Lars Thorwald, On My Way to Seattle
	About three years ago I was at the Tampa International Airport. I was on my way to Seattle to surprise my niece, Janice for her sixtieth birthday. I had a fairly long wait until the desk opened and the people started boarding so I just sat there enjoying people-watching. I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to anything in particular but suddenly it dawned on me that the public address system was saying "Lars Thorwald, please come to the Delta ticket counter. Lars Thorwald, please come to the Delta ticket counter." The reason this announcement caught my ear was that this person, Lars Thorwald had the same name as the character played by Raymond Burr in Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW. Amazing. That's one of my all time favorite movies. James Stewart suspected that Mr. Thorwald had cut off his wife's head and buried it in a hatbox in their shared courtyard flowerbed because the geranium plants all of a sudden were shorter than they were the day before. So he sent his girlfriend, Grace Kelly to climb the fire escape and snoop around in the Thorwald apartment for clues. James Stewart couldn't do it himself because he was mending with a broken leg from an assignment accident. He was a National Geographic, Indians Jones type, news photographer. As I listened to the P.A. System's announcement to Lars Thorwald I thought "Jay will never believe this." My friend, Jay is as much of an old movie aficionado as I am. REAR WINDOW is also one of his all time favorites. I thought "I've got to call and tell him. He won't believe that there's actually another person, a REAL person, named Lars Thorwald. Then I said "Wait!" It would be just like something he would do to place that call to the public address people at the airport. I'm sure that's what happened. I know it was him." So when I called him...I was right. It was Jay doing a typical Jay prank. He knew I would be sitting there waiting for the plane to board and everything went exactly as he had planned. When my great nephew, Jacob picked me up in Seattle I told him the story and he said "Your friend must have an interesting and amusing, droll since of humor and of course all my friends do. I didn't mean to ramble on so about REAR WINDOW but it's a really remarkable movie. James Stewart wrote a letter to me, actually a note via the General Manager of Busch Gardens saying how much he liked the giant elephant graphic I had done at the entrance to our elephant exhibit. He was very evolved with the conservation of African Elephants. When I got there he was just leaving and I was too late to tell him that REAR WINDOW was my favorite movie and how great it was. In my mind I pictured me standing up on the side of one of the hills like the Native American in DANCES WITH WOLVES yelling "My name is Lynn Ash and I loved REAR WINDOWwwww." Lash Out Loud