Wow. Interesting. It also mentions the actress Pat Priest who was one of the women who was Marilyn Munster.
Apparently, Pat Priest was a lifelong friend of Williams and his wife.
Reasons why the Green Hornet was better than Batman:
* He was born in old-time radio, not the comics.
* He dressed for success, not in his underwear.
* He had a more useful sidekick.
* And a classier ride.
* He didn't have to wear a phony utility belt with comic-opera weapons---all he needed was a gas gun
and an expandable telescoping laser sting.
* He invented the drone. (The Black Beauty scanner was the great-grandpa of today's remote control drones.)
* He fought
real criminals, not clowns with theme crimes, bad makeup, worse puns, and wastes of some of
Hollywood's most legendary talent. (If there was justice, Vincent Price would have sued for defamation of
character for being paid to play Egghead.)
* And while we're at it, he didn't flinch when infiltrating the criminals' operations; Batman would have run home to mommy at the
very idea of it.
* Britt Reid at least
worked for a living---he turned his father's inheritance into an even more successful newspaper.
* And he didn't live in an oversize mansion spending most of his time in two rooms.
* He also didn't have to figure out how to change clothes sliding down a fire pole to a cave.
* He dated better-looking women than Bruce Wayne.
* And probably got more second, third, fourth, and fifth dates.
* He had the D.A. on his side. The best Batman could do was a police commissioner who probably had no business in the job.
* The Black Beauty's front-and-rear rockets could get the job done faster than the Batbeam.
* The Batmobile looked better as the concept car from which it was built:
* The Black Beauty looked better
than the Imperial Crown Sedan from which
it was built.
* The Green Hornet didn't have to bust every speed limit in town to get the job done; hell, he had enough trouble
with the cops thinking he was a murderer because of the nature of his operation.
* And he didn't have to have cameras at weird angles to show him climbing walls he couldn't climb in the first place.
* Do you
really think Batman would have had the
cojones to kidnap a foreign head of state to save his and his
fiancee's life?
* Kato was a more useful domestic servant than Alfred ever was.
* The Green Hornet was the grand nephew of the Lone Ranger. (Quick---name one of Batman's legendary relatives. I
couldn't, either.
* And the Green Hornet otherwise kept his carping, harpie, harridan relatives
out of the house. (If
he had
an Aunt Harriet worming her way into living in his pad, he'd have turned the Hornet Sting on her without regret, and
no jury on earth would have ruled it unjustifiable.)
So there! ;)
