Dr. Dave Woodard: American Gigolo!

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Hey, gang,

I watched the 1980 film, “American Gigolo” last night  (rumored to actually be the life story of Hunter Biden). I remember first seeing this stylish crime drama when it premiered way back then over forty years ago.

The film stars Richard Gere as a street-wise Los Angeles male escort. The beautiful Lauren Hutton and the terrific New York actor, Hector Elizondo as a determined Los Angeles police detective, co-star in the film.

When Richard Gere’s character is accused of murdering one of his female clients, his defense attorney looked very familiar to me. In fact, that attorney was portrayed by veteran character actor, Peter Turgeon, the third (I believe) Dr. Dave Woodard on DS. When Mr. Turgeon, as Richard Gere’s attorney, began to argue with and snarl at Hector Elizondo, it reminded me of the almost self-righteous and angry tone Mr. Turgeon displayed when Dr. Dave Woodard told Barnabas Collins in the Old House that “I just saw your sister, Sarah!” 

Anyway, “American Gigolo” is a very enjoyable film featuring great shots of Los Angeles and artfully conveying the erotic zeitgeist of the early 1980s in America. In other words, a film that both Abigail Collins and the original Reverend Trask would have highly approved of. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Anyway, “American Gigolo” is a very enjoyable film featuring great shots of Los Angeles and artfully conveying the erotic zeitgeist of the early 1980s in America. In other words, a film that both Abigail Collins and the original Reverend Trask would have highly approved of. 

Something makes me think neither would enjoy the actual film - though maybe Abigail would secretly enjoy all of Richard Gere's nudity - and hey, maybe Trask would secretly enjoy it, too. 

[Uncle Roger]

I can just picture Abigail steaming over the lyrics of the theme song, Call Me. Miss Abigail would have turned beet red as Deborah Harry crooned Roll Me In Designer Sheets, I'll Never Get Enough.

And costar Lauren Hutton worked as a Playboy Bunny with TLATKLS.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Anyway, “American Gigolo” is a very enjoyable film featuring great shots of Los Angeles and artfully conveying the erotic zeitgeist of the early 1980s in America. In other words, a film that both Abigail Collins and the original Reverend Trask would have highly approved of. 

Something makes me think neither would enjoy the actual film - though maybe Abigail would secretly enjoy all of Richard Gere's nudity - and hey, maybe Trask would secretly enjoy it, too. 

Yes, I always thought that must have been more going on with the repressed Ms. Abigail Collins; she was
always so concerned with the alleged Satanic goings-on at Collinwood. And, yet, she never displayed an equal  degree of concern for the illicit carnal activity going on nightly on the docks and at the Eagle Tavern in Collinsport. I guess the unfailingly prim-and-proper Ms. Collins always avoided the seedier parts of town? However, as you have suggested, Abigail must have thought about the other “aspects” of human existence from time to time? 

As to the original Reverend Trask and his possible obsession with the handsome Richard Gere, I just don’t know.  When the shifty Nathan Forbes was pleading with the righteous Reverend to help him get back together with the wealthy and ditsy Millicent Collins, Trask responded by saying that, “physical love is beyond comprehension.” What the heck does that mean and just how then did little Lamar Trask become a gleam in his
witch-hunting father’s eye in the first place!?! 

Clearly, the Reverend Gregory Trask was NOT a sexually-repressed individual like his great-great (?) grandfather apparently was. In fact, Gregory Trask could take his rightful place in that “pantheon” of religious hypocrites, including Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Theodore McCarrick.

As to Miss Abigail flipping out over the lyrics to Debbie Harry’s hit song, “Call Me,” I certainly agree with that comment! Imagine if Abigail had also been able to listen to the late, great Wilson Pickett’s 1965 hit record, “In the Midnight Hour,” an especially salacious song, or the Rolling Stones’ “somewhat” sexist and misogynistic 1978 song, “Some Girls”? Abigail would have had an apoplectic fit upon hearing those controversial hits of the
past! 

Come to think of it, it’s too bad that Bob Rooney apparently never added those lively songs to the playlist of the songs on his juke box in the Blue Whale. I think they would have livened things up considerably at his popular watering hole.