have a great one gothick!!!

be good!

luciaphil,

it was you who first turned me on to ms.lee in the "idol thoughts".i had never even heard of her.

but she's the worst!it's like cooking with the "stepford wives".wierd sort of 1950's era back-of-the-box cookery.
i like it when she adds some sort of flavoring extract to canned icing and uses it to frost a cake.

it comes on saturday morning so sometimes i watch it with my coffee in disbelief.

i don't have diana millay's cookbook but i do have her silly book "the power of halloween" and in the back there are some scary recipes and tips...

vegetables stir-fried in apple juice?chicken coated with orange marmalade and lipton's onion soup mix?hashbrowns made with a can of cheddar cheese soup?if these sound good than this is your book.

I remember Marlo Thomas suddenly switching from minis to midis (or was it maxis?) in the last season or two of "That Girl."  For some reason, I found it very disconcerting at the time (and I know next to nothing about women's fashions!).

i know what you mean.

there is something sour about the drop from mini's to midi's.

the mini has a breeziness to it.it's girlish.it's unfettered and fun.the midi makes some for heavy weather.it sort of symbolizes that the bubbly,jet-set cocktail of the 1960's is over and the grim hangover of the 1970's has begun.

i re-watched these episodes last night and i couldn't take my eyes off that damned granny skirt.i was much relieved a few episodes later when carolyn returns to the mini.

the show's costuming always has me on the edge of my seat.

but nothing prepared me for the drop in hemlines during the summer of 1970.

when the show premiered in 1966 skirt lengths were squarely at the knee and over the next few years progressively got shorter until we hit the panty-skimming highs of early 1970.that's how i was used to seeing the characters.

but i noticed something was amiss during the early episodes of dvd set 22(which i'm watching now)when liz shows up in a pink suit with a skirt worn below the knee.a length not worn on the show in years.but still liz was a mature women so it wasn't totally out of line.the full on visual assault occured a few episodes later when quentin,david,maggie and carolyn go on a picnic and carolyn appears in a full-fledged,calf-length granny skirt!the shift in proportion was jarring.i felt like some alien element had seeped into the show.around this same time maggie gets a zig-zag knit top and full length maxi and in general the make-up and hairstyles are looser and more natural.

i'm not old enough to remember the whole "mini" "midi" "maxi" debate of the early 70's but i can see here how all the fuss was started.it takes some time for the eye to adjust!

style-wise things had been slouching toward bohemia for some time but here the shift was abrupt but decisive.a visual cue that we're drifting towards gas lines,watergate and the symbionese liberation army.

liz:"david stop that!for the last time my cranium is not bursting through the top of my head..."

i agree gothick that the slap was genius.

i had heard tale of it but had no idea what episode it occured in.but when julia got up off that sofa and slowly walked across the room i totally saw it coming and the moment of contact was brilliant.i love julia's bored,exhausted look as she leaves.

vicki's little zinger is the icing on the cake of an all-time favorite scene.

what they did with quentin here was doubly annoying because while they didn't give him anything interesting to do they also were determined to shove down your throat how important he was.

for instance when barnabas and julia encounter carolyn in 1995 she goes on about quentin in the same breath as she does her mother and her uncle roger and david.but before the storyline switched to 1970pt carolyn had little contact with quentin and he was only around collinwood for a month or two.she certainly didn't have the time to establish a close relationship with him or fill a scrapbook full of pictures of him.

i also think when barnabas and quentin are on screen together they sort of cancel each other out.that they are both such casper milquetoasts during this part of the story(with gerard our villian-du-jour)doesn't help.

with quentin in 1897 they created such a complex,well developed character it's a shame they didn't bring anything interesting to the table with him in the present.