How I always feel on a Monday. Cough, cough!
Sometimes fates collide on a Tacky Music Monday, and something perfect just pops into view to cheer us up... like yesterday's "birthday girl", Miss Susan Anton!
The living embodiment of a "Barbie Doll" (that hair doesn't move!), she was one of those typical pretty blondes who was "famous for being famous" - the inheritor of the mantle of the likes of Zsa Zsa Gabor, or Mamie Van Doren, perhaps.
Her career was hardly luminous nor memorable - she appeared in some commercials, and in some barrel-scraping films (Goldengirl, anyone? How about Cannonball Run II? She was nominated "Worst Supporting Actress" in the Golden Raspberry Awards for that one.) She was even in a relationship with Dudley Moore in the early 1980s (he seemed to get through a succession of blondes).
And she had her own television show! It lasted exactly four weeks. Here, perhaps to illustrate why, she gives it her heart and soul on a Make Someone Happy medley...
Have a good week, dear reader.
PS
Speaking of blondes...
Today marks the centenary of the birth of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, née Roberts (13th October 1925 – 8th April 2013), the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 20th century
To revisit my post on the occasion of her death [with a quote somewhat echoed by Rusty Egan in yesterday's post]:
As Andrew Marr said in his marvellous History of Modern Britain TV series:[Hers was]...the most extraordinary and nation-changing Prime Ministership in British history.
Margaret Thatcher was a woman who made mistakes, who could be harsh, who bullied people - close to her, and people she'd never met. But she took a country that had lost faith in itself, and she gave it a long and repeated slapping, and left it stronger, richer and more self-confident than when she came in.
In many ways she defines the country we still live in today. We're none of us, regardless of our ages, Harold Wilson's children. Or Edward Heath's children. Or John Major's. Or Tony Blair's. We are all, like it or not, rebel or not, the children of Margaret Thatcher.
Indeed.
I could never stomach Susan Anton. All she seems to do these days are awful Hallmark movies....and several years ago did a horrid remake of Christmas in Connecticut.
ReplyDeleteWe never had much, if any, exposure to her and her - ahem - talents over here. Can't imagine why... Jx
DeletePS You watch Hallmark "films"?!
Hell no!!!!! I would stop drinking gin before I'd watch that tripe. But when channeling surf in the past I saw she did show.
Deletein the past did some!!!!
DeleteOh, dear... Jx
DeletePS You?! Stop drinking gin?! Never...
DeleteI never thought much of Susan Anton. I didn’t know she could even carry a tune. But, let’s not talk about her dancing... er, movements! Funny, I don’t remember that show at all.
ReplyDeleteNot surprising - as I said in the post, "It lasted exactly four weeks." Jx
DeleteIt's a pity Maggie never made a disco album.
ReplyDeleteWell... maybe. Jx
DeleteI played the video, but couldn't figure out who the "singer" was.Unless you can tell me I'll disappear down a rabbit hole...
DeleteHe's a comedian called Matt Tedford, apparently.
DeleteMargaret Thatcher Queen of Soho seems to be about the only thing he's famous for... Jx
I imagine 'Presenting Susan Anton' was a sort of American version of the 1970s BBC1 variety series, "It's Lulu," Give me Lulu or 'Cilla' any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Marr is journalist with out par
His Documentary about Thatcher was intelligent incisive and witty.
"We are all, like it or not, the children of Margaret Thatcher."
The key difference is that both Lulu and Cilla had talent. Miss Anton, on the other hand...
DeleteAndrew Marr's History of Modern Britain remains, for me, one of the most brilliant and incisive series I have ever seen. He's such a superb journalist, and presenter. Jx