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Paula - 2007-10-25 10:39:21
Cutting you off at the pass, Commentor: Yes, I know Debbie Gibson did a Playboy shoot. Get over it.
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DanWV - 2007-10-25 11:58:27
Wasn't it Tiffany who did the Playboy shoot?
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Greg - 2007-10-25 12:00:44
I spent a good part of the 80s skipping over Kurt Loder, but I was watching a bunch of his comments on YouTube recently, and I realized I had never noticed his very obvious disdain for a lot of the people he was paid to read about. It's pretty funny to watch now, years removed from hair bands and NKOTB. And Debbie Gibson always seemed like a really cool person to me.
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Taylor Hayes Forrester - 2007-10-25 12:26:22
Yes, I am a character on a soap opera called The Bold and the Beautiful. The actress who plays me is called Hunter Tylo and she is regularly named as one of People's Most Beautiful People. Incidentally her son just died in a drowning accident last week.
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Baby Party - 2007-10-25 13:04:13
Hunter Tylo used to be gorgeous, but sadly she has deformed herself with plastic surgery.
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Bina - 2007-10-25 14:06:32
When I worked in the Child Study Center at college (back in the early 90s) the little kids all had odd names like Taylor, Baylor, Sailor etc.... they'd be in their late teens by now. Perhaps this is the generation of which you speak?
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Paula - 2007-10-25 14:08:23
his very obvious disdain for a lot of the people he was paid to read about
Greg, that's so true. MTV news was always slightly squirmy, and his deadpan but kind of acid delivery made it worse.
And then there was Tabitha Soren, who was just deadpan. Although she married some cool writer, so she must have had something going on.
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Paula - 2007-10-25 14:10:37
Taylor, Baylor, Sailor
Ha! I think the first wave was in the '80s with Taylor and Hunter. Then 10 years later it was all MacKenzie and Bailey and McGillicuddy.
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Bina - 2007-10-25 14:47:06
Kurt and Tabitha didn't bother me much, but Kennedy made me break out in hives. Still does.
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Sharon - 2007-10-25 14:54:08
Haven't thought about Kurt Loder in years....In the mid-90s, the whole family gathered around the TV to catch an MTV piece about new bands that included the band my little sister was in (Splendora). She used to smoke on stage in those days while playing her cello. Back to Kurt at the "Week in Rock" anchor desk, he said something snarky like, "cigarette-smoking cello player..Bunny Carlo-look, hmm." All the older Italian relatives started yelling, "Cindy! What the..! What's the matter with you! Oh my God!" LIke she'd just blown her chance on the Ed Sullivan Show or something! :)Postscript: Cindy now regularly appears at her local library in Brooklyn playing the ukelele (sans cigarette!) performing for her 4-year-old and other pre-schoolers. "I finally get to be my own front man!!" she proclaims.
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Greg - 2007-10-25 15:09:12
There was an Alan something or another that did the spring breaks and then started doing extreme sports. He was definitely always wasted... I mean on MTV by the way. Martha Quinn married Stiv Bators I think... RIP Stiv. May your Sonic Reducer reduce in... wherever guys named Stiv go.
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Paula - 2007-10-25 15:34:40
Sharon, one of the many splendors of Splendora (and Popsicle, before the name change) was watching your sister play while a cigarette dangled out of her mouth. They were awesome. I wanna catch the ukulele act one of these days.
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Philip - 2007-10-25 16:31:32
Michael Lewis (the writer who married T. Soren), while not 100% completely contemptible, is so definitely NOT cool.
And don't forget, Kurt Loder made his bones on the (gag) RS Record Reviews pages.
I miss Martha Quinn.
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Paula - 2007-10-25 17:22:10
Hmmm...not sure who Michael Lewis is. Maybe I was thinking of Stiv Bators.
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grigorss - 2007-10-25 18:42:09
I have to admit, that back in the day, Kennedy did not make me break out in hives -- in fact, she compelled me to break out into something more like a cold sweat; a condition that could only then be remedied by a cold shower. Bear in mind, that this was all back in my dissolute, misspent, misguided youth
... I'm better now
... really I am.
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Bob - 2007-10-25 19:54:20
The later Circle Jerks there sound like they wouldn't be nearly as good without Debbie. But really did - no pun intended - "pop" with her. Maybe I'm just big on energetic duets at the moment... have you listened to enough of the Soviettes' stuff to hear their good'n's?
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2fs - 2007-10-25 21:45:57
I assume this is the same Splendora best known (by me at least) for the theme to Daria?
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Baby Party - 2007-10-25 22:08:48
I just remembered: Taylor Dane.
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Philip - 2007-10-25 22:27:17
I saw Taylor Dayne do the dog-'n'-pony at a corporate Alzheimer's benefit hosted by Keith Hernandez at Tavern on the Green way back in the day. She was 4 feet tall, like a little Massapequan wind-up doll! But her voice was big as her hair, and "I'll Be Your Shelter" actually rocks.
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Sharon - 2007-10-25 23:24:41
Right, 2fs. Actually Cindy was a producer of that show. Hence, the totally unbiased choice of the Splendora theme song!
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Rebecca - 2007-10-26 09:18:13
I was going to say *before* the Taylor part of your post, that there is a current country music gal who is a teenager, writing and performing her own music, who I sort of like (but I have an insanely high tolerance for that type of stuff) named Taylor Swift. But maybe you were referring to her without mentioning her name.
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Paula - 2007-10-26 09:19:58
Rebecca: That's funny, but, no I was thinking of an unhelpful customer rep and a kid at my gym (both boys) whom I encountered within a few hours of each other. But thanks for the heads-up!
I also want to point out that Debbie Gibson produced her own material.
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Paula - 2007-10-26 09:27:43
corporate Alzheimer's benefit hosted by Keith Hernandez at Tavern on the Green
Dude, you can't just drop that info w/o 'splainin' your role in this exciting star-studded event!
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Philip - 2007-10-26 10:06:00
Sorry, no exciting story. My role was as extremely drunken, rental-tuxedo'ed bystander, only there via a connected friend, Velaire Woolsey, who used to work for Teddy Forstmann, the fund-managing wunderkind of the 80s/90s (who was romantically linked to both Liz Hurley and Princess Di). Forstmann, Little had bought a table at this event...Velaire ended up with the tickets or something...Memory blurry...I'm seeing ice sculptures of Rita Hayworth...???
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Paula - 2007-10-26 12:02:43
I'm seeing ice sculptures of Rita Hayworth
I see those when I'm drunk, too.
Well, that was exciting enough for me.
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