The Glamorous Life of a Child Star
The episode "Pilot" 20 March 2021, or maybe "Build a bench", 27 March 2021, of the Nickelodeon children's show Drama Club has a scene where an overhead studio light falls and narrowly misses Bianca.
In a "confession cam" segment Oliver claimed that the falling overhead light wouldn't have hurt Bianca.
Hah!
I once read a story that when Shirley Temple was not yet a big star she and another little girl were finalists for a big role in a film. And an overhead studio light plummeted down and barely missed Shirley Temple. The man in charge of the overhead lights was the father of Temple's competitor.
In the Carrie (1976) section there are several discussion of the fate of Tommy after the empty pig's blood bucket fell on his head, including:
https://moviechat.org/tt0074285/Carrie/58c731ac5ec57f0478f733a8/Carrie-White-Burns-In-Hell
https://moviechat.org/tt0074285/Carrie/58c731b05ec57f0478f7367a/Why-did-she-attack-Tommy
The best opinion seems to be that a bucket, even an empty one, falling over ten feet onto someone's head is likely to cause a fatal wound.
"The Ballad of Captain Kidd" includes the lines:
Well, I murdered William Moore, as I sailed, as I sailed
Oh, I murdered William Moore, as I sailed
Oh, I murdered William Moore and I left him in his gore
Not forty leagues from shore, as I sailed
http://www.songlyrics.com/carl-peterson/the-ballad-of-captain-kidd-lyrics/
Did Kidd Kill Moore with a cutlass, an axe, a pistol, or a musket, or make Moore walk the plank?
No! They argued and the enraged Kidd hurled a heavy bucket at Moore, giving Moore a fatal head wound. And no matter how hard Kidd could throw, I doubt whether he could give a bucket as much momentum as falling over ten feet would.
Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II was murdered in Syracuse.
On 15 September 668, he was assassinated in his bath by his chamberlain,[11] according to Theophilus of Edessa, with a bucket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constans_II#Death_and_succession
I guess that an overhead studio light weighs a lot more than even a heavy old wooden ironbound bucket, and would be much more likely to kill Tommy or Bianca - or Shirley Temple, for that matter - if it hit them in the head.
https://moviechat.org/tt14239088/Drama-Club/6074fe1395e02907d418b395/What-Oliver-Did
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