Eerie Similarities

2) They both make their entrances from bright lights, and both descend flights of steps (well, Siobhan's is a flight; Harry's is like, one or two). A basin of water is present in both scenes -- a baptismal bowl in the church, a sponge bath in the space station.

3) Both pull creepy facial parlor tricks -- she rolls her eyes back in her head, Exorcist- style; he grins till his face literally cracks in a Joker- like rictus.

4) Both Siobhan and Harry are singers in real life -- he's a little bit Broadway, she's a little bit rock 'n roll. (Now there's a duet idea!!)

5) Both, weirdly, were born THE SAME DAY, September 10, making them Virgos! Siobhan's year is 1958, Harry's is 1951.

6) Long stretch: In the 'I Don't Care' video, Marcella Detroit wakes up screaming from NIGHTMARES, under a carved white stone wall that resembles one in the clinic in Sleepwalkers. The IDC video itself seems to be a dream that the whole band is having, since at the end they're dancing around in nightgowns and bathrobes. Siobhan gives a few creepy grins too!

7) In an unaired episode of Sleepwalkers titled 'Passed Perfection', Bruce Greenwood's lead doctor lies in a near-death coma, dreaming he's waiting at a train station. As a bright light spills down the tracks, he sees a figure coming toward him -- who turns out to be the Smiling Man. Bruce's character is resuscitated just in time. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions there!!

9) Harry: Born in Germany.
Siobhan: Banned in Germany. ("Stay"'s video was considered blasphemous.)

I know most of you didn't see the TV series Sleepwalkers, since NBC unceremoniously dumped it after only 2 episodes in 1997. It was a very cool show in the X-Files vein, about a team of doctors helping troubled patients make sense of their nightmares. Harry Groener's Smiling Man only made one appearance in the episode 'Night Terrors', the last show before cancellation.