Bit from newsletter #24:
The last time I saw Lucy was right after the convention in February. We had auctioned off for charity some huge banners on the wall and they needed to be signed by Lucy and Renee. I made arrangements with Lucy to meet in a parking lot where we laid out the banners in the back of our van and she crawled around finding just the right place to sign them.
The parking lot was part of a small shopping mall and there was a beauty supply store right in front of us. After she finished with the banners, Lucy and I went into the store to buy a hair dryer. One of those big metal houses you sit under and stick your head into. They did have a floor model of one of those monsters, but none for sale. So she settled for one with a plastic hat. You know, those pink things with the crimpled edges. She wanted to learn how to curl her own hair. I decided to see how that venture was coming along. Had she been able to make cosmetological improvements in her life?
"How's your haircurler working out?" I asked casually.
"I came out looking like Elsa Lancaster in Bride of Frankenstein," Lucy said sadly. "My session with the curling iron turned into fright night."
Lucia did a drawing of Lucy/Elsa for the newsletter and when I sent it down to Lucy for approval, she responded, "I never looked better." (grin)
(drawing by Lucia © Lucia)
"Rob asked me if I wanted to be the drug-addled, messed up mother who gives away her child and, of course, I can't resist that sort of part. Barry Watson plays a young man named Tim who has psychological disorders. He's paranoid about a boogeyman chasing him."
"When he was a boy, his father vanished and his mother went crazy and gave up custody of him. So he has big abandonment issues. In flashbacks you get to see his mother -- who's the one with the red hair. Stoned and drug-addled, she can't put up with this troublesome kid any longer and sends him away with his uncle. The kid's always going on about the boogeyman. He's afraid someone's under his bed and in his closet."
"For Boogeyman they're making my hair red and slightly shorter. They covered me in latex makeup on my hands, feet and all over my face to make me look about 80 years old. Even though they've got scum and blood squirting out my eyes -- I thought I looked kinda good actually. I thought I looked kinda glam. Like a glamorous older woman. Like . . . Germaine Greer. If I look this good when I'm fifty, I'll be so happy. Picture Germaine Greer with blood squirting out her eyes."
Lucy, resting up in New Zealand after traveling the world working on the "Warrior Women" documentary series, joined the cast of Boogeyman now filming in New Zealand. This is the first feature film being produced by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi's Ghost House Productions for Senator International to be distributed by Sony's Screen Gems in North America. Barry Watson (7th Heaven) stars as Tim, a young man who returns home to face his fears of terrible events that took place in his bedroom when he was a child. Lucy plays Tim's mother in flashback scenes of his childhood. The movie also stars Emily Deschanel (The Alamo) as his neighbor, Kate. The cast also includes Tory Mussett (The Matrix Reloaded, Peter Pan), Skye McCole Bartusiak (Against the Ropes, Don't Say a Word), Philip Gordon and Charles Mesure (the Archangel Michael in Xena). The movie is being directed by Stephen Kay (remake of Get Carter, The Last Time I Committed Suicide) and written by Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Darren Lemke. Filming is expected to last into late August.