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I recently revisited my old school, mainly to laugh at the teachers who were still there yet had to told me I would never get anywhere in life.
Funny that almost 10 years later, I had moved on whilst they remained in the same rooms and often wearing the same clothes.
What a pleasant surprise I had when I discovered that the Biology department’s resident skeleton was none other than Skeletor, arch nemesis of the mighty He-Man.
It took me a while to clock him, some kids had put screwed up bits of paper in his eye-sockets and dangled an oily rag out of the corner of his mouth.
But when he spoke it was unmistakably old Bone Head himself.
At first he seemed a little reluctant to discuss his days in the show, but after getting in a couple of pints at the local teacher's watering hole at lunchtime he was soon waxing lyrical about his day's of super villainy.
His real name was Daniel Brian and the reason for his reticence was clear.
As a young man he'd been a method acting dynamo, edgy, dangerous and devoted to community theatre projects.
However, after doing various bits of T.V work in the U.K(Doctor Who, Juliet Bravo that kind of thing)he was skull-hunted for the part of Skeletor (looking like he did I guess he was an obvious choice).With young jawbones to feed, and putting aside his integrity, he took the gig and up rooted the family to Los Angeles and the good life.
For the first couple of years things were great, the cast all managed to take a certain pride in the show, even though they knew it was a barely concealed, big advertisement for the action figures which were launched simultaneously.
Daniel developed the character of Skeletor and made it his own. He started attending script meetings and suggesting little quirks for the character he'd grown so close to, adding flesh to those most famous of bones.
The show was headed for the top and the cast knew they were hot hot hot.
Inevitably things started to go wrong(where do you go when your top of the heap),as egos expanded and insignificant frictions became magnified in the media's glare.
He-man himself was the root of many of the problems.
A bad tempered steroid and cocaine addicted muscle head, celebrity brought out the worst in him.
Then there was Orko, the cute little floating wizard, who ,in reality, was anything but cute.
An insecure prima-donna with serious height issues, he became impossible to work with and had to be replaced with a floating, wire operated ,hat and cloak.
But, for Daniel, the biggest problem was She Ra.
A self confessed lover of scrawny pale guys, she took one look at Daniel and took advantage of him.
His wife had failed to put roots down in L.A and the children were bullied mercilessly at their new school.
He remembered coming home early one morning.
After a night laying some serious calcium cable with the Ra at a motel in Beverly Hills.
His youngest son was asleep on the couch, exhausted from waiting up for Daddy, with a Skeletor action figure grasped tight in his little hand.
It was an epiphanous moment for Daniel, and he quit the show the very same day.
The money he'd earned on the show went towards buying out his contract and relocating the family to England.
And that was how he'd ended up here.
A lab skeleton being mistreated by young urchins, too young to remember when he was the cackling anti-hero to a million young fans.
I asked if he was still in contact with any of the old heads from the show.
But, apart from the occasional phone call from Ram Man, he wasn't.
"Get him Beast Man!!!"
Great days, great days.
Funny that almost 10 years later, I had moved on whilst they remained in the same rooms and often wearing the same clothes.
What a pleasant surprise I had when I discovered that the Biology department’s resident skeleton was none other than Skeletor, arch nemesis of the mighty He-Man.
It took me a while to clock him, some kids had put screwed up bits of paper in his eye-sockets and dangled an oily rag out of the corner of his mouth.
But when he spoke it was unmistakably old Bone Head himself.
At first he seemed a little reluctant to discuss his days in the show, but after getting in a couple of pints at the local teacher's watering hole at lunchtime he was soon waxing lyrical about his day's of super villainy.
His real name was Daniel Brian and the reason for his reticence was clear.
As a young man he'd been a method acting dynamo, edgy, dangerous and devoted to community theatre projects.
However, after doing various bits of T.V work in the U.K(Doctor Who, Juliet Bravo that kind of thing)he was skull-hunted for the part of Skeletor (looking like he did I guess he was an obvious choice).With young jawbones to feed, and putting aside his integrity, he took the gig and up rooted the family to Los Angeles and the good life.
For the first couple of years things were great, the cast all managed to take a certain pride in the show, even though they knew it was a barely concealed, big advertisement for the action figures which were launched simultaneously.
Daniel developed the character of Skeletor and made it his own. He started attending script meetings and suggesting little quirks for the character he'd grown so close to, adding flesh to those most famous of bones.
The show was headed for the top and the cast knew they were hot hot hot.
Inevitably things started to go wrong(where do you go when your top of the heap),as egos expanded and insignificant frictions became magnified in the media's glare.
He-man himself was the root of many of the problems.
A bad tempered steroid and cocaine addicted muscle head, celebrity brought out the worst in him.
Then there was Orko, the cute little floating wizard, who ,in reality, was anything but cute.
An insecure prima-donna with serious height issues, he became impossible to work with and had to be replaced with a floating, wire operated ,hat and cloak.
But, for Daniel, the biggest problem was She Ra.
A self confessed lover of scrawny pale guys, she took one look at Daniel and took advantage of him.
His wife had failed to put roots down in L.A and the children were bullied mercilessly at their new school.
He remembered coming home early one morning.
After a night laying some serious calcium cable with the Ra at a motel in Beverly Hills.
His youngest son was asleep on the couch, exhausted from waiting up for Daddy, with a Skeletor action figure grasped tight in his little hand.
It was an epiphanous moment for Daniel, and he quit the show the very same day.
The money he'd earned on the show went towards buying out his contract and relocating the family to England.
And that was how he'd ended up here.
A lab skeleton being mistreated by young urchins, too young to remember when he was the cackling anti-hero to a million young fans.
I asked if he was still in contact with any of the old heads from the show.
But, apart from the occasional phone call from Ram Man, he wasn't.
"Get him Beast Man!!!"
Great days, great days.
No, he just made an offhand comment about Battle-Cat deciding that the mild mannered persona of Cringer was more preferable as it meant he avoided barfights.
Did he not say what happened to 'Panthor'. It was always superior to Battle Cat.
I recently revisited my old school, mainly to laugh at the teachers who were still there yet had to told me I would never get anywhere in life.
Funny that almost 10 years later, I had moved on whilst they remained in the same rooms and often wearing the same clothes.
What a pleasant surprise I had when I discovered that the Biology department’s resident skeleton was none other than Skeletor, arch nemesis of the mighty He-Man.
It took me a while to clock him, some kids had put screwed up bits of paper in his eye-sockets and dangled an oily rag out of the corner of his mouth.
But when he spoke it was unmistakably old Bone Head himself.
At first he seemed a little reluctant to discuss his days in the show, but after getting in a couple of pints at the local teacher's watering hole at lunchtime he was soon waxing lyrical about his day's of super villainy.
His real name was Daniel Brian and the reason for his reticence was clear.
As a young man he'd been a method acting dynamo, edgy, dangerous and devoted to community theatre projects.
However, after doing various bits of T.V work in the U.K(Doctor Who, Juliet Bravo that kind of thing)he was skull-hunted for the part of Skeletor (looking like he did I guess he was an obvious choice).With young jawbones to feed, and putting aside his integrity, he took the gig and up rooted the family to Los Angeles and the good life.
For the first couple of years things were great, the cast all managed to take a certain pride in the show, even though they knew it was a barely concealed, big advertisement for the action figures which were launched simultaneously.
Daniel developed the character of Skeletor and made it his own. He started attending script meetings and suggesting little quirks for the character he'd grown so close to, adding flesh to those most famous of bones.
The show was headed for the top and the cast knew they were hot hot hot.
Inevitably things started to go wrong(where do you go when your top of the heap),as egos expanded and insignificant frictions became magnified in the media's glare.
He-man himself was the root of many of the problems.
A bad tempered steroid and cocaine addicted muscle head, celebrity brought out the worst in him.
Then there was Orko, the cute little floating wizard, who ,in reality, was anything but cute.
An insecure prima-donna with serious height issues, he became impossible to work with and had to be replaced with a floating, wire operated ,hat and cloak.
But, for Daniel, the biggest problem was She Ra.
A self confessed lover of scrawny pale guys, she took one look at Daniel and took advantage of him.
His wife had failed to put roots down in L.A and the children were bullied mercilessly at their new school.
He remembered coming home early one morning.
After a night laying some serious calcium cable with the Ra at a motel in Beverly Hills.
His youngest son was asleep on the couch, exhausted from waiting up for Daddy, with a Skeletor action figure grasped tight in his little hand.
It was an epiphanous moment for Daniel, and he quit the show the very same day.
The money he'd earned on the show went towards buying out his contract and relocating the family to England.
And that was how he'd ended up here.
A lab skeleton being mistreated by young urchins, too young to remember when he was the cackling anti-hero to a million young fans.
I asked if he was still in contact with any of the old heads from the show.
But, apart from the occasional phone call from Ram Man, he wasn't.
"Get him Beast Man!!!"
Great days, great days.
Funny that almost 10 years later, I had moved on whilst they remained in the same rooms and often wearing the same clothes.
What a pleasant surprise I had when I discovered that the Biology department’s resident skeleton was none other than Skeletor, arch nemesis of the mighty He-Man.
It took me a while to clock him, some kids had put screwed up bits of paper in his eye-sockets and dangled an oily rag out of the corner of his mouth.
But when he spoke it was unmistakably old Bone Head himself.
At first he seemed a little reluctant to discuss his days in the show, but after getting in a couple of pints at the local teacher's watering hole at lunchtime he was soon waxing lyrical about his day's of super villainy.
His real name was Daniel Brian and the reason for his reticence was clear.
As a young man he'd been a method acting dynamo, edgy, dangerous and devoted to community theatre projects.
However, after doing various bits of T.V work in the U.K(Doctor Who, Juliet Bravo that kind of thing)he was skull-hunted for the part of Skeletor (looking like he did I guess he was an obvious choice).With young jawbones to feed, and putting aside his integrity, he took the gig and up rooted the family to Los Angeles and the good life.
For the first couple of years things were great, the cast all managed to take a certain pride in the show, even though they knew it was a barely concealed, big advertisement for the action figures which were launched simultaneously.
Daniel developed the character of Skeletor and made it his own. He started attending script meetings and suggesting little quirks for the character he'd grown so close to, adding flesh to those most famous of bones.
The show was headed for the top and the cast knew they were hot hot hot.
Inevitably things started to go wrong(where do you go when your top of the heap),as egos expanded and insignificant frictions became magnified in the media's glare.
He-man himself was the root of many of the problems.
A bad tempered steroid and cocaine addicted muscle head, celebrity brought out the worst in him.
Then there was Orko, the cute little floating wizard, who ,in reality, was anything but cute.
An insecure prima-donna with serious height issues, he became impossible to work with and had to be replaced with a floating, wire operated ,hat and cloak.
But, for Daniel, the biggest problem was She Ra.
A self confessed lover of scrawny pale guys, she took one look at Daniel and took advantage of him.
His wife had failed to put roots down in L.A and the children were bullied mercilessly at their new school.
He remembered coming home early one morning.
After a night laying some serious calcium cable with the Ra at a motel in Beverly Hills.
His youngest son was asleep on the couch, exhausted from waiting up for Daddy, with a Skeletor action figure grasped tight in his little hand.
It was an epiphanous moment for Daniel, and he quit the show the very same day.
The money he'd earned on the show went towards buying out his contract and relocating the family to England.
And that was how he'd ended up here.
A lab skeleton being mistreated by young urchins, too young to remember when he was the cackling anti-hero to a million young fans.
I asked if he was still in contact with any of the old heads from the show.
But, apart from the occasional phone call from Ram Man, he wasn't.
"Get him Beast Man!!!"
Great days, great days.