It's a little known fact that in the 1987 film
The Lost Boys Tim Cappello employed a music/body double.
What is commonly mistaken as Tim's bod/hot sax actually belongs to his talented brother Danny Cappello, who lives on a farm in Basildon, Essex, UK.
Tim, at the time of filming, was in a bit of a state. Hopelessy in love with then-famous daytime telly gingernut Chris Evans, Tim Cappello became addicted to Wimpy's Bender In A Bun, which he had to have specially imported to the US. Tim would fill his hours bingeing on Benders, hating himself as he piled on the pounds.
Hollywood movie executives, on seeing that Tim had become too fat to perform his famous 'tune'
I Still Believe, desperately needed an alternative. Tim was too bloated and hideous to be publicly seen and his vocal cords were so flabby that he could no longer sing, only gurgle like a baby.
Fortunately for
The Lost Boys film, Danny Cappello stepped up to the challenge, bringing his sax pack hot bod with him.
The stills you see here were thought lost, destroyed by Tim's lawyers: burnt, the ashes pissed on, burnt again, and finally eaten by Tim himself...
Not so.
I know someone who was on the film production team, who has been tortured by the guilt at the Tim Cappello body/music double cover. He had to speak out and contacted me, and proceeded to explain the trickery used in post-production to edit Danny out of the film. Apparently, using Ray Harryhausen claymation techniques and mirrors, they were able to superimpose a pre-bingeing Tim likeness onto Danny's body, which is what you see in the final cut.
To this day Danny's never had a credit for his role/performance in
The Lost Boys. He never even wanted one. But that doesn't make it all right...
