Debi Thomas is not really a big celeb but some may remember her from the Olympic Games. Oh, okay, I had a total crush on her.
Now, she’s here. Thomas, a former orthopedic surgeon who doesn’t have health insurance, declared bankruptcy in 2014 and hasn’t brought in a steady paycheck in years. She’s twice divorced, and her medical license, which she was in danger of losing anyhow, expired around the time she went broke. She hasn’t seen her family in years. She instead inveighs against shadowy authorities in the nomenclature of conspiracy theorists — “the powers that be”; “corporate media”; “brainwashing” — and composes opinion pieces for the local newspaper that carry headlines such as “Pain, No Gain” and “Driven to Insanity.”
A woman who was driven, becoming both a world class figure skater and a surgeon, ends up in a trailer with a guy who completed one year of community college.
Debi Thomas’s first husband, whom she married just after the '88 Calgary Games, was one of my high school classmates. They met while they were both studying medicine, though they did not remain married for long.
Pete Davidson was the inspiration for the popular phrase “Big Dick Energy.”
One couple that really surprised me when I read they were together was Aidy Bryant and Connor O’Malley. I don’t know why it surprised me so much - probably because Connor writes and plays the annoyingist of annoying man-children in almost everything he does. I couldn’t imagine any grown, professional woman wanting to be around that all the time. But my brain has since reconciled that he is just playing parts, and they are both comedic writers and actors and of course it works.
I never knew that…! I know some of his humor is ok, but some of it didn’t seem to merit the wild applause. Any criticism of him anywhere on the internet always seem to pull in accounts from women to defend him. I always wondered why they were all so eager to jump on the… bandwagon.
Suzanne Pleshette, quite the looker in her day, was at one time married to movie pretty boy Troy Donahue. After another marriage in the interim, she married Tom Poston.
He was so so good looking. back in the 60’s, when they starred in ‘Camelot’ together, his Lancelot to her Guinevere. They had a child together about that time. Got married decades later!
Just an aside about Aidy Bryant: I admire her integrity and self-respect. A while back, I read an interview with her in Entertainment Weekly*, where she talked about scripts she’d been offered, all of which she had turned down because of the premises. A guy falls in love with her, but only because a witch put a spell on him. A guy falls in love with her, but only because she put a spell on him. A guy asks her out on a bet or a dare and they fall in love anyway. A guy has to marry her to claim an inheritance and they fall in love anyway. See the pattern? She stated that if she never has a lead role in a movie, it would be preferable to being in any of those. And funnily enough, that was at least two years ago, and AFAIK, no movies fitting those descriptions have been made.
*Which is now monthly, but it’s still a good magazine.
The thing is, Davidson seems able to charm ANYONE, romantically or not. He’s on SNL because Lorne Michaels loves him, not because he has much in the way of talent; he isn’t much of a comedic talent at all, isn’t much of a comedy writer, and had little track record prior to SNL. He’s one of the worst standups I’ve ever seen who got a Netflix special, maybe the very worst. He’s not unusually handsome and has no other talent (e.g. he’s not a musician or an athlete.) He didn’t get famous by being a successful social media influencer. He must be, in person, the most likeable human alive, because there’s no other explanation for his success.
Years ago, my roommate saw Bob Crane with his wife and blurted out, “He married the secretary!” Turned out it was Sigrid Valdis, who played Helga on most of Hogan’s Heroes.
He must be more likeable than Jesus. I read his Wiki page back when this thread started and he’s got his share of baggage and apparently talks about it non stop. I did get a chuckle out of him saying for the first time in X years he was drug free. His version of drug free meant except for medical and recreational weed. In that case, I’ve been alcohol free for decades!
They had a child together about that time. Got married decades later!