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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm now reading Jill Lepore's "Esme in Neverland" in the Nov. 21 issue, and I'm fascinated by the part about TV in the 1950s and early '60s. I recognize the actors mentioned; Ted Bessel went on to play Marlo Thomas' boyfriend in That Girl. ;D
Trivia: Another actor mentioned was Michael Burns. I remember him as a cute young guy from various TV shows of the '60s, so I looked him up at IMDb. Seems he's one young person who wasn't destroyed by an acting career. He got out of acting, earned a PhD from Yale, taught history at Mt. Holyoke for 20 years, wrote an acclaimed book on the Dreyfus Affair, married a former president of the college, and is now living in Kentucky raising thoroughbreds!
I'm also getting a little concerned because I haven't heard anything about the renewal of my subscription. That got all screwed up last year when I had to update my credit card information. >:(
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 07, 2016, 02:06:11 pm ---I'm also getting a little concerned because I haven't heard anything about the renewal of my subscription. That got all screwed up last year when I had to update my credit card information. >:(
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Actually, I looked at the mailing label on my copy of the Dec. 12 issue, which arrived today. Thanks to the screw-up with my subscription last year, my subscription now doesn't expire until Feb. 6, 2017.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 07, 2016, 02:06:11 pm ---I'm now reading Jill Lepore's "Esme in Neverland" in the Nov. 21 issue, and I'm fascinated by the part about TV in the 1950s and early '60s. I recognize the actors mentioned; Ted Bessel went on to play Marlo Thomas' boyfriend in That Girl. ;D
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I read it, too, though Ted Bessel was the only actor in the group I recognized. I used to love That Girl! I looked up Michael Burns, and in one or two of the photos he looked vaguely familiar. Especially when he was wearing a cowboy hat. Did he do some Westerns (on TV)?
So then of course the rabbit hole opened and I found myself looking up Marlo Thomas, which led me to wonder whether she was young enough to have been Rachel's mom on Friends (for which she won an Emmy, FYI).
Turns out she was, because Jennifer Aniston is getting close to 50! Bessel and Thomas were both born in the '30s -- non-baby boomers! -- Aniston in the late '60s. Her TV mom would have had her at 32, which at the time was oldish, but now of course is not the least bit unusual for a new mom.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 08, 2016, 11:12:52 am ---I read it, too, though Ted Bessel was the only actor in the group I recognized. I used to love That Girl! I looked up Michael Burns, and in one or two of the photos he looked vaguely familiar. Especially when he was wearing a cowboy hat. Did he do some Westerns (on TV)?
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Yes! It probably won't surprise you that I always remember him from a single episode of my favorite show from childhood, Daniel Boone. :laugh: But he was a "regular" in some of the later seasons of Wagon Train.
Check out his IMDb entry. The future Yale PhD and Mt. Holyoke professor is shown naked with a towel in front of his privates! :laugh:
I remember Glenn Corbett, too, but mainly from various "guest appearances."
Trust a gay man to remember handsome faces from TV during his childhood! :-\
I guess Marlo was old enough to be Rachel's mom. She certainly seems to be aging well.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 08, 2016, 11:12:52 am ---I used to love That Girl!
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At the risk of prolonging an OT discussion. ... We watched That Girl! too. Of course, I was too young to realize that it was groundbreaking. Before there was Mary Richards, there was Ann Marie. :)
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