Sunday, March 05, 2006
Ray Spencer
Customs House Director in new role
A little while before Christmas the Customs House in the Mill Dam was showing Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" for a two or three week period, I had fancied taking the kids along to see it, but Junior Curly balked at the idea. However we've watched it this afternoon, and it appears that there was a very good reason why the film was running longer than the usual one week allotment given at the Customs House.
It seems that the popular Customs House Director and children's entertainer Ray Spencer had secretly accepted a role in Tim Burton's film, hence the reason for it's extended run - nice little move Ray, that's one way of gaining a little publicity.
Fellow actor Johnny Depp who has the lead role in the film told Curly's Corner Shop that it had been a great pleasure to work with Ray, and that they had a lot of fun together.
"I never knew how talented the guy was" said Depp "and after I'd managed to decipher his accent, filming became a gas!"
"You can tell Ray, and your folks back in South Shields, that the next time he's incapacitated through over indulgence, I'll happily fly over, don the red suit, and play Tommy the Trumpeter for the kids!"
Ray has worried for some time that his role as Customs House Drector may some time prevent him from carrying out Civic duties as his alter ego Tommy the Trumpeter; but having made the acquaintance of Depp and others in Hollywood he can rest assured that South Shields could be well served with another personality fronting the Cookson Country Parade.
Ray pictured in "Corpse Bride"
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