DCHindley

Hmmm,

I thought that the "shrouded man" was an episode of the TV series "Paper Chase," when stodgy old Professor Kingsfield "shrouded" Hart for not being prepared for a class, which meant he would never call upon him in class. Rumor had it that all students previously "shrouded" by Kingsfield ultimately quit Harvard Law School, unable to pass his very important Contracts Law class. Frustrated and desperate, Hart comes to class actually covered with a shroud. Kingsfield gets pissed and demands Hart "remove that shroud this instant." Hart quickly pulls it off and immediately answers the questions posed in the class correctly. Kingsfield stops for a moment as if thinking, and then immediately takes up his lecture as if nothing happened, only now he calls upon Hart when he raises his hand to offer answers. Hart became the first student "shrouded" by Kingsfield to ever be rehabilitated.

THAT is what the "shrouded man" is, which should have been obvious to anyone who watched TV in the late 70s and early 80s. I have it from good sources that the shroud Hart wore in that episode was actually the shroud of Turin, or else Hart could never have pulled off that miracle with Professor Kingsfield. Duh ...

"The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you, unlike any other schooling you have ever known before. You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush and, if you survive, you’ll leave thinking like a lawyer." -- Kingsfield

DCH

gdeering

Dear DCH,

That’s really interesting, I guess they reuse plot ideas. I seem to remember an episode of I Love Lucy from the mid-fifties with a similar plot, it was the Lucy Christmas Special. I think Moshe Dayan was a guest star?

Anyway Lucy has a dream that she is a first century tourist visiting Jerusalem on vacation with Ricky, Fred and Ethel. They take a guided tour of Jesus’ know haunts and Lucy gets lost at their first stop, the Temple complex. Not seeing the sign that says: No women beyond this point, violators will be stoned, Lucy is soon noticed by the guards and she has to run and hide in a supply closet where she finds some togas in the laundry. Lucy disguises herself as a man - including a fake bead, or was it burnt cork? Lucy runs out into the street by those same guards and they chase her around Jerusalem. I think Milton Berle was a guest star as a merchant or was it Moshe Dayan?

Finally Lucy eludes the guards by ducking into what she thinks is a cave and rolling herself up in a sheet to look like a corpse. The Temple guards search but don’t think to check the corpse. Then Ricky, Fred and Ethel walk in their christian guides. Hearing their voices Lucy jumps up making that classic Lucy face and scream. Unfortunately that was Jesus’ shroud Lucy put on and she has gotten it very soiled with all the street dirt and the burnt cork. Seeing this sacrilege the christian guides call for more christians to hurry and bring stones. Just as they are about to stone Lucy she wakes up making that classic Lucy face and scream.

She babblingly tells Ricky the dream. Ricky is struck by something, he goes to a book of christian relics Lucy just bought Ricky for Christmas. He remembers a famous shroud that has the face of Jesus miraculously preserved on it. He opens the book and makes that classic Ricky bug-eyed face and turns the book around to the camera ---- the smudged bearded face of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin is actually Lucy - it was not a dream after all!!!!!!


Ooohhhhhh LUCY!!!!!!

I love classic TV,


Gregg

Toto

I Love Lucy - the complete series (or via: amazon.co.uk)

Merry Christmas