Ken Lay's missing relations

Ken Lay is a bipartisan supporter. Scott McClellan says so. He said that Lay has supported both Republicans and Democrats. And he's right.

[Lay] and his wife, Linda, donated $882,580 to federal candidates from 1989-2001... All but $86,470 went to Republicans."

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I hadn't known what Ken Lay looked like until he was arrested recently. The minute I saw the pictures, I was reminded of an old Twilight Zone story depicting what greed looks like in a human face.

Here's Ken Lay:


graphic from BenFrank

And, here's the Twilight Zone show:

On the eve of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, dying millionaire Jason Foster (Robert Keith) summons his greedy relatives to his mansion. In a faint but firm voice, Foster informs his niece Emily (Virginia Gregg), nephew-in-law Wilfred (Milton Selzer), and Emily and Wilfred's despicable offspring Wilfred, Jr. (Alan Sues) and Paula (Brooke Hayward), that -- despite his hatred of them -- he intends to leave them his entire fortune. But there's a condition -- all four relatives must don grotesque masks which reflect their true natures -- and they are forbidden to remove those masks until the stroke of midnight.

And of course, they agree, because they want that fortune. At the stroke of midnight, the old man dies, the greedy relatives remove their masks, and to their horror, they have taken on the characteristics permanently.



The Lay family, isn't it? Well, the resemblance is striking.

Here, look at them side by side.



Eh?


As for the Twilight Zone, while I was searching for a photo, I came across this little Twilight Zone trivia quiz. I figured I'd know most all of them, since I have seen so many of the old shows. In fact, I only knew seven of the fifteen. I guess I've now ruined eight episodes should I ever see them.

But, if you want to know the answers, click here.

1. A clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major find themselves trapped inside an enormous feature-less cylinder, with no memory of who they are or how they got there. (One of my favorites - I can relate.)

2. Janet Tyler undergoes her eleventh operation to mend her freakishly bad looks.

3. A lonely old crippled woman receives two unaccountable phone calls in the middle of a stormy night.

4. A schoolteacher is visited by a young girl who insists about talking about a man the teacher saw earlier that day.

5. A mild-mannered bank teller, Henry Bemis, can never find enough time to read.

6. The daughter of a scientist demands that her father dismantle the robot servants that staff the house, because her parents are getting too dependent on them. (Another one of my favorites.)

7. On maneuvers at Little Big Horn, a three-man tank unit keeps finding mysterious evidence of General Custer's 7th Cavalry, and Indians on the warpath.

8. Following a blowout in Pennsylvania, Nan Adams repeatedly sees the same ominous hitchhiker.

9. An old woman, alone in a farmhouse, is terrorized by tiny robot-like spacemen.

10. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and a dying man insists that to earn their inheritances, his heirs must wear grotesque masks until midnight.

11. An amnesiac in a jumpsuit awakens in a town strangely devoid of people.

12. A used car salesman buys an old Model A that forces its owner to tell the truth.

13. The first manned space flight crashlands on a dry deserted asteroid, with three survivors and only five gallons of water.

14. An overworked dancer recovering in a hospital has a recurring dream that late at night, a nurse leads her to Room 22-- the Morgue-- throws open the door for her, and says, "Room for one more, honey."

15. The Kanamits arrive on Earth to aid mankind using their superior technology.