I knew him from back in the old days at the Factory...
Whoa.
I came across a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory fan site today which featured scans of polaroids taken of the five children from the 1971 film, all grown up. Veruca looks sweet and centered, Charlie looks like an even gayer Ned Flanders, Mike Teevee looks like Stanford from Sex and the City, Violet looks like my high school guidance couselor, and Augustus...still dressed in character...is scary.
I wonder if that's the only surviving oompa-loompa. :-)
Row 1 (L-R): Julie Dawn Cole, "Veruca Salt"; Michael Bollner, "Agustus Gloop"
Row 2 (L-R): Peter Ostrum, "Charlie"; Rudy Borgstaller, "Uncredited Oompa-Loompa"
Row 3 (L-R): Paris Thiemmen, "Mike Teavee"; Denise Nickerson, "Violet Beauregarde"
I came across a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory fan site today which featured scans of polaroids taken of the five children from the 1971 film, all grown up. Veruca looks sweet and centered, Charlie looks like an even gayer Ned Flanders, Mike Teevee looks like Stanford from Sex and the City, Violet looks like my high school guidance couselor, and Augustus...still dressed in character...is scary.
I wonder if that's the only surviving oompa-loompa. :-)
Row 1 (L-R): Julie Dawn Cole, "Veruca Salt"; Michael Bollner, "Agustus Gloop"
Row 2 (L-R): Peter Ostrum, "Charlie"; Rudy Borgstaller, "Uncredited Oompa-Loompa"
Row 3 (L-R): Paris Thiemmen, "Mike Teavee"; Denise Nickerson, "Violet Beauregarde"
A few years back, a cable channel showed the original movie with all sorts of documentary padding. They interviewed the grown-up kid actors. By some strange co-incidence, three of them (including Augustus) grew up to be accountants.
"Charlie" (Ostrum) is a large animal vetrinarian and lives with his wife and daughters in upstate New York. He makes one public appearance a year, for kids in the local elementary school.
"Mike Teevee" (Paris Themmen) works with casting agents in Los Angeles.
This post has been removed by a blog administrator.
The documentary mentioned by the first commenter is on the DVD release of the original movie.
Interesting.. but is there any way you could add "Alt" tags to the images so that the names (actor and character) would come up? I'm (and maybe it's just me) having a hard time deciphering the signatures.
Thanks
VERUCA IS HOTTTTTT!!!!!!had acrush on her as a kid and now?....WOW!!!
Ostrum needs a mustache-ectomy.
Once, we got a notification of a copyright violation in the Nerve personals...when we disabled the account, Paris Themmen wrote in to say he really WAS Mike Teevee and it wasn't really a copyright violation to use a picture of himself as a child.
What, no Grandpa Joe?
Oh... :(
There was only one Oompa-Loompa -- they were all played by the same guy.
The dwarf is Rusty Goffe, "famous" as being the bouncing weatherman on l!ve tv, http://freespace.virgin.net/rusty.goffe/Image4.gif
he's also recorded a couple of albums
The oompa loompas were NOT played by one guy in the 1971 film. They WERE in the new film and played by Deep Roy.
""Charlie" (Ostrum) is a large animal vetrinarian"
Aw, he's not that large :)
This is neat. I like it
the new film by time Burton is tripe, I think Depp looks like Magenta Devine ( see the sunglasses) hardly a laugh in the film a waste of money and effort.
Burton's worst film
Fun stuff, thanks for sharing. Though contrary to at least one opinion, I think the new version is unquestionably the better of the two on pretty much every level.
leave a response