Monday, December 15, 2014

Evening Entertainment: Heather O'Rourke and Morey Amsterdam promote Disneyland renovations in "Believe You Can... And You Can!"

You didn't think playing a virus was the only way I'd celebrate Morey Amsterdam's birthday, did you?  In this 1983 TV special, made as a thinly-veiled promotion for the new renovations at the "Fantasyland" part of Disneyland, Amsterdam plays "J. Fauntenoy Chiffenrobe," a strange sprite creature who helps a young girl upset that she has to move by, er, showing her how cool Fantasyland is going to be.  The girl is Heather O'Rourke, POLTERGEIST's Carol Anne, whose tragic death in 1988 lends the cheery promotional vehicle an accidentally morose tone.  It would honestly be pretty creepy anyway, what with a really random morality about wishing and dreams and being penalized for not dreaming enough.




No comments:

Post a Comment