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

[JunieJay]

The Actress who played her.....DISAPPEARED of the face of the earth!

Well apparently imdb has tracked her down. They say she is retired and living in Missouri with her son, or at least she was as of 2004.

I must have missed the TV Land Awards this year. I love those. What fun. How does Cissy look these days? My older brother had a big big crush on her. I always had the hots for Brian Keith, even though I was 6 and he was 42.

 

[DISUNC]

Well apparently imdb has tracked her down. They say she is retired and living in Missouri with her son, or at least she was as of 2004.

I must have missed the TV Land Awards this year. I love those. What fun. How does Cissy look these days? My older brother had a big big crush on her. I always had the hots for Brian Keith, even though I was 6 and he was 42.

Cissy looked just like you think she would!
Jody got BIG real BIG !

I always liked Brian Keith, i use to love his show when he was the Hawaiian Pediatritian! He killed himself too!

oh yeah I am glad they Found Mrs. livingston!!!! Whew! Remeber she use to call her boss 'Mr. Eddies Father'!

 

[DISUNC]

Back to Books!!!!! I graduated in 77 and recieved the #1 selling book at the time. "The Book of Lists", anyone remember that....It was cool

Remember when Mood Rings cost $89.00!

 

[JunieJay]

Cissy looked just like you think she would!
Jody got BIG real BIG !

I always liked Brian Keith, i use to love his show when he was the Hawaiian Pediatritian! He killed himself too!

oh yeah I am glad they Found Mrs. livingston!!!! Whew! Remeber she use to call her boss 'Mr. Eddies Father'!

I did not know (or maybe I just blocked it from my mind) that Brian Keith killed himself.

My big claim to fame as a child was I went to school with one of the kids who was on that show of his where he was the Pediatrician in Hawaii. What a letdown for that kid. He was living in sunny Hawaii, living the good life as a child actor. Then the show got cancelled and somehow his family ended up living in un-sunny Baltimore, Maryland. I always felt a bit sorry for him...he did ride the coattails of his fame for several years in Baltimore, but then that died out and he was just a regular kid......

 

[Fitswimmer]

Cissy looked just like you think she would!
Jody got BIG real BIG !

I always liked Brian Keith, i use to love his show when he was the Hawaiian Pediatritian! He killed himself too!

oh yeah I am glad they Found Mrs. livingston!!!! Whew! Remeber she use to call her boss 'Mr. Eddies Father'!

Boy, that show would never get on TV today-the subserviant Asian housemaid?? Wow, the PC crowd would flip out!!

 

[JunieJay]

Back to Books!!!!! I graduated in 77 and recieved the #1 selling book at the time. "The Book of Lists", anyone remember that....It was cool

Remember when Mood Rings cost $89.00!

Oh yeah, I totally remember The Book of Lists. I loved that book.

 

[DVCLiz]

The Book of Lists and the regular Guiness Book of Records - I was obsessed with all the medical ones.

 

[DISUNC]

I did not know (or maybe I just blocked it from my mind) that Brian Keith killed himself.

My big claim to fame as a child was I went to school with one of the kids who was on that show of his where he was the Pediatrician in Hawaii. What a letdown for that kid. He was living in sunny Hawaii, living the good life as a child actor. Then the show got cancelled and somehow his family ended up living in un-sunny Baltimore, Maryland. I always felt a bit sorry for him...he did ride the coattails of his fame for several years in Baltimore, but then that died out and he was just a regular kid......

Yup he did!

Yikes besides the Hawaii to Baltimore thing....Its got to be freaky for a KID to go from Famous to just like the rest of us!

But I do remember that show being HYSTERICAL (in a Green Acres Comedy sorta way)

 

[JunieJay]

Yup he did!

Yikes besides the Hawaii to Baltimore thing....Its got to be freaky for a KID to go from Famous to just like the rest of us!

But I do remember that show being HYSTERICAL (in a Green Acres Comedy sorta way)

I'm trying to remember what that show was called? Little People? That isn't it....something like that tho, huh? I bet its on imdb, gotta go look.

 

[DISUNC]

Boy, that show would never get on TV today-the subserviant Asian housemaid?? Wow, the PC crowd would flip out!!

Imagine 'All in the Family' coming on the air today! It would never happen!

 

[DISUNC]

I'm trying to remember what that show was called? Little People? That isn't it....something like that tho, huh? I bet its on imdb, gotta go look.

Yup...then it changed to The Brian Kieth Show when it changed stations!

 

[JunieJay]

Dang, I was right. The show was The Brian Keith show, aka The Little People.

All those years of acting like Alice and here I still remember that. Not bad for an old hippie.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

The same people who wrote the Book of Lists had "The People's Almanac" in the early 70s and a second one later. I still use them for the occasional bit of information for my students. What I do NOT use is the "dictionary of sexual related terms" in the first book--after it was the absolute hit of my slumber party when I turned 13!!!!
I bought "Forever" in 8th grade (I know book titles should be underlined but I"m too lazy). I loaned it to someone..and she loaned it to someone....and so on....when I got it back both covers were worn off!
I also had several books from those afterschool specials--I think scholastic sold them. I had the "Alexander, the other side of Dawn" book. He turned into a hustler! No gory details would have been in a scholastic book of course, but shocking when I figured out what THAT was all about! I also had a book of a movie called "Jeremy" with Glynis O'Connor and Robby Benson. It was a very sweet book.
Someone already mentioned "Bad Ronald". I remember watching that one. In fact I remember "Brian's Song" was a movie of the week. My sister and I watched it in my mom's room--I had to be about 10--we bawled our eyes out. I still can't get through it. There was also a movie of the week called "Home for the Holidays". It had Sally Field, Julie Harris, and Walter Brennan. Four daughters all had boy names (Freddie, Alex, etc.) and they were being killed and the stepmother was suspect. I remember Sally Field screaming "Alex! She's in the cellar!"
Someone also briefly mentioned "Run Joey Run". Funniest song ever. Not intentionally! The girls' dad shoots her boyfriend, and she says "Daddy please don't, we're gonna...get... maarrrrriiied....." and then there is singing like angels. Something about it just cracks me up. Sick, I know.
Speaking of "Go Ask Alice" being a fake, I always thought that song "Blind Man in the Bleachers" was just a story. One year at our teacher inservice a motivational speaker actually used that story! I turned to my friend and said "wait, the guy's dad is blind and died and now he saw him play" and sure enough, that was how this guy's story ended...and you should have seen the coaching staff line up to buy his book.
And my Mrs. Beasley, minus apron and glasses, is up on my dresser. I can't bring myself to give her up (although she is in a basket with a few other very special mementos). She can't talk anymore either, although I have found a website that can fix that....I'm just reticent to send her off to Texas.
Robin M.

 

[DVCLiz]

Super duper bonus points if you can remember the name of the main character in "Forever." No, not the girl, and not the boy she had relations with, the name of the part of his anatomy that figured prominently in the action.

It worries me that I don't remember the name of the guy but I vividly remember the name of his...

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I know his name was Michael but I don't remember the name of THAT. Her name was Katherine and the boy at the end that she met at camp was Theo.
Robin M.
Pathetic, I know!

 

[Davidsmommy]

DVCLiz - Ralph.

I read that book many times growing up.

 

[DVCLiz]

DVCLiz - Ralph.

I read that book many times growing up.

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!!!!!
How sad that I forgot Michael, but remembered Ralph.

 

[Davidsmommy]

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!!!!!
How sad that I forgot Michael, but remembered Ralph.

Yeah, that shows where MY mind was when I was reading it. I had absolutely no clue about any of the people's names, but Ralph popped into my head without a second thought. Odd how the mind retains things....

 

[mom2rb]

I remember being creeped out (and still am) by the movie Fallen Angel with Richard Masur and Dana Hill.

Man, Masur gave me the creeps!!

I still can't watch anything with Richard Masur in it. He creeped me out so bad in that movie.

 

[Julia M]

This is just TOO FUN......I remember everything everyone has posted. Brian's Song, Forever, Run Joey Run, Seasons in the Sun....the list goes on.

Other books I loved: Marjorie Morningstar, Flambards Trilogy, and the series of books about Tish, who lived in New York (I think) in the early 1900's. I think the first book was "The Keeping Days'.......I LOVED that series.

julia