Talk:Santa Claus: The Movie

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[edit] Clean up

Slightly more progress has been made on major edits. Fine tuning is needed though. Do we really need the "Where are they now?" portion of "Making of Santa Claus: The Movie"? If you want info on this, articles should be made for the respective people or they should be updated. Chick3magnet 19:14, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Moving this section as part of the cleanup: --Jtalledo (talk) 23:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved content

Of the few surviving cast members, John Lithgow concluded his starring run in the Broadway musical remake of the film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in summer 2006, then landed the starring role, along with Jeffrey Tambor, on the recently canceled NBC sitcom Thirty Good Years. However, Lithgow has since resumed his career as a children's book author/performer, having written such groundbreaking stories as The Remarkable Farkle McBride; Marsupial Sue; I'm a Manatee; Micawber; and Carnival of the Animals, based on the classical piece by Camille Saent-Saens. After Santa Claus: The Movie concluded principal photography, Judy Cornwell resumed her career as one of the leading mainstays of British television, being best known for her starring role on the popular BBC sitcom Keeping up Appearances; while Jeffrey Kramer, upon renaming himself Jeffrey L. Kramer, served as a top executive with David E. Kelley Productions. As for the film's two child actors, Carrie Kei Heim is now a practicing attorney and sometime world traveller, who was married in New York City --- Cornelia's own home town --- in May 2005; however, in mid-January 2006, Christian Fitzpatrick contacted KringleQuest.com Founding Elf Richard Washington with an e-mail missive from Boston concerning his present whereabouts; unfortunately, since then, Mr. Fitzpatrick has vanished once more from the public eye. Dudley Moore's fate, alas, would not be as rosy. In September 1999, the former star of 10 and Arthur, who had now so recently enchanted the world by portraying one of Santa's elves, was forced into going public with the news that he had been diagnosed with PSP (Progressive supranuclear palsy); he died in May 2002 of pneumonia-related PSP complications, at the home of his caregiver, Ms. Rena Fruchter, in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was 66.

In a bitter twist of tragedy, a 2004 Sunday New York Daily News article interviewed young Patrick Moore, Dudley's real-life son, and the inspiration for the name of his dad's character --- "Patch" ---in Santa Claus: The Movie. According to the article, young Patrick, now in his mid-30s, was living in a temporary shelter for the homeless in Harlem, New York City; however, the article also revealed that Patrick was at the time on the verge of inheriting the $900 million fortune massed between Dudley and his biological mother, actress Tuesday Weld. No further information regarding that fortune, or Patrick Moore's present whereabouts, has publicly surfaced since.

Effective November 2006, the KringleQuest website was renamed KringleQuest.com Beyond. "The URL remains the same -- http://kringlequest.tripod.com," explained Founding Elf Richard Washington. "All that's changing is the site's name."

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