Friday, February 17, 2012  LXB | Dream Memorabilia: Tarzan's
Treehouse  This week's League of Extraordinary Bloggers
assignment was another tough one: "You have an unlimited budget
and space is not a problem. What piece of Hollywood memorabilia
would you want hanging around in your batcave?"  I immediately
went to Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. How cool would it
be to have the original R2-D2 or Indiana Jones' hat in the
library? The more I thought about it though, the more I wanted
to pick something from deeper in my childhood. Star Wars was a
huge part of my growing up, but it built on interests I already
had: stuff like Star Trek and Space: 1999. My earliest
influences were Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, and Conan.
Unfortunately, the perfect Conan film hasn't been made yet and
I've only recently started checking out the most classic film
versions of Sherlock Holmes. Having, say, Basil Rathbone's
deerstalker cap from Hound of the Baskervilles would be cool,
but not directly connected to my earliest memori