Wow, I sure would have liked to have seen that billboard while driving to work
every
morning! Sadly, when the movie was released I was in the middle of Michigan,
far from
Sunset Blvd. :)

I went and looked up the photo you're talking about in the Photos section.
That'd have
made a hell of a billboard indeed!

Nerima


--- In tomboy_forever_with_betsy_russell@yahoogroups.com, "tranzini101"
<altara2@...>
wrote:
>
> Glad to have you aboard, Nerima. And thanks so much for the TOMBOY
> memories...I'm one of the few who actually saw the flick theatrically
> when it first came out. And that terrific horizontal shot of Tommy in
> her shorts (see photo section) was plastered over a prominent Sunset
> Blvd. billboard during the movie's release. As you can imagine, it
> was an amazing, super-sexy sight, and one that greeted countless
> (lucky) drivers and pedestrians every day on their way to work.
>
> As far as TOMBOY's theme song is concerned, hey, it's as cute and
> feisty as our helmeted heroine herself ("...she's a road runner!").
> One of these days I'll add those cool lyrics to our Files section.
>
> Thanks again for contributing some thoughts, and feel free to do so
> again. That offer extends to everyone in the club. Tell us what it
> is about Betsy Russell/Tommy Boyd that inspired you to join up. Is
> she a sex symbol to you? An athletic role model for girls? Both?
>
> Till next time, TZ101
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In tomboy_forever_with_betsy_russell@yahoogroups.com, "nerima1029"
> <nerima1029@> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all, glad to be here.
> >
> > I remember watching Tomboy on pay cable in the '80s after the
> parents went to bed...it
> > featured some of the most spectacular toplessness I'd seen in my
> young life! Best of all, I
> > knew if Tomboy started at, say, 1:15 a.m. on HBO, by 1:16 a.m. I'd
> have already watched
> > Betsy Russell soaping up in the shower! I watched that opening
> credits sequence so many
> > times (pre-VCR, mind you) that the theme song is forever stuck in my
> head.
> >
> > Again, I'm glad to be here. I'd love to meet some other Tomboy fans!
> >
> > Nerima
> >
>