I read Ethan Mordden's Open a New Window this weekend which was rather good. But imagine my shock when he writes about a cast member of New Faces of 1956 and 1962 being a devastating redhead who was more than willing to come onstage in the briefest of Speedos to flex his biceps at a startled Travis Hudson.
The shock for me was that I am fairly certain that this was the director/choreographer of one of my high school musicals. I know he was one of the pirates in the Mary Martin Peter Pan television special. If I remember correctly, a few years after ninth grade, I read in the local paper that he was arrested for some sort of sex scandal, possibly involving underage youths.
And, um, this means I am two degrees of separation from Paul Lynde, doesn't it?
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A&E never showed friggin's sports games. TNT! You're supposed a show an epsiode EVERY DAY, not five hours worth on Monday.
I saw Ice-T filming in Jersey City the other week. Why couldn't they have filmed Criminal Intent here?
Oooh, a Claudine Longet anthology is in the works!!!
And I don't care if she's on the soundtrack along with a zillion other neat artists, I still won't watch Gilmore Girls. Sorry.
Oh, Discovery Empire, not ANOTHER anthropology of LURVE documentary. Mind you, it is good for laughs to watch your flirting techniques being proven by science, or something. Oh look, lip licking and hair twirling. AND DANCING. Ha ha ha ha, dancing DOES lead to sex, the experts said so.
Will someone research the can't dance, can't fuck dictum? I mean, they spent money to research boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Charles Nelson Reilly versus Paul Lynde!!!
Whoa, CNR was in Bye Bye Birdie, too??
Since NYC thrift store supply has dictated that my new area of collecting be SHOWTUNES, I have been contemplating but the records featuring the stars above as well as Bea Arthur and Jerry Orbach. So far I only have Lynde in BBB and New Faces of 1952 (I nearly bought a record at the WFMU Record Fair that featured Charlotte Rae and made reference to 'New Feces of 1952" ho ho ho) and Orbach in Annie Get You Gun. I need Chicago! And Mame!
Since I can not think of anything to write, I will just keep posting pretty pictures of BIG LATE 60s HAIR (I KNOW the Ann-Margret is from '75, so shut up!)
(PS: Buy me this album!)
