SUPERMAN UNMASKED

Blog number 431 **** 15 October 2010

This that I am about to relate - if true, would be news akin to news that the Loch Ness monster had been captured. Really.

I love weird stories about life in this weird already existence. My wife was not impressed at all when I related to story to her, so maybe it's me and maybe nobody else thinks it is even worth talking about. If that's true, well then - phooey.

Tim Gunn has a book out called, "Gunn's Golden Rules. Time Gunn is best known as the co-host of the reality television show called, "Project Runway." He's a fashion consultant.

Tim's father was a special agent for the FBI for 26 years and was also J. Edgar Hoover's ghost writer and speech writer.

J. Edgar's lawn was Astroturf. Tim thinks this was so J. Edgar would not have to hire a gardener because he was so afraid of being spied upon. Remember this.

The rumor that Hoover loved to put on wigs and dresses is now pretty well accepted as very likely true, and herein lies the tale.

Tim and his sister used to take a tour once a year at the FBI compound and one year when Tim was eight years old, their dad asked them if they wanted to meet Vivian Vance - Ethel Mertz of "I Love Lucy" fame, who happened to be visiting Hoover. Tim says he shook her hand and chatted with her a bit before they left.

Years later Tim and his sister was talking about that event when suddenly Tim realized something. He asked his sister, "Does it seem odd to you that when we met Vivian Vance that Hoover wasn't there?

Tim says he has looked at photos of Vivian and Hoover and he says the resemblances are rather eerie. He called several Vivian Vance experts - including Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg, authors of the book, "Meet The Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other Couple," none of them knew of any meeting between Vance and Hoover.

Tim declares he is not saying that he definitely met J. Edgar Hoover at his office in the FBI wearing a dress and makeup, only that he "strongly suspects" it - Tim Cann's italics.

It does seem odd that in such a secretive place as the offices of the FBI, and especially in the office of the paranoid anyhow J. Edgar Hoover, that a person whom nobody suspected even knew J. Edgar would be alone, waiting for tourists. What was she doing there?

Against this story, is of course the idea that Hoover would have the time to rehearse for the "I Love Lucy" show, to get made up, etc. Would Hoover have that much spare time? I do think that big wigs in bureaucracies such as the FBI do have a lot of time on their hands, leaving the main work to underlings and just being there to make policy decisions when they come up.

So. Was J. Edgar Hoover one of the stars of "I Love Lucy"? Did Vivian Vance have another part time job? Was J. Edgar really Vivian Vance or was it the other way around? I'd like to think he was. I'd like to think she was. 'cause I really, really love weird happenings.

Addendum to the above;

Thinking about this some more, I now have an alternative theory. Vivian Vance was not there. Instead, it was Hoover, who had disguised himself as Vivian.

I think that's it!