Posted on 02/05/2015 3:16:11 AM PST by 9thLife
One day in 1977, about a year after Bruce Jenner shattered a world record to win the decathlon gold medal at the Montreal Summer Olympics, he met up with his sportswriter friend Barry McDermott to play tennis in New York City.
McDermott suggested a match at his private club — but that wasn’t Jenner’s style. Privacy was never his priority.
The pair went to Central Park, where word quickly spread that Bruce Jenner (Bruce Jenner!) was playing on the public courts. McDermott remembers the crowd growing, as he had known it would, gawkers pressed against the chain-link fence, watching the handsome star athlete’s every move.
It wasn’t a bid for publicity, McDermott insists: Jenner — as celebrated in that era as Michael Phelps or Lance Armstrong at their peak — already had plenty of that. “It was more of a ‘Let’s hang out with the people instead of the elitists,’ ” his friend recalled.
Four decades later, Jenner is still hanging out with the people: the millions of viewers tuning in to “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” the popular E! reality franchise starring America’s most shamelessly oversharing celebrity family. Jenner — once the most famous of the clan — is largely a supporting player on the show and its four spinoffs, the weary, eye-rolling dad overshadowed by his preening ex-wife Kris, the self-proclaimed “momager,” and their many camera-friendly kids.
From left, Bruce Jenner, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Robert Kardashian arrive at an event in May 2011. (John Sciulli/Getty Images for City of Hope)
But now the buff heartthrob of America’s disco era is poised again to be the center of attention, in a way few fans could have imagined in 1976.
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I’m pretty sure anyone under 40 only knows Bruce Jenner as Kim Kardashian’s husband. It’s kind of amusing to me because he accomplished a lot more than any of those attention hounds.
whoops! I meant Kris Kardashian/Jenner. Shows how much I know about that stupid show!
Was it Jenner or Dwight Stone that wore the “interesting” Mickey Mouse shirt to some games?
Back in 1999... Bruce was one of the 10 best athlete in Connecticut in the 20th Century. Now, Bruce is just a shadow of what he was. Most Americans forgot he was a gold medal winner - now he could win a gold medal for being a moron.
Daytime TV is for Obama’s supporters...
Heh. Native of Newtown....and we all know what happened in Newtown.
He has 2 kids with his first wife, 2 with his second and 2 with Kris.
Dwight Stone
native of Newtown
Google “Divorce, Connecticut Style” or “Fairfield Hills Hospital”, for examples.
Thank you.
There’s something in the water, up there.
native of Newtown
Google “Divorce, Connecticut Style” or “Fairfield Hills Hospital”, for examples.
Thank you.
Regrets for duplicate posting.
There’s something in the water, up there.
Agreed. There used to be an unwritten rule, back in the days when hitch hiking was popular (60’s) - NEVER pick up a hitch hiker in Newtown !
A person can learn and practice to be a shrubbery if they wanted to. It is amazing the mental illnesses out there including this “transgender” curiosity that blooms into a full blown psychosis.
Forrest Gump
He does look pretty weirded out.
“There’s something in the water, up there.”
Paging Erin Brockovitch....somebody ought to find out what’s in that water.
That can happen when a man marries into someone else's money, then moves into a whorehouse.
This crap doesn't affect the shows I watch. I like almost all of the rest of the world like TV and TV wouldn't be worth a crap without cable.
Just because garbage "liberal propaganda" is offered doesn't mean a staunch conservative like me has to watch it. I have this neat new invention called the remote control so I damn sure don't need your help and certainly didn't ask for it. If you had some self contol you could enjoy cable TV too.
My new TV even has an "off" switch.
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