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In Praise of Adam West
Townhall.com ^ | June 12, 2017 | Tom Tradup

Posted on 06/12/2017 4:30:55 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Oh yes, remember it well.

Let’s not forget Bruce Lee, he stole the show on ‘Green Hornet’. He’d kick a couple of peoples butt’s every week, and occasionally break out the throwing stars. I had to have some throwing stars.


21 posted on 06/12/2017 6:04:32 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: wyowolf
hell, im jealous of him!

Same here.

22 posted on 06/12/2017 6:05:46 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Kaslin

“Lyle Waggoner”

I never knew he was in the running to be Batman! But, Holy Hashbrowns, Batman - was Lyle ever handsome! *SWOON*

RIP, Mr. West.


23 posted on 06/12/2017 6:11:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Hyman Roth

By all accounts he LOVED telling these stories to people, he told them all the time.... probably just to piss off the holier than thou types..

If i was in his shoes, I would have done the same...


24 posted on 06/12/2017 6:12:01 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
I always liked the Bat Computer.

Pour Alphabet Soup into it, to get the secret coded message. Heck, 50 years later, you STILL can't do that. Batman was simply far, far ahead of his time.

25 posted on 06/12/2017 6:16:56 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Kaslin

https://youtu.be/nM_p52xr-0M

Growing up in Memphis, I remember this Saturday morning when Batman cane to town


26 posted on 06/12/2017 6:17:20 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: wyowolf

I worked with him for 3 weeks in the 1990’s. He was polite, professional and on time evreyday.


27 posted on 06/12/2017 6:18:12 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: barbarianbabs

I have no doubt that he was... but even back then , 60s -70s when all this was going on he talked about it. I guess most guys go though this, or would if they had the means, he did.


28 posted on 06/12/2017 6:29:45 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: barbarianbabs

‘It was the Swinging Sixties with free love and women threw themselves at us,’ West said of the attention him and his co-stars will receive in an interview.

He and Burt Ward, his co-star who played Robin, would have ‘quickies’ with women in between scenes and while in his costume.
The actor said, years after the show: ‘Because of the physical limitations of the costume, you gotta have quickies.’
Offset, his sex life appeared even wilder.
West reportedly became a regular at orgies. Once, he and his friend and co-star Frank Gorshin - who played the villain, Riddler, in the Batman movies at the time - were banned from an orgy because they were mimicking the characters they played on television.

West said: ‘We walked in and it was an orgy. So I immediately went into the Batman character, and Frank went into the Riddler character, because we were getting the big giggles.
‘It was so funny to us, what we walked into. And we were kicked out. We were expelled from the orgy.’


29 posted on 06/12/2017 6:34:00 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Hey Diana, you might enjoy this. It’s a video of the screen tests of both Adam West and Burt Ward and Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-BHYo4U0M4

Regards,


30 posted on 06/12/2017 6:34:35 AM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: Kaslin

West has a soft place in my heart.
In the late sixties, We were at a Hollywood gala/fundraiser and I happened to be talking to him and told him my four kids loved him.

He said “ Let’’s call them, so I can talk to them”. So we found a phone, he did just that and gave my four sweet and lasting memories for which I am thankful for.
eternally.

All on his own initiative.


31 posted on 06/12/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by amihow (.size)
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To: wyowolf

Yeah. Whatever. It was all well covered in this terrific show...

https://youtu.be/fC-efhnPdKo

The West was the best.

Go back to your Daily Mail.


32 posted on 06/12/2017 6:49:36 AM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: central_va

Tie. Frank Gorshin’s Riddler.


33 posted on 06/12/2017 6:52:13 AM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: Biggirl

When America was still America. Those were innocent times by far as compared to the recent 8 years of unpleasantness.


34 posted on 06/12/2017 7:02:38 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Biggirl

I met his son Hunter Anderson in the fall of 1978 who was playing volleyball at Santa Barbara City College. I was invited to go to party at the family’s Topanga Canyon home one weekend but didn’t end up going. Don’t know what he is up to these days.


35 posted on 06/12/2017 7:12:43 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: central_va

JULIE NEWMAR - Best Temptress Ever


36 posted on 06/12/2017 7:15:51 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Blue Highway

There was some talk of having Adam West play Batman’s father in some of the newer Batman movies. That would have been nice, but it never happened.


37 posted on 06/12/2017 7:22:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

P4L


38 posted on 06/12/2017 7:34:32 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Kaslin
The first was the eminently forgettable Blue Light, a prime time drama starring Robert Goulet (yes, that Robert Goulet!) as a secret agent fighting Nazis during World War II. But the second faced even more ridicule and doubt by ABC execs: it was to be producer William Dozier’s live-action rendition of Bob Kane’s 1939 comic book creation Batman.

I thought Blue Light was a pretty decent show. Why did the author feel the need to take a swipe at Goulet? He was quite good in the series.

39 posted on 06/12/2017 8:18:44 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Goulet is/was known more as a singer, not an actor. It would be the same as if Andy Williams or Al Martino was the lead actor in a tv show (and yes, I know, Martino had a role in The Godfather).


40 posted on 06/12/2017 8:33:40 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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