CBS' Crime Scene Investigation franchise has done well with shows like
CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, and CSI: Plus Calcium, but what about CSI:
Mozart? That's what a TV station in Austria dubbed a forensic analyzation of a human skull which may or may not
have belonged to the famous composer. The story goes that Mozart's skull was removed from his grave ten years after his
death by the same man who buried him. The skull was kept on display before being moved to a safe in the Mozarteum in
Salzburg. Tests, unfortunately, proved inconsequential, though I'm not sure that really matters. It's not like it's his
brain or anything, which, had it been preserved, would be much more interesting to study, and/or feed to a bear. At
any rate, I think the scientists who studied the skull's DNA may have a great idea for a new show on their hands, one in
which investigators study a different deceased celebrity's skull in each episode. They could call it CSI: Famous
Skull Unit. I'd watch something like that.















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1-11-2006 @ 3:14PM
Canton said...
"Start not -nor deem my spirit fled:
In me behold the only skull
From which, unlike a living head,
Whatever flows is never dull."
-Lord George Gordon Byron, from "Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull"
http://www.online-literature.com/byron/688/
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1-11-2006 @ 3:46PM
Toby OB said...
Your description of "Famous Skull Unit" (sounds dirty, actually) as a new TV show made me think back on some classic old ones.
I could see this as one of those old-time panel game shows, with Bennet Cerf and Kitty Carlisle and Dorothy Kilgallen and Orson Bean poring over the skull and trying to figure out who it belonged to, and whether they should believe the forensics expert or the phrenologist....
Bill Cullen could have hosted it.
But today? His skull could have been the first "contestant".....
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