When I was a lot younger
I had a thing for Marlo Thomas. Then she married that socialist dirtbag Donahue and it ruined it all for me.
Now that we’ve dropped cable and just have broadcast TV, the old “That Girl” reruns are on, and I have struggled to figure out what it is I saw that I thought was so interesting.
On the other hand, Mary Tyler Moore had it going on. As Mary Richards or as Laura Petrie, that woman had a fine keister, and no two ways about it. Watching her run around the set of the MTM show with those high waisted polyester plaid pantsuits makes Mr Happy very happy indeed. And she was 40 at the end of that run.
Not big on Mary Tyler Moore, but the one I felt who never got enough credit for her looks was Sally Fields The very deffinition of cute.
Being very much of the pink/red/freckled variety of Irish, I always had a thing for the Black Irish girls from the southwest of the country down near Spain and Portugal. Mary Tyler Moore, Bridget Moynihan, Courtney Cox, Megan Fox, Jennifer Connelly, all have a family history starting out in Kerry or Cork.
Just enough Iberian to slightly lengthen the button nose, the same redhead complexion and delicate features, but surrounded with exotic dark hair.
And, to be somewhat crude, most albino Irish women are not known for their external breathing apparatus. For every Jenny McCarthy there are at least 20 Meg Ryans or Nicole Kidmans. Which is fine by me, as they are both lovely ladies, and I’m more of a leg man anyway.
I suspect it was an Irishman who first said “Anything over a mouthful is wasted”. I suspect much of that is making do with what’s available.
But wander down to the Dingle peninsula in Kerry (insanely great deep sea fishing) and be amazed at the number of Courtney Cox lookalikes you see all around you, many of whom it is an honor to simply watch breath. You might find yourself whistling “Climb Every Mountain”.
Again, I too am a gam and kiester man, but the shock of seeing Italianate lungs on lean, slender North European women after travelling for days among the very pretty but quite slender pale Irish girls farther north and east is quite real.
Combined with the palm trees and spicy food, the southwest really is a unique place, as much medditeranian as Celtic.
Suzanne Pleshette always raced my engine. First in Disney releases, then on the Bob Newhart show…
Grrrrrrrrrrr!
I just went to the movie theater and they had a promo for St. Jude’s Hospital featuring Marlo Thomas. Holy Crap! High Definition is not her friend. But then again she is 75 years old.
Another one who is not aging well is Shelley Fabares (Donna Reed Show), who is not quite 70.