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February 16, 2010 Screwed By Lloyd Dobler…Hi Everyone! I hope you’re all having a cheery and festive February and aren’t buried in the remains of The Blizzard of 2010 like us icicles on the East Coast. Itchy to get out of the house, I met my friend Meg — who, as we met on the first day of first grade, is my oldest friend — for lunch the other day. She brought her 12-year-old daughter and let me tell you: This girly girl was decked out from head to toe in everything Robert Pattinson — the mopey guy from the Twilight movies who looks like he needs a bath and a B-12 shot. She had a T-shirt, a button, a book bag and a hat, all adorned with his pasty face. Why? Valentine’s Day was approaching and she was expressing her adoration of sullen Edward Cullen. Of course, I let loose with a tirade. “Where was all that stuff when we were young?” I asked her mother. Where was the gear logoed with the fine visage of Jake Ryan from Sixteen Candles, and Lloyd Dobler, the weirdo, kickboxing iconoclast from Say Anything, or The Breakfast Club’s resident bad-ass, Bender — the first in a long and sketchy line of bad boys to pique my interest. I felt gypped, and wasn’t shy about ranting.
Meg, always the voice of calm and reason to my torrents of reactionary mouthiness, pointed out that we did, in fact, have tons of logoed items from Duran Duran, The Cure, The Thompson Twins and Bananarama in our youth, but it’s different — the music industry has always been ahead of the curve in promoting its pop stars (think The Beatles). All I’m saying is, movie star groupies and teenyboppers today have it easy: There are vast amounts of imprinted merchandise with which to express their affection for silver-screen boy toys. But for Lloyd Dobler and his ilk back in my heyday, not so much. To paraphrase a line from Say Anything: I gave him my heart, and I didn’t even get a pen. Who was your teen crush? Do tell … Cheers, and more next week! — M 15 Comments |
Clark Kent/Superman (Chris Reeve). He was my crush long before my teens … Super good guy that also flies, it doesn’t get any better for me!
Superman was cute (and charming!), but way too goody-goody for me. Give me a snarky misanthrope like Han Solo ANY day! ; )
I’ll offer the male point of view by using four words: Kelly LeBrock. Weird Science. Love the blog, Michele — just wish you posted more often.
Male perspective again….Ursula Andress in Dr. No.
Hey I’m old OK.
Ursula Andress is awesome! She was Honey Rider, if memory serves, and wore that now-famous bikini with the knife as she emerged from the ocean. Totally an iconic image! Thanks for posting, Tom!
I will have to say I am a fan of “Team Vampire” I am falling for the Pattinson thing oddly enough? I think it’s the strong silent type?
Illya Kuryakin in the “Man from Uncle”; european, sophisicated and very cool!
Teen crush definitely had to be on Alyssa Milano – but after Who’s the Boss of course!
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So you were a “Charmed” guy, Matt? ; ) Thanks for posting!!!
Hey guys, are we not remembering Loni Anderson? The only reason why I watched WKRP.
I loved Dr. Johnny Fever — such a rock star rebel!
Growing up in the 70s there was only one babe, Maureen McCormick, aka Marcia Brady.
She was WAY better than Eeyore-esque Jan — the sad wallflower! I watched The Brady Bunch & The Monkees every day after school. I loved the Monkees’ Micky Dolenz — the shady drummer, of course!!!
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[…] I remember spending hours working out the perfect playlist and trying to get the transition between songs to be as seamless as possible. Not an easy task when you are under constant threat of your tape getting chewed up (I had a particularly heinous tape recorder). Oh the joys of tape recorders! As you can probably tell, I was more than happy when I could make my mixes on CD and even better when I could just create a playlist on my iPod and upload. As far as I am concerned, tapes belong in the museum, cuddled up with the dinosaurs. Lloyd Dobler: Ambassador of the mix tape and proof that they work Img Source […]