# Marie Osmond **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800 "2007-10-24T09:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/21 "2007-10-24T23:14:39Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] You couldn’t figure it from that song they did? [/QUOTE] Right. She sang “I’m a little bit country” and Donny sang “I’m a little bit rock and roll” and \*\*Tokyo Player probably figured out that Marie was just as much “country” as Donny was “rock and roll”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/22 "2007-10-24T23:14:47Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] _Dancing With The Stars_ is one of those shows with the misnomer title - because it should be _Dancing With The D-List Has-Beens_. [/QUOTE] Actually, the best description I saw was _“Dancing” “With” the “Stars”_. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/23 "2007-10-24T23:15:15Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Wait a sec - you were a 13 year old boy when the Donny and Marie show was one and you didn’t like Marie? She was a shit-hot 16 year old back then. Every 13 year old boy I knew lusted after Marie. [/QUOTE] Your experience coincides nicely with mine! I (along with my friends) thought that Marie was very pretty back in the 1970s – I must admit, though, that I have not really thought about her in ages. I did not know that she was on “Dancing with the Stars” until just the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/24 "2007-10-24T23:18:58Z")
[QUOTE=lisacurl] Her face has settled after some pretty frightening plastic surgery. And five of those eight kids are adopted. [/QUOTE] And if she converts then the adoption agency, _Mutts and Mormons_, will take them back, and Marie doesn’t have a talkshow anymore to fight it. I remember a couple of years ago she was touring in _The Sound of Music_. I remember wondering if the lyrics had changed to _How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hot Flashes_. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/25 "2007-10-25T01:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] The more pertinent question would be, does anybody remember her? Her fifteen minutes were up awhile ago. [/QUOTE] I was born in '82 and have been aware of her since childhood through general pop culture knowledge and seriously doubt I’m in the minority in that, even in my age range. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/26 "2007-10-25T02:31:33Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Wait a sec - you were a 13 year old boy when the Donny and Marie show was one and you didn’t like Marie? She was a shit-hot 16 year old back then. Every 13 year old boy I knew lusted after Marie. [/QUOTE] Clarification. when I was a 13, it was the Osmond Brothers. I’m two years younger than Marie, and not into country so I wasn’t aware of her country roots. I looked it up and the Donny and Marie show started in '76, when I was a cynical 15-year-old, and never watched the show. Because the Osmonds are Mormon, then there was pressure from the establishment to like them, which meant that no one did, or no one could admit to it, even if they did. As for lusting after her, because she was Mormon, it would be like wanting to kiss your cousin. At that time, everyone was lusting after the trio on _Charlie’s Angles_. > [@norinew](#): > > Right. She sang “I’m a little bit country” and Donny sang “I’m a little bit rock and roll” and **Tokyo Player** probably figured out that Marie was just as much “country” as Donny was “rock and roll”. Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/27 "2007-10-25T13:50:38Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] As for lusting after her, because she was Mormon, it would be like wanting to kiss your cousin. [/quote] Wow, you learn something new about Mormonism every day. > [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > At that time, everyone was lusting after the trio on _Charlie’s Angles_. Now _that_ makes perfect sense. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/28 "2007-10-26T01:42:32Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] Clarification. when I was a 13, it was the Osmond Brothers. I’m two years younger than Marie, and not into country so I wasn’t aware of her country roots. I looked it up and the Donny and Marie show started in '76, when I was a cynical 15-year-old, and never watched the show. Because the Osmonds are Mormon, then there was pressure from the establishment to like them, which meant that no one did, or no one could admit to it, even if they did. As for lusting after her, because she was Mormon, it would be like wanting to kiss your cousin. At that time, everyone was lusting after the trio on _Charlie’s Angles_. Exactly! [/QUOTE] Hey, I liked the all the angels (especially Kate Jackson as Sabrina Duncan), Teresa Graves of “Get Christie Love!”, Lindsay Wagner as the Bionic Woman, and I especially liked Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman and Olivia Newton-John! There were many others – but Marie was very cute! She was one of many crushes that I had… ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/29 "2007-10-26T14:59:53Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] Because the Osmonds are Mormon, then there was pressure from the establishment to like them, which meant that no one did, or no one could admit to it, even if they did. As for lusting after her, because she was Mormon, it would be like wanting to kiss your cousin. [/QUOTE] I got to say, growing up Mormon in that era, I felt no institutional pressure to like them. Maybe I wasn’t running in the same circles as TokyoPlayer. I do like the Osmonds, though, for one main reason - I had a cousin with down’s syndrome who lived down the street from one of the Osmonds. As a 12 year old girl with the mental development of a 3 year old (at best) being raised by a single mom, she would sometimes strip down to her underwear or less and run around (or ride her oversized tricycle around) the community. When that happened, the Osmonds (who knew her mother’s struggle and had children/siblings with disabilities) always would take my cousin off the street and give her milk and cookies until her mom could be found. My aunt (second cousin once removed, actually) made it through those years in part because of anonymous donations by local community members. Later, she found out that a large portion of those donations came from the Osmonds. From my experience, the Osmonds are just good people. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800/30 "2007-10-26T15:12:42Z")
[QUOTE=Reloy3] I got to say, growing up Mormon in that era, I felt no institutional pressure to like them. Maybe I wasn’t running in the same circles as TokyoPlayer. I do like the Osmonds, though, for one main reason - I had a cousin with down’s syndrome who lived down the street from one of the Osmonds. As a 12 year old girl with the mental development of a 3 year old (at best) being raised by a single mom, she would sometimes strip down to her underwear or less and run around (or ride her oversized tricycle around) the community. When that happened, the Osmonds (who knew her mother’s struggle and had children/siblings with disabilities) always would take my cousin off the street and give her milk and cookies until her mom could be found. My aunt (second cousin once removed, actually) made it through those years in part because of anonymous donations by local community members. Later, she found out that a large portion of those donations came from the Osmonds. From my experience, the Osmonds are just good people. [/QUOTE] Hey, that is a great story! Thanks for sharing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marie-osmond/423800.md?page=1)