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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicas I have seen....in the media
From: John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:15:32 -0400
References: <p04320400b57cc5ebba19@[130.195.206.233]> <39575DC1.3DEF3D00@home.com> <009901bfdf97$d901e8e0$1916a318@triad.rr.com>

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

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