknowingly brought them to. That Guillermo is about to jump off of. With all of them helplessly attached.
Guillermo was put in the audience on the other side of the room. Already segregated from the rest of the group. He's in a room filled with vampires who were just laughing at him but now look. Nandor's peers. The whole vampire community is here, watching him.
Guillermo's vampires sit across from him at a long table with a podium, like a panel of judges. Like he's a prisoner standing before the pulpit awaiting a verdict. He's got one last moment to either swallow the pride he just started to embrace on a float earlier that year and sit back down, let himself be ridiculed like always but live to see another day ... or burn it all down like it deserves to be, with his plea of guilt.
Holding a struck match, Guillermo will finally speak the truth to Nandor. To everyone. The real truth. The one he hasn't spoken out loud yet. The one nobody knows.
He will say, "I have a joke." And everyone will listen.
"I paid to have some barely-turned, low-rank, nothing of a vampire. Who hasn't even been one longer than I have been a familiar…to bite me. And turn me. In the back room of a gas station where he works. And he did it."
"I've been turned by a vampire that wasn't my master. That wasn't you."
Guillermo's jittered, bitchy energy tapers. He no longer fidgets or looks around at the faces slack-jawed at him. He's gone cold.
Like a killer, he delivers the next blow straight at his master's heart, sitting across the room at the podium, similarly frozen in place.
"But that's not the joke."
"The joke is, I may not have known how taboo it was…that it would be such a big deal to everyone else…but I did know…" (he licks his lips and despite his unshakable intent the uncontrollable emotion he always carries inside him threatens to undo his composure. Still, he keeps his voice loud and steady. Mostly. His attention is focused. His eyes start getting a little wet, but he hardly notices. He's going to follow through.)
"I didn't even really do it because I wanted to. Not then, or like that. (Not with him). Not for the same reason I had wanted to do it before. Or the reason I told Laszlo and Nadja I did it."
"See…the joke is…"
(His voice has become softer. It still carries across the room easily. There is no one else in the whole house but Guillermo and Nandor.)
"I did it because I knew how it would make you feel."
"I did it because I wanted to hurt you."
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I can’t believe that after all this time, Siegfried & Roy’s mansion in Las Vegas, Nevada is on the market for sale. (I wonder what happened to their tigers.) The main house has 2bd. 4ba., but there’s a casita w/a cabana and 3 guest houses with 2 & 3 bds. also on the property. For sale for $3M.
The mansion, called Jungle Palace, appears to have a Spanish Mission style on the exterior. The 2 entertainers apparently lived in separate homes on the property, which was built in 1954.
Weren’t their white tigers allowed to roam freely in the house? (Why do I feel that it could be haunted?)
Roy Horn lived in this house and Siegfried lived in a mid-century modern style house on the property.
Their extensive collection of furnishings is on the auction block, and the property has been on the market since last year.
Siegfried‘s vision for the white tigers was something Bavarian- green & rocky, but Roy wanted to give them an environment where everything was snow white and they had endless arguments about it.
Look at the ceiling. The bar has a big coffee machine- at least I think that’s what it is.
Roy’s house is pretty white, though. Look at the dining room.
A hot tub in the corner of the dining room.
Library/office. Gee, they even have their initials in the stained glass windows.
Look at the big wine fridge.
Wow, the kitchen is very white. Like the curved cabinets and that shiny stainless exhaust hood.
Even Roy’s bed has his initial on it. Like the elephant feature wall.
Wow, a black en-suite w/a red tub and sink.
This must be the bird room. Roy had pet birds.
Here’s a moody room. Looks like an office.
Wow, look at the trees on the stairs. I can’t stop saying wow.
Here’s a big jungle themed bath.
This is nice, it’s like a cabana.
This is clearly the white tiger’s enclosure. How did they keep it so clean? This would be great for regular cats- they would really enjoy this.
Here we have a tanning room.
I think this is the tiger’s pool.
And, this is the human’s pool.
Here’s a nice big patio.
Looks like a water feature.
Wow, look at this.
You know, this is a bargain for $3M. The place is gigantic.
More tiger enclosures.
This must be Siegfried’s MCM house.
Look at it. How many pools are there? I counted 6.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1639-Valley-Dr-Las-Vegas-NV-89108/2058910891_zpid/
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Disney's The Haunted Mansion | Medusa's Changing Portrait (2003 Film Version)
Medusa's changing portrait (the gorgon) from the Disney Theme Park Attraction, "The Haunted Mansion", appearing in the 2003 film applies on Sir Frederic Leighton's "Portrait of a Roman Lady". It's the portrait of Anna Risi (a.k.a. Nanna). In this film, the portrait of Anna Risi becomes Medusa's gorgon form, with Caravaggio's depiction of "Medusa".
On the DVD Menu of the 2003 film, "The Haunted Mansion", the portrait of Anna "Nanna" Risi appears in the main "Set Up" section where she transformed. If you have "The Haunted Mansion" on DVD and you wish to see this portrait, here are the following two steps below:
1. Go to "DVD Menu".
2. Select "Set Up".
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