Posted on 09/14/2012 5:16:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek
In 1978? Someone being allowed to go on TV when they're high? Perish the thought. /s
Indeed.
I never noticed that little mole she has near the right corner of her mouth. They've tried to cover it with makeup in the picture you linked, but they can't quite make it disappear.
I wonder why I didn't notice it before.
I must have low standards because she looked very not guilty to me in that clip. I thought she looked pretty hot during her speech at DNC also, picturing her, of course, with her mouth taped shut.
I love Columbo, as do my children and grandchildren. Yes there was a lot of smoking and drinking going on in those days both off and on TV. But did your children notice that there was very little nudity, couples were one man, one woman, children’s mother was a female, their father a male, there was an absence of vulgar language and off TV the actors and actresses looked pretty much like they did on TV?
A fav of my son’s when he was young was Groucho Marx and What’s My Line. I loved Amos and Andy when I was young and I really wish they would bring Archie Bunker and Sanford & Son back.
I don’t recall telling my children that they couldn’t watch something on TV but I have a whole lot of channels blocked on my current program listing which my grandsons are not permitted to watch. Even I don’t watch them!
My kids love “Bewitched.” They love Dick York, and think Dick Sargent is the pits.
My son is hooked on The Andy Griffith Show.
They seem to have a natural filter against filth, at least for the time being. I don’t know how long it will last.
Television was so much better when it was decent.
I was just thinking yesterday about how television was largely built on cigarette advertising, and then - after they had used tobacco money to build out their network - they turned on Big Tobacco and tried to destroy it.
This was a good time for women like Jennifer Granholm where there were women named “Betty Boom Boom,” who were built like “rowboats” (”Round and solid at the sterns and in the best movable position”) and women who want to know about a man’s “spaghetti.”
Jennifer Granholm, thinking about the taste of spaghetti, took her index finger and stuck it on her tongue.
Now she is totally transformed and I wonder how it happened.
I remember, especially in detective shows, the characters always walked over to the liquor bottles on their credenzas and poured themselves a drink - with ice from their ice buckets - just like EVERYONE did at home and in their offices in real life! LOL! It’s one touch that gives Mad Men the authenticity of a 60’s drama. And the secretaries smoking at their desks.
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