Hi. I could probably try and make a chat next week...how is that for
decisive? :)

I have no doubt playing James Bond would have been a great boost to Peter
Lawford's career. He certainly could have pulled it off.

I wouldn't get upset over something you hear in a sitcom. The creativity
level on most of them hovers around 40%. It's the same with jokes about
Kennedy's and drinking...i wish they would actually write a new joke.

SusanK



The Kenneth Branagh Page
http://www.geocities.com/~realbillie
----- Original Message -----
From: <LenaLamnt3@...>
To: <PeterLawford@onelist.com>
Sent: September 3, 1999 9:00 PM
Subject: [PeterLawford] Hi all...


> From: LenaLamnt3@...
>
> I finally got tired of waiting for the help desk to hook up the computer
in my room, so I'm down in the lab to check email...it's been over a week.
'Nuff said. This is probably going to be pretty long, so bear with me :)
> First off, hi and welcome to our new members!
> Second... happy (belated) birthday to Jen!
> Third: re the Bond movies... don't get me wrong, I love Sean Connery, and
no one could be James Bond the way he was. But I think Peter would have
done a great job too... I think that by the sixties, Hollywood and the
movies it produced were a lot different than they were in the forties and
fifties when Peter was a major star, and the sort of roles he'd been
typecast in all along weren't there anymore. Make a long story short, I
think maybe if he'd have pushed for different kinds of roles his career
would have kept on longer... any thoughts on that? :)
> Fourth: don't know if anyone else caught this, but :) I happened to be
visiting my ex-roommate last week, and she was watching Sabrina the Teenage
Witch... anyway, there was this one scene wherein Salem (the cat) dreams
he's a member of the Rat Pack, and his first line, after his little
acceptance speech, was "Ok, how do we get rid of Lawford?" That kinda
ticked me off for a number of reasons: a) there were lots of funnier lines
they could have used; b) the show's target audience is mostly teenagers and
younger, and there are lots of people my age who have never heard of the Rat
Pack collectively or most of its members (except for Frank, but they don't
like him), so it struck me as pretty gratuitous; and c) maybe sometimes any
publicity is better than none, but generally the only time Peter's mentioned
in mainstream media is in connection with Marilyn and the Kennedys, and it's
rarely favorable. Maybe I do tend to take things a bit personally :) but
it didn't seem necessary!
> .
> Lastly (yeah, I'm almost done :) this Tuesday (Sept 7) is Peter's
birthday, I think he would have been 76 (but I'm no math expert). Anybody
interested in getting together for a chat on or around then? I'd be more
than happy to, any time 'cept between 7 and 9 PM EST Tuesday (film class)...
maybe one night this weekend or next would be better... anybody have any
suggestions? Let me know... as for me, I'm off to fix those pages Geocities
ate :(
> See ya later...
>
> --Kitty
>
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