Do you read " Go Ask Alice " when you were younger?

[ajsmommy1129]

I knew it was Pamela Sue something....I am going to try and find that one on DVD....

 

[swilphil]

I'm a 40 yr young librarian, and I have to tell you that my teenage girl readers STILL love most of the books mentioned! I can't keep Alice on the shelf (stolen, bwahaha)

I'm a high school librarian. Go Ask Alice was one of our most popular books last year. We had to buy a couple of extra copies.

 

[JunieJay]

Pamela Sue Martin has me rolling this morning. If that name isn't a 70s thing I don't know what is. Loved her!

Y'all are making me go down memory lane. I'm off to a party with some old friends today, can't wait to remind them of all these...

 

[JunieJay]

I was thinking the other day, whatever happened to the mini series? I think I mentioned something to one of my kids, and they didn't know what a mini series was......got me to thinking about Rich Man Poor Man. Loved that. Loved Nick Nolte for years and years until he started showing up drunk all over the place and getting arrested, etc. Same w/Jan Michael Vincent, another 70s icon.

I'd love to see Rich Man Poor Man again, but I just looked it up in netflix, they don't have it available.

 

[Pop Daddy]

I'd love to see Rich Man Poor Man again, but I just looked it up in netflix, they don't have it available.

same here snoopy, I just loved that mini series, not the tv program they made after but the mini series, I like ti so much that I bought the novel in High School that was the first novel i ever read

 

[LiteBrite]

I was thinking the other day, whatever happened to the mini series? I think I mentioned something to one of my kids, and they didn't know what a mini series was......got me to thinking about Rich Man Poor Man. Loved that. Loved Nick Nolte for years and years until he started showing up drunk all over the place and getting arrested, etc. Same w/Jan Michael Vincent, another 70s icon.

I'd love to see Rich Man Poor Man again, but I just looked it up in netflix, they don't have it available.

And do you remember when Roots first aired? I didn't know anybody who wasn't watching it every night for however long it was on. Wasn't it about 2 weeks long? I was in high school at the time, and every morning all we could talk about was what happened on Roots last night!

The only other thing I can remember from my high school years that absolutely everybody was caught up in was the Peter Frampton Comes Alive album. I didn't know one kid who didn't buy that.

 

[DVCLiz]

Oh, Pamela Sue Martin - she was in a great movie, reinforcing the idea that teens who had sex ended up dead, usually. She was at a girl's boarding school and she and her boyfriend (Parker Stevenson - remember how yummy he was??!!) planned a weekend away in a HOTEL, no less. They used a condom - I remember being fascinated with what one looked like rolled up in the wrapper, and thinking it was some sort of breath mint you used before you had you know what with a boy - - I think I remember having to ask my older next door neighbor what it was and getting laughed at. PSM ended up fine while the less attractive girl down the hall who was taken advantage of in the backseat by some drunken boy after a party died from her botched abortion. So maybe the moral there was the pretty girl who uses birth control will be ok but the ugly girl who goes to the med student for her abortion will die every time.

God, I cried buckets at that movie...

Junie, two words...Thorn Birds.

 

[DVCLiz]

I have to go out of town today but I sure do hate to miss this thread. I would appreciate it if you would all keep it going all dayso I can read it tonight!!!

 

[swilphil]

I loved Rich Man, Poor Man and Thorn Birds. Both the books and the mini-series.

 

[JunieJay]

And do you remember when Roots first aired? I didn't know anybody who wasn't watching it every night for however long it was on. Wasn't it about 2 weeks long? I was in high school at the time, and every morning all we could talk about was what happened on Roots last night!

The only other thing I can remember from my high school years that absolutely everybody was caught up in was the Peter Frampton Comes Alive album. I didn't know one kid who didn't buy that.

Loved Roots. I want to rent that for my kids to watch, thanks for the reminder, have to put it in my queue.

We still have Peter Frampton Comes Alive on vinyl.

 

[JunieJay]

Oh, Pamela Sue Martin - she was in a great movie, reinforcing the idea that teens who had sex ended up dead, usually. She was at a girl's boarding school and she and her boyfriend (Parker Stevenson - remember how yummy he was??!!) planned a weekend away in a HOTEL, no less. They used a condom - I remember being fascinated with what one looked like rolled up in the wrapper, and thinking it was some sort of breath mint you used before you had you know what with a boy - - I think I remember having to ask my older next door neighbor what it was and getting laughed at. PSM ended up fine while the less attractive girl down the hall who was taken advantage of in the backseat by some drunken boy after a party died from her botched abortion. So maybe the moral there was the pretty girl who uses birth control will be ok but the ugly girl who goes to the med student for her abortion will die every time.

God, I cried buckets at that movie...

Junie, two words...Thorn Birds.

LOL. Yeah, it was the ugly girl who usually got the shaft. Or the tough girl. Never the pretty starring actress.

I just looked PSM up....boy she really was beautiful. She still is. I'm glad to see it looks like she hasn't had work done, she looks just like her beautiful self but an older version.

 

[DISUNC]

- The Girl Most Likely To starring Stockard Channing; Trilolgy of Terror starring Karen Black

The Girl Most Likely too -

Trilogy of Terror - Scariest thing I ever saw....until The Exorcist!

 

[DISUNC]

same here snoopy, I just loved that mini series, not the tv program they made after but the mini series, I like ti so much that I bought the novel in High School that was the first novel i ever read

Rich Man Poor Man! I want that on DVD soooooooo Bad! I still HATE HATE HATE Falconetti...whenever he did show up on another show....I hated him!

 

[Pop Daddy]

I still HATE HATE HATE Falconetti...whenever he did show up on another show....I hated him!

same here, the perfect villain

 

[JunieJay]

I just told my brother about this thread, he's a good one for coming up with funny stuff in the past. Here is his contribution of his favorite books from the 70s:

My Name is Asher Lev
Once is Not Enough
I'm O.K., You're O.K.
The Deep
Mommy Dearest
Rich Man Poor Man
Beggerman Thief
The Joy of Sex

 

[DISUNC]

I just told my brother about this thread, he's a good one for coming up with funny stuff in the past. Here is his contribution of his favorite books from the 70s:

My Name is Asher Lev
Once is Not Enough
I'm O.K., You're O.K.
The Deep
Mommy Dearest
Rich Man Poor Man
Beggerman Thief
The Joy of Sex

The Other Side of Midnight!!!! That was Huge in HS!
Before that book, Who knew ice cubes could be so sexy!

 

[JunieJay]

The Other Side of Midnight!!!! That was Huge in HS!
Before that book, Who knew ice cubes could be so sexy!

Wow, if that isn't a "don't get pregnant before you are ready" book I don't know what is.

 

[JunieJay]

Some more books from the 70s:

Ball Four
The Betsy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

 

[mom2rb]

So most of these books I have read and I am going to read the rest. I take my boys to the library once a week and I am just going to pick a tragic teen book every time. I did finish "Go Ask Alice" yesterday. The worst part was that at the end of the book she had completely turned her life around. So the moral is if you do drugs and have sex, even if you go straight and get a "nice" boyfriend, you will still DIE.

I did call my best friend and tell her the book was a fake. She says now we get to run away, sleep around and do a lot of drugs. How long before our husbands and kids will miss us?

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

What a fun thread! I've been reading it on and off all day, whenever I get a chance to sit down. Best one I've read on the DIS in a long time...

Hate to say this, but when I read Go Ask Alice, I thought it was cool and adventurous.

I was looking on the books at amazon and some people said that the parents were married until they died in the 1990's...Karen is alive and wellat 62 and living in Virginia

Actually, Karen Killilea is alive and well at 67 and living in NY.

Over 20 years ago, my DH and I stopped in Larchmont on the way home to RI from NJ. Many times I had made that trip and wondered about the family and their house "Sursum Corda" when I saw the Larchmont signs, so my DH said "Let's do it." It was pretty cool to see the place I had read so much about. At the time, the family was still living there, and I could see that people were home. DH wanted me to go up to the door but I figured their lives had been disrupted enough over the years. AND...I was chicken.

Here's an update on the family:

Marie Killilea - Marie passed away on 23 Oct 1991, of respiratory ailments, aged 78. She suffered from lung cancer in the early-70's and this may have been related. At the time of her death, she had six grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Her last book, a children's book called Newf, was published posthumously around 1992.

Jimmy Killilea – Jimmy passed away aged 83, on what would have been his and Marie’s 61st wedding anniversary, 25 July 1994, he suffered from Alzheimer’s' disease during the last years of his life, and his last address is that of a nursing home in Stamford, Connecticut.

Karen Killilea - now lives in New Rochelle. After finishing high school, she considered joining a religious order. She now lives alone in a handicapped-accessible apartment building, and works as a secretary for a Trinity Retreat. She also serves on the board of the Cardinal Hayes Home for Children.

Gloria (Kyle) Killilea Lea & Russell Lea – Gloria passed away on Nov 28, 2001, and Russ on Feb 15, 2002. Gloria’s obituary noted that was employed as a legal secretary for 21 years, and was also very active in the American Legion Auxiliary, serving as Secretary and Chaplain. Russ worked for Madison Square Garden as a television engineer for 29 years, until his retirement in 1990. He was a past commander of the Yorktown American Legion Post, a past Chef de Gare of the Westchester County 40 & 8, and a former Deputy Representative for Veteran’s Affairs Voluntary Service. As well as their daughters Mary deLourdes and Evelyn Ann, the couple had two sons, Russell and James, and they are also survived by 3 grandchildren.

The little red house in Yorktown burned down on the night of July 31 1968. Russ was working at the time, and while Gloria was able to rescue her sons from their second-floor bedroom, she couldn’t reach the girls sleeping on the third floor. Tragically both Mary and Evelyn died, as did a visiting cousin, Michelle Smiley, the daughter of Marie jnr and Ronald Smiley. After the fire, Gloria and Russ moved with their sons to a rented house in Yorktown, where they lived for some time before moving to nearby Cortlandt, where the couple still lived at the time of their deaths.

Marie Killilea Irish - lives in Farfield, Conn. Marie appears to have married twice, as her last name is different to that of the man she married in ‘With Love…’. She had four children, Ronald jnr, Christopher, and Robin; and Michelle, who died in the fire at Russ and Gloria Lea’s Yorktown house.

Rory Killilea - he was in the army circa 1971, and was married and the father of an infant. He lives in Seattle.

Kristin Killilea Viltz - she was also showing dogs by age 15, with some success. She and her daughter were apparently the last of the Killileas to live at Sursum Corda, before selling the house. She now lives in Tarrytown.

BIG MARIE'S OBIT doesn't mention Gloria (who was not legally adopted) as a daughter, and it appears from information gathered that they had been estranged for a long period of time:

Marie Killilea of Larchmont, co-founder of the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation and author of a novel about the disorder, has died at New Rochelle Hospital Medical Center. She was 78 and died of respiratory ailments.

Mrs. Killilea, who died October 23 (91), became an ardent supporter of cerebral palsy victims after it was discovered that her third child suffered from cerebral palsy.

She was born on June 28, 1913, in New York City, to Tom and Marie Powers Lyons. Her father was a sportswriter for the New York Sun and later became co-owner of a Wall Street brokerage firm.

Mrs. Killilea was educated at the Mount St. Vincent Academy in Riverdale. She graduated from the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School. She married James Killilea on July 25, 1933. They were residents of Beach Avenue in Larchmont since 1951, and previously lived in Rye.

After discovering their third child, Karen, had cerebral palsy, the Killileas consulted 23 top medical specialists and clinics in the United States and Canada. Mrs. Killilea wrote to hundreds of parents of handicapped children and was an active lobbyist in Albany for the rights of cerebral palsy patients. Her work culminated in the formation of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Westchester County. Later, she was a co-founder of the National United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

Mrs. Killilea encouraged Karen to train dogs for show, breaking new ground for the handicapped. She wrote a novel, "Karen," which became a best seller in 1952 and has never been out of print. A sequel, "With Love From Karen," was published in 1963 and it is still in print. She wrote other books as well.

"Karen" won a Christopher Award and was one of the 30 Notable Books of 1953. Her books, totaling 4 million copies, have been> published in 11 languages. Mrs. Killilea received letters from all over the world, and she once estimated she answered 15,000 or more.

She is survived by her husband; four children, Marie Irish of Fairfield, Conn., Karen Killilea of New Rochelle, Kristin Viltz of Tarrytown, and Rory Killilea of Seattle; six grandchildren, and one great grandchild.

Memorial contributions are being made to St. Camilla's, a home for the elderly, Elm Street, Stamford, Conn. Arrangements were handled by the Fox Funeral Home in Larchmont.

Here's the website with info:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Killilea_Fans/