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Post by IceCat on Apr 23, 2017 9:35:54 GMT
 A significant piece of my youth has disappeared with the passing on Saturday of Erin Moran, best remembered as Joanie Cunningham in the long-running hit series "Happy Days" and its short-lived spinoff "Joanie Loves Chachi". Just about every person growing up had a celebrity crush that they paid close attention to and even wrote fan mail to. For much of my late teens and early twenties Erin was that person. We never actually met, of course, but she did reply to a couple of my carefully handwritten fan letters with autographed photos, one of which was the sole personal item the Army allowed me to have in my locker during basic training at Fort Jackson, SC in the winter of 1982-83. What makes this passing truly sad is that since "Happy Days" left the air she had very few acting credits and plenty of hard luck if the tabloids are to be believed.
Yesterday made me remember this poignant song, first heard in season 8, episode 12 of "Happy Days", which in a shorter form became the theme song for "Joanie Loves Chachi". Even if an A-list duet were to cover "You Look At Me" in the future it won't sound the same as when Erin and her co-star Scott Baio originally performed it.
May your soul rest in eternal peace, my dear Erin.
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Post by philknj on Apr 23, 2017 14:47:42 GMT
I vaguely remember the 'Daktari' series, but I don't remember her and she was a regular in it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 21:39:07 GMT
Very good actor. RIP.
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 24, 2017 5:59:48 GMT
RIP to her. It used to drive me crazy as a kid that they were living in the 50s yet very clearly had these 70s perms and the guys had long hair. Even that young, I wasn't buying it.  |
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Post by IceCat on Apr 24, 2017 10:01:00 GMT
RIP to her. It used to drive me crazy as a kid that they were living in the 50s yet very clearly had these 70s perms and the guys had long hair. Even that young, I wasn't buying it.
This show was the origin of the pop-culture phrase "jumping/jumped the shark" from an episode set mainly in California where among other happenings Fonzie was challenged by the local tough guy on the beach to jump over a shark enclosure on water-skis. The two-part episode roughly coincided with the point in the show's run where it was considered past its prime, but Erin did look quite fetching in a late '50's-era bikini. 
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 24, 2017 17:17:20 GMT
And then that burger joint turned into a country-western themed restaurant IIRC (I barely was watching at that time). Because country music was really in style in 1960s Milwaukee? Or perhaps the Urban Cowboy craze in the early 80s had something to do with it? I kept waiting for the CB themed episode that thankfully never came! Fonzie jumping the shark wasn't even the worst jumping-the-shark moment in that show! |
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Post by mr3putt on Apr 24, 2017 19:22:28 GMT
RIP to Erin. A teen star from the 70's I recall that fell onto troubled times was Dana Plato of Different Strokes. I think she died of a drug OD when she was young and did a spread in Playboy. ![]() ![]() All of the 3 kids of Different Strokes got into trouble. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 21:44:15 GMT
RIP to Erin. A teen star from the 70's I recall that fell onto troubled times was Dana Plato of Different Strokes. I think she died of a drug OD when she was young and did a spread in Playboy. ![]() ![]() All of the 3 kids of Different Strokes got into trouble. They say there is a Diff'rent Strokes curse. Hopefully that is true. I have a cousin who was a writer on that show and he owes me $1,500 from about 20 years ago. Although the show was not funny, Gary Coleman was a comedic genius even as a child. |
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Post by mr3putt on Apr 25, 2017 3:09:57 GMT
They say there is a Diff'rent Strokes curse. Hopefully that is true. I have a cousin who was a writer on that show and he owes me $1,500 from about 20 years ago. Wha cu talkin about Willis?...you fool...if a cousin is that desperate to ask a cousin for $1,500...you know they are a mooch...what no parents or siblings to shill for your cousin? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 3:35:42 GMT
They say there is a Diff'rent Strokes curse. Hopefully that is true. I have a cousin who was a writer on that show and he owes me $1,500 from about 20 years ago. Wha cu talkin about Willis?...you fool...if a cousin is that desperate to ask a cousin for $1,500...you know they are a mooch...what no parents or siblings to shill for your cousin? He was my idol growing up. I got played. Complicated story. He'll die before me so at least I'll be able to dance, or more likely pee on his grave. |
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Post by mr3putt on Apr 25, 2017 3:52:26 GMT
He was my idol growing up. I got played. Complicated story. He'll die before me so at least I'll be able to dance, or more likely pee on his grave. Yup a real mooch...normally it's younger people asking for money...not the other way around. |
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