Something Wild - Julie Newmar as Catwoman video free download


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Uploaded: 2011/09/19

(Update 26th July 2014 - TV Series will be released on DVD on 11th November 2014.)

So Anne Hathaway is going to be Catwoman in the new Batman film, Dark Knight Rises. No, disrespect to Hathaway or Michelle Pfeiffer, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether, (let's forget the Halle Berry film) but I suspect I'm not alone in thinking that the best Catwoman will always be Julie Newmar from the 1966 TV series Batman starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Perhaps it is do with the fact that it was a TV show that I would watch as a kid and so she made an early fundamental impression. I still remember watching with my mother when I was about five and being puzzled when Catwoman and Batman seemed to be getting "friendly". The above video is my small tribute to Newmar as Catwoman and indeed the whole series; the femme fatale relationship with Batman seems to fit Something Wild perfectly.

I've always cited the book Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach as the first instance of what Joseph Campbell termed "following my bliss" but having compiled the "Catwoman" video I'm starting to think that it was the 1966 Batman TV series, which I was crazy about as a boy. My father had to put bars up in my bedroom window to stop me climbing out on to the porch above the front door (I suspect you couldn't do that these days - Social Services would be round like a shot) and my grandmother went to great pains to try and make me a proper mask and cape. When the series stopped being broadcast I used to pray that "they" would bring it back (perhaps the closest I've come to being religious) and in its absence, I would frequently go back to my ViewMaster (a toy shaped like binoculars through which you could see twenty-one 3-dimensional scenes from films and TV shows) to look again at The Purr-fect Crime/ Better Luck Next Time, in my opinion the best Batman episodes (of which much of the above video is taken). You can imagine my frustration when a few years later I discovered that the "Batman" film from the series was being shown on TV one morning in the school summer holidays when a family day-out had been planned. I was not impressed that I couldn't be left behind and I hope all concerned still remember how "difficult" I was that day (:-). (I imagine those that still know me are thinking not much has changed.)

Of course now I'm (a bit) older I can see why the series is ridiculed. It is pretty silly in places, particularly the later episodes. But it still holds some magic for me. Perhaps I built it into something it wasn't, once it had been taken off air; or perhaps it's because I remember seeing certain scenes (another example - when the Green Hornet appeared with Bruce Lee as Kato) with my mother who died only a couple of years later. It kind of still transports me back to those times, almost like a time machine, before my life changed dramatically. I think both of those explanations could be true but I also think there was something about the series, particularly the very early episodes before they got too bizarre and "pop" when they could be quite dark and thrilling. How often, for example, would you see a kids' TV show with the hero fighting a live tiger? Or being spun around on a large turbine? Hung on a giant bell? This was way before CGI and I understand there were quite a few accidents on set.

Although I've gone to the cinema in hope, none of the subsequent films have really captured the same magic for me. It's probably impossible in view of my romanticised memory of the series but I also wonder if the character isn't best suited to TV when you can have long story arcs and character development.

Anyway, that's my trip down memory lane and my impressionable childhood. It may appear immature to be making something out of an old kids' TV programme but actually it feels right that I should try to create something which is related to a period in my life that was so important to me and that I was so passionate about. And I'm pleased with the result. I hope you enjoy the video.

For the lyrics of Something Wild, free download or CD please visit:

http://music.andrewshearer.com/track/something-wild-2

Comments

8 years ago

joeblowthehot

they have that woman in a serious corset..OOF!!!

8 years ago

Marguerite McGovern

Terence

8 years ago

ashish mishra

Can anyone tell me which song is this.

8 years ago

Romana Rms

The first Catwoman,Julie Newmar apesar de acharmos que é Michelle Pfeiffer (LINDA),mas no é. kkkkkkkMas Mi Pfeiffer continuará sendo a mais CAT! Imortal!

8 years ago

Arthur Cabral

Julie Newmar was truly frightening because she could play the part so well. Tiffany-twisted, and completely mad. Her fresh sexy provocative, yet sublime style made her the right choice!

8 years ago

Gram Znatch

Julie Newmar as Catwoman,,, The music video.

8 years ago

Wanderson Feitosa

1:49 Batman hornyyyyyyyyyyy! lol

8 years ago

Docente DA SILVA

Quando eu era criança eu amava essa mulher-gato! Linda, perfeita, sensual. A melhor! The best!

8 years ago

TERESA ELLIOTT

Catwoman was the bat cave oh my!

8 years ago

TERESA ELLIOTT

Batman is titty food

8 years ago

James Hightower

Julue Newmar... hottest woman ever. What a wasp . I just watched all th My living Doll episodes I could online free... We will always remember her as catwoman though. And the best one.

8 years ago

Alex from Spain

Julie Newmar was the most beautiful and sexy catwoman of all!!!

9 years ago

Stacey Vermilyea

Adam West looks too skinny in the Batman costume!

9 years ago

priapus56

Thank God for the mute button...

9 years ago

Mikhaila Shetler

Great tribute Puuuuurfection accheived by Ms Julie Newmar She's really something wild. What a babe *puurs* Meow 

9 years ago

blueeyes57X

I got the BLU RAY set...!!!

9 years ago

Linda Nelson

Just sharing an old favourite. 

9 years ago

Chris Torelli

Catwoman , ROCKS !

9 years ago

jason reome

She said in an interview that she custom made the Catwoman suit. It doesn't matter what generation any boy grew up in. She helped them through puberty.

9 years ago

Knight192

she was good as Gemma in soa too

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