bella meets the bunny

halloween horror: mr bela lugosi (better known as count dracula) makes a - fortunately unsuccessful - grab for me in the hollywood wax museum...

liberty belle

here i am with a new york icon...


...i've never met anyone wearing green carrots in their hair before - no wonder everyone takes her picture!

bunny on the boards

i've always been a bit stage-struck, but there aren't many roles for rabbits... there's the lead in harvey, of course, but since he's invisible that's not really a part that's going to get you noticed...

i did a short summer season in brighton with mr punch and mrs judy - a very famous husband and wife theatrical team, but frankly it was a nightmare: mr punch braining everyone with his stick, a control freak of a copper who kept clobbering everyone in sight with his truncheon...


there was also a ghastly baby who kept yelling and screaming (which wasn't too surprising since mr punch kept tossing him off the stage), sausages for dinner every single day and a very scary crocodile - heaven knows what was a cocodile was doing in brighton - who kept sneaking up behind members of the cast and putting his great toothy jaws round their heads... It was very unnerving - especially as he'd obviously never heard of mouthwash...

rabbit hunting

on one of our visits to disneyland, i gave brian the slip and hung around outside this door, hoping to be discovered by one of mr disney's people...

ok, you may laugh and so i didn't exactly become the new movie sensation, but let's not forget that disney's first mega star (long before mickey mouse came on the scene) was a character called oswald the lucky rabbit...

admittedly ozzie's completely forgotten and pretty much washed up today (living in a run-down retirement home in florida), and obviously not quite as lucky as his name suggests...

but just think of all those other disney rabbits...

i mean, there was brer rabbit and roger rabbit and thumper and... er... well, mrs thumper --- and all the little thumper kids...

...and the white rabbit who gave such an amazing performance in that really scary film alice in wonderland, where he kept being chased everywhere by this huge blonde-haired girl in a blue dress...

as the sign on the casting agency door says, it takes people to make the dream a reality, but in the case of alice in wonderland it took a rabbit to make the dream a nightmare...

i popped round mr w rabbit's house to say how much i liked his performance, but he was out --- still being chased by whatshername, i suppose...


...anyway, eventually i found a statue that they'd put up to him to him in the park - which really shows how amazingly important rabbits are to disney - and so I had my picture taken alongside...

...and in case you were wondering, he's the one with the ridiculously large watch and i'm the one with the mauve paws!