Posted on 04/13/2018 3:57:19 PM PDT by C19fan
Blonde Erin not brunette
Ha, you and me both, though Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner circa 1977 had started to give me some ideas a few years earlier.
Not guilty in my book.
Someone who liked to eat magic mushrooms ?
I remember him from Buck Rogers, the second Naked Gun flick, and that one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (”The Perfect Mate”). I think he was even acting in something not too long ago, maybe a few years ago, so he was still active even into his 80s. Pretty impressive that he could still stay active for that long.
RIP
For some reason the Buck Rodgers opening credits popped into my head just the other day
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7oaw7
Neat, I didn’t know that.
Very incidentally.
Regards,
Buck Rogers...
Princess Ardala and Wilma Deering. OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
90? Good run. RIP.
I take it you were a big fan of Jackie Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls” ?
=ducking=
Curiously, they ran the pilot 2-hour episode at the movie theaters back in 1979, which my father took me to see. It managed to make $21 million in North America at the time (about $73 million today), a tidy sum for what was just 2 tv episodes.
I saw it first at the AAFES theater at Camp Hovey in 1980 when I was stationed at Camp Casey.
Interesting fact about Camp Hovey in 1980: the theater was located in the middle of three buildings -- the base library was on one side and the base massage parlor was on the other. Depending on how you wanted to spend your evening, Camp Hovey had it all ...
Further note: when I was assigned to an encore performance at Camp Casey in 1988, the on-post massage parlors were all gone ...
I guess it depends on whom was giving the massage: a pretty Vietnamese girl or Private Jm. J. Bullock.
And Lady Chattlerly's Lover. Oh my, the movie was playing and my elderly aunt came to visit. So apart from the storyline which I knew, I always liked some movies filmed on certain locations, especially England.
So I convinced my aunt to come with me. Not a word was said during the entire film, but when the lights went back on and my aunt held my arm back up the aisle, it caused more than a few stares. Next day I took her to visit an old friend in a nursing home. I sat quietly while they visited. She told her friend all about the movie, especially the part about where the actor strung some flowers all along her naked torso. Heh.
In a way the book was better. DH Lawrence didn't lead a very happy life. We were required to read the Prussian Officer in English Lit. I did. We were told the officer had a homosexual attraction to his orderly. Hmmm. How could he know that? I was ignorant about such things, read the story, didn't really like it.
I do think I generally have a tendency to see a whole lot of things superficially and don't perceive a deeper meaning if there is one.
I still get a kick out of Spock in the 4th Star Trek movie when he and Kirk were discussing why the (late) 20th century had such “colorful language” amongst its citizenry. Kirk cited the “collective works” of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann as examples of that culture, to which Spock replied, “Ah, yes. The giants.”
Who knows, what was considered high sudser fodder for the lonely housewives and fags of our prior era will be considered great literature on par with Shakespeare by the 23rd Century.
The “Dolls” of course, were the pills. The stuff given to all the poor stars and starlets of mid-century by the studios. Dolls to get up, dolls to get you through the day, dolls to get you to sleep. Alas, poor Judy Garland was exhibit A for what dolls can do to you, sending her to an early grave at just 47.
The film adaptation is a curiosity, so long as you view it like a soaper comedy. I pity poor Patty Duke who didn’t realize they were going for high camp where the material was concerned. She thought she was making another “The Miracle Worker” and nabbing another Oscar. It was going to be difficult to adapt, regardless, because it followed the trials and tribulations of its female heroes (which were thinly-veiled depictions of real people) over a period of decades. Having a fresh-faced Barbara Parkins play the lead role at the start and still being fresh-faced at the end of the film where she was supposed to be world-weary decades later (when it looked like only weeks had passed by) just wasn’t going to translate well on film. Boy, though, they did have that nice song by Miss Dionne Warwick for the theme, so at least it had that going for it.
Getting back to “Peyton Place” for a moment, I got to visit the lovely town in Maine (Camden) where they filmed it in the late ‘50s. Other than for the cars, it looked unchanged when I went there in 1994. Alas, the values had so dramatically changed (and even more so since). Curiously, Grace Metalious hated the film adaptation despite making a decent chunk of change (for the era) off the film.
I watched a lot of Divorce Court in the late 60's. I don't know why, ended up with an nasty one myself. Luckily I didn't waste too much time on soap operas.
Guess I read to make up for it and looked forward to made-for-tv films and just some that I enjoyed. Dr shows until it was making me scared and a tendency toward hypochondria.
I saw two porn movies and never wanted to see any again, hate prurient sensational stuff.
Your next post great music on par with Shakespeare. You are probably right. Some of it by fiat and not the choice of large groups of people.
Seleek. Tom Seleek. That was his name. I loved that show whatever it was.
Hope I didn't bore you; our tastes are different. But I wouldn't fight you for the tv over any of it. Except maybe football and too much sports. Did some in school but preferred golf, a little tennis, biking, walking.
Enough, maybe we won't have a 23rd century. Or by then entertainment of new forms like interact with the screen or a hologram room or whatever environment you want to be in which might bring out the dark side in a lot of people.
And I do appreciate your "listening". It helped me remember a lot of things long-forgotten.
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