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Career romances for young moderns...


Amy Marsh, TV Nurse

December 20, 2008

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    jenny

    December 24, 2008 12:09 AM

    Nooooo, no, no: you’ve got it all wrong. He’s 100%…um…darn. What’s his name? He was on a 70’s-early 80’s T.V. show, had a deep, silky voice, and sang, night-club style. Help me out here, people. I somehow got “Hal Holbrook” stuck in my head, and can’t think of anyone else’s name until he decides to leave.

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    jenny

    December 24, 2008 12:12 AM

    I spent so much time searching IMDB’s list of Love Boat guest-stars for this elusive actor’s name that I think I just missed Christmas.

    Good heavens, who WASN’T on that show?

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    Natalie

    December 25, 2008 12:17 PM

    Grettir, this is random, but I feel like it’s something I need to share with you. By the back door of my family’s home, we have a couple of maps with the Rand McNally logo displayed. Almost every time I pass the maps I hear your voice in my head saying “Wait ‘till Rand McNally hears about this!” Was this Brigadoon, possibly?

    Oh! And Merry Christmas!

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    lisa

    December 26, 2008 1:15 PM

    Robert Goulet? (Bless his departed soul.)

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    Grettir

    December 27, 2008 9:08 AM

    Natalie: Yep, it’s from Act 1, Scene 1:

    JEFF: …well most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. They’re not as good as everyone else. But someone like you who…

    They hear a distant chorus.

    TOMMY: Do you hear that?…Look over there!…

    JEFF: It looks like a village…

    TOMMY: It is…

    JEFF: But I thought you said there were no towns listed on the map around here.

    TOMMY: It did…Look…See where that village is? There’s a peculiar heavy fog all around it.

    JEFF: And there’s no other mist in the valley.

    TOMMY: Only around that village. Let’s walk over to it. It can’t be very far from here. Come on!

    JEFF: Wait ‘til Rand McNally hears about this!

    And even though I’ve played the part of Jeff at least a half-dozen times, I’ve never once nailed that line.

    In my defense, it’s hard to get a laugh out of cartography.

    Jenny and Lisa: Excellent suggestions, but not quite.

    And “Robert” sounds so formal, Lisa. To those of us who knew him best, he’ll always be “Bobby” Goulet.

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    jenny

    December 27, 2008 9:21 PM

    I’ve decided that I’m most likely thinking of Hal Linden. In my opinion, he’s a much closer match than either Jack Cassidy or Burt Reynolds. And John Astin’s just too geeky. I keep picturing him in “Freaky Friday” w/Dick Van Patten, standing on that silly sinking platform at the water-skiing extravaganza…

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    brent

    December 29, 2008 2:53 PM

    I’m with you on this one Jenny. It’s Hal Linden. I immediately thought “Barney Miller” when I saw the cover. I once saw him on his own TV special. He sang a song from a Broadway musical about the Rothschilds. He had quite a voice and I remember the song as poignant. Who knew Barney could sing?

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    jenny

    December 29, 2008 9:31 PM

    Apparently I did, way back in the cobwebby corners of my subconscious. (See initial, vague entry. At least I got the “Hal” right…)

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    jenny

    December 30, 2008 12:47 AM

    That last post sounded very self-satisfied. It’s not. It’s just that I get so little right nowadays, each victory must be celebrated to the utmost. I’m working my way from “half-empty” to “half-full,” under duress and against my better judgment.

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    robyn

    December 31, 2008 10:42 PM

    Happy New Year Grettir!

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    Grettir

    January 2, 2009 12:15 AM

    I haven’t been able to come up with a better alternative, so…Hal Linden, it is!

    And Happy New Year to you, too, Robyn!