{"id":4821,"date":"2006-05-10T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2022-10-10T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:46:51","slug":"collage-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Collage Of Influence From Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a couple missing – I just could not find adequate images for them – they are so obscure, and I need the images to make this complete. I’ll keep searching.<\/p>\n

Collage of Influence<\/b><\/p>\n

I literally have no words about Andrea McArdle … and how much she means to me. I have never seen her perform – but I had the Annie<\/i> album … and it was one of the most influential presents I was ever given. She was MY AGE – or thereabouts. And … LOOK AT WHAT SHE WAS DOING. Hugely inspirational.<\/p>\n

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\nI can’t speak. All I can say is I loved him.<\/p>\n

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\nNot as sexy as the Fonz … but hahahahahahaha I loved this show. LOOK AT HIS FACE. heh heh heh Laughing!! I was a bit young for it – I hadn’t hit puberty yet – so it was a little bit squishy-ikky-teenagery for me … but I loved him.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is how I prefer to remember Jack Wild. God bless him. What a great little performance he gave. It totally transported me.<\/p>\n

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\nI look at this image below and I pretty much see my whole childhood. Loved his voice, his twinkly eyes … I seem to recall a Prince and the Pauper<\/i> they did which blew me away. I loved stories about orphans, paupers, little ragamuffins, parent-less survivors … (you can probably see that theme in this entire collage – from The Fonz to Dodger.)<\/p>\n

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\nMore orphans. GREAT TV movie<\/a>. Jill Eikenberry – although at the time she was just Emma Symms to me. I had no idea who she was as an actress – but she WAS that character to me!<\/p>\n

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\nSunday nights. The excitement of seeing Tinkerbell swoop by … and touch the tip of the castle with her wand … knowing that some GREAT show was going to follow … beyond compare. So many memories.<\/p>\n

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Ahem. Anyone know who this is? I was obsessed with him when I was … 7. He was my whole life.<\/p>\n

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\nOf course. My mom made me a bonnet that I could wear to school. I was a geek. But we all were. Little House<\/i> was very very big at that time. I always related to Laura, the wild independent one. Look at Michael Landon’s hair! HAHAHAHAHAHA<\/p>\n

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LOVE HIM.<\/p>\n

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\nOh my god. Anyone remember this movie? SO ridiculous!! I adored it. Even though the mother did wear a patchwork skirt that I felt a little embarrassed about. I still remember the little girl hiding from the grizzly. Timothy Treadwell has now taught us that that scene was TOTALLY unrealistic … but still. It was very effective when I was 8 years old, and about the age of the girl hiding from the grizzly. LOVED this movie.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter-school special that just CRACKED my HEART. Life-altering. Truly life-altering.<\/a> About a kid (Lance Kerwin, yet again) being bullied at school by this big monster kid Marv Hammerman. The ending was killer. Did anyone else see this movie?? It was great.<\/p>\n

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\nTerrifying movie about Polygamy<\/a>. Big Love<\/i> can suck it with its nice bourgeois version of a misogynistic bullshit practice. Am I supposed to care about the second wife’s credit card problems when SHE IS A SECOND WIFE??? Babe, you got bigger issues than debt, sorry.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo. Child Bride of FShort Creek<\/i>. Was it as good as I remember it? I have no idea. Haven’t seen it since. Diane Lane. Helen Hunt. Conrad Bain. I had NO business watching this movie. I must have been babysitting or something. It freaked me OUT. Also – because Mr. Drummond – MR. DRUMMOND – played the evil polygamist leader who married Helen Hunt – and broke her spirit! MR. DRUMMOND!!! Like I said – I had no business seeing that movie.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd of course, as we have discussed today:<\/p>\n

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\nEven just seeing their faces give me a thrill of memory. How much did I want to be Tia??<\/p>\n

Oh, and please, let us not forget:<\/p>\n

Marshall, Will and<\/p>\n

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\nI dressed like her. I had braids, a plaid shirt, jeans, and WALLABIES. Member those? I called them wallbies. Not hush puppies. She was my fashion guru. Which really shows you how insane I was back then.<\/p>\n

\nSo … with two exceptions (when I find good images, I’ll add them) – these were the “influences ” (outside of books and education) on me. These were rehearsals for myself. Rehearsals of obsession.<\/p>\n

Then came Ralph Macchio in Eight is Enough<\/i> – which I wrote about<\/a>. Right as I hit puberty …<\/p>\n

There was something different in that one … I was growing up. And because of that – I felt I needed to escape even MORE. I still feel that way, and I’ve been grown up a long time now. I deal with the real world as much as I can – but when it comes time to escape? I jump out of that plane without any parachute, man. Let’s just GO.<\/p>\n

But all of this CHILDHOOD stuff (Tia, Laura Ingalls, Artful Dodger) was wiped away in one fell swoop …<\/p>\n

by the following …<\/p>\n

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No longer was I interested in bowl-cut Lance Kerwin, struggling with his voice changing, and school bullies. No longer was I interested in the problems of … er …. polygamist child-brides. Ahem.<\/p>\n

Han Solo was a MAN.<\/p>\n

I sat there watching that damn scene (at a drive-in, no less – crammed in a car with all of my cousins) – and felt like:<\/p>\n

Okay. Lance Kerwin is my PAST. HAN SOLO is the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a couple missing – I just could not find adequate images for them – they are so obscure, and I need the images to make this complete. I’ll keep searching. Collage of Influence I literally have no words … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1858,1860,1859,1486,371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179197,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/179197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}