Subject: Re: The Good Old Days |
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donna
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Date Posted: 12:02:29 05/17/06 Wed
In reply to:
Phil Kumin
's message, "The Good Old Days" on 23:06:17 09/11/05 Sun
>Boy, oh, boy do I remember the good old days of
>Bewitched! Those were the 60's, and that was my
>childhood! My mother, (who died in 1968,) used to
>like Bewitched as much as I did, and we watched it
>together. Lots of times, my brother would watch, too.
> We're talkin 1965-66 here, folks! I was 12 years old
>back then. Around that same time, I remember reading
>an expose on Elizabeth Montgomery in the TV supplement
>which used to come in the Sunday papers. All I can
>remember at this point of childreninadvertising, was that she
>was of English descent. (Well, of course! Back then,
>anybody who was anybody in the entertainment biz was
>of English descent, especially if they had blonde hair
>and great looks like she did. Remember Julie
>Christie?)
>
>A year or so later I went off to school, and the
>appeal that my first girlfriend there had for me, (she
>had blonde hair,) was that she reminded me of
>Elizabeth Montgomery. I remember telling her that
>back then, and again in 2001, when I saw her at a
>reunion. (My old girlfriend, that is, not Elizabeth
>Montgomery!) When Bess and I saw each other in 2001,
>we talked about how Liz Montgomery had passed away.
>
>I hate to say this, but wasn't that picture of poor
>old Liz on the front page of USA TODAY, absolutely
>AWFUL, when she died? That poor, poor girl. Cancer
>and aging really have ways of chewing a person up. I
>couldn't believe this was the same person whom I had
>known so well on TV some 30 years earlier. Seeing the
>headline about her was a shock, since I hadn't thought
>about her in years when I saw USA TODAY. I honestly
>don't know what she did professionally after Bewitched
>went off the air. Seeing her on the front page was
>not only an unexpected jolt from the past, it was of
>the worst kind. She was dead! She wasn't very old
>either, if you think about it. She was probably in
>her 20's when she starred in Bewitched? That meant
>she couldn't have been any older than in her 50's at
>the time she died. Cancer really grabs a lot of
>people, and it grabs them young. (Sigh.)
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