I read Ethan Mordden's Open a New Window this weekend which was rather good. But imagine my shock when he writes about a cast member of New Faces of 1956 and 1962 being a devastating redhead who was more than willing to come onstage in the briefest of Speedos to flex his biceps at a startled Travis Hudson.

The shock for me was that I am fairly certain that this was the director/choreographer of one of my high school musicals. I know he was one of the pirates in the Mary Martin Peter Pan television special. If I remember correctly, a few years after ninth grade, I read in the local paper that he was arrested for some sort of sex scandal, possibly involving underage youths.

And, um, this means I am two degrees of separation from Paul Lynde, doesn't it?