Reflections of the 1970's

[architype]

Originally Posted by jethrocephus

Did somebody mention Ann-Margaret??




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"I've seen her on the corners and the cafes it seems
Red hair and green leather, my favorite color scheme."

With appologies to Richard Thompson.

[dirkronk]

Originally Posted by sweiss

I turned 18 in '71....the year they ended the draft. My lottery # was 59 that year, so I was a very lucky young man.

Luckier than you might realize. Because the draft didn't end until January 27, 1973. (Maybe the later "blur" got you confused.)

By the way, your lottery number was your lottery number, period. Whatever it was in the first year of your eligibility, that was what it stayed -- it didn't change from year to year.

Cheers,

Dirk

[BTF]

Ann-Margaret always seemed different from other women. You just KNEW that if you were lucky enough to be her man, and you were in a bar, and there was a gang of Hell's Angels in your face, she'd be right there beside you with a tire iron in her hand!

I always wondered why the guy who rebuilt her face in '72 (after she'd fallen from that stage riser in Las Vegas) didn't go around proclaiming himself the Mozart of plastic surgery.

Anyone else would've looked like cottage cheese after breaking their cheekbones in multiple places. Ann-Margaret came out looking even more beautiful than before.

[Gasworker]

Originally Posted by architype

"I've seen her on the corners and the cafes it seems
Red hair and green leather, my favorite color scheme."

With appologies to Richard Thompson.

Then there was Ann Margrock. Ya ba da ba doo!

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/Ac...630919-383.jpg

[dirkronk]

Originally Posted by jethrocephus

Did somebody mention Ann-Margaret??

One of the only redheads I can recall that I ever thought was truly gorgeous.

Redheads as a rule don't attract one another, I've found. Temperament thing. As a redhead myself growing up (a couple of shades closer to orange than Ann Margaret's), I dated a girl with red hair only once. Very, very, VERY bad idea.

Dirk

[BTF]

The red hair was the idea of the same guy who dyed Lucille Ball's hair (guess he must have liked red hair...).

I liked her MUCH better when the went to her natural blonde after the reconstructive surgery. There's just something at once glamorous and yet earthy about her. She's in the French thriller "The Outside Man" just after the surgery, and MAN, does she look great!

She should have gotten the Academy Award for "Tommy". She's like a force of nature in that film.

[muscmp]

uggghhhh!!!! disco!!!!

play music!

[dirkronk]

Originally Posted by BTF

The red hair was the idea of the same guy who dyed Lucille Ball's hair (guess he must have liked red hair...).

I liked her MUCH better when the went to her natural blonde after the reconstructive surgery.

I'm amazed. All these years and I never realized. Thought she was an actual redhead. Go figure. Certainly she had the coloring to pull it off.

Not that it matters long-term. My own hair hasn't been really red for 20 years. Went "strawberry blond" with age...then blond...then blond white...now just white (what little of it is left). Long gone are the days of the shoulder-length freak flag.


Dirk

[BTF]

Don't feel bad. I thought Lucy was a real redhead. Wonder if Gillian Anderson had Lucy's and Ann-Margaret's guy as well?...

I tried the long hair route, but all I got was a weird-looking afro. Piled up tight on top of my head. Then when it got wet, it was a half mile long.

Tried the facial hair bit and got a sleazy looking porn star mustache. Unfortunately, none of the other porn star accoutrements went with it...