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Post by Thebogiehole on Oct 10, 2018 13:37:21 GMT
the 1980s is Classic TV by now. I just want to remember a girl who wrote to an "Evil Empire" and made a journey for peace. She would have gone far in television had not tragedy intervened. She's pretty in this Lime Street screenshot but her hairstyle - a mullet on a girl - hasn't proved as timeless. Remembering Samantha Reed Smith (Elizabeth Culver on Robert Wagner's "Lime Street").  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 14:40:10 GMT
the 1980s is Classic TV by now. I just want to remember a girl who wrote to an "Evil Empire" and made a journey for peace. She would have gone far in television had not tragedy intervened. She's pretty in this Lime Street screenshot but her hairstyle - a mullet on a girl - hasn't proved as timeless. Remembering Samantha Reed Smith (Elizabeth Culver on Robert Wagner's "Lime Street"). Thank you for your post i had no idea who she was but what a story she has to tell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Oct 10, 2018 15:21:26 GMT
An interesting story.
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Post by Thebogiehole on Oct 21, 2018 14:47:43 GMT
@audity fitzoliverj Samantha was urbane, cosmopolitan and charming which helped her catch on with the media. I doubt a little girl from Alabama with a honeyed Deep South accent would have succeeded as well - they'd have been much more vulnerable to the "ignorant hick" stereotype. Samantha was an "innocent abroad". A little girl from Maine who led America on a tour of the Soviet Union. |
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Post by Thebogiehole on Oct 30, 2018 6:17:34 GMT
Samantha would've been good as a Winnie Cooper type character on a The Wonder Years style show. Although she may have been a bit *too* beautiful to be a Winnie.
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