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Anyway, this nutcase named Chet was reading through the lines of the movie magazines, much as more modern schizophrenics sometimes get their messages from the cryptic words and phrases one must sometimes type in to leave a comment. These magazines printed roughly 90% lies, and most celebrities about whom they lied didn't even bother suing them because the magazines would simply fold and change names, and tracking down the people actually involved in perpetrating the lies became very difficult. Some guy named Chet was reading movie magazines, which were prevalent back in the 60's early 70's. Sadly, their father was murdered by a crazy person in one of the earlier celebrity stalking events that ended in violence. My mom said they seemed to be very down-to-Earth, genuine people. My parents saw the Lennons perform in Vegas shortly after their marriage, and had a chance to meet them afterward. (Some of them are still performing live in Branson, Missouri.) The Lennons had a beautiful sibling blend, and were pretty women who looked much prettier after they were no longer forced to wear some of the inane costumes the Welk costume department dug from the apparent rejects of Catholic thrift stores, the Goodwill, Salvation Army bins, or similar sources. Because my mom's older sisters saw some of the real thing, they have memories of watching for the Lennon Sisters each week until the ladies wised up and took their talent elsewhere. Welk's cast, there were a few genuinely talented performers who drifted through the cast on occasion while on their way to bigger and better things or simply while trying to pay the bills. My dad tried to spend as many Saturday nights at his best friend Jerry's house, as his parents were Cuban immigrants and didn't, thank God, appreciate the imortance of Lawrence Welk and his merry band of unmusical halfwits. It was "culture" to them, and it needed to be imparted to their children. Much of what my dad would have seen must have been PBS reruns, but it did not matter to my parents. To my dad's parents, however, "The Lawrence Welk Show" was second only to "The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and The Spoken Word" in both quality of musical taste, presentation, and overall importance. Long ago in a faraway place, or maybe in a place very nearby, people used to gather around their television sets, which were black and white until sometime in the 1960's, to watch a disaster in television musical variety history history known as "The Lawrence Welk Show." My mom says her parents watched it, though not religiously, and with an element of snark that made the viewing of it bearable.
If you missed out on this, eithr in real time or on pBS reruns, consider yourself lucky.