Can the adults please smoke?- Page 59

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 11:37am

I loved The Court Jester...co-starring Glynis Johns!

I liked Kaye as a youngster then he grew less appealing to me then I gre back into appreciating his performance and comic agility when I learned about his LADY IN THE DARK association.

Kaye has not deserved his due. Updated On: 8/1/04 at 11:37 AM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 11:56am

I agree - he was SO talented...

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 12:13pm

I love Hans Christen Andersen...for some reason Tumbelina was my favorite. Now I have to go find my VCR tape of it.

Sun is trying to break through here in Jersey.
I have to start getting dressed to go to a wake this afternoon. Talk about depressing. Which reminds me..did anyone else ever find pictures that their Grandparents had of relatives in their coffins??? Now I need a Chocolate Martini mom for just remembering that. Morbid.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 1:02pm

Oh - those 'death' pictures were creepy.

Sorry about the wake.

Come back to us - to think happy thoughts.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 1:57pm

ok - here's another that I don't think has been brought up:

Mad Magazine - for all those smart-*ss high school students!

Remember the fold-ins?
"The lighter side of..."
the funny little gag drawings in the margins?

and, on occasion, in the special issues you'd get a flexi-45 RPM single.

My mother didn't let me buy Mad Magazine, but my best friends' brother always had them, so we used to sneak into his room to steal them...

Updated On: 8/1/04 at 01:57 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:03pm

I used to love MAD.

I still have MAD's special issue of HELLO, DOLLY! published in honor of Babs' film version.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:04pm

Now THAT is a keep-sake!!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:05pm

If I can only find it. But it's here, somewhere!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:05pm

you could fetch a fortune on e-bay...but I wouldn't part with it, if I were you!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:07pm

so - in all our posts about 'fashion'...I'm not sure anybody mentioned that 70's icon - the leisure suit!

bonus points if yours was polyester - a la Warren Beatty in Shampoo...

Were we blind?????

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:08pm

My date to the prom made sure that the fringe on the ruffles of his tux matched my gown.

We thought we were fabulous!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:14pm

I am proud to say that any tuxes I wore were of the classic variety - no ruffles here! Must have been how many times I watched MY FAIR LADY

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:19pm

I will admit, too, that my Tuxes were the classic black and white variety.

No ruffles.

Although, my dad did show me how olive oil can polish patent leather shoes.

I still fear I went to the prom smelling a bit like fried onions!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:19pm

funny - my best friend, who used to watch musicals with me all the time, wore a classic tux. He and Fred are now happily married in Massachusetts.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:21pm

I knew this was a classy bunch!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:21pm

Now really, NYadgal - do you find this ALL that surprising?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:22pm

not surprising in the least!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:24pm

I feel like I missed out on something, though - we never had those dances in the gym - our school always went to outside venues because the classes were so large. I would have liked the whole crepe paper scenario!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:25pm

Another fashion memory (or nightmare) -

goucho pants - usually in various shades of 'autumn', made of corduroy.

frequently paired with dingo boots.

not a guy outfit, I know...but a staple of my wardrobe for a while in the early 70s...

Updated On: 8/1/04 at 02:25 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:27pm

National Lampoon was very funny...another magazine I wasn't allowed to buy...

DGrant - that's a shame about the gym dances! I was frequently on the decorating committee at school - and was pretty good with crepe paper! LOL!

I remember one time my parents chaparoned a dance...I begged them not to, but....

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:28pm

I was such a ridiculous snob - I was too busy reading National Geographic and The Smithsonian. But, that meant when I moved to DC I thought I had found heaven - and I also learned at that point how not to take things QUITE so seriously - watching the political zoo will do that to you!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:30pm

I'm not sure I knew anybody who actually READ National Geographic.

My subscription arrived for years and years - and they were all placed neatly, in order, on my shelves...and I loved looking at the pictures and making lists of where I would like to travel. But I can't remember really reading them...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:31pm

OK. My Senior Prom was indeed in the Gym.

We always had Friday night dances at the gym.

I never gave the professional photos taken of me and my date the the girl I took. She and I never spoke again, for no reason. The girl I wanted to take turned me down.
I'll never forget her name. We called her "Goody Two Shoes."

Was I really 17 once? LOL

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:33pm

Funny -
for guys - the terror was in inviting a girl to the prom, and the risk of being turned down...

for girls - the terror was in not being invited.

That was WAY before groups of friends just went together and nobody had to worry about dates... Much better now, I think.

Updated On: 8/1/04 at 02:33 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 2:34pm

Was I really 17 once?

I suddenly had the Bob Dylan line pop into my head:

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

in a way, so true!!