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Tabbyking
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03-11-2002
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 4:35 pm
actually, i have written 2 manuscripts, one (true) about my 30-day marriage to a murderer and one (satire)about serving on a grand jury for a year. i even had an agent and she found 4 directors who considered making my marriage manuscript into a movie, but it ended up going nowhere. at least it was cathartic to write it! the marriage manuscript was called "the nonexistent bridegroom" (i got my anulment based on the fact i was 'married to a man who doesn't exist') and the satire on the grand jury service was called "thanks a pantload". people always say i've had an exciting life. to me, it's just life! although sometimes i do believe it helps to be a leo. i think i've used about 6 lives up already... i can't believe the terror i lived with when i look back on it now...the person i am now would have let him have it with both barrels. there is no way someone could do what he did to me and still be around...but they didn't take 'domestic disputes' as seriously in 1978 as they do now. i knew he would finish the job if i had pressed charges; hell, he'd have been home before i got out of the hospital!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 12:22 pm
wow, i killed a thread all by myself!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 12:35 pm
It's not killed, silly Tabby! As a girl in the 70's which Barbie was similar to yours?

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 12:40 pm

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Tater
Member
03-19-2003
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 1:25 pm
I had Malibu Barbie and her cohorts. My grandmother used to make all of our Barbie clothes. She made suits for Ken, dresses for Barbie and Skipper. She even made a shiny purple Dress suit for Ken because she knew I LOVED Donny! Every time I see a Barbie I think of my Grandma and the love she put into those clothes. I still have them tucked away.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 1:29 pm
Such a nice story Tater! What a great grandmother!

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Tater
Member
03-19-2003
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 2:11 pm
Thanks Vacanick. She was the greatest!
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 2:47 pm
I still have the blonde Barbie with the red velvet coat, bag, and hat! Wonder how much she is worth now? She was definitely an early 60s doll. God bless Grandmas! Mine made a ton of clothes for Barbie, Midge, Ken, Allan, Skipper, and Francie. I am so glad my mother saved all those clothes and even the plastic dog Ralph! I would kill to have our Barbie houses back though.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 3:17 pm
I used to sew a lot of my daughter's clothes and I often used to the scraps to make matching outfits for their Barbies. It was so cute to see the Barbie doll still in her flannel nightgown long after the little girl had outgrown hers.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 3:52 pm
My mom made all our Barbie clothes. She made some beautiful ones. I remember wanting the store bought ones more though. Now, looking back, I'd much rather have the homemade ones.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 4:58 pm
I had the Barbie with the plaid coat. My cousins and I also made our own Barbie clothes and Barbie furniture. We made tissue boxes into beds, used books as walls and made all kinds of things from household items for our Barbie houses. There were hours of imagination!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 5:12 pm
We used to make their houses like that too! We had a Barbie house. Back then, it was made of flimsy cardboard and folded up into this kind of carrying case. My mom made little pillows for the furniture.
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 6:07 pm
My sis and I inherited our older cousins' Barbies and other dolls, but somehow we never managed to get a Ken. We took the most tomboy-ish looking one and cut its hair short and that was our Ken. I remember two ultra skinny dolls we had and I just found them by doing a search of their names Jill and Nan... I didn't know they had a name "Leggy Dolls", anyone else remember these? http://www.dollreference.com/hasbro_leggy.html
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, June 26, 2006 - 8:11 am
Twiggy, I didn't get back to you about where I grew up because I couldn't remember what thread this was in! LOL I grew up in Orange County. Orlando to be exact. My friends and I would travel all over the state for good concerts. I love that you were at that concert in Hollywood!! The conditions were horrible but the concert was great!! Do you remember the guy parachuting in??
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Snoopsmom
Member
02-19-2003
| Monday, June 26, 2006 - 3:29 pm
Well, how sick am I? After following and posting on this thread I became obsessed with googling for old ABC Movies of the Week. There are very few of them available on VHS or DVD, but, I found a copy of one of my favorites - Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, starring a young Sally Field as a runaway drugged up hippie! Found it on Ebay on a dual DVD with Children of the Night, movie about teen prostitution. They were shipped today and I can't wait to watch them. Now I'm thinking of bidding on Crowhaven Farm, another favorite, very scary.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 4:57 am
Oh, that reminds me of another '70's moment . . . Sally Field IS "Sybil." Holy hell, that movie creeped me out. Still does.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 5:06 am
Does anyone remember the film "Daughter of the Mind" with Ray Milland? Another good scary film from the 70's was "Trilogy Of Terror" with Karen Black. We tormented my younger sister with Mr. Zuni Fetish!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 5:27 am
Mamie, I don't remember those. We terrorized my younger sister with "Night Gallery" reruns.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 7:14 am
Sybil was wonderful! Sally Field deserved that Emmy! It was scary as hell! and this poor woman lived it.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 7:20 am
Mamie, wasn't that the movie, where she died and some one was faking she was haunting her dad? They made a fake waxed hand and such of hers and her name was Mary?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:02 am
Yes! That's it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:04 am
Another good one was When Michael Calls with Michael Douglas and Elizabeth Ashley. They need to make a tv channel where they just show the old made-for-tv movies.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:30 am
Im not sure if I remember that one Mamie... It doesn't register lol. I think the Hallmark Channel is the one that shows the old made-for-tv movies. I watched the Daughter of the Mind not to long ago, and when it came on, I couldn't believe how I remembered the movie so much.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:36 am
Hallmark does show some of them but not many. They seem to show more recent made for tv movies. There really were some good ones before. Of course, if we watched them now, the production quality probably wouldn't be so good but who cares?!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:49 am
btw, sybil comes out on DVD for the 30th anniversary on july 18th. thanks GAL for me wasting an hour and a half on sybil research! LOL! but i did learn A HECK OF A LOT!
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