#Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

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Goldie Hawn, 1968.

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Goldie Hawn

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Season 02, 1968

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Excerpts:

Kent Perkins said the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In actress "wants you to know she is not in pain."

... He added that she can "still speak and understand" and "still recognizes all her friends and loved ones. I am reading to her your wonderful comments and she smiles."

... Buzzi, who turns 86 on July 24, is well-known for her role as Gladys Ormphby in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which aired from 1967-1973 .... Her performance earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1973 and two Primetime Emmy nominations in 1969 and 1972.

Read the entire article at https://people.com/tv/actress-and-comedian-ruth-buzzi-suffered-a-series-of-devastating-strokes-her-husband-shares/

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Remembering Geoff Wonfer and Gene Perret

Here is my combined tribute to two entertainers who passed away this week:

Geoff Wonfer 1949-2022

British director / producer Geoff Wonfer has died at 73. His greatest work was the 1995 documentary mini-series The Beatles Anthology, which Wonfer co-directed with Bob Smeaton and Kevin Godley. This doc was the most comprehensive documentary about The Beatles (The Compleat Beatles is second). It aired in 3 parts in the U.S. on ABC-TV, but I got my 5-DVD set of the expanded version. He spent 4.5 years working on this fully authorized Beatles doc and it featured new interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. In 2012 as I was finishing my V66 documentary, I posted on our social media some of the films and directors who influenced me while I was making my doc and I included Wonfer and The Beatles Anthology. 

Wonfer with George Harrison

Wonfer did a lot of music shows, music videos and documentaries, but he is especially noteworthy for the work he directed for Beatles and their solo projects including Hand Made in Hong Kong..... The Making of Shanghai Surprise featuring George Harrison, Paul McCartney Special, Paul McCartney: In the World Tonight, Paul McCartney: Live at the Cavern Club (which I wrote about in 2013), the Stella McCartney episode of Imagine, the Pete Best doc Best of the Beatles,  music videos including “Real Love” from Beatles Anthology and Sir Paul’s “The World Tonight”.

The link above is the obit from Billboard.

Gene Perret 1937-2022

Emmy-winning writer / producer Gene Perret has died at 85. He was a writer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, Welcome Back, Kotter, Three's Company, Mama's Family, and some episodes of All in the Family, What's Happening!!, and Gimme a Break!. That is quite a resume for TV comedy. In the case of WBK and 3C, he was also a producer too.

Bob Hope and Perret

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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Goldie Hawn (c.1968)

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Goldie Hawn And Dolly Parton!

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Season 02, 1968

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Round 1 poll 24: Casey Murphey from the 2019-2020 Florida Mock Trial case: “State of Florida v. Casey Murphy” vs Gladys Ormphby from Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

Propaganda under the cut:

Casey Murphey

I have a lot of obscure mock trial blorbos but I’m going to start with Casey Murphy because I think they best encapsulate the depths of weirdness some of my blorbo relationships with these characters can get to. So to start, I have never been enrolled in a school in Florida. Or even anywhere near there. I visited a few times as a very little kid, but my schooling has been in the Midwest and the Northeast. I also was not remotely involved in high school mock trial in the 2019-2020 school year. I only know Casey Murphy because I used to be part of an online mock trial group that picked up the case a few years later. In fact, I took Casey as a witness as a joke because I had also been a defendant named Casey in the case we did before State v. Murphy. But Casey is my tragic scrungly. The autism took hold on them. BASICALLY they were a slightly “below average” kid grappling with the huge academic expectations their family had. Specifically, there was a college (Southern Coastal University) that their family had been going to for generations. But when Casey applied, they got waitlisted. They managed to make it in right before the school year started, but they were put on probation because of the short notice. A few weeks into the year, though, Casey was talking to their older brother Patrick (basically their closest friend) and they find out about a secret society called SCU Underground that their family has been in since it was founded. Originally called SCU for Change, it was a student activist group. They learn about some shady things happening at the school and how SCUU planned to combat it by holding a protest bonfire. Patrick invited Casey to the next meeting, and Casey was very excited to prove themself. Later psychological testing showed that Casey was among the most easily suggestible in society, so it’s clear that this was important to them. Here’s where things get unclear. All we know for certain is that Casey bought lighter fluid and vodka (likely using a fake ID considering they were only 18) from a liquor store. They brought those things, along with their laptop, in their backpack to the meeting. There was an argument which ended in someone named Cal Robbins storming out of the old student union building which the meeting was being held in. Then, the building burned down, and Casey came out later than everyone else before being arrested and confessing to burning down the building. The prosecution’s claim is that Casey brought the materials to burn down the building to prove their loyalty to the cause. They might have been influenced by Patrick to do it, but either way they actually committed the act. The defense’s claim, which I find more compelling as a story, is that the lighter fluid was to show that they were prepared for the bonfire, the vodka was as a peace offering considering that they were a new member, and the fire was caused by a projector overloading the old building’s power. Casey ran back in to get their laptop so they could continue their school work, and also didn’t know the layout as well as the returning members, so they came back out later than everyone else. Then they were arrested, treated poorly, and were coerced into a false confession because they were lead to believe Patrick would be found guilty if they didn’t. It’s all just so sad and angsty to me, especially seeing as they were found guilty at the trial I did so I always mentally fill in them being falsely imprisoned at the end. They just wanted to prove themself to their family, to step out of their brother’s shadow, and this is where it lead them. Also here’s my playlist lol https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ccMwC9xV83ddZoANpejE1?si=nGtWp7MvS7WXJEWLMrBNVw Also also, like most mt witnesses, no canon gender or pronouns which is very cool of them

Gladys Ormphby

From a show that’s over 50 years old. Extremely powerful as she beats guys with her purse when they offend her, yet has a perpetually gloomy demeanor. In most circumstances she’s the personification of “I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!” Sometimes she is allowed a little scrap of dignity as a treat and it’s so much fun to watch. Gladys is quite flirtatious, has a quirky sense of style (some would say, lack thereof), has no sense of personal space, and really really loves chocolate. Despite her seemingly being so bland, every one of her appearances in her source material somehow has a silly surprise to offer. She was also featured in a very short lived cartoon series, Baggy Pants and the Nitwits. In conclusion, “though she be but little, she is fierce” - vote for gaslight gatekeep girlboss Gladys!!!

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