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Apparently Red Skelton and his wife kept bonsai and shipped 300 trees between Palm Springs and Bel Air to avoid the desert heat!
And he also wrote a bonsai movie script! Here’s excerpt from article:
Red Skelton, the rubber-faced funnyman, says he's figured out a. way to revolutionize the centuries-old art of Japanese bonsai, or dwarf tree, gardening.
In fact, that's why he's here. The veteran comedian is in Japan this month to scout locations for his next movie, a story he wrote about an American who disguises himself as a Japanese bonsai gardener.
"It's all about this ex-GI who tries to corner the bonsai market in Southern California" he explained. "But he couldn't back it there so he reverses his name from O'Shay to Yahso-san and comes, back to Japan."
Red says the movie, to be called "Kasa-san" or Mr. Umbrella, is "just a lot of fun with all kinds of screwball stuff."
"O'Shay, or Yahso-san, has this crazy idea that he. can trick the little bonsai trees into growing 24 hours a day," he said. "He rigs up lights that come on at sunset and move over the trees from East to West all night.
"The trees simply think it's day all the time."
With this method, says Skelton, the trees age about 100 years in three months.
The comedian said he has been writing the script during his spare time for the past six years. It all grew out: of an interest in Japanese gardening he picked up during a trip to Japan.
https://www.stripes.com/news/red-skelton-s-film-idea-it-grows-on-you-1.11484
http://www.magiminiland.org/Days/DaysSepb.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/09/archives/skelton-how-he-simplified-his-life.html
And he also wrote a bonsai movie script! Here’s excerpt from article:
Red Skelton, the rubber-faced funnyman, says he's figured out a. way to revolutionize the centuries-old art of Japanese bonsai, or dwarf tree, gardening.
In fact, that's why he's here. The veteran comedian is in Japan this month to scout locations for his next movie, a story he wrote about an American who disguises himself as a Japanese bonsai gardener.
"It's all about this ex-GI who tries to corner the bonsai market in Southern California" he explained. "But he couldn't back it there so he reverses his name from O'Shay to Yahso-san and comes, back to Japan."
Red says the movie, to be called "Kasa-san" or Mr. Umbrella, is "just a lot of fun with all kinds of screwball stuff."
"O'Shay, or Yahso-san, has this crazy idea that he. can trick the little bonsai trees into growing 24 hours a day," he said. "He rigs up lights that come on at sunset and move over the trees from East to West all night.
"The trees simply think it's day all the time."
With this method, says Skelton, the trees age about 100 years in three months.
The comedian said he has been writing the script during his spare time for the past six years. It all grew out: of an interest in Japanese gardening he picked up during a trip to Japan.
https://www.stripes.com/news/red-skelton-s-film-idea-it-grows-on-you-1.11484
http://www.magiminiland.org/Days/DaysSepb.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/09/archives/skelton-how-he-simplified-his-life.html
