Ric crushed me close. “Damn. I knew something worse had happened, Delilah. That’s it. We’re going to Wichita. Social services or that convent school you attended must have records or staff who can identify the originating trauma.”
“You sound like your adopted mother the shrink. I don’t know, Ric-”
“It might help you find out more about Lilith and your allergy to the missionary position. And, querida, I want you wanting me every which way we can do it.”
I nodded, shakily. “Speaking of which, can we finally do it now? My way.”
Ric resumed leading me up the stairs while my insides did cartwheels. He paused at seeing us in the mirror at the hall’s end.
Did Lilith lurk behind there, in my own reflection? Was she watching? Was Snow spying on our every move through the medium of his lock of white hair in the silver familiar?
Ask me if I cared.
No. I was heading to my bedroom with my lover.
I eyed Ric’s reflection in the mirror. His strong arms around my midriff were holding me up, supporting me. We were about to, yeah, make whoopee and come like crazy.
We were young, mostly alive, and together, despite everyone else’s best and worst efforts.
His embrace was so tight, though, that the vial of my blood-stashed and forgotten between my pumped-up Howard Hughes boobs-squirted free. It smashed to the hardwood floor as Ric crooned major somethings in my ear and swept me away from the mirror into the bedroom.
I glanced back at the tiny glittering splotch of blood and broken glass. Maybe not such a good omen.
But, at the moment-ooh, hombre mío-who the… flying fey cared?
In the distance, a dog or a werewolf howled, or a distant police siren wailed.
Business as usual in post-Millennium Revelation Las Vegas rocked on.
So did we.
Resources. Actors, Roles, Films, and TV Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
http://www.filmsite.org/adve.html
Dale Arden [played by Jean Rogers (1936, 1938) and Carol Hughes (1940)]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Arden
Asta
(see The Thin Man)
The Avengers TV series (1965-69)
http://theavengers.tv/
Theda Bara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theda_Bara
http://silentladies.com/Ladies.html (see: The Vamps)
http://www.tartcity.com/thedabara.html
Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa)
http://www.ingridbergman.com/
(see also Casablanca)
Rick Blaine
(see Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca)
Humphrey Bogart
http://www.humphreybogart.com/
James Bond (as portrayed by Sean Connery)
http://www.007.info/Sean_Connery.asp
Billie Burke (as Glinda)
http://www.kansasoz.com/infogoodwitch.htm
Casablanca (1942)
http://www.vincasa.com
Lon Chaney Jr.
http://www.lonchaney.com/lc5/jr/lcjrmain.html
(see also The Wolf Man)
Nick and Nora Charles
(see The Thin Man)
Cinderella (1950)
http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/cinderella/cinderella.html
Colin Clive
http://classic-horror.com/masters/colin_clive
Claudette Colbert
http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/colbert/cleopatra.html
Cleopatra (1917)
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/Cleopatra1917.html
Cleopatra (1934)
http://www.filmsite.org/cleo.html
Cleopatra (1963)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film)
Cowardly Lion
(see Bert Lahr)
Joan Crawford
http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/menupage.htm
Bette Davis
http://www.bettedavis.com/about/bio.htm
Cecil B. DeMille
http://www.cecilbdemille.com/bio.html
(see also Sunset Boulevard)
Dracula (1931)
http://www.bmoviecentral.com/bmc/reviews/34-duanesreviews/64-dracula-1931-75-minutes.html
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15781/The-Enchanted-Cottage/overview
Carrie Fisher
http://www.answers.com/topic/carrie-fisher
(see also Return of the Jedi)
Frankenstein (1931)
http://www.filmsite.org/fran.html
Clark Gable
http://www.clarkgable.com/
Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland)
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Dorothy_Gale
Gone With the Wind (1939)
http://www.filmsite.org/gone.html
Flash Gordon (played by Buster Crabbe in 1936-40 film serials)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Crabbe
Audrey Hepburn
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Audrey/audrey.htm
Katharine Hepburn
http://katehepburn.tripod.com/
Charlton Heston
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Heston/heston.htm
(see also The Ten Commandments)
Howard Hughes
http://www.1st100.com/part3/hughes.html
The Invisible Man (1933)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/4337/invman.htm
Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford)
http://www.indianajones.com
King Kong (1933)
http://www.filmsite.org/kingk2.html
Bert Lahr
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200675
Hedy Lamarr
http://www.hedylamarr.com
(see also Samson and Delilah)
Dorothy Lamour
http://www.tcmdb.com:80/participant.jsp?participantId=107751
Lash La Rue
http://www.b-westerns.com/lash.htm
Laura (1944)
http://www.filmsite.org/laur.html
Peter Lorre
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Lorre/lorre.htm
The Lost Weekend (1945)
http://www.filmsite.org/lostw.html
Myrna Loy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Loy
(see also The Thin Man)
Bela Lugosi
http://www.belalugosi.com
Perry Mason (played by Raymond Burr)
http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com
Ray Milland
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Milland/milland.htm
(see also The Lost Weekend)
Ming the Merciless (played by Charles Middleton in 1936-40 film serials)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_the_Merciless
My Man Godfrey (1936)
http://www.filmsite.org/myman.html
The Outlaw (1943)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw
(Mrs.) Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02llSrNfnQ &feature=related
(See also The Avengers and Diana Rigg)
William Powell
http://themave.com/Powell/
Otto Preminger
http://www.reelclassics.com/Directors/Preminger/preminger.htm
Claude Rains
http://www.meredy.com/clauderains/
Return of the Jedi (1983)
http://www.fandango.com/returnofthejedi_40330/movieoverview
Diana Rigg
http://www.nndb.com/people/041/000023969/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02llSrNfnQ &feature=related
Jane Russell
http://www.lovegoddess.info/Jane.htm
(see also The Outlaw)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Samson_and_Delilah_(1949_film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/snow/snow.html
(Mr.) Spock (played by Leonard Nimoy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock
Starsky and Hutch
http://www.starskyandhutchonline.com/
Sharon Stone
http://www.sharonstone.net
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
http://www.greatestfilms.org/suns.html
Larry Talbot
(see Lon Chaney Jr., The Wolf Man, The Wolfman)
Elizabeth Taylor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor
The Ten Commandments (1956)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXyEcMG5bDs
The Thin Man (1934)
http://themave.com/Powell/powloy/films/thman/ThinMan.htm
Ugarte
(see Casablanca, Peter Lorre)
Rudolph Valentino
http://www.rudolph-valentino.com
The War of the Worlds (1953)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)