Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan, I didn't know Greensboro HAD any night clubs.... but I seem to remember out of the fog of childhood memories one name that I cannot remember. Also, back then, you couldn't even purchase a mixed drink in North Carolina! John <-- raised in Winston-Salem. Dan Post wrote: > > LUGgers- > I was watching the Biography Channel the other night, a fascinating channel > where you get to learn more than you could ever possibly want to know about > everyone from Attila, The Hun to Zero Mostel! > They had an episode about Jayne Mansfield, who was purportedly intelligent > enough to be a Mensa candidate with an IQ of 163, but was forced by studios > unenlightened in that period into a ditzy blond sexpot image. I was > fascinated, since her death occrred a short while after she had appeared at > a night club here in Greensboro, and at the time, I was an adolescent > fascinated with such exotica! > Anyway- it seemed that everywhere she went, she was followed by > photographers- the forerunners of 'papparazzi', no doubt. The cameras they > used seem to fall into two groups- the Rolleiflex users, almost invariably > using the then ubiquitous Honeywell Strobonar (Remember when you JUST had to > have one?), and what appeared to be M2 or M3s, most WITHOUT flash! > Unfortunately, the Rolleis outnumbered the Leicas by about 2:1! Ah! Those > halcyon days! > I wonder if the Mariska Hargitay that stars in the series "Law and Order: > Special Victims Unit" is her daughter by her marriage to Mickey Hargitay?. > She is very good in the role, comes across as a very bright and sensitve > young police officer, and she has the good looks that might be attributed to > any relation to Ms Mansfield! I hope her career is longer and happier in our > more enlightened times! > Dan ( wandering aimlessly....) Post