Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Odds of March


Well, an odd couple, certainly.  Thirty years ago today, some long-forgotten event threw together (against a startlingly unflattering curtain) two quite unlike pop-culture figures.  It's strange to remember that Bob Dylan was really comparatively presentable, once upon a time; equally so, to think that Dinah Shore could have ever thought that coat was a good idea.

She gives the impression that she's decided that Dylan could help her get over the heartbreak of her jilting by Burt Reynolds.  He looks like he thinks - but isn't entirely sure - that he's just been goosed.

As is so often the case, one question comes inevitably to mind:  what do you suppose they talked about?

5 comments:

  1. Living in parallel dimensions as they did, I've no idea what they talked about. (Maybe how much they hated Sally Field?) But I will say that Miss Shore had a habit of poor fashion choices, which were displayed daily on her talk show. That was part of the reason for tuning in!

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  2. She's so off her tits on Tamazepam she probably thinks it's Burt. And he's so stoned he's probably talking to the curtains... Jx

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  3. Why they spoke of their Subterranean Homesick Blues in the Night of course!

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  4. All of this has me trying to sing "Buttons and Bows" Dylanesquely. It's not pretty.

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