16 Replies to “RIP Shirley Temple [Darleen Click]”

1. sdferr says:

   February 12, 2014 at 10:11 am

   In view of Shirley Temple’s service to the nation, perhaps a lovely Taps variant wouldn’t be out of place.

2. McGehee says:

   February 12, 2014 at 10:41 am

   I hadn’t realized before that she was younger than both my parents.

3. sdferr says:

   February 12, 2014 at 10:46 am

   My mother (’35) was named after her — Shirley. Says something about my grandmother, I think.

4. McGehee says:

   February 12, 2014 at 10:59 am

   Glad I wasn’t born in 1935…

5. sdferr says:

   February 12, 2014 at 11:10 am

   Surely you jest! (for the decades to follow were at the pinnacle of American technological success!)

6. McGehee says:

   February 12, 2014 at 11:38 am

   I would’ve been drafted, though probably not until the late ’50s.

7. leigh says:

   February 12, 2014 at 11:58 am

   I was never a fan of her movies. I do enjoy the individual numbers of her dancing, especially in “The Littlest Colonel”.

8. bgbear says:

   February 12, 2014 at 12:58 pm

   Her death did not seem to spark much interest by the press. I hope it was time and not her politics. Maybe if she had been found with a needle in her arm.

   “Little Miss Marker” is a good one.

9. leigh says:

   February 12, 2014 at 1:20 pm

   That was a cute movie. There have been several remakes of “Little Miss Marker”.

   I think it’s probably time and not her politics. In our age of the perpetually aggrieved, complete with St. Victim on every corner, who wants to celebrate a spunky kid who does good? She’s not even a child prostitute in any of her movies. No Pretty Baby for her. Her parents weren’t even real fuck ups. Her dad made a lot of bad investments with her earnings, but she wasn’t abused or left penniless.

   I think you’re right about the needle in her arm scenario selling more papers, bgbear.

10. leigh says:

    February 12, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    Oh noes!

    Sid Cesar dead at 91.

11. bgbear says:

    February 12, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    Good Bye, Sid. Neither one on my list of celebrity death guesses for 2014.

12. bgbear says:

    February 12, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    You’re right leigh, I think I saw “Sorrowful Jones” with Bob Hope before I saw “Little Miss Marker”.

13. BigBangHunter says:

    February 12, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    – For some reason when I read about Sid I immediately recalled the scene in National Lampoon Las Vegas vacation in the Lotto parlor, Sid and Chevy Chase, which I think was the last time I saw him do anything. Ironicly enough it was a scene where he dies just as he finally wins 0n a ticket and Chevy ends up with it when it falls out of Sids hand onto the floor as he smiles and then croaks.

14. bgbear says:

    February 12, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    That happens a lot. I guess old actors get to play dying characters. If you are lucky, it is a decent picture.

15. cranky-d says:

    February 12, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    If you’re not lucky, Chevy Chase is in it.

16. happyfeet says:

    February 12, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    For the cocktail version of this drink, Shirley Temple Black (after she got married), replaced ginger ale with alcoholic ginger beer, and added dark rum (or white rum and Maraschino liqueur).

    she was too cool for school i love her more than beans

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