Halloween Countdown 2017, Day 25

“I almost think we are all of us ghosts… It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.”

- Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts



The above is “Ghost” by efrafa.



The above is “The Ghost” by sultan_alghamdi.

Halloween Countdown 2017, Bonus Post: R.I.P., Robert Guillaume

This deserves its own post.

R.I.P., Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning Robert Guillaume (1927-2017), one of the greats.

I could list his memorable roles and awards all day. But for my purposes, as a fan and for Halloween, I want to point out that he was the first black actor to portray the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. Like many Phantom-mad teens, I couldn't imagine anyone but Michael Crawford in the role.

But then I heard Robert Guillaume.

First, The Phantom. Then a moment of silence.

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