Thursday, May 01, 2008

I Dream of Jeannie: The Moving Finger (1965) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Tony is going to Hollywood to work as a consultant for a film about astronauts. Jeannie is jealous and worried because the female star of the film is one Rita Mitchell, who has had seven husbands and is looking for an eighth. Tony says Jeannie cannot go with him; he leaves her his address which he writes on an envelope, so she can send him a letter if she wants. After he leaves, Jeannie enters the envelope and mails herself to Hollywood. The producer explains Tony the plotline of the movie: an American astronaut is shrunken to a pinhead's size and injected into a Russian astronaut's blood stream; he travels up to his brain where he will collect important military secrets. Jeannie meets Tony and accompanies him to the studio pretending to be his secretary. The producer makes a pass at her. Rita Mitchell is throwing a party that evening and invites Tony; Jeannie of course says she will go too. At the party, Jeannie gets jealous of Tony and causes to rain over him and Rita. The next day, Tony has an appointment and tells Jeannie to stay at the hotel; she asks him whether he would date her if she were an actress, and he says yes. She then goes to the studio and asks for an audition; she says she knows all the poems by Omar Khayyam and recites one, to the awe of those watching her. The next day, she tells Tony she has to go to the screening of her successful audition; Tony says he won't go because he has another appointment, but he in fact shows up and stays hidden. The screening is a total fiasco because Jeannie doesn't appear in it at all: it turns out genii cannot be photographed. Jeannie is terribly sad. Tony comes unto her and consoles her. Then they go to the walk of fame, where Jeannie softens the cement, thus causing their footprints to be imprinted on it; she writes the words "Guess Who?" above them. Note: this episode's title is probably derived from the poem Jeannie recites (I haven't understood it perfectly).

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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