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A Mind That Suits
What doesn't kill me, makes me laugh... usually.
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Thursday, April 10, 2003 :::
Like father, like son. Speaking of Lorenzo Lamas, he rarely uses the pointer, which brings to mind his father. Fernando Lamas was an equally handsome young man with a brief career as the all-purpose himbo in American commedies in the 1960's and '70's. (My mother, who loved Latin looks, was a big fan, and he could actually get a punch line off, a feat that seems to escape Lorenzo.) By the time Billy Crystal immortalized Fernando with his brutal impersonation on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980's, he was largely forgotten, and Crystal's tagline---"Yooouuu....llllooook....mmmmarvellous"--became about the only thing anyone remembered about him. Judging by Lorenzo, Billy, with the simplicity of real genius, was not making fun of him; he was just copying him. I watched exactly one episode of the dreadful Are You Hot?, and Lorenzo began his brief conversation with every single contestant thusly: "Hey, what's up? Looking good." He even said that to the few people who get the laser treatment.
::: posted by A Mind That Suits at 2:25 PM
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