It's our pleasure to wish you the very happiest of Karen Valentine's Days, with all good wishes from Mr. Muscato, Koko, Boudi, and me.
Looking for a real shot of I-didn't-remember-that-I-remembered-that nostalgia? Check out the opening credits for Room 222 - you can practically hear the subtle whoosh of double-knit-on-double-knit as those perky coeds stride 'cross campus...
Perky, TROUBLED coeds.
ReplyDeleteWell of course they have to be troubled - that incisive teachers' lounge dialogue isn't going to write itself!
DeleteI fondly remember Miss Valentine in a send-up of a Room 222 reunion:
ReplyDeleteMiss K. V.: Do you remember the one I was just mad about back then?
Friend: I do! Paul, wasn’t it?
Miss K. V.: Yes! But he got married…
Friend: To who?
Miss K. V.: Joanne Woodward.
Hah! She does seem in general to be a good egg. It was never a huge career, but she made it work for her.
DeleteA friend who is a friend of hers confirms that she is indeed a good egg, a
ReplyDeleteHappily married and without illusions about her degree of fame.
And on YouTube you can find the unaired ABC pilot she made for her own series, daringly titled "Karen" as I recall, a blatant rip off of CBS's The Mary Tyler Moore Show.