Happy Thanksgiving! This year, for a change, we stayed home all day. I awoke early, watched THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW and read the paper. I had pancakes for breakfast and watched the parades. On the whole I was disappointed with them this year although I did enjoy Kathy Coleman from LAND OF THE LOST singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as Dorothy.Then we all sat down to dinner--a marvelous full meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, corn and a few other things.
I watched A DAY AT THE RACES yet again, this time on TV.
I also read a few favorite comics I hadn't read in a while.
Dad watched all the football games naturally. In my room, I watched "Friday's Child" on STAR TREK, WILLY WONKA (again) and Miss MacLaine's TV special.
NOTES: There was a period in the seventies where I actually considered Thanksgiving to be my favorite holiday. That said, there were also a few years when we DID go out to relatives' homes for the holiday and I opted to be anti-social and stay home to read and watch TV whilst my parents went without me.
I had managed to catch The Marx Brothers' A DAY AT THE RACES on the big screen in revival prior to ever seeing it on TV with commercials.
"Miss MacLaine" would have been Shirley MacLaine, a delightful actress whose sitcom a couple years earlier flopped but she returned with some popular TV specials. Later on, she would seem to go about nuts and would be parodied on TINY TOONS as Shirley MacLOON.
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I remember that Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade with Kathy Coleman singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". I'll bet you never imagined you would help write her biography ("Run, Holly, Run") years later. I'm not sure if I read it in the book or she mentioned it in an interview, but just before her singing, her mother had a medical episode (stroke?) and they took her away leaving poor Kathy to act like nothing happened, singing that song. Then after the parade, there was no one there to take her home or to see her mother in the hospital. It had to be terrifying for a child.
She writes about that incident in detail in the book. It was David Hartman who rescued her after the parade. When the book came out, I contacted Good Morning America with the suggestion of having Kathy and the long-retired David Hartman re-connect on-air so she could thank him publicly. Made several attempts but never heard back. Seemed to me it would've been a win-win publicity for the show, the book, and David! Ah, well.
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