This is apropos of nothing, but when you mentioned Baloo/Phil Harris, it reminded me of this: My friend Digby Wolfe was the voice of Ziggy the Vulture in that 1967 movie. He died in 2012, and after the memorial, I told my young grandson Charlie about him. Later, Charlie told his dad, "One of the vultures in The Jungle Book died." His…
This is apropos of nothing, but when you mentioned Baloo/Phil Harris, it reminded me of this: My friend Digby Wolfe was the voice of Ziggy the Vulture in that 1967 movie. He died in 2012, and after the memorial, I told my young grandson Charlie about him. Later, Charlie told his dad, "One of the vultures in The Jungle Book died." His dad, Sheldon, was nonplussed and could think only "kids are weird, and this one is really weird." Sometime later I was talking about Digby, and the light dawning in Sheldon's eyes was beautiful to see. [consider this a tiny trickle into the lake of Story Club lore]
This is apropos of nothing, but when you mentioned Baloo/Phil Harris, it reminded me of this: My friend Digby Wolfe was the voice of Ziggy the Vulture in that 1967 movie. He died in 2012, and after the memorial, I told my young grandson Charlie about him. Later, Charlie told his dad, "One of the vultures in The Jungle Book died." His dad, Sheldon, was nonplussed and could think only "kids are weird, and this one is really weird." Sometime later I was talking about Digby, and the light dawning in Sheldon's eyes was beautiful to see. [consider this a tiny trickle into the lake of Story Club lore]