{"id":9353,"date":"2009-12-19T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2009-12-17T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:36:42","slug":"donny-and-marie-and-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9353","title":{"rendered":"Donny and Marie and Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PMW4Ad8fIF4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PMW4Ad8fIF4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I remember watching this too &#8211; September 23, 1977 &#8211; and it was actually cooler than The official <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9146\">Star Wars Holiday Special.<\/a> But &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; Donnie &#038; Marie Osmond had an actual kooky <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donny_&#038;_Marie_%281976_TV_series%29\" target=\"_blank\">variety show,<\/a> so the bad jokes and goofy dance numbers were expected. <\/p>\n<p>They were pretty much among the first to really jump on the Star Wars bandwagon. The toys weren&#8217;t even <a href=\"http:\/\/theswca.com\/index.php?action=disp_item&#038;item_id=39696\"target=\"_blank\">out yet;<\/a> most of the Star Wars tie-ins started appearing in 1978. (And they sort of had the whole <em>Luke\/Leia, brother\/sister<\/em> thing figured wayyy before anyone else)<\/p>\n<p>With Red Foxx, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Lynde, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thurl_Ravenscroft\" target=\"_blank\">the guy<\/a> who did the voice of Tony the Tiger. And Marie: pretty good stand in for Leia. The bun hairdo works. <\/p>\n<p>More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerf-herders-anonymous.net\/donnie_and_marie_variety_show_st.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Donny and Marie and Star Wars\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9353\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching this too &#8211; September 23, 1977 &#8211; and it was actually cooler than The official Star Wars Holiday Special. But &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; Donnie &#038; Marie Osmond had an actual kooky variety show, so the bad jokes and goofy dance numbers were expected. They were pretty much among the first to really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}