THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS

Pillow Book Monday

Yukon Cornelius, friend of misfits. Sensei Finkelstein, instructor and owner of Dragon Finkelstein Karate Dojo in “Venture Bros”. Night Nurse Cindy Marie Abrams. Peanuts' Violet and Sherman. Tony DeFranco and the DeFranco Family. Kitayama no Amagimi, Genji’s thirteenth female conquest in Murasaki’s The Tale of Genji. Augustus Gloop's mom. That girl whose hair caught on fire at Jill's birthday party in 1995. Madame Bovary's greyhound Djali. My freshman year Secret Santa who perfumed my pillow and made my pillow smell like Christmas for four years. College courses taught by "Staff". Rosencrantz and Gildenstern. The atheist librarian who won’t let them burn the Gutenberg Bible but is happy to give them all the Ayn Rand in “The Day After Tomorrow”. Miss Preen (and really, most of the cast) in "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Ted DeWitt-Clinton, the new kid, in Daria. The guy who totally loses it in the cramming for finals scene in the student lounge in “Real Genius”.  Kim Kelley's mom with a very Bronx accent for a town in Michigan in “Freaks and Geeks”. That tweaked-out mugger who comes to Korben’s door in “The Fifth Element” demanding he “Gimme the cash”, who is in real life Mathieu Kassovitz, the great French director and actor I’ve been crushing on for decades. Gooper and Mae’s (Sister-Woman) “no-neck monster” children in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. The dead woman upstairs in “Night of the Living Dead” that does not become a zombie for some reason. Jo Ann Worley as the voice of The Wardrobe in “Beauty and the Beast”. The peasant woman who gives Renfield her crucifix in Dracula. Alphonso Bedoya in "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre" who gets the immortal line, “Badges?...” Clint Eastwood as the uncredited Lab Assistant in “Revenge of the Creature”. The guy who witnesses Brian falling into and walking out of the crashed alien spaceship in "Monty Python's The Life of Brian". Chris McNeil's assistant in "The Exorcist", the Dianoga in "Star Wars", that one-eyed thing in the trash compactor you never knew had a name. The expert chocolate dipper with whom Lucy has the chocolate fight in Act One before the conveyer belt scene in Act Two of that episode of “I Love Lucy”.