RIP - "The Robot"
Don't tell the Robinson family that robots don't have souls.
For three years on the classic 1960s sci-fi series Lost in Space, Bob May, in the words of costar Bill Mumy, "managed to create a classic TV
personality out of a claustrophoic fiberglass prop."
May died Sunday. He was 69.
The robot costume gave May, a showbiz lifer who also worked as a stuntman, his most famous role, even if it left his face unseen—and his voice
unheard.
"He memorized 40-50 pages of dialogue each week for 84 episodes, and delivered it with passion and rhythm while all the time knowing that it would
eventually be rerecorded by Dick Tufeld," Mumy wrote on his Website this past weekend.
Yes, it was Tufeld, not May, who could heard warning Mumy's young Will Robinson of "Danger!" But, ultimately, it was May who made the robot. And vice
versa.
As May himself said at a 2007 fan convention: "It was my home away from home."
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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