You never forget your first crush…

Lucina Dickey (and Jean Claude van Damne) in a scene from Breakin'

Believe it or not, when I was a tender 10-year-old boy growing up in a small seaside resort in mid Wales, I developed a temporary crush for the purple-dressed lady who steps in from the right. A crush I am still at a loss to explain to this day.

The scene is from that seminal street movie Breakin’ (the first movie all about Breakdancing) and the actress is Lucinda Dickey. Lovely lady though I’m sure she is, I can’t figure out why I had a crush on her. There were/are a huge number of “glam American” movies extolling the delights of living in a fantasy street-savvy America, so why she turned my tender young head/heart, I have no idea. And she’s not my usual type. Although she is cute. Fortunately, she’s still retained her looks today.

Thanks to the futuristic technology of YouTube, you can also watch the entire film online – or just the trailer, which has enough Lucinda Dickey goodness.

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You never forget your first crush…

Lucina Dickey (and Jean Claude van Damne) in a scene from Breakin'

Believe it or not, when I was a tender 10-year-old boy growing up in a small seaside resort in mid Wales, I developed a temporary crush for the purple-dressed lady who steps in from the right. A crush I am still at a loss to explain to this day.

The scene is from that seminal street movie Breakin’ (the first movie all about Breakdancing) and the actress is Lucinda Dickey. Lovely lady though I’m sure she is, I can’t figure out why I had a crush on her. There were/are a huge number of “glam American” movies extolling the delights of living in a fantasy street-savvy America, so why she turned my tender young head/heart, I have no idea. And she’s not my usual type. Although she is cute. Fortunately, she’s still retained her looks today.

Thanks to the futuristic technology of YouTube, you can also watch the entire film online – or just the trailer, which has enough Lucinda Dickey goodness.

So who was your first crush?

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Dude, life is not like the TV show that you make…

Imagine if Jonathan Ross had been blackmailed over numerous affairs he’d had with women he worked with, by the producer of Crimewatch.

That’s the equivalent of what’s happening in the US, where Robert Halderman, one of the producers of 48 Hours Mystery, is charged with attempted extortion. He allegedly tried to extort $2m from chat-show host/king David Letterman over the fact that two consenting adults had decided to have sex with each other.

There are differences – for a start, Jonathan Ross has not been having affairs, and has been married with kids for 20+ years.

I was in mid-transit flying between London and Cleveland via Minneapolis as this story broke, so I didn’t catch much of it. But I did note all of the airport TV screens were tuned to a CNN discussion on the issue. And not what might have been the other big story of the day, Rio De Janeiro getting the 2016 Olympics. I didn’t hear that until HyperHam mentioned it two days later…

Mirrored from almost witty.

Dude, life is not like the TV show that you make…

Imagine if Jonathan Ross had been blackmailed over numerous affairs he’d had with women he worked with, by the producer of Crimewatch.

That’s the equivalent of what’s happening in the US, where Robert Halderman, one of the producers of 48 Hours Mystery, is charged with attempted extortion. He allegedly tried to extort $2m from chat-show host/king David Letterman over the fact that two consenting adults had decided to have sex with each other.

There are differences – for a start, Jonathan Ross has not been having affairs, and has been married with kids for 20+ years.

I was in mid-transit flying between London and Cleveland via Minneapolis as this story broke, so I didn’t catch much of it. But I did note all of the airport TV screens were tuned to a CNN discussion on the issue. And not what might have been the other big story of the day, Rio De Janeiro getting the 2016 Olympics. I didn’t hear that until HyperHam mentioned it two days later…

Mirrored from almost witty.