May 5- Fraido-You’re My Brother…
I hope you guys have been enjoying the exploits of my “brother” Fraido in our webisodes- I know the crew who worked on them certainly enjoyed doing so! Fraido’s original TV appearance will be coming back for an “encore performance” later this month when we show “Ghost of Frankenstein”-so the wooden-headed wonder will be quite prominent over-all in the world of Sven!
I’m not sure if I explained his background before- Fraido was a gift to us from our generous friend, the amazing artist who’s name you’ve seen here before- Alex Ross -whose artwork for both DC and Marvel Comics, among others, is legendary. If you ever saw “Spider-Man 2”, the artwork shown at the start of the film, depicting what had transpired in the first movie, was done by Alex. He also made the poster for the Academy awards a few years ago- the one with the big “Oscar” figure looking down, past the big “Hollywood’ sign, at the city.
As if he didn’t have enough to do, trying to meet deadlines on painting covers for various books, plotting storylines, designing action figures, etc. (and, yes, he did design a 12-inch Svengoolie action figure- but only two exist- the one he gave me, and the one that’s located in his museum/showroom in his home)-Alex had found a Groucho Marx ventriloquist dummy for sale online, and decided it would be the perfect base to build a Sven dummy upon. And he did- with the same attention to detail that his work is known for. He even made a separate red turtleneck collar for the dummy, for him to wear
If he appears in a rerun from the past era when I wore the red turtleneck! (Just as I keep the turtleneck handy here, if we do updates on one of those older shows- hey, we at least TRY to have some sense of continuity when we can…)
I know Alex was very happy to see that we used Fraido to host an entire show- while I was supposedly on “jury duty”-actually, I WAS on jury duty around that time, but, not on the day we would have shot that show. By the way, it was I who decided that his name would be Fraido-in a nod, of course, to the brother of Michael Corleone in “the Godfather” who told his brother “I’m smart!” We decide to spell the name “Fraido” rather than “Fredo” as a play off the word “afraid”-after all, fright is a factor in this show (especially when management looks at the ratings! No, just kidding!) Fraido appears to be very popular with the folks working here, and you viewers- many of whom have asked where you can buy a “Fraido”
Doll! Sorry, folks- he’s one of a kind! You’ll just have to enjoy him in webisodes and on the show. Who ever thought a dummy could be so popular? (No, I’m not talking about Dr. Phil…)
I’m not sure if I explained his background before- Fraido was a gift to us from our generous friend, the amazing artist who’s name you’ve seen here before- Alex Ross -whose artwork for both DC and Marvel Comics, among others, is legendary. If you ever saw “Spider-Man 2”, the artwork shown at the start of the film, depicting what had transpired in the first movie, was done by Alex. He also made the poster for the Academy awards a few years ago- the one with the big “Oscar” figure looking down, past the big “Hollywood’ sign, at the city.
As if he didn’t have enough to do, trying to meet deadlines on painting covers for various books, plotting storylines, designing action figures, etc. (and, yes, he did design a 12-inch Svengoolie action figure- but only two exist- the one he gave me, and the one that’s located in his museum/showroom in his home)-Alex had found a Groucho Marx ventriloquist dummy for sale online, and decided it would be the perfect base to build a Sven dummy upon. And he did- with the same attention to detail that his work is known for. He even made a separate red turtleneck collar for the dummy, for him to wear
If he appears in a rerun from the past era when I wore the red turtleneck! (Just as I keep the turtleneck handy here, if we do updates on one of those older shows- hey, we at least TRY to have some sense of continuity when we can…)
I know Alex was very happy to see that we used Fraido to host an entire show- while I was supposedly on “jury duty”-actually, I WAS on jury duty around that time, but, not on the day we would have shot that show. By the way, it was I who decided that his name would be Fraido-in a nod, of course, to the brother of Michael Corleone in “the Godfather” who told his brother “I’m smart!” We decide to spell the name “Fraido” rather than “Fredo” as a play off the word “afraid”-after all, fright is a factor in this show (especially when management looks at the ratings! No, just kidding!) Fraido appears to be very popular with the folks working here, and you viewers- many of whom have asked where you can buy a “Fraido”
Doll! Sorry, folks- he’s one of a kind! You’ll just have to enjoy him in webisodes and on the show. Who ever thought a dummy could be so popular? (No, I’m not talking about Dr. Phil…)
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