Amos, Simon Thane was an artist. To him, his model was more likely, uh- well, an interesting composition of line, color and shading.

Hot Dogs, They Ate

(Some) of my favorite Murder, She Wrote episode titles

1x04: Hooray for Homicide

1x08: We're Off to Kill the Wizard

2x02: Joshua Peabody Died Here... Possibly

3x05: Corned Beef and Carnage

3x12: The Corpse Flew First Class

4x07: If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly

4x12: Who Threw The Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?

5x04: Snow White, Blood Red

5x09: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

Howard Ashman directing Paige O’Hara (Belle), Richard White (Gaston), Jerry Orbach (Lumiere), and Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) during a music recording session for Beauty and the Beast on June 8, 1990

“There was just an incredibly thrill to be able to walk into that studio in New York and have this full orchestra and this full chorus performing this stuff live. I mean, we created the soundtrack for Beauty and the Beast like, like a Broadway cast album! What I admired about Howard was he never gave vague direction. He never gave any direction that was, like, kind of namby-pamby or wishy-washy. He was very specific right down to, to, ‘When we get to this word, could you stress this word more than the previous word?’ He was just extremely specific and focused as to what he wanted.” - Kirk Wise, one of the directors of Beauty and the Beast

footage from the documentary Howard (2018), dir. Don Hahn

ANGELA LANSBURY as EM